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by altacc 2y ago
True. Norway is an EV leader and a few years ago the only real option for an affordable long range EV was a Tesla. The Nissan Leaf was next popular as it was a perfect city car but useless for the drive to the mountain cabin. Now there&#x27
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by altacc 2y ago
They're to protect Europe's car manufacturing industry, which is a significant industry which directly and indirectly employs a lot of people and circulates a lot of money. Part of that industry is green technology, which is exact
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by altacc 2y ago
I work at an large Europe based multi-national and hosting has always been a concern due to the big differences in data protection and privacy rules. We never use a service not hosted in the EEA. The current threats that the US is making to
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by altacc 2y ago
A good saying I heard a while ago was “you don’t get scammed because you’re stupid, you get scammed because you’re human”. These scammers aren’t random individuals, they’re business that invest a lot of time and energy into working out how
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by altacc 2y ago
Personally I thought that there should never have been an invasion of Afghanistan or Iraq, so I would have saved all of that money. The US decided to go into these countries, nobody asked them to do so and experts in the region said at the
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by altacc 2y ago
For reference as to how Trump ends something look back at Trump's "negotiation" with the Taliban in Afghanistan. The Taliban got everything they wanted: the US to leave completely and while they did to to not attack the Talib
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by altacc 2y ago
Society is far from perfect and some are definitely leaning more towards broken than perfect. I don't know how many people really see themselves as part of society vs individuals living among other unconnected individuals. Homelessness
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by altacc 2y ago
Many on the Doge team are software engineers. And calling it an audit is being very generous. Looking at the Doge feed on approved state media it's mostly just DELETE FROM Contract WHERE Description like '%DEI%'
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by altacc 2y ago
The massive difference here is that the Doge team is acting as quickly making decisions about government funding and classifications of that spending e.g. if it's a "scam". If they're supposed computer experts making inc
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by altacc 2y ago
Hanlon's razor: "Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity". I think for those cheering on it's a mix of both. Culture wars have made them gleeful when they see opportunities for others to
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by altacc 2y ago
Example of what the ad looks like: https://www.thedrive.com/news/jeep-owners-say-pop-up-ads-for... The author also outlines how to disable them: by creating a user account with Jeep and agreeing to T&Cs and remotel
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by altacc 2y ago
Seems reasonable to me!
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by altacc 2y ago
He knows how they work: he threatens them and his supporters cheer, he implements them and people negotiate. There are other, some would say better, ways to get the same effects but tariffs are Trump's go to. In the metaphor "when
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by altacc 2y ago
Well, you had those laws and ordinances! Let's wait a few days to see if they survive the ongoing bonfire of government entities once they are deemed criminal government interference, a scam or communism ;) I don't know where the
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by altacc 2y ago
A significant part of the animosity towards the EU and Trump's threat of tariffs is its consumer protection and preventing US companies, especially US tech companies, from doing whatever the hell they want. A major difference between t
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by altacc 2y ago
Related, Oslo has rules for reducing emissions from building sites which has made it a pioneer in the development and use of electric building machinery. Some of it is battery powered and some requires a really long extension cord. I do won
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by altacc 2y ago
I see a lot of posts, articles, etc... stating that people are surprised by the complexity of a cyber attack or scam. It seems that most people haven't yet learnt that this is a full blown industry targeting countless businesses, insti
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by altacc 2y ago
While clearing out an old tub of ice cream I noticed that industrial ice cream doesn't melt in the same way as 'real' ice cream. It holds its shape well beyond what you'd expect. Left at room temperature real ice cream
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by altacc 2y ago
A couple of thoughts: - I worry about businesses with a "pay once" model as your costs are recurring. Even if the costs are low you will need a constant flow of new sign ups just to break even. You can't ever have a stable us
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by altacc 2y ago
This is my experience as well. Most people don't want confrontation. I found my stolen bike when somebody was out riding it. I told them it was stolen from me, they said "OK" and handed it over. It was either them who stole i
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by altacc 2y ago
Definitely not "fully" as required an additional purchase and planning of what to record. Normal usage of sitting down and turning on the TV to what something being shown at the time does not have skippable advertising. Whenever I
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by altacc 2y ago
I think anyone who listens to Musk talking about something they themselves know a lot about quickly realises that Musk's skills are elsewhere. He can motivate and market the hell out of a business whilst snorting more ketamine than a h
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by altacc 2y ago
In some countries there is sometimes a cable & data connection owner and then a separate service provider. Laws regulate that the cable provider must let other companies provide connections to customers over their cables. The service pr
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by altacc 2y ago
Maybe there's some negative American exceptionalism here (the idea that what works in other countries can't work in the US because reasons) but many other countries have no jaywalking laws or much more lax versions (e.g. only appl
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by altacc 2y ago
This article is brief and uses big numbers to make a scary point but I'd be interested in if there is proof of causation of significant physiological effects at the exposure level from domestic cooking. Often media will say "peopl
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by altacc 2y ago
I'd disagree as due to the incredibly low amount of tax paid by the ultra wealthy it looks like CGT avoidance and Buy Borrow Die is a primary use case for borrowing against assets.
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by altacc 2y ago
Because people tend to want to see options and be involved in the decision making process, especially if they're ultimately responsible for the work and its cost. For a similar reason as an architect I don't define in a ticket the
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by altacc 2y ago
FSD is also geofenced, just a bigger fence. When/if the robotaxi actually debuts it too will be heavily geofenced and have usage restrictions but it will also be several years behind Waymo in terms of development, testing, technology a
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by altacc 2y ago
Simpler to define what you want to do as Option B then produce an expensive & time consuming Option A and an unacceptable, risky and business damaging Option C. Then show the Powerpoint to the C-Suite and let them think that going for O
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by altacc 2y ago
> ... we’ll see a cool demo of a stylish-looking prototype, allowing Musk to claim a kind of victory for first impressions, even when the rough outlines of what he promises will barely hold up to scrutiny. The exaltations from bullish in

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