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by ffgjgf1 3y ago
> Wouldn't everyone just prefer.. Sure, but I don’t think personal preferences matter that much in this case, most people just end up using what everyone else is whether they like it or not, which makes perfect sense. But yeah, I th
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by ffgjgf1 3y ago
Well.. I’m further north east and my experience is somewhat different. My only point was that Europe is not as homogenous as some people keep implying (most people still primarily communicate in their native language which creates a lot of
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by ffgjgf1 3y ago
> driving them on US roads I’m not sure it would be that different on European roads either.
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by ffgjgf1 3y ago
> Clearly you're not aware of the classic cross-ply tyre which is what classic cars used before radials became standard. These are car tyres Yes and classic cars were extremely unsafe by modern standards > horpitalisation or deat
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by ffgjgf1 3y ago
> If you told people in 1995 Really? Wasn’t that somewhat common back then?
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by ffgjgf1 3y ago
> In Europe everyone's on WhatsApp Or FB messenger, or actually mainly use SMS/iMessage. Europe is not as homogeneous as some people here might be implying. WhatsApp is not even the most popular messaging app in quite a few co
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by ffgjgf1 3y ago
That’s not quite or hardly at all what they said. Nuance is a thing..
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by ffgjgf1 3y ago
> (now ironically named) lingua franca The original language which was actually called wasn’t really French it was a creole/pidgin language used in the Mediterranean mainly based on Italian and Occitan dialects. Greeks and others ju
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by ffgjgf1 3y ago
> Is it the secrecy that makes it different? i.e. if the train company were honest about it then it would be ok? IMHO mainly that and clearly those trains are required to be designed in such a way that they could be repaired by a third p
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by ffgjgf1 3y ago
I guess it depends whether supermarkets exist in that locale. Since they could never compete selling the same type of products
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by ffgjgf1 3y ago
Except the user in the comment above is describing stores which sell the same products as supermarkets just at higher prices and less inventory. > small, diverse stores who sell local products over big supermarket chains. Unfortunately,
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by ffgjgf1 3y ago
> model should be adopted elsewhere too, the opposite of going hyperscale So you are saying there were no grocery stores in the US before Piggly Wiggly opened up? It was the model that preceded the current one throughout the western worl
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by ffgjgf1 3y ago
> The broadening of the MacOS market would more than make up for the initial loss in hardware sales. Why? I mean Android has a much bigger market share than iOS yet Google isn’t making any money (after costs) from it if we exclude ad rev
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by ffgjgf1 3y ago
Yeah, it seems more like a fun mental exercise that went slightly out of hand than an attempt at a serious scientific analysis (which is perfectly fine and the latter wouldn’t really be possible anyway given the context). However I have to
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by ffgjgf1 3y ago
> did not have historical populations in mind when deciding on settlement and army sizes. European populations were not at all static. There were many massive population declines more or less going back to the beginning of agriculture a
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by ffgjgf1 3y ago
Because the Wallstreet bet types don’t really use them?
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by ffgjgf1 3y ago
> You can also replicate the same thing that Node.js is doing in your Java or Python too by applying multi-threading (i.e. one thread just "waits" for the I/O in the background while the other keeps doing its job). Why wou
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by ffgjgf1 3y ago
> Apple should have open-sourced their OS a long time ago while offering "best" compatibility with their hardware That would’ve been a horrible idea considering that they make money selling hardware and macOS is one of their ma
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by ffgjgf1 3y ago
The East India Company didn’t directly even ship opium to China, that was all done by private merchants. And in any case initially it wasn’t so much about opium as about free trade in general. The British would’ve been fine with selling tex
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Tesla Cybertruck's Race Against a Porsche 911 Was Apparently an 1/8-Mile Run(insideevs.com)
30 points by ffgjgf1 3y ago|35 comments
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by ffgjgf1 3y ago
> Do you want an EV future or not? Not at the cost of the European car industry. > Because as long as EVs stay more expensive in the EU, the average joe will keep buying ICEs Why would tariffs affect EV prices disproportionately more
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by ffgjgf1 3y ago
I still don’t really understand. Are we still talking about Tesla building its factory in Germany instead of one of the CEE countries (with no/weak union and low labor costs)?
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by ffgjgf1 3y ago
> But that doesn't mean Eastern EU countries have bad infrastructure, otherwise nobody would build cars there. But we still agree that they have worse infrastructure and that lower labor costs and no pesky unions didn’t seem to offs
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by ffgjgf1 3y ago
No, one of the primary demands during the strikes a couple of months ago was a 32 hour workweek without any reduction in weekly pay. Instead they ended up negotiating higher 20-60% wages and improving some other benefits but no reduction in
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by ffgjgf1 3y ago
I’m not sure that’s relevant in this case? The minimum wage for UAW represented workers is over 300% higher than the one set by the federal government. Healthcare, retirement and vacation benefits are also massively better than those requi
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by ffgjgf1 3y ago
> This might be the one move stupider than starting this fight, an innovator's dilemma [1] own goal Why? What does it have to do with the “innovators dilemma”?
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by ffgjgf1 3y ago
> What infrastructure is lacking? Poland, Czechia and especially Romania are already quite big auto manufacturing hubs. There must be some reason Tesla decided to build their massive factory in Germany?
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by ffgjgf1 3y ago
> unions are there to set minimum wages, benefits, pensions, I’m not sure how is that different from the UAW in the US? They do all of those things and seem to be as or even considerably more successful than European unions at achieving
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by ffgjgf1 3y ago
UAW is also focusing on all of those things (except maternity leave, US seems to be massively behind Europe in that area). Of course they failed to force the 32 hour workweek during the negotiations over the last few months but UAW workers
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by ffgjgf1 3y ago
Except most American automakers besides Tesla seem to have very strong unions. Which are also possibly more effective at maximizing their members wages than the unions in Europe.

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