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by morepork 3y ago
Maybe in the US, but if you live in less protectionist markets you'll find Chinese vehicles undercutting Tesla on drive away price. For example my parents just bought an electric hatchback from GWM for ~27k USD, or ~21k USD after gover
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by morepork 3y ago
Yeah I don't understand this, they're a massive company now with over 100k employees. Surely they can focus on more than 2-3 projects at a time.
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by morepork 3y ago
There is certainly a trade off there, does the cheaper electricity compensate for the fact that you need to add say 20% extra capacity and the accompanying costs to your desalination plants as they will now be idle during low renewable prod
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by morepork 3y ago
Somewhat tenuous, but Tolkien was taught Old English at Oxford by a New Zealander, Kenneth Sisam[1]. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenneth_Sisam
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by morepork 3y ago
Apple didn't need to make as many deals as they're the only OEM. There's no real way to have a separate app store on Apple phones. Smartphone makers need app store revenue to make the handsets competitively priced. It would r
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by morepork 3y ago
For years automakers have been pushing people towards bigger and bigger vehicles as they have higher margins, but saying that it's due to consumer preference. The Chinese automakers are showing that there certainly is demand in those s
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by morepork 3y ago
I think the data is a bit skewed as Lexus/Toyota are the most reliable, and make many hybrid models. The question should be, for a particular make, are hybrids more reliable than ICEs?
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by morepork 3y ago
A station wagon (essentially the same vehicle, but not as tall), or a minivan could do the same, surely? The only thing an SUV is better at than those vehicles is some serious offroading
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by morepork 3y ago
How often do those charges get used? For example: https://www.nbclosangeles.com/news/driver-killed-south-la-si... A driver, allegedly watching youtube, runs over and kills 2 children of 12 and 14 at a crosswalk. But th
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by morepork 3y ago
For sprints in particular, the spikes make a decent difference on the track, more so for elite athletes as they need the extra traction more
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by morepork 3y ago
A 14 second difference is less than 2% of the total time though, so it doesn't entirely disagree with them. Between dirt in casual running shoes to a track and top tech shoes, there would I guess be about a 15-20% difference, and most
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by morepork 3y ago
If they have the fuel available, may as well be very conservative. Either burn the fuel on descent or have it sit in the tank forever on the lunar surface.
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by morepork 3y ago
Depends where you live, for us it tends to be more cold and still in winter, but the warmer months are windier
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by morepork 3y ago
I was pleasantly surprised about 6 months ago when I went to run a game I wrote in Java when I was at university. Nothing huge, but still about 10k lines of code. I originally wrote it in Java 6, and it compiled and ran with no issues on Ja
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by morepork 3y ago
Thanks that makes more sense, I had assumed it was for all types as Point used in the example has the same name as a class in the standard library
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by morepork 3y ago
There's potential confusion whether the int x from the example comes from point.x (field), point.x() (method) or point.getX() (common getter pattern), just one more gotcha
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by morepork 3y ago
It's a bit of an unkind example as most would write the latter as if (obj instanceof Point p) { System.out.println(p.x()+p.y()); } But I can maybe see the value if you need to use x/y more than once. However i
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by morepork 3y ago
BYD Dolphin is 1285-1450 kg depending on which options you pick, which is in that range
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by morepork 3y ago
Because weight affects range, you could keep the same amount of energy and increase range at the same time as the battery would only weigh 1/3 as much and be maybe 400kg lighter
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by morepork 3y ago
Nominal debt / nominal GDP should be equivalent to real debt / real GDP, so it shouldn't matter
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by morepork 3y ago
Looks to me like GDP is growing faster than the debt, at least over the past 2-3 years: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/GFDEGDQ188S
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by morepork 3y ago
That Antarctic sea ice anomaly for this year is worrying
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by morepork 3y ago
It's a good comparison. I would speculate that it's the target market. If you're buying a Linux laptop you are likely very technical, and know about and want the latest updates. I doubt System76 would get many sales if Pop OS
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by morepork 3y ago
Fortunately the community doesn't have the perverse incentive of a hardware manufacturer. If updates stop flowing it encourages people to buy new devices.
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by morepork 3y ago
But Canonical isn't responsible for the Ubuntu forks, it's up to the community to get Kubuntu, Mint, etc. updates out
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by morepork 3y ago
But Microsoft doesn't make Windows open source and allow customers to fork the OS.
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by morepork 3y ago
6.1%, those using 7.0 and older will be affected. But that number will have fallen a bit by the time the certs actually expire in a year.
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by morepork 3y ago
There's also the possibility that Chrome decides to bundle this CA like Firefox mobile does, which would mean the majority of users won't have a problem. From 5.0 the builtin webview is updatable too - I think it uses Chrome'
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by morepork 3y ago
In a technical sense yes, outside of niche systems such as evaporative coolers. Also all refrigerators contain a heat pump.
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by morepork 3y ago
More than railways, imagine if roads were privatised and you had 2-3 roading networks trying to get to as many homes/business/etc. as possible

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