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by pjc50 5mo ago
The "curious task" full reference from Hayek: “The curious task of economics is to demonstrate to men how little they really know about what they imagine they can design.” Intended as a warning against command economies and centra
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The Gulf states take in a lot of migrant workers, who have basically no labour rights there. https://www.ilo.org/regions-and-countries/arab-states/united... "The UAE hosts some 8.7 million migrant workers –
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It's allowed perfectly fine, it's just that key management is a massive hassle for nontechnical users. Debian use it for authenticating developers.
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CIFF is clearly derived from RIFF: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resource_Interchange_File_Form... I've done similar myself, because it's so easy to specify. I've also done the "how to hide a secret
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You don't have to use a slur if a non-slur is available, anon.
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> even remotely plausible to blame cars for killing cyclists Car design has significant influence on pedestrian survivability of accidents. This is why hood ornaments were largely abolished, and also why casualties have gone up as SUVs
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400kW regen is going to be a fairly alarming level of stopping for a normal vehicle. It's OK to leave emergencies to the friction brakes.
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The Chinese EV industry is actually lead by development of batteries , especially CATL. Along with the pack engineering, which is good old Mech.E stuff about heat transfer and physical strength. Secondarily power electronics; at that scale
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The Russian public are victims of Putin just as much as the Ukranians. This is almost all on him and his party apparatus, just as it was under Stalin.
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The Soviet Union ended in about 1991.
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[citation needed] - I thought there was significant proven bribery across the German political spectrum?
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> Consumers do not buy EVs anywhere near the expected volume OK so the billion Euro question is: why not? Tesla seem to be making adequate sales in Europe. China has passed 50% EVs as new sales. Norway (in Europe, but not the EU) is appr
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Difficult to find references other than my own memory and this paywalled Economist article: https://www.economist.com/special/1999/09/16/dybcom
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> Do you honestly think they had 'communist' backdoors to key infrastructure they were selling into the West, to be scrutinised by armies of security engineers? They are not stupid. The UK used to have a special BT+Huawei+MI6 j
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> Set the tariffs to offset any government subsidies or environmental regulatory costs. The problem is this is really hard to objectively measure. > Complete protectionism doesn't work because it makes your own manufacturers no
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> “Those damn pesky artists still painting by hand. Long ago hand painters used cadmium yellow. It may be art, but it's also poisonous. Same for Napoleon and his arsenic wallpaper. In the end, same for CO2-emitting engines.
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Still: if the number is that small a fraction of the overall cost, it barely matters which country it's made in? That's basically the cost of selecting a non-standard paint colour option, by the time you look at final price?
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In the UK this feels like the least popular world cup in years. Even after Russia and Qatar, it feels like more of a FIFA corruption circus.
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We need less unhinged sephiroth-posting and more recognition that neither Japan nor China could be kept poor and backwards forever, since we forcibly opened their economies at gunpoint centuries ago.
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"X is a land of contrasts" is a cliche, but: America is a land of contrasts. It manages to have elements both of shining city on the hill and squalid banana republic (resource extraction economy with poor rule of law) adjacent to
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France has an independent nuclear deterrent. I dunno, for decades the policy by most of the West has been (a) keep Germany from re-arming in case they start WW3 and (b) discourage nuclear proliferation by anyone, and now because the America
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> This essentially means the manufacturer controls them The thing is, this problem exists regardless of who the manufacturer is, and using nationalism to make it about China disguises the real problem. Tiktok didn't magically become
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For vehicles in the $20-$100k price range? That feels too trivial to make a difference, is it correct or just a number chatgpt invented?
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Something I've been trying to articulate for a while is that the EV revolution is a smaller version of the phone and internet revolutions: it requires a bunch of infrastructure buildout, but it's also the result of individual cons
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Really this is conspiracy level thinking. It's not like there's no car industry in the EU, it's just that it's grown in the low-COL areas like Slovakia and not in high-COL areas like Germany. Chinese imports and local
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It's remarkable how often this happens, isn't it? One incident of someone not living up to standards is suddenly an opportunity to abandon standards and go with known bad actors. It's like people giving up on the MSM and imme
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There was definitely a withdrawal, partially resumed, and a reduction of funding: https://commonslibrary.parliament.uk/research-briefings/cbp-...
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One of the things that annoys me is that we could know what the original intent was, and indeed the preferred form for modification: the prompt! Yet for some reason there's no standard/tradition/expectation that people commit
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The synthesis technique would be to build the DOOM-style BSP tree and then construct a bunch of meshes for use depending on which portal space you're currently in, but .. as you say, you don't need to do that because it's at
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People really don't get the idea of intangible cultural heritage and irreplaceable wetlands, do they? Not everything and everyone is for sale.

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