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by r00fus 2y ago
> Trusting Secure Enclaves custom chips over processing locally If you're using Apple hardware, it's the same technology in your local device anyway, right?
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by r00fus 2y ago
You do realize that most of this is US propaganda, right? Xinjiang is like a fully developed economy and Uyghurs are doing well. I visited Beijing last summer and asked some Uyghur workers who discussed their conditions openly. The re-edu
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by r00fus 2y ago
Shareholder? He's the CEO making operational decisions. Cybertruck is his vanity project. No, you don't get to say he's just a mere investor.
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by r00fus 2y ago
You're confusing hybrids with plugin-hybrids. In either case, these cars are far more efficient than standard ICE cars even if you never plug them in (e.g. your garden variety older Prius doesn't support plug-in but is far more e
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by r00fus 2y ago
NMC is the most commonly used battery chemistry in the US for EVs which is what this thread was all about.
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by r00fus 2y ago
But a lifetime of 3y doesn't jive with why my 7 year old vehicle is mostly fully functional. Even with 10% over-provisioning (amazingly expensive 7y ago), that's only a 15% reduction in 7 years. The statement "The life of th
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by r00fus 2y ago
Explain my 7.5 year old EV with 95% battery health and 65k miles driven? Your 2nd sentence has issues with reality.
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by r00fus 2y ago
This is part and parcel of the collapse of western capitalism (aka American empire). You get two main choices when capitalism fails - fascism or communism/socialism. It's clear that the UK has chosen fascism (either liberals lik
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by r00fus 2y ago
It's amusing to think of Apple as a "monopoly" (if anything they have a monopsony on TSMC production) but let's just replace that with "giant" for purposes of discussion. Tech giants typically devolve local ope
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by r00fus 2y ago
you mean free fertilizer to gather and use.
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by r00fus 2y ago
These dogmatic vegans aren't born that way - they're created by a completely unethical farming environment and detachment from farm life as /u/partition mentioned. As I grow up I am beginning to realize just how many &qu
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by r00fus 2y ago
Ah, I remember a time 30 years ago when I logged accidentally into the PROD database (forgot to add the suffix "1" to the connection ID), thinking it was a Dev instance, and then issued a "truncate table CUSTOMERS"... th
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by r00fus 2y ago
I'd just spend the $80 or so to have Apple change the battery. It's still a good phone.
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by r00fus 2y ago
> EVs suffer from extraordinary loss in resale value, almost on the scale of luxury vehicles. This is only due to the tax credit. Everyone can benefit from a reduced cost EV - ID4s, Leafs and EV6s have great pricing for near-new vehicles
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by r00fus 2y ago
Smog checks, brake replacements and all the fluid/filter replacements are nontrivial regular costs. EVs have only wiper fluid, 12v batteries and air cabin filters to replace regularly. Brakes literally last the life of the vehicle.
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by r00fus 2y ago
Some Non-Tesla EVs support zero regen. In fact my Kia has steering wheel paddles so you can easily switch modes and it handles defaults nicely.
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by r00fus 2y ago
Microsoft did snipe some of the key people at Borland who created Delphi to get from VB4 to VB6.
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by r00fus 2y ago
GOP is definitely looking to the Orban approach as their guiding methodology for e.g. Project 2025.
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by r00fus 2y ago
Not sure if your utility allowed for planned usage changes (ie, planning to buy an(other) EV, planning to install heat pump). This is what my installer submitted to justify my 180% over-specced solar install. This is PG&E in CA.
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by r00fus 2y ago
The hubris in this article is unreal: it's posing that privately owned utilities are a good thing and that bypassing them is some crime that's done by ratepayers. I hope that business model dies in a fire. Instead the entire para
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by r00fus 2y ago
Hopefully what's dying is the concept of privately owned utilities. Everyone knows that, unless they're properly regulated, these eventually turn into a rent-seeking behemoths that corrupt the government (or vice-versa). However,
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by r00fus 2y ago
USAID is the vehicle to paying news/entertainment industry.
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by r00fus 2y ago
The entire problem is that it's very difficult to obtain ID in many jurisdictions because the ruling class uses it to decrease the "wrong people" from voting. None of the people who want ID for voting want to make getting sai
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by r00fus 2y ago
It would be the least surprising shoe drop since the election.
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by r00fus 2y ago
I will say a couple of things: * my Ford Focus EV had a very short lead time for parts because it was based on a platform (Focus) shared across many vehicles. Also repair cost was very low for a multi-car accident ($2k). * Similarly, when
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by r00fus 2y ago
You don't. You buy from a large vehicle manufacturer like Ford, Kia, etc. where they have commitment to parts delivery for the foreseeable future. Fisker was always a scam if you remember back from days of Fisker Karma.
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by r00fus 2y ago
It makes more sense when you realize that all the money being thrown into Ukraine is likely being funneled out as tax-exempt gains by one billionaire or another who gives kickbacks to the politicians who enable this grift. It's a giant
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by r00fus 2y ago
Several things: hatchbacks do great if you size the up and call them "crossover SUVs" - see Mach-E, Ioniq 5, EV6, Ariya, etc. Also sedans do have a feature - less road noise than a hatchback. The Leaf failed because a) fast charge
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by r00fus 2y ago
Other EV manufacturers are essentially picking up the lost sales and the EV market as a whole is up marginally. https://evmagazine.com/news/teslas-european-decline-musks-ev...
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by r00fus 2y ago
Not just Europe: CA sales are down double digits recently as well: https://www.newsweek.com/tesla-california-sales-decline-elec...

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