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Which is completely the wrong way of doing it. They are the market. So define it and leave it to private industry to fund and develop the capabilities to meet their requirements. If they say, we are willing to spend X amount of money on Y n
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A bureaucracy can not simplify itself. It is a complex system that can only go one way, ever more complex, until it deadlocks and eventually someone burns it to the ground and starts anew.
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A bureaucrat is not allowed to spend money on anything risky and must never allow for money to be used on something other than the intended use. So the entire process must be micromanaged to death with documentation, which results in the mo
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The government should be a regulator and set ground rules. It should provide a market and clear requirements. Then leave private business alone to meet those requirements. If they need funding, leave the business to the VC industry.
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You can take examples of working systems and adapt what works and discard what doesn't. Europe has spent decades and trillions on programs that do not work and produce nothing but word documents. With no sign of anyone acknowledging th
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> This is going to so predictably lead to more of the same—the creation of companies optimized for writing proposals, and for pleasing bureaucrats. The european way. I wonder if the bureaucrats even know this is the inevitable result or
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Yes I think covering up mass child rape politically and criminally is worse than Donald Trump. Foreign intervention in Romanian or US elections is a fairy tale. Justification for political corruption of the judicial branch. It is funny how
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The end result is not much better. Only the candidates with the right positions get to hold power.
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Rotherham in the UK, Le Pen in France, Romanian elections.
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Europe and the US have no moral high ground when it comes to the justice system being used against political opponents.
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What we in Europe have is just more political corruption of the justice system and a populace too comfortable to care.
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You cited a study that is widely criticized for being poor. Using data selectively and by their own admission data with the potential for being biased and inaccurate. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-65174096.amp https:&
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I doubt that is the norm. Tesla does have very high customer satisfaction numbers.
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Recall problem as in a software update?
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Ford has plenty of cars that fit european roads. The problem is that their cars are garbage.
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Unreliable what? How?
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2y ago
I just got my first EV in Europe and seriously contemplating changing my second car to an EV as well. Driving an EV is goddamn fantastic.
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Controller could just be a PC with a VPN connection to anywhere.
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When the guy in charge tries to do that he kind of gets called a fascist, an idiot and a nazi...
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If you think the usage in other countries is casual you are mistaken.
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I didn't mention it because it is not what I was talking about? I don't care about what they were talking about, I'm not an american. I just know the sorry state of mobile security in governments.
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I don't know why you think I condone their actions. I was explaining the reality of politicians and mobile communication. I just wanted to say that I know this happens everywhere and comment on the sorry state of government mobile secu
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>Anyone in the military would have told you if they were in this situation, they would have been court marshalled by now along with months in prison And anyone familiar with the workings of governments and politicians would tell you the
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2y ago
Use foundationdb then
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I don't know why you are getting down voted. The koreans are obviously ahead of the japanese and europeans in the EV game. Hyundai has gone through more generations of EV cars than any of them and their Kona/Ioniq series are very
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> So the EV market is a lot larger than Tesla's corner of it. Which is basically the 44K - ~100K segment. And that segment is very crowded now as well. Sure but Tesla competes very well in that market. Ioniq 5 for instance is in the
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Tesla short sellers have been using the media for many years.
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The EU is ran by lawyers and political science majors. They have absolutely zero idea how to setup proper incentives. Any hope of EU getting its act together is wasted. Much like our tax euros.
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Every year China produces about as many stem graduates as the rest of the world combined.
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China is building an entirely independent semi conductor supply chain and if they are not competitive now, they will be in the near future. US sanctions forced them into turbo charging their efforts.
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