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by rsynnott 9mo ago
Some nonprofits do run largely off endowments. One big issue is that it's a PR problem; most people don't really understand it. They'll look at the non-profit and say "why does that need to raise money, it's rich&qu
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by rsynnott 9mo ago
Look, that's hardly the point, now, is it, CEOs? AI, or at least saying "AI" a lot, makes number go up.
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by rsynnott 9mo ago
Oh, yeah, to be clear, BYD is doing amazingly well. Just not, particularly, in Europe. This seems to confuse the media.
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by rsynnott 9mo ago
The first US ones predate the UK one, tho.
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by rsynnott 9mo ago
Tesla is not the market leader in BEVs. It's BYD (2.25m 2025), then Tesla (1.6m), then VW AG (1 million). Given the current growth/shrinkage rates (33% growth for VW AG, 9% drop for Tesla), they'll be third in a year or so.
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by rsynnott 9mo ago
I mean, there's no need to go all 4D chess here, really. Sometimes a crazy person who tweets about "woke mind viruses" at four in the morning is just a crazy person who tweets about "woke mind viruses" at four in th
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by rsynnott 9mo ago
It's not a car company anymore, it's an energy company... Ahem, I mean self-driving... Er, maybe robots? ... Okay, that not going so well? How about quantum? That's probably a thing, right? Tesla seems basically priced based
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by rsynnott 9mo ago
Note that BYD doesn't just make BEVs. They're quite big in plug-in hybrids, which aren't in that data. They apparently sold 175k cars in Europe last year. A breakdown of BEV vs PHEV doesn't seem to be available, but 75k
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by rsynnott 9mo ago
If you look at individual countries, they'll show up in some.
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by rsynnott 9mo ago
BYD is not, despite the press, really very big in Europe (though it is in a couple of individual countries, notably Spain). Europe-wide, Geely, the Chinese manufacturer that everyone forgets about, is actually bigger: https://eu-
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by rsynnott 9mo ago
> Now it's the opposite at least in tech. If you see someone in "business" attire, you know they're middle management or sales and have no power, where if someone is in a tshirt and jeans they're probably a found
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by rsynnott 9mo ago
Yes, why not go live in this guy's moon city, what could go wrong.
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by rsynnott 9mo ago
Oh, yeah, if you were to do any due diligence (which you probably _should_, as a billionaire intending to go to sex parties) the red flags were there long before. But the first conviction really removed any vestiges of plausible deniability
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by rsynnott 9mo ago
I would wonder how much of it is _generic_ job postings. Like, unless you're really huge, you probably don't need to constantly hire, say, receptionists, so you'll put up an ad for a receptionist, get a receptionist, remove t
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by rsynnott 9mo ago
This is also a restricted activity: https://environment.ec.europa.eu/topics/waste-and-recycling/... At least for polyester, etc. As the rule is worded today maybe you'd get away with it for cotton? But the ru
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by rsynnott 9mo ago
> As a consequence, all ebook devices like Kindle etc, vapes and other devices had to switch from Micro-USB to USB-C. Finally, I can charge my book and my cigarette with one cable! (This statement would have been extremely confusing in t
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by rsynnott 9mo ago
> I think what bugs me about EU legislation like this is how micro-targeted it is. Why apparel specifically? If waste and a disregard for the finite-ness of natural resources is the problem, why not impose a blanket, Pigovian-style tax o
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by rsynnott 9mo ago
If it's an unlimited partnership or something, _maybe_. Approximately no companies implicated are, though; they're typically limited liability companies of some sort. A limited liability company demanding human rights feels a bit
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by rsynnott 9mo ago
> If I own an item I should be able to destroy it if I want; the government shouldn't be able to tell me "no." Are you, personally, a large textile company? If not, then you have no need to worry; see the article. If you a
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by rsynnott 9mo ago
> Well, I can accept that Musk didn't know about criminal stuff and just thought it's like a Burning Man and had a big FOMO. ... Wait, okay, I realise Musk isn't the sharpest knife in the drawer, but just how stupid do you
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by rsynnott 9mo ago
> When the same professionals advocating "don't look at the code anymore" and "it's just the next level of abstraction" respond with outrage to a journalist giving them an unchecked article. I doubt, by and
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by rsynnott 9mo ago
... This is the first official retraction you've seen? Eh? All proper newspapers do them fairly regularly.
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by rsynnott 9mo ago
This sort of publication lives or dies on mindshare.
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by rsynnott 9mo ago
> Using an AI tool doesn’t imply that they thought it would make up quotes He covers AI for Ars Technica. Like, if he doesn't know that chatbots make shit up... FWIW I suspect that a lot of the problem here was that he was _working
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by rsynnott 9mo ago
> but it is weird for him to have COVID in December and February. Unlucky, sure, but not beyond the bounds of possibility. Also possible that one or both was actually flu or RSV or other non-COVID fever-inducing respiratory disease; peop
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by rsynnott 9mo ago
In this case, the article was quoting a blog post, so presumably the editor (it _does_ look like there was one) took the arguably-not-unreasonable stance that _obviously_ the author wouldn't have fabricated quotes from a blog post they
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by rsynnott 9mo ago
The _claim_ is that the article wasn’t AI generated, only the quote (the journalist rather unwisely trusted in the ability of an LLM to summarise things).
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by rsynnott 9mo ago
As someone who has deadlines, and is occasionally sick, if I have a high fever I am not working. Nor would my manager thank me for it if I did. If you have a high fever, you’re mentally impaired and shouldn’t be doing anything important if
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by rsynnott 9mo ago
I mean, honestly, “it was a failure and we won’t do it again” is better than a lot of outlets would do; some have the magic robots wholesale make up articles for them.
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by rsynnott 9mo ago
Yeah, personally with a high fever I’d say I’m more impaired than when I’m drunk. It’s not a state people should be doing anything important in.

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