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by scarab92 3y ago
BYD’s success is in no small part due to substantial government subsidies. We’re not talking about relatively small tax or CO2 incentives, but rather large upfront interest free loans with questionable expectations of repayment. This meant
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by scarab92 3y ago
The A220 / CSeries is another great example of the corruption that exists between Boeing and the US government. Locking out new competitors via dubious anti-dumping petitions.
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by scarab92 3y ago
That’s dishonest. Building a company isn’t about who filed the paperwork, it’s about defining the product, the path to profitability and executing on that vision. You might not like the guy, but he clearly built Tesla.
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by scarab92 3y ago
Are you able to adjust the temperature without looking at the screen? Being a flat pane of glass, I would worry that you need to use hand-eye coordination to locate the button, whereas with a physical button you can feel for it without look
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by scarab92 3y ago
All the pointless redesigns was a pretty clear sign that they had excess engineering headcount.
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There’s no such thing as fair. Whenever anyone uses that term they are just trying to obscure self-interest.
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by scarab92 3y ago
It typically doesn’t even balance employer and union wants. Almost always, the unions ask for too much get bloated, then the employer outsources or offshores to get back to paying market wages. It’s a pattern I’ve seen over and over again.
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by scarab92 3y ago
Manufacturers are leaving Sweden. They produce fewer cars now than they did 50 years ago. The range of negotiated outcomes that would be attractive to manufacturers would all involve pay cuts. There’s no point engaging in negotiations unles
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by scarab92 3y ago
Journalists do seem to be given an extraordinarily wide allowance for selection bias. Most negative stories about SpaceX / Tesla / Twitter could have been written about any of their competitors in the just by changing a few detail
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by scarab92 3y ago
Actually most developed countries only have very small unionised workforces. The OECD average is 9% (rising to 17% if you include public sector). Moreover, union membership is rapidly falling. Every OECD country except Spain and Belgium are
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by scarab92 3y ago
Unionised workforces are almost never a good thing from a productivity and flexibility perspective. You’ll never see modern manufacturing companies willingly become a union shop, it’s not in their best interest. The rare times it does happe
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by scarab92 3y ago
Higher cost jurisdictions experience a hollowing out of their economies over time. Last mile, geographically constrained jobs like transport and retail remain, but higher skill jobs that are mobile leave, either because it was more cost eff
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by scarab92 3y ago
That doesn't sound that crazy. Much of your energy bill is distribution costs, which is a combinational of infrastructure costs and transmission losses. Transmission losses will be small anywhere in the UK (because it's tiny), bu
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by scarab92 3y ago
Over the short term. My concern is that people are consciously avoiding slacking off during the trial period but will later return to their long-run productivity once they grow accustomed to 32 hour weeks. The other concern I have with the
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by scarab92 3y ago
Sure, but competent actors are fungible. It is a skill set with way more supply than demand. Expecting to be one of the lucky ones employed in this creative field, and then also dictating the terms of that employment is not going to happen.
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by scarab92 3y ago
Australia simply banned component pricing altogether. You are simply not permitted to communicate any price other the total price, which must include government fees and sales taxes. What makes this especially nice is that Australia also do
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by scarab92 3y ago
The objective is to create a tradable carbon security. The market mechanism will then incentive the lowest cost solution to reducing net emissions. All of this requires the securities to be fungible, so it’s not feasible to hold the buyer a
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by scarab92 3y ago
Most likely they will cease operating in Seattle altogether, because the ordinance prevents them from enforcing basic quality and safety standards. For example, the ordinance would prohibit deactivating drivers who: - Fail background checks
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by scarab92 3y ago
Amtrak are freeloading on privately built and maintained railways. If they want better track alignments, or prioritisation over other users, they should come to a commercial agreement with the infrastructure owners like anyone else. Alterna
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by scarab92 3y ago
In my experience people with American Express also carry a Visa or Mastercard, so there’s limited downside to refusing to accept it. Crazy that we live in a world where 3% is “a good deal”. In Europe the fees are capped at 0.15%, and I’m su
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by scarab92 3y ago
I hate the term “data”. What data did they share, and why did Google or Meta want this data? Are we only talking Google Analytics or are we talking about for profit data brokering.
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by scarab92 3y ago
I doubt that Threads will be free from the political flamewars that engulfed Twitter. It's inherent in the content type. It's just hard to argue with photos, but it's the default with text, especially given the propensity for
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by scarab92 3y ago
It's also because journalists are experts in nothing but journalism. Instead of finding domain experts and giving them communications training and a platform to reach an audience, we instead find people with nothing useful to share, an
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by scarab92 3y ago
The fascination with the gaming controller is a bit silly. It's not safety critical like the ability to drop ballast is. If something goes wrong with it you just kill propulsive power, resurface, and replace it. Also more engineering e
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by scarab92 3y ago
The overwhelming share of improvements made to Java, Javascript, Typescript etc over the past decade have been inspired by C#, so I can understand why the C# terminology was front of mind. Can you elaborate more of what combining disposal a
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by scarab92 3y ago
Just shouting this request into the ether, but if these reddit client developers teamed up to create a new alternate backend with a small API fee, the result could be amazing. A combination of their power user base and a small monthly subsc
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by scarab92 3y ago
Several popular reddit clients could team up, launch the site but require a small monthly subscription fee (which these clients already collect). Even $1 per month is enough to keep a lot of the outrage junkies out and you can use the reven
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Were they required to?
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by scarab92 3y ago
Does my head in seeing people put eco plant based labels on disposable ldpe packaging. It’s still the same plastic even if you change the feedstock.
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by scarab92 3y ago
Microsoft were blatant about this anticompetitive pricing strategy with Azure. AWS used to frequently cut prices. Azure started immediately matching the price cuts exactly. The tacit message to AWS was don’t cut your price because we’ll imm

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