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by sofixa 11mo ago
> The only reason why cars are the size and shape they are is because ICE engines couldn't be made smaller. Electric engines on the other hand are small enough that I can have the chassis of a fully functioning car be light enough t
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> 'we were too late, abort' What do you mean, the ID series for the main VW brand have 7 upcoming models over the next two years (4 for the Chinese market, 3 for everywhere). > all established brands we know are left behind
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> It was announced a few days ago some models of Tesla are coming to Colombia at cheaper prices than BYD How could that be? At least Renault's low cost models (like the Dacia Spring, sold as Kwid in Latin America) are sold for cheap
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> If a country tries to "protect" jobs by blocking AI, it only puts itself at a disadvantage Regulating AI doesn't mean blocking it. The EU AI Act regulates AI without blocking it, just imposing restrictions on data usage
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by sofixa 11mo ago
Evidence-free? Did you even skim OP's list? Healthcare/Social damage: we already have peer reviewed studies on the potentially negative impacts of LLMs on mental health: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/P
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> I'd argue that "value creation" is already at a decent position considering generative AI and the usecase as "interactive search engine" alone. > Regarding "value extraction": Advertising should al
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Might be a mobile app / EU-based account only thing, but I've seen it numerous times and I'm almost certain I've seen it on the web version of Gmail too.
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> I wonder how much of newsletter marketing (and paid email marketing) is being propped up by the GMail categories just silently ingesting tons of stuff that people never read or see (but also never unsubscribe from) I don't know, g
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> what prevents Nvidia from doing the same thing and iterating on their more general-purpose GPU towards a more focused TPU-like chip as well, if that turns out to be what the market really wants. Nothing prevents them per se , but it w
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Because of PSD2 (regulating card payments in the EU), 3DS, including multi-factor authentication with an application or sms, are mandatory in the EU.
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That's what happened with the Xian MA60, but it was still a disaster due to supply chain complexities. Even the relatively established UAC (Russia) couldn't handle the supply chain and maintenance of their most recent SSJ-100, eve
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Are we really comparing bank applications forbidding screenshots and controls of their apps to lower the risk of certain types of exploits/attacks with hanging people ?
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> google just wants to normalize rent seeking 30% of all software sales Most Android applications are free. Furthermore, Google allow you to install a separate store where you can buy from, allowing you to not have to pay those 30%, or t
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> Will I be able to take screenshots at will on MY computer, or get a black screen because Google decides so? It's not Google, it's the application vendor that decides so. And as annoying as I find it when I want to screenshot
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> xx60 is mid range at best. Maybe even xx50 if those still exist "It's mid range if it exists" doesn't make sense. Also you're missing that they're talking about 3070, a card from 2020 (5 years ago), 2 gene
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> It surprises me how hyper focused people are on AI risk when we’ve grown numb to the millions of preventable deaths that happen every year. That's the thing, those are "normal" and "accepted". That's not a
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> I believe that a Chinese car of the same quality, sold for 70% of the price of a European made car, will outperform the European car in every market, where those cars compete on equal footing. You disagree with that for reasons unfatho
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> status quo Yes, we're talking about the current reality and trends about the future. Which is it, are EU manufacturers at large on the decline, or am I too focused on the current reality that they're doing okay, with exceptio
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> European wealth comes from exports That's certainly a claim. The EU market is pretty big, and has multiple avenues for growth (the whole of the Balkans is either in the EU but catching up, or outside the EU begging to be let in).
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> or is something competitive with a 737ng enough given they can pressure domestic airlines into buying it and undercut their way into more sticker price sensitive markets Potentially, but previous attempts (like the Xian MA60 and MA600,
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> Renault is a small company, not even in the top 10 How exactly is that even remotely relevant? They only sell in select markets, and are killing it in them (best selling EV in the EU, Renault 5). What, if it's not a global behemot
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> How does that make it a "necessity"? It's not for China to decide? This is the reasoning Russia uses when invading neighboring countries. To "protect" russian people and claim that <insert part of country&gt
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You're saying that like the two are at odds. France is a military superpower with almost entirely France, worst case scenario western EU, based supply chain. Italy, Spain, to a lesser extent Germany are too. Manufacturing is also prett
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> House of Bourbon, a French royal family Which also ruled in Spain and multiple different parts of Italy (like Parma and the Two Sicilies).
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> Then, assuming there is a credible alternative, the inaccessible technology will die out in a generation, as we've seen with IBM mainframes Unfortunately IBM mainframes are still around. No new customers, but existing ones are too
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> Since we're basically getting flying cars next year at the World Cup That's so funny. Regular people can't hahndle regular cars. Self-driving cars barely handle 2 dimensional space within very specific confines and rules
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> Apple has all but zero presence in BigCorp outside of social media and creative teams Depends on the BigCorp. One of the most quentessential BigCorps out there, IBM, is deep into Apple stuff. As far as publicly shilling for Macs with e
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> MacOS is light years ahead of Windows in so many arenas At least Windows dignifies you with an error message (even if a hex code and badly tanslated text) when something is wrong. macOS mocks you with a dumb and utterly useless message
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France, Germany, UK, Switzerland , Netherlands, Belgium are a few I'm familiar with. There are of course areas of improvement, but in all of those you have strong press that can annihilate politicians for for crimes, as well as more or
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What would they fear about it? Nationalisation would include compensation (as per relevant laws), so the shareholders don't lose a lot. Maybe the compensation would be less than the potential highs of the stock price, but it's not

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