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by tirant 7mo ago
Why cheaper? BMW does not focus on providing cheap cars but highly performing ones. So probably the reduction in costs will be used to improve performance, features and perceived quality. BMW has pretty low margins, like around 7-12% usuall
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by tirant 7mo ago
That only happens in an open and competitive market. It’s usually governments that block that from happening (tariffs, taxes, unnecessary regulations…)
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by tirant 7mo ago
The main problem with unions in Germany is that they block companies from adapting to changes in the environment quickly. Companies become heavy behemoths and end up suffering from it, which ends up damaging their own employees as well.
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by tirant 7mo ago
SAP is just a skeleton and a library. How processes are implemented on it depends on the company consulting and adapting it to the business using it. A merge between Palantir and SAP would dominate the market in a way there wouldn’t be any
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by tirant 7mo ago
I strongly disagree. The step from the F series to the G vehicles was big, quality improved a lot, specially for the 3 series (F30, F31 vs G20, G21) and the X3 (the G01 feels like a 5 series). The materials, assembly, noises during driving,
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by tirant 8mo ago
The MAC addresses of all the Wi-Fi clients are broadcasted in plain radio format all over the 2.4GHz. It is trivial.
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by tirant 8mo ago
Same as any other economic system: power is usually concentrated around a very small group of people. In socialism and communism, that concentration typically occurs within the party leadership or central planning apparatus. However, in fre
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by tirant 8mo ago
ICE also degrade over time. Batteries tend to last way longer than internal combustion engines.
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by tirant 8mo ago
I would say BMW had already caught up with Tesla since they released the BMW i4 and the iX. Both are great EVs surpassing Tesla in some aspects. Probably also the most efficient cars outside Tesla.
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by tirant 8mo ago
It has nothing to do with being realtime. Most mcus are also not running any realtime OS. What matters here is how dynamic and tightly coupled are the os components. On an embedded system, most of the system and their dependencies are monol
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by tirant 8mo ago
Education and age are not equivalent to intelligence.
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by tirant 8mo ago
Who defines what voting well is? Or what a good party is? The observed damage that the UK has inflicted to itself has been caused so far by all the parties that have been in power.
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by tirant 8mo ago
If that’s indeed the case, how do you explain the lack of catastrophe in Japans economy ? Japans big catastrophe happened in 1990 with the bubble bursting, but that was years before the peak in working age population. Since then, the econom
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by tirant 8mo ago
We used to tests servers before deploying them to customers and for that we ran intensive CPU software for days. I told my direct manager to mine bitcoin for fun. But he being a nerd for UFOs proposed to use Seti@Home. This was 2009, months
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by tirant 8mo ago
It could be worse: you could have bought bitcoin when it started and then have sold it for a profit of $40. ;)
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by tirant 8mo ago
And despite all of that, women keep buying those products. I have difficulties believing that your observations are a real issue. If they were, rest assured the free market would have found out about it and would have offered the right prod
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by tirant 8mo ago
Doesn’t help that high quality European made shoes are made either in Portugal, Spain or Italy, where women have also small feet. I believe there are still quite some shoe factories in Germany and Eastern Europe, but are mostly dedicated to
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by tirant 8mo ago
There’s also another element: the shift of women from being stay at home mums to joining the workforce. In the past there used to be always one family member staying at home and cooking food. That is not the case anymore for many families.
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by tirant 8mo ago
Increasing weight with age must be an American thing. My observations in my friends circle and family circle outside of US is that we have all kept same size (1 up/down) since early adulthood.
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by tirant 8mo ago
I have difficulties believing that what you’re describing is actually the case. Free markets are extremely good at covering many market niches, but free market is exceptional when it comes to cover the majority of the market. If that majori
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by tirant 8mo ago
You should have never bought anything before trying it on in the first place. I myself have a very standard body shape, to the point that almost always fit perfectly in all clothes. Nevertheless I always try them on, there’s never guarantee
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by tirant 8mo ago
They usually do, never found that issue on medium to high quality clothing (!= luxury brands).
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by tirant 8mo ago
I’ve only seen that issue in extremely cheap, China-made, clothing. It helps to buy high quality, and expensive, clothing. Sizing is consistent, and shape stays after multiple washes. Googling BIFL in Reddit helps a lot.
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by tirant 8mo ago
Then just try it out and if does not look good don’t buy it. I believe that’s how most of us try clothes out. It’s not only a matter of body shape, but also skin color, hair color, facial hair, face shape, hair cut… You always need to try o
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by tirant 8mo ago
I am really surprised about the sharp increase in body size by age in the USA. I have just anecdotal experience here in Europe, but I know for a fact that all the females in my family have kept the same size since they were 16-18 years old.
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by tirant 8mo ago
It is also censored in Germany. You’re welcomed with this message: Diese Webseite ist aus urheberrechtlichen Gründen nicht verfügbar. Zu den Hintergründen informieren Sie sich bitte hier. https://cuii.info/ueber-uns/
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by tirant 8mo ago
In Germany you’re actually not allowed to wash your car yourself unless on specific given premises designed the catch the car dirts in an ecological and previously bureaucratically approved way.
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by tirant 8mo ago
Not in Germany, though.
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by tirant 8mo ago
That’s also my experience. Specially for women in and my wives close environment. 90% or more wanted to have kids. But the ones that started after 35+ or didn’t have a partner until that age did struggle a lot, and many never managed even a
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by tirant 8mo ago
Those were GTA3 versions. The linked version is for the original GTA with the classical top view perspective.

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