Are they profitable though? Sounds like a painful investment trap, where the company can always declare projections of a happy future once a certain threshold would be reached in terms of installed base of compatible cars with interchangeable batteries, and every time growth in installed base starts to visibly miss the optimistic prognosis they can say "uncle" and force a reset by introducing some new incompatible format "this time it will be better, need more money, now!"
(I know nothing about how intra China VC works or does not work, but battery swap schemes sound like an effective capital trap - note that those traps tend to work best when even the ones setting them up don't recognize their nature, I'm not accusing anyone on doing it on purpose!)
What's so strange about that as a concept? As someone who grew up in the 90s, the idea of doing so is totally normal for me. I mean, I don't do it, but I wouldn't blink at someone else saying they did.
How do you think people achieve the goal of 50 books in a year, for example?
There's also chores, talking with people, board games, going for a walk, a bath, sex, exercise, just doing nothing in particular for a bit, etc. The choice isnt only screens or books.
Why not? You can make reading a habit if you want to. I find it highly rewarding and glad I have this habit instead of something else like scrolling social media.
Not sure if you are being facetious. I'll put my hand up as someone who reads at least an hour at night before going to sleep. Like anything it becomes normal eventually.
As a matter of fact I'll put my phone away and get my book out.
I think SWE must be the only (allegedly) engineering discipline where developer convenience is overtly prioritised above product quality or user experience.
If you doubt this, think how many times you've seen a framework advertised due to its ease of use for developers vs due to e.g. performance in low bandwidth.
I am genuinely worried me and my cohort’s lifespan 1996-20XX will be a period with an economy that continues to be as dysfunctional as it has been
Especially worried it will never be addressed, or will take painful (see: revolutionary) measures to address the challenges
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Where I live (Australia), we’ve had a decade of a conservative government. We finally voted in the more progressive party and instead of addressing the economic issues we’re facing, they’re strategically playing a small target platform (ie not introducing any substantial measures).
I personally don’t see the Australian or Canadian economies being equitable until ~2035-2040, where the cohort at birthrate peak (boomers) begin dying en masse.
Australia is a place of genuine demographic economic inequality for those born here, and still fairly economically adversarial to skilled migrants, let alone those who actually need an escape to a better place
I think a good remedy would be to completely remove "normal procedure" as a defense against liability. Our legal standard should defend people who break protocols if they know they will result in harm, and prosecute people who don't, or prosecute the people who make the protocols in those cases. Law should supercede corporate policy, not treat it as a form of law
Considering that a woman was arrested for silently (as in without sound or words) praying in front of an abortion clinic? No. This is standard asinine British police behavior. This guy was a bit of an idiot, but the British police are a few IQ points above Muppet.
Begs belief, some information must be getting caught by a classification here