cyruseuros

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  • While increasing energy efficiency and available space, both of which can be used for extending EV range (by adding more batteries that deplete more slowly) - one of the biggest EV issues right now.

    Or you could just fit a mini party bus inside a hatchback, whichever you prefer.

    To your point though, one of the othe big EV issues is cost (both purchase and maintenance) - even if a large chunk of it is artificial. Wonder what the price tag and lifespan on these things will be.





  • That could be true, I don’t know honestly.

    But then it’s an issue of bad fee structures, or rather overestimating defaulter numbers. It’s not like the amount of money you make from fees reduces as your interest earnings go up, so - if this is indeed the cause - the only thing I can conclude is that to meet their total projected earnings they assumed people would default en masse. Bad long term business and slim margins if you ask me.

    At the same time I have a hard time not drawing a parallel between this and GS Marcus. Apple had nothing to do with the latter and both went under (effectively), with both being forays into regular consumer services for GS.

    Then again I’m just an armchair general. What do I know.





  • Truth be told, once I made myself live without extensions for a week, I realized I never needed them in the first place. Gnome has a way of making you discover a slightly different way of doing the same thing that in hindsight just works better with the overall system than an extension would.

    But to each their own…







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    8 months ago

    Not missing it, just not addressing it. The topic wasn’t of particular interest from that angle. Not to me anyway.

    It’s not that I dislike the word liberated, it’s that it’s completely inaccurate in this case, and those kinds of inaccuracies do have consequences, however slight at first.

    Defeated is a good word. Invaded is another. Liberated isn’t.


  • Let’s get one thing straight, Germany was not liberated, it was defeated.

    Of course we can say not all… But that’s a sociological tautology.

    It’s exactly this kind of west = good silent premise that’s making us miss what’s beginning to brew over there again now that things are getting tough. Just like it did last time.

    I’m not saying Germans are evil, but we need to be careful with this kind of subtle revisionism. I suspect you didn’t even say it intentionally - it’s just a phrase that’s often used around you, and that’s what makes it doubly dangerous.

    Nothing against you man, I’m just a tad disenchanted with the current state of things is all.