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So explain the never ending cases of batteries catching fire. This is actually a big scandal, shows that the NHTSA has an agenda and no credibility at all.

Modern direct fuel injection systems today can compress fuel at almost 30,000psi (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_rail), so 10,000psi is nothing. Hydrogen is much safer than batteries, this is a fact.

Clicking feedback is very bad, sometimes it's instantaneous, other times it takes a couple of seconds that makes me unsure whether I actually clicked. Product pages loads fast but any other page is a lottery if it's going to load fast or take 2 seconds. Maybe this is a Commerce.js issue.

Is there a way to test the administration pages?

Try using the Facebook ads and Google Adwords interface for more than one week. Those are the worst interface I've ever seen. Slow and disfunctional, every click you get a spinner, I'm surprised it went to production, using that for more than a week is torture.

As if the spinners were not bad enough, now western web design created the animated grayed out text, which I particularly find an aberration.

Youtube interface is another example. You click on the "videos" tab and you get infinite scrolling without pagination. Killing pagination is a huge usability issue. Comments section with the "Load more" approach, another annoying feature, just load me all the comments in one go please.

Owning slaves was also "legal" some point in time.

It's not about entitlement, it's not about wanting something for free as some other replies are trying to justify this kind of practice. It's about how offering something for free destroys genuine competition. Once the competition is destroyed, users will have no other option but to pay the price Google is asking. Users can't search for a better price or better service because there is no other competing business that can offer a better anything.

It's not about accepting or not accepting paying to view videos. It's about how Youtube decimated competition and now the user cannot choose another pricing option and is left with the only option of paying the amount Google wants you to pay.

If someone gives people free beer while driving out competitors or preventing potential competitors form starting a business, then it's dumping. No company should be entitled to decimate competition using dirty strategies.

> Most Italian pizza has rather little cheese.

Not true, authentic neapoletan pizza is marinara(no cheese) or margheritta (lots of cheese).

> All of these businesses operate on less than 180 miles round trips per day typically inside the US. In Europe distances tend to be even shorter.

Yes but you are referring to the small urban trucks used in last mile deliveries. The article mentions heavy duty trucks. Even in the last mile delivery case, a limited 300km range is a problem because that means the same truck cannot be shared by workers in following shifts. Or maybe operate autonomously 24/7.

Dot-koh-doh-tenz

Anything you can do with fiat currencies, you can do with crypto. It's going to be huge.

People always criticize MySQL, then when asked what is the problem, they always mention the same thing about column length, which is just a default that can easily be changed and it's not even the default anymore for years.

Your example is outdated, MySQL doesn't truncate by default in later versions. Defaults can easily be changed. Choosing one database over another because of defaults is not a good strategy.

> What is that thing?

Blockchain brilliantly solves one and only problem, double spending. This single problem it solves enables the creation of true digital cash securely.

> So anyone who advocates blockchain for something other than cryptocurrency is a scammer?

if there is any kind of token sale, yes.

Blockchain was never intended to be a solution to several things, it was designed to be a solution to one thing and do it well. Scammers seized the oportunity to market blockchain as a solution to all your problems to profit themselves and a lot of people were fooled.

Are you kidding? You need to see more of the outside world. Tesla has zero tech advantage on BEV. Go to China, every mom and pop factory can build a new BEV vehicle on a weekend. BEVs vehicles are so easy to build that cars will be a comoditized item. Infinite amount of battery suppliers. The only reason traditional car makers are not focusing too much on EVs right now is because there is not enough profits currently.

It's very telling that a rule needs to be created to allow users to perform an otherwise obvious action. It shows that big tech don't have even the minimal amount of ethics.

You missed the part where I said "at this time"

The twitter poster is delusional. There is no such tech gap, in fact, building electric vehicles is much easier than ICE vehicles, the only reason the traditional car makers are not heavily invested in EVs is because there is not much profit in this segment at this time.

Uber can say that drivers can set their own rates but they can only afford certain rate. Wouldn't this work?

Funny that while you are saying this, Teslas are catching fire spontaneously.

He was probably the first weaboo ever.

Public reviews should be outlawed unless some form of credential system is created. The review system is another example of how the tech industry is unable control their urge to inconsequentially behave like if they were gods with complete lack of empathy.

So anyone who questions quantum computing is a hater? Your argument reminds me of one interview where Elizabeth Holmes said everyone was a hater for doubting her. John Martinis didn't silence anyone, after decades, still there's no verifiable proof of quantum computing.

Nobel Laureate Robert Laughlin Dismisses Quantum Computing> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iYQSbV_BlI8

Every article about Hokkaido written by Western scholars are outdated or tend to have this historical misconception about the Ainu being indigenous to Hokkaido, such as this BBC piece.

The Ainu are not indigenous to Hokkaido. The only factually known indigenous people of Hokkaido as well as the whole of the Japanese archipelago is the Jomon, as far as current evidence is considered. The Jomon lived in Hokkaido centuries before the Ainu existed.

Recent DNA studies have found that the Ainu in the Edo era was already an admixture of Jomon, Okhotsk and about 30% mainland Japanese.

I also noticed that Western scholars usually get very defensive when we show them evidence that their narrative of Ainu being the indigenous victims of Japanese colonization is false.

Except that in the case of Ainu, they are not indigenous to Japan, the indigenous people of Japan is the Jomon and they were already in Hokkaido centuries before the Ainu existed.

The more common accepted theory according to recent DNA studies is that the Ainu are actually Siberians who mixed with Jomon and also mainland Japanese.

Saying that the Ainu are indigenous to Hokkaido is a common misconception of Western scholars, they somehow insist in this historical error.

Well a truly bizarre thing happened, the Mapfit staff just altered the text on their pricing box from 100,000/day to 2,500/day (Google cache confirms). Doesn't look very professional.

I've been researching alternatives and Mapfit offers 100,000 API requests a day for free. I haven't read the documentation but looks very promising.