Wonder how this differs from something like Airalo or bnesim then, aside from the free tier.
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Is it 1.95€ a day unlimited worldwide, or are there charges on top of that?
Annual meetings are apparently organized by local groups who lobby/compete with one another. China has a very large SciFi readership and the group from Chengdu was very active when it came to lobbying and gathering votes. It wasn’t until later that people started to realize this may not have been the best decision, e.g. with visa applications and so on.
As far as the actual scandal, there’s also discussion about whether there was any actual government intervention or if this was mainly the result of self-sensorship.
Yeah, I don't get it either.
If you exercise regularly and you're going on a cut, 1.6kg is a good target to maintain muscle mass. That said, in order for you to reach this point, you already have to be very good at regulating your food intake.
Otherwise, .9g per kg is a much more realistic target for the 90%+ of people who are simply trying to be fit.
I completely agree, but the ratio of overweight/obese to "I have a slightly high BMI because I lift 4x a week" has to be somewhere in the range of 100-1.
Chrysler knew they were toast. They either had to be bought out, mortgage everything for massive capital investment (which is what Ford did), or eventually go under.
Meanwhile, Daimler executives wanted a way to get American compensation. A ‘merger’ that would turn them into an ‘American’ company was their preferred option.
Of course, the Chrysler executive team was eventually shown the exit, the company was run from Germany, and it turned out that Daimler’s leadership was making a number of other major mistakes (this is around the time when reliability went down hill, and it had nothing to do with Chrysler).
Live in Central Europe. Most of the people we know either own their cars outright or take public transportation.
Many companies north of the border (Germany) offer company cars as an incentive, which iirc are leased, but these eventually hit the resale market as one year or CPO vehicles.
Most cars also have a fairly long anti-corrosion warranty.
That said, reliability issues were more a matter of 1. US style cost cutting (remember Daimler Chrysler?) 2. getting caught by surprise by the horse power wars of the naughts and early teens. Engines and associated parts were rushed to market without proper testing.
These issues have largely been reversed. Modern BMWs are almost/as reliable as Japanese manufacturers while MB is starting to close the gap.
EVs have a place. I'm a fan of them. However, until recharging an EV becomes as quick and convenient as filling up a fuel tank at a station, ICE will continue to be the preferred option.
That said, government incentives (China, northern EU states) and potential ICE bans (EU) may allow EVs to win out in some markets.
However, at least in the west, this depends on the EU going against the best interests of central European automakers and everyone else in the automotive supply chain. It's - very - hard to see this happening over the next decade or two.
Long term EV will likely win. We're still a ways away from this happening.
That's the issue.
This simply isn't possible if you live in an older apartment complex or rely on street parking.
ICE wins - at the moment - simply because it takes less than five minutes to refuel.
Around 50% of people in the EU live in apartments. Most apartments were built decades ago and lack EV chargers - and, in many cases, enough dedicated parking spots for each unit, but that's a different story.
If people in the states think that charging a Model 3 or Model Y is too time consuming, when close to 90% of Americans live in single family houses, why would the majority of European car buyers be willing to switch to EVs, when they don't even have the option to install an EV charger?
Agreed, but there's also an unaddressed issue of whether many (most?) positions at large tech companies provide an actual economic benefit to the company or whether they exist simply because of organizational inefficiencies (Parkinson's Law).
To put it another way, a hire may have been the best candidate out a very selective interview process, but if his position exists simply because of internal silo building, forced ranking - as bad of a system as it is - may work.
Is there any economically valid reason for Meta to have ~75K employees?
There were very, very few people who could do what he did.
It's not a species-ending threat (at least, to humans). That said, the realistic outlook for global warming is bad enough.
EV is a technology in transition. It will get there. It's getting there. It's not "there" yet for every use case.
Why? A large part isn't because of the technology, it's about population density. The countries that pollute the most also happen to have sub-par public transportation networks. Range anxiety isn't an issue when the default option for most people is light rail.
The solution is likely going to come down to: 1. Urban planning. Car friendly zoning, building codes, minimum parking requirements, and other regulations are starting be reversed in the US. It's already happened across most of the EU.
2. Switch to low emissions electricity generation. Power plants are still the leading emitter, full stop.
3. EV adoption. My point above wasn't an argument against EVs as a technology, but a statement of fact that - as a technology in transition - it's not superior for all major use cases. This should change over the next couple of decades.
EVs aren't going to kill it. Mass A/C adoption in response to global warming is a different issue entirely.
Mild hybrid is winning out.
> If we care about reducing carbon, we'll probably get more milage out of more walkable cities, expanded public transit, and e-bikes/scooters for local trips.
Completely agree. The best way to solve this issue is to fund or otherwise incentivize alternatives that get cars off of the road entirely.
The answer isn't an EV car, although these will help. It's reliable EV light rail/passenger trains.
Marketshare growth is excellent.
Car manufacturers and government regulators bet the farm on mass EV adoption.
Current EVs and EV infrastructure haven't solved the range anxiety/charging issue yet. Suburban US, where most people own a garage, is an outlier.
Waiting 10-15 years for prolific street-level infrastructure to be built out doesn't solve the fact that there are unsold EVs on dealer lots today.
Of course, there are plenty of use cases where range anxiety simply isn't relevant. Ditto why marketshare is still growing and will likely continue to grow.
> ...and you never have to worry about stopping at a gas station - the car is ready to go every morning and you don't even have to think about it!
If you have a home charging station. This immediately excludes a - very - large number of people in the EU and metropolitan US who live in multifamily housing or older towns and cities.
> an electric drivetrain is a way better driving experience than the miserable turbocharged 4-cylinder engines that everyone has been forced to use for fuel economy reasons today, even premium brands like Mercedes and BMW. These are nasty, underpowered, vibrating pieces of shit with no torque and no power unless you run them at thousands of RPM, where they're loud and buzzy. Just complete fucking garbage.
What are we comparing? A Tesla Model 3 against most non-premium cars? Of course. An MG5 EV/Roewe EI5 against a BMW B48 or a Honda K20C1? Questionable.
Let's not forget that there are plenty of fuel efficient 6 cylinder mild hybrid platforms that, quite frankly, compete very well with premium EVs. Range anxiety aside, are they necessarily better? Again, questionable, but the overall package that comes with an M340d or an A6 55TFSI is better than the equivalent Model 3/S (or even, imo, any of BMW or Audi's EVs).
The EU does it better. At least with the old Horizon 2020 scheme, up to 20% of the grant amount could be set aside for overhead costs. Anything more would get flagged if the grant was ever audited.
This limited how much participating universities could repurpose. I don’t know how Horizon EU is set up, but my guess is that it follows the same approach.
Hybrids haven’t had much success. The market, at least in Europe, is flooded with slightly used PHEVs.
GDAL has drivers for HDF4, HDF5, and netCDF.
I do a good amount of work with multispectral imagery data. My workflow for anything that doesn't immediately come as a geotiff or a jp2 is to either use gdal_translate via the command line to convert the datasets I'm interested in into a multi-band geotiff, or to open the product directly in either Python or Julia with the appropriate library.
That said, how much effort and what I do with the data depends a lot on where it comes from.
It is.
That said, the website is legitimate. They’ve put out a lot of very good content, for years, albeit with a pessimistic slant. The firm founder is also active on Twitter.
Labor costs are the main differentiators for high quality textiles.
If you’re paying a skilled cordwainer 25 or more an hour, it doesn’t make sense to have them work with faux leather.
Iirc the expectation in the early teens was a slowdown to 3-5% growth around the middle of the last decade. The argument then was that PRC officials knew they needed to transition to a more balanced growth model.
Instead, they continued over investing in manufacturing and infrastructure. The end result is a sizable amount of debt across the entire economy that is, likely, unsustainable if and when a market downturn occurs.
> TLDR PRC is at 25% skilled workforce
I think there's a bias on here to think that skilled = STEM. There's an argument to be made that what China really needs is skilled service workers.
People also need to realize that, when it comes to demographics and population mobility, China is far more akin to the EU than the US.
If we go by your argument, Europe also has a very large reserve of unskilled or semi-skilled workers. However, moving from Sophia to Frankfurt != moving from Boise to San Fransisco. I'll even argue that it's much easier to move from Bulgaria to Germany than it is to move from Sannxi to Beijing.
I don't know if it's as much a story of decline as it is one of unmet expectations.
China has a declining (and likely overstated) population. They have a very heterogeneous population. They also have an unsustainable growth model and an unwillingness to 'pull the plug', stop manufacturer subsidies, and tackle local governance issues.
In other words, China looks a lot like many other East Asian countries in the past that have pursued an export-led growth model with a de-facto single party government.
The difference between China and Korea, Japan, and Taiwan is that the country is - much - larger. Modernization is almost always city-first. It's possible to gloss over a significant rural-urban divide when you have a high population density and a relatively homogeneous population.
For comparison, Taiwan's population density is three times larger than China, and that's before you account for the fact that much of the island is essentially inhabitable.
All of the infrastructure China has built exists. From what I've been told, the east and south coast cities are the most modern in the world. It's hard to imagine - decline.
However, the country has very well known and very large issues that they're unwilling or unable to address. Lower growth and - maybe - some form of stagnation are more likely, (I'm thinking it will be the former after a correction of some kind).
Nope. Taking a train from Zürich HB to Bellinzona for the holiday. The train is full. My suitcase is in the next car.
It will be there, untouched, when I get off in an hour or so.