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Comment · 1 year ago
From the article:

> Tesla’s drop came as the German EV market in January grew more than 50 per cent year on year, pushing its market share down from 14 to 4 per cent.

So to answer your question, it seems like people don't mind buying new electric vehicles. They just have a problem with Tesla in particular.

Comment · 1 year ago
The reason for these accidents to happen more frequently is explained in the WaPo article linked by the parent: Russia is smuggling oil out via the Baltic to fund the war, and it's hard to find experienced crews for these smuggling operations:

> A Nordic official briefed on the investigation said conditions on the tanker were abysmal. “We’ve always gone out with the assumption that shadow fleet vessels are in bad shape,” the official said. “But this was even worse than we thought.”

The last thing Russia wants is to draw attention to the boats it's using to keep its economy afloat. These seamen really didn't know what they were doing.

Comment · 1 year ago
That would be mudchute farm. But Canary Wharf is not considered part of central London, which is what the author is concerned with.
Comment · 3 years ago
Comment · 5 years ago
This article also inadvertently shows what I think is a big drawback of the inversion of control pattern.

Imagine you are trying to debug an issue with user creation.

In the last example, you would have to look up everywhere `createUser` is being called, and follow the code path through several different scattered files until you find your issue.

In the original code, you can simply look up `createUser` and you have the complete code flow in front of you.

Comment · 5 years ago
Comment · 5 years ago
I built this website, nearly 10 years ago. Crazy to see it's still up and running, without any maintenance. Got to give it to WordPress, it doesn't die easy.
Comment · 6 years ago
Thank you for bringing up the point that Capitalists aren't evil, or that Capitalism should be rejected for moral reasons, I think many people miss that.

But I'm not sure we can talk about a central point in Capital. Capital is a description of a system based on private commodity production, for exchange. It has many points, and one of them is the one you mention about the inevitable replacement of the capitalist mode of production with communism, and it comes at the end of Vol 1. Funnily enough, I believe it's the only point he asserts without arguments, and it's, as we know, thoroughly wrong.

If I had to highlight one important point from Capital, I think Marx's explanation for why the mass poverty of workers is an inescapable necessity for the capitalist mode of production would get my vote (chapters 4, 5, 6 of volume 1). It's an argument he was the first to develop, and that many people still refuse to acknowledge.

You are very right to point out that Capital does indeed predict many phenomena that we see today. In general, Capital holds up as a description of how the capitalist mode of production works.

Comment · 6 years ago
Came here to upvote typescript with jsdocs too. We use it in our project and it’s been really helpful. No overhead and you get the nice dev experience of typed code. Been doing it for 2 years, have yet to encounter a situation that would be solved by using ts compilation.

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