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I'm personally super upset with basically all non-Chinese brands. They used the post-covid inflation to drive prices up and like many people are saying here, now the 12k entry-level car is a 25k car. I bought a brand new VW T-Cross in 2021 for 19k and now the entry price is 27k, for the same exact car. It's insane. I understand people want bigger cars and even price conscious costumers are now going for compact suv (VW T-Cross instead of a Polo) so makers are definitely cashin in on this.

But there is also a Greed side to this story. Automakers have hiked prices, customers have kept buying and we finally (i hope) reached a breaking point. Jeep prices were apparently too high and sales plunged.

All of this makes me actually quite happy for the arrival of Chinese manufacturers. The price/quality ratio is extremely good and when i see the price i finally feel that it's a good deal. It makes me want to buy that car, while with most European manufacturers i'm just thinking of being scammed!

Agree, however i feel that NYT plays it smart. I currently pay only 4$/month which is negligible enough for me to keep it on.

Since i'm a happy subscriber of Bloomberg, i am really not keen to pay another 30$+/month for WSJ but i find myself trying to read some of their articles. Would love to find a cheap solution that gives me limited access (max 10/20 articles/month)

I'm toggling between Disney, Apple TV, HBO. This also allows me to build up a backlog of a handful of high-quality shows on each platform while paying only for one per month. The one i cannot cancel however is Netflix since multiple households now depends on my monthly payment.

of course bro, i'm sure that no self-driving car is gonna crash as soon as i deliberatly click on the wrong bicycle picture.

Fully agree that the system propose the same challenge to many people and fully agree that my wrong answer is just diluted in a bunch of correct answers.

That's exactly why i was asking if other people were doing that. If i'm the only one..then yes, it's only useful for myself to fell less like a exploited brain, but if say 20% of the people start dumping random error on purpose...than the situation changes quite a lot...and potentially even the business model of shit-captcha might not work.

Glad you asked. Since i despise the horrible UX of these Captcha where i get exploited to train a neural network, i very often click on the majority of correct result plus one wrong one.

On average the captcha let me go through which is actually very scary, since it looks like it prioritize algorithm training over bot detection...

Does anyone else do this?

aaaand again China doing whatever it wants and nobody doing anything about it. When will this stop? Personally i'm boycotting their product and services as much as possible.

Is it? Waymo seems to be doing pretty well, it has the largest fleet of autonomous cars and from what i remember by far the most extensive testing program on real streets. This looks more like an attempt to spread the R&D cost on lidar by selling to third parties. I guess as more and more companies sell their lidar solutions, it becomes more of a commodity and less a differentiation factor, like self-driving software for example.

Am i the only one struggling to use Zoom properly since they introduced the latest security changes? The slack integration (write /zoom to start a meeting) was working ok-ish even though we always had problem with the meeting not starting unless the host of the meeting was logged in (gosh...why so complicated?)

Now they added this waiting room, there is no sound notification to let you know that people are waiting. Doing daily standup become a sufference. It's crazy how quickly they lost us as users with literally two badly implemented features.

Happy to hear if any of you also had the same struggle and if there is a good alternative.

I'm getting extremely pessimistic about our chances at stopping this. It looks like even though we drastically reduce our emissions (which looks very much unrealistic) we haven't yet factored in all these variety of negative feedbacks that exacerbate the problem even more. It looks more and more like the chain of negative effects like the lost albedo effect, the methane released by the melting permafrost and tons of others will create a unstoppable runaway reaction. :(

That's a fair point. I guess a mine like Mountain Pass in California would still be a much cleaner site than a chinese mine, even though the EPA is now a clown agency basically. Anyone can confirm this?

I agree with you sooooooo much! Those popups are extremely annoying and mostly used on useless SEO blog traps. The whole notification UI should be much less prominent. If you really want to enable those notification, they should let you opt-in

This engine is meant to bring stuff (and people) to low earth orbit. Don't think of it as a plane, but as a space shuttle which will be fully reusable with no additional boosters. It flies at up to mach 5 and then switches to rocket mode, thus using it's own oxydizer instead of using the one in the atmosphere.

Completely agree on this one. I feel that a big chunk of "let's make it an SPA" is coming from the development team wanting to use and learn first hand these new exotic tech stacks. In the past two companies i have been, there was no strict guidance on the technology stack for each microservice or web app, so it ended up being a jungle of microservices written in GO, Elixir serving apps in React.js, VUE.js etc.

Did the company or the end user benefit from this? Hell no. Only one benefiting were the developers who ten left and asked for a 10k more salary on their next job for sporting that fancy new javascript framework. NICE!

The idea of having many small fusion reactors is quite interesting. I never thought about it and i would normally dismiss it since building a big one is cheaper than building many little ones. However, SpaceX and their 9-engine Falcon rocket teach us a different story. Sometimes building smaller yet complicated power plants is cheaper than building fewer ones but bigger.

Would be great to know more about the economics behind a multi reactor power plant.