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Comment · 1 year ago
You're mixing different problems and clearly have no experience driving or owning EVs.

> You can't charge them within five minutes like you would load up a traditional car.

Nothing to do with reliability.

> Battery starts to lose range. Even more so in extreme temperatures.

Yes, you lose ~20% of range if it's snowing or very cold. Is this a reliability issue?

> Battery replacement is super expensive. In that amount you can get your engine rebuilt multiple times over.

It is very expensive, but batteries are not failing. Again, we now have 10-15 year old cars on the road without battery problems.

Comment · 1 year ago
If you're referring to what happen to companies like Hertz, then according to them the problem wasn't reliability.

The cars had more accidents, probably because some were not used to the speed or would get an EV just to test the speed. Why buy Tesla in that case then, when their repairs are known to be super expensive and slow? Then you had people who are not used to EVs and charging trying to use EVs and the companies themselves didn't build the charging infrastructure so customers left with a full battery, but that has nothing to do with reliability. Vehicle depreciation? Again, a Tesla problem because they sold them the cars at a high price before dropping prices (the covid years were very weird).

So again, what makes EVs unreliable? It's a simple question.

Comment · 1 year ago
Is it much worse than having an engine there?
Comment · 1 year ago
> an end product that isn't even reliable let alone having a long life

What's unreliable on a modern EV? And what do you mean by "long life", because you now have 10-15 year old EVs that are fine.

Obviously some cars aged poorly, like some Tesla which had poor build quality (not an EV problem, but a company problem) or cars like the Nissan Leaf that didn't have battery cooling for years, but what's exactly unreliable on a modern Polestar or a Hyundai?

Comment · 1 year ago
The job numbers that he doesn't like? They're from the first few months he was in office.
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Comment · 1 year ago
I don't know if Matrix is "safe" or not, but I usually avoid companies that attack companies like this. Not a good look in my view.
Comment · 1 year ago
It's funny that you ask that because around 10 years ago, there was this investment stuff going around in my community. No one warned me about the dangers and those who tried to convince me to join only said good things about it, but I looked at it and it looked weird. It was a pyramid scheme. So I didn't join, didn't lose any money or lose any friendships over it.

If I come here and tell you that I'm going to reduce expenses and debt while reducing taxes and also investing massive amounts of money to improve the military, healthcare, etc, something should go off in your head because it doesn't add up.

Voting for someone promising unrealistic things is no different from going into a dark alley in what you know is a rough neighborhood. A victim is still a victim, but grown ups must own up to their actions... and there's no other way of saying this: what you did was fucking dumb. It's even dumber if you do the same dumb thing twice.

Comment · 1 year ago
If many around me warn me about the Nigerian prince scam and I fall for it, then I think I deserve some of the pain. Sure, I'm still a victim, but personally I'd be questioning my intelligence and would try to see where I had failed so it doesn't happen again.
Comment · 1 year ago
I can tell you that technically Hugo has to be somewhere you control to generate a website, but I don't see the point in that discussion.

The list I can see on the site seems to be of tools you can self host or can help you create something that you can self host. That's it. It doesn't make sense to blame a site because a comment on HN didn't correctly describe the content of the website... like, the problem is the comment, not the site.

Comment · 1 year ago
The comment you replied to said it was a site about "self-hostable services". The site doesn't claim to be just about "self-hostable services".
Comment · 1 year ago
The rules for building in these areas should be way more strict than they are. A 4.x earthquake in Japan is just another normal day for them.
Comment · 1 year ago
And even the most adaptive creatures have limits.
Comment · 1 year ago
OT, but the company behind that extension seems to be a bit shady.

uBlock Origin is open source, very efficient, and seems to be well regarded around these parts.

Comment · 1 year ago
I'm not familiar with Spanish law, but you can see the problem with forcing a company to provide details of customers that are from a different country.

It's a bit like the UK demanding that Apple gave them access to user data of all customers worldwide. Apple correctly told them no and stopped offering end-to-end encryption to UK users.

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