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The intended effect of the law is that they get better at planning. It requires supply chain innovation similar to what happened in the automotive industry decades ago with JIT manufacturing. They can borrow from fast-fashion but now there’s a penalty for over producing.

Gorgeous. Not a billionaire but approximately how much would this cost to build?

If you’re looking at something with a screen, the ESP32 ecosystem has tons of options. Look up Waveshare and Elegoo ESP32 modules.

Would be really cool if you could set up a pilot on https://www.youtube.com/@dustupstexas

Quotas. My Trader Joe's had a limit of one roll of toilet paper during the pandemic breadlines.

Worked for me. Played some chess online.

Kinda like Hong Kong when it came to the finance industry. Agree mostly. Instead of destroy, I would say China wouldn’t need to/care to maintain their fine balance/ special relationship with Taiwan anymore and would throw their weight around more.

LE Audio is still too slow and low quality. The next step will likely be UWB audio.

- So, going back 10-12 years, Tesla suddenly came and ate legacy ICE makers' lunches on many fronts – launching a successful EV, requisite charging network, overall UX, UI, driver assistance features, performance, sales and delivery, costs, software development, components, repair etc.

- Legacy ICE makers took a long time to figure out how to respond. At first, many of them thought all they had to do to compete was to was to throw in a large portrait screen. Then there were many abominations of them trying to fit EV components into their ICE platforms. I would say the Germans didn't get good at it until 2023-2024 (but they still have a lot to figure out).

- During the time, the legacy ICE makers were figuring things out, the EV startups had the advantage of not having the burden of legacy and figuring things out from first principles. There was a lot of money to be made here. In my estimation, this window of opportunity has now mostly passed.

> It seems like a ton of them fail to make a viable base platform profitable and able to mass produce.

Automotive is essentially a volume game in the long run. This is hard and figuring this out is where the value is. Basically, if you're able to figure out this part, it's a lot less effort to figure out the other parts and control the entire thing. This is similar to how car companies make their own engines (other than in specialty, low volume cases).

> Is there a market for a white-label EV platforms that are proven able to be executed well on a production line and allow the startups to actually complete on the fit and finish bits?

There is a market but it doesn't make sense for EV startups to do this because most of the value is in the previous bit, and the value add from this part is marginally less. Also, cars are complex and it takes a lot of work to integrate things made by others. Car companies do form partnerships to share these things.

Some cases:

1. Honda was late to the EV game and found it easier to form a partnership with GM. This resulted in the Honda Prologue, which is built by GM and is essentially a Chevy Blazer [1]. This model has been a success. However, Honda has cancelled the deal and will be releasing new cars built on its own platform [2].

2. Rivian is one company trying to scale on the platform side – they came out with high price-point vehicles. e.g. R1S competes with Range Rover. They're using the same platform for R1T trucks and for Amazon delivery trucks. Rivian had a partnership with Ford, where Rivian would make the platforms for Lincoln EVs, but Ford pulled out and are making Lincoln EVs on their own platform

VW Group was having major issues with its internal software and electronics tier I Cariad. So, they invested $5bn into Rivian so that they could use Rivian's expertise in this. See [3] for Rivian's perspectives on the various partnerships.

[1] https://www.motortrend.com/news/2024-honda-prologue-chevrole... [2] https://www.caranddriver.com/news/a43699034/honda-new-ev-pla... [3] https://electrek.co/2024/07/23/rivian-ceo-spills-tea-why-for...

Have there been any proposal to make shots from within the paint 1 point? (Purpose would be to encourage from shooting from outside the paint but from within the 3 point line)

Fully agreed. Soccer is like your esports example too – 45 minutes uninterrupted, followed by 15 minutes of some ads + analysis, following by another 45 minutes uninterrupted. I find it hard to keep attention if I try to watch NBA or NFL because of all the interruptions.

This is a conservative newspaper amplifying a conservative politician offering a sensational false choice – i.e. reduce pollution reduction targets or ban driving on weekends. If it’s not obvious, I t’s a a false choice because there are other ways to reduce pollution.

Can I submit my Football Manager records with my CV?

Same in Persian. I didn't know the difference between jigar and kaleja. Looks like kaleja is of Sanskrit origin while jigar is of Persian origin.

Nope. That would turn off nearby Android devices and laptops as well.

But how? My phone is off!

It’s a nice gesture kinda like holding the door open for you date.

Because it wasn’t always an adversarial superpower nor does our relationship with them have to stay adversarial.

> So, even though I am nobody, I’m still too afraid to really speak out.

Did you read about the HarvRd and Columbia law students who had their job offers rescinded because they signed a letter critical of Israel’s actions?

Yeah, different regimes are sensitive to different issues. All Assange did was release a video showing US bombing civilians in another country. Taters nothing inherently classified about that information. The fact that our government goes to great efforts to hide it and punishes anyone for revealing it is tyrannical.

The crazy thing is that, just like mocking Chinese politicians is not in actuality a big deal in that it’s harmless and it’s clear to us that the Chinese government is being extra sensitive; revealing of US war crimes seems to have been harmless too in that the government continues to do it, the general population doesn’t care, and the people who did it are roaming free, yet the US government continues to be extra sensitive to it.

Take a vacation or pick up a new hobby or organized sporting activity.

How has Nike mined this commercial and marketing gold yet!?

Would you have any good resources for the non VC route?

The matte paintings are taking the jobs away from camel drivers who would otherwise have transported vast amounts of film equipment across the desert for on-site shoots.

The only interesting and unique concept in this list is “lunzi”. Everything else is Sapir-Whorfian bullshit.

To me, it feels like “intuition” although it has different origins covers all of the resulting meanings.

> The US by comparison has been quite dedicated to free trade. They abandoned there own production base, imported more culture then they exported and overall been quite friendly an empire.

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Trading with sanctioned countries: happens all the time in support of various US wars. Too many examples during the Iraq War, but Iran Contra Scandal is a big one as the US President was directly involved.

Predatory infrastructure loans: that's what USAID, IMF and World Bank are basically set up to do.

Data privacy is linked to misinformation however in that by tricking you to give up all your data, they know you down to a t. They then sell that info on to propaganda/misinformation outfits and ad firms who can then target too much more efficiently.

The organ harvesting thing was propaganda spread by an openly anti-communist organization and has been discredited by international bodies. The concentration camps are obviously not the norm – the way China talks about them, they seem similar to extrajudicial imprisonment we have to incarcerate similar types of terrorists and enemies of the state.