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What’s the problem with that? Reproducing copyrighted works in full is problematic obviously. But if I learned English by watching American movies, I didn’t steal the language from…

I wonder if it would go well with some Volkswagen sausage. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volkswagen_currywurst

It might be time to check out the Hacker News guidelines for comments. A couple of relevant excerpts: >Be kind. Don't be snarky. Converse curiously; don't cross-examine. >Please re…

Currently I believe so, although they likely wouldn’t qualify for the $7500 EV tax credit due to the origin of the batteries. Lawmakers have talked about this scenario with concern…

Can’t help but read that and think of Tesla’s Autopilot and “Full Self Driving”. For some comparisons they claim to be safer per mile than human drivers … just don’t think too much…

I think that’ll define the industry for the coming decades. I used to work in machine translation and it was the same. The older rules-based engines that were carefully crafted by …

Interesting that some relatively recent changes of preferred names like Czech Republic->Czechia and Macedonia->North Macedonia are on there but not Turkey->Türkiye and East Timor->…

Italy seems to be right there too. Just saw they deemed a car model name illegal because it sounds Italian but isn’t made in Italy: https://www.thedrive.com/news/italy-tells-alfa-r…

> Given that a cove is actually a place, it is reasonable to conclude that there is a connection between the use of this suffix as a descriptor for ‘place’ in both language groups.…

Prescriptivism vs descriptivism. Sorry, descriptivism always wins.

That’s because BMW (and their dealers) want to sell every car twice. Once new and then again in a few years as a certified pre-owned car that has retained quite a bit of value. Mak…

And GM has Cadillac. It’s one thing for some features to debut on the luxury line and trickle down to the mainstream. It’s another to be like “here’s our new $40k mainstream electr…

Didn’t end up going to work for the friend, but the situation still strained the friendship. An engineer I worked with for several years (and became friends with outside of work) s…

Yeah, probably something like “we'll make the shiniest Vision Pro app on launch day if you knock a few percentage points off the in-app purchases/subscription fee across our apps”.…

Gerald’s Game perhaps? I mean it’s not a sexy sex scene but it really informs us about a character. Of course many sex scenes are unnecessary, just there to titillate.

> especially considering how we can't import cars from China. Are you referring to the US tax credit rules around battery origins or vehicle import tariffs? Because there certainly…

Well it’s also because the US government set up rules that end up encouraging crossovers over lower cars: https://www.roadandtrack.com/car-culture/car-design/a3349059...

Individual parents aren’t generally in a position to open a daycare and make a meaningful difference in the supply of childcare. Employers may be able to do so.

It’s like people buying Teslas. Sure, it’s a company run by a mercurial edgelord billionaire who doesn’t believe in quality assurance or decent post-sale service, but hey, it’s a w…

I always appreciate Dr. Ernst Stuhlinger‘s response to such criticism: https://news.lettersofnote.com/p/why-explore-space

True enough, the biggest Trump supporter I know bought a Tesla a few years back. But Trump has pivoted to something like “Democrats and globalists support electric cars so electric…

Ideally we’d follow in Norways’s footsteps and mandate that new charging stations accept credit cards but that’s probably a lost hope with electric cars being a culture war issue i…

It’d really be ahead of its time if the next photo in the series was: “Woman curses at phone when charging app requires update to function”

There’s an interesting one of these brewing regarding a gold-laden shipwreck: > A US salvage company argue they first found the wreck in 1981 and made a deal with the Colombia gove…

I was thinking a Stephen King horror story about a serial killer terrorizing his quaint Alpine hometown because he prefers younger, fresher cheese. Either way, it does indeed seem …