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Re: CT scans of BYD car parts

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Post by BiteCode_dev »

toasty228 wrote: post #251
BiteCode_dev wrote: post #222

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No, the social credit system can restrict your basic freedom, including the freedom of moving, without a judge being involved. The fact you are casually talking about it is infuriating. It's like taking about the yellow star and stay "isn't it like the pins in the US".

Nothing can restrict your basic freedom in the US though, right? lmao American believing in the most base propaganda regurgitated by their government for the last 50 years is the funniest shit ever. You're implementing the same thing at home right now, not even secretly, and there is not a single protest, nothing... If americans were 25% as critical with themselves as they are with China... Flock cameras, Palantir, 4…

I'm not American, and my answer solely focuses on the fact the social credit score is the most dystopian thing ever created by modern dictatorship.

Which is an answer to guy saying people idealize china these days, thanks to effective propaganda from the regime.

Want to criticize the US? Go for it. That's just not the topic.

And until you can wear a Tiananmen Square t-shirt in a public street in Beijin, any good thing China is doing is moot for its population. It's still in a dictatorship.

Re: CT scans of BYD car parts

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Post by rbanffy »

UltraSane wrote: post #378
rbanffy wrote: post #375

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> It will be shot down from far away. By what exactly? The military don’t exist in a vacuum - and the equipment they need varies with mission requirements. That’s why the A-10s had its life extended: because it is a better fit than the F-35 for ground support missions. Same applies to the B-52 and the B-2. The operational cost of the F-22 and F-35 alone make them a poor fit unless you are engaging highly sophisticate…

By what exactly? By F35s and F22s and F47s

Sadly, we can’t really trust American fighters to fight, say, an American invasion of Greenland.

Re: CT scans of BYD car parts

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Post by rbanffy »

tw1984 wrote: post #374
rbanffy wrote: post #359

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An aircraft doesn’t need to be modern - it needs to shot down the other before it gets shot down. And, as we have seen with cheap drones, all that money spent on making great stealth aircraft has not stopped Iran from blocking access to 20% of the world’s supply of crude. So, how effective are your fifth generation fighters based on your nuclear carriers again?

> An aircraft doesn’t need to be modern - it needs to shot down the other before it gets shot down. not on its own, but by having a combined AEW&C and high performance ultra long range air to air missiles. Europoor just doesn't have any of these. > all that money spent on making great stealth aircraft has not stopped Iran from blocking access to 20% of the world’s supply of crude. that doesn't change the fact that Eu…

> you don't have to pick which one is more effective when you can build and operate both at large scale. a few carrier strike groups fitted with fifth gen fighters and drone carrier-amphibious assault ships are a pretty good combination

Have you invaded Iran already? What’s stopping you? Didn’t Trump mention something like annihilating the current regime? Is it working?

Re: CT scans of BYD car parts

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Post by garethsprice »

DangitBobby wrote: post #306
radiorental wrote: post #300

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While true, imho its more complicated than that * PE, on the whole, has extracted wealth from quality. This is true at both the consumer level and B2B. E.g. its impossible to trust any aftermarket car part manufacturer, and some OEM brands have turned to dogshit too. * "most people just buy trash at WalMart and Amazon" I'd rephrase that to: most people either can't or are unwilling to pay the premium for quality in a…

I'm very willing to pay a premium for quality, I just can't seem to find any reliable signal for quality before buying. Price and brand are both increasingly meaningless signals.

The book "The Paradox of Choice" led me to using Wirecutter and Consumer Reports in recent years - if it's not something I care that much about, I will just buy whatever their top recommendation is without second thought. The cost of the subscriptions pays for a human to wade through all the junk and select something that is at least adequate for the job, and is cheap compared to the effective hourly rate of having to search through mountains of junk.

For more niche stuff, Reddit groups like BIFL and seeing what niche hobby groups coalesce around is helpful for me. Which I suppose is the same reversion to word-of-mouth expertise when, as you said, brand and price are degraded signals.

Re: CT scans of BYD car parts

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Post by p_l »

acdha wrote: post #242
p_l wrote: post #148

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Unfortunately, the manager pushing the outsourcing pockets the money, outsourcing company pockets the money, and the local and indian teams get to be abused and latter gets extra blame for things outside their control. I would say the problem is heavily structural and linked to few companies that very much pursue lowest possible effort, harming both employee and customer. We had a company that infamously pursued a so…

Yes - I remember one time hearing someone from a big consulting company make the argument that even the top Indian graduates would work for peanuts (even by local standards) and asking them how likely it was that they’d be that smart but unable to determine their market value. This was unsurprising after my entire life hearing people complain about declining quality and imported junk while always picking the cheapest…

Also sometimes you have few big companies dominate local market to detriment of choice, even if your plan is on getting further away.

The polish company I mentioned was infamous for using still in education students especially from an university where its founder was a professor, and for his motto of "you can replace any specialist with finite number of students, and the number is usually one". I met some of them later who worked there for first few years only to setup conditions to jump ship.

But along the line I heard how few big outsourcing/consulting companies dominated IT hiring in bunch of cities in Poland, with Warsaw being the odd one out because suddenly you had to fight for candidates with 100-150 person "minnows". I imagine without such minnows finding sensible work would be way harder

Re: CT scans of BYD car parts

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Post by tiagod »

BiteCode_dev wrote: post #379
tiagod wrote: post #225

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I see, thanks for the correction. Aren't people put in ICE detention centers and offshore prisons indefinitely with no charges and no judge involved, though? Or is that OK because they aren't citizens?

I'm not American. And the discussion is about the credit score system. We were discussing cancer, and instead of talking about it, you tried to avoid saying bad things about it and answered "isn't diabetes bad as well?". I assume now you are a China propaganda account and will stop answering to you.

The discussion was actually about privacy and human rights concerns when moving from western manufacturers to Chinese ones.

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Post by dangus »

halapro wrote: post #376
dangus wrote: post #278

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I’m not sure why you think protectionism (by the local government) can’t kill an industry. It happened to American steel as well: the American steel industry was “protected” while foreign steel companies innovated their production processes. The timeline goes like this: 1. Government gets pressured by industry to protect domestic industry from outside competition 2. Domestic industry stagnates as it has no reason to…

> 3. Time passes Correct, protectionism still saved the industry for years, it did its job perfectly. Look at the car makers in Europe, they had decades to produce affordable electric cars, even lawmakers pushed their own population to buy electric cars with timelines and incentives, and they still failed miserably. How? Tariffs are a last-ditch effort to buy more time. If you fail to use this time effectively, you w…

> protectionism still saved the industry for years, it did its job perfectly.

This is under an assumption that the alternative would have been eradication of the industry, as in, “if we don’t protect the industry it will go out of business.” In reality, leading an industry to be more competitive is a lot better than protecting them from outside competition in the long term.

What was the economic value of protecting US steel for half a lifetime and then letting it turn into a dead industry? Wouldn’t it have been better for that protectionism to be more in the form of encouraging competition so that US steel companies were still thriving today? If the end result is going to be a dead industry why invest in protectionism at all?

It’s funny that you’re talking a bunch of smack about European electric cars without looking up sales numbers. The Volkswagen group EVs outsell Tesla in Europe. The top selling EV in Europe is a Skoda. VW and BMW are the top two EV companies globally besides Tesla and 4 Chinese brands.

https://cleantechnica.com/2026/06/01/europe-ev-sales-report-...

https://autovista24.autovistagroup.com/news/which-brand-sold...

Re: CT scans of BYD car parts

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Post by tw1984 »

rbanffy wrote: post #383
tw1984 wrote: post #374

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> An aircraft doesn’t need to be modern - it needs to shot down the other before it gets shot down. not on its own, but by having a combined AEW&C and high performance ultra long range air to air missiles. Europoor just doesn't have any of these. > all that money spent on making great stealth aircraft has not stopped Iran from blocking access to 20% of the world’s supply of crude. that doesn't change the fact that Eu…

> you don't have to pick which one is more effective when you can build and operate both at large scale. a few carrier strike groups fitted with fifth gen fighters and drone carrier-amphibious assault ships are a pretty good combination Have you invaded Iran already? What’s stopping you? Didn’t Trump mention something like annihilating the current regime? Is it working?

> Have you invaded Iran already? What’s stopping you? Didn’t Trump mention something like annihilating the current regime? Is it working?

I am Chinese, why should Chinese be invading Iran?

Please just stop pretending to be an "advanced economy", scientifically, economically and militarily, Europoor is the modern textbook definition of failed states.

Re: CT scans of BYD car parts

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Post by rasz »

Toutouxc wrote: post #118
King-Aaron wrote: post #90

I've got a friend whos a master tech/trainer with our state automotive body, and is HV certified etc for dealing with these cars. He's currently got a BYD Shark strewn across his workshop for an autopsy. I have to say I'm super impressed with how heavy duty everything is. The control arms, subframes, etc all look good and don't fit the 'chinese car bad' narrative you always hear. The powertrain components all look to…

I have a Chinese EV too, an MG4 built by SAIC. It’s a really cheap car, significantly cheaper than its non-Chinese counterparts like the VW ID.3 or (roughly) a Hyundai Kona. The factory rust protection was maybe a bit on the lighter side, but everything else on it looks completely normal. The drivetrain is simple (no heat exchange mechanism between battery coolant and motor coolant, a slightly whiny motor), but also…

>rust protection was maybe a bit on the lighter side

Iv seen MG cars in Poland come pre rusted straight from the dealer.

Re: CT scans of BYD car parts

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Post by rasz »

roncesvalles wrote: post #167
gofastercloud wrote: post #107

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In the last few years Chinese manufacturing has reached a very high-level. The reason most people still believe that Chinese-made stuff is poor quality is because they will do what they are told and they are usually told “make this as cheap as possible” by whoever is paying the bills. While I reckon some other countries still have specialist manufacturing in key areas that surpasses China, most “common” parts can be…

>they will do what they are told and they are usually told “make this as cheap as possible” by whoever is paying the bills It's more complicated than this. Historically, Chinese manufacturing has been notorious for quietly undermining the quality of the product to improve their margins over time, in a way that the commissioning brand doesn't notice. If a Chinese manufacturer quotes you a price too good to be true, th…

>Chinese manufacturing has been notorious for quietly undermining the quality of the product to improve their margins over time

Famously Gemtek Technology (https://www.gemteks.com/en/about/about), Apples small obscure modem OEM at the time, when presented with contract to manufacture 1999 AirPort Wifi cards made first batch of complete duds because factory owner saw picofarad smd caps and decided it will be more profitable to for him to GLUE tiny plastic rectangles instead, after all picofarad is like nothing so nobody will tell the difference.

https://www.computerhistory.org/collections/catalog/10273798...

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