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brianSP commented on BYD Launches Hybrids with 1,300-Mile Driving Range wsj.com/business/autos/by... · Posted by u/lxm

azinman2 · a year ago

So let’s play this out. Say China floods the US market and the US players go out of business as you suggest. What then happens to the US’s industrial base? What happens if there’s a major war (maybe even against china!) and no car factories to retool? You think a new crop of auto companies come up and then are able to compete against lower wage workers combined with gov financing?

brianSP · a year ago

I haven't seen a US made car in ages in my country, US cars are too big and unsafe. They all are European or Japanese.

brianSP commented on TikTok is scary good. It's digital crack twitter.com/karpathy/stat... · Posted by u/mfiguiere

alar44 · 3 years ago

Anyone who would rather watch 1 good 2 hour video rather than 500 random 10 sec videos isn't going to like TikTok. It's the dumbest shit I've ever seen. Half the time I have no idea what the fuck I'm even looking at. Maybe I'm old, but I think maybe the kids are stupid too. Both can be true.

brianSP · 3 years ago

I'm not that young 20-something but I don't find any entretain on it either.

brianSP commented on Americans are retiring to Vietnam, for healthcare and standard of living (2019) latimes.com/world-nation/... · Posted by u/newsthrowa

adamsmith143 · 4 years ago

>On the other hand if this happened en masse it would ruin a lot of the lives of people who live and work there by making housing costs go up.

Can't speak for Vietnam but in Thailand, a place also targeted for retirement by westerners, foreigners can't buy property at all.

brianSP · 4 years ago

pretty much that's what my friends in mexico think, that americans (or people from the united states) are making everything more expensive.

brianSP commented on Open Textbook for Maths, Physics and Computer Science · Posted by u/bookofproofs

brianSP · 8 years ago

Thank you!

brianSP commented on The Cavendish banana is under threat from a fungus washingtonpost.com/nation... · Posted by u/lisper

brianSP · 8 years ago

That's great! People die producing those bananas https://vimeo.com/81230547

brianSP commented on With a $1k Price, Apple’s iPhone Crosses a Threshold nytimes.com/2017/09/10/te... · Posted by u/Cbasedlifeform

Yetanfou · 8 years ago

I see your 3 year young iPhone and raise my 6 year old Motorola Defy. I bought it new in 2011 for about 1/4 of what the then-current iPhone would have cost. It still works flawlessly, the battery is fine as well (~5 days of normal use on a single charge or ~7 hours of screen time). If the battery were to fail I could just replace it, no tools required.

Oh, the thing is waterproof and 'shock-proof' (although the latter is to be taken with a grain of salt, my wife managed to break the glass on hers after about three years).

In other words, it does not take an expensive iPhone to last longer than a contract period. Well-built phones can last a long time, much longer than the 2 years which most people seem to consider as normal.

brianSP · 8 years ago

I see your 6 year young iPhone and raise my 14 year old Nokia 1100. I bought it new in 2003 80~ dolla. It still works flawlessly, the battery is fine as well (~31 days of normal use on a single charge or ~16 hours of screen time). If the battery were to fail I could just replace it, no tools required.

Oh, the thing is bulletproof (although it must be taken with a grain of salt, chuck norrys managed to break the glass on his after about three years).

In other words, it does not take an expensive iPhone to last longer than a contract period. Well-built phones can last a long time, much longer than the 10 years which most people seem to consider as normal.