For context on cost, SpaceX only charged NASA $3.1 billion for developing the Dragon 2 manned capsule. Boeing charged NASA $6.7 billion for Starliner and has spend at least 1.6 billion more than that so far.
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No. Another difference is that you can't really figure out if Putin is popular or not, because dissent is punished with prison time.
Ive seen plenty of unpopular and corrupt oligarchs that were targeted by Putin but are there any well-known names of some ordinary people imprisoned for political speech in Russia?
I just don't get why don't they put it in consumer electronics first. You need big volume for supplying EVs, and having a $1000/kWh pricetag would be prohibitive for even premium EVs as it would cost $100k for a 100kWh battery alone, but would be totally OK for an $1000 laptop, as it would cost $100 for a 100Wh battery.
Because the cost is probably closer to $10,000/kWh. Makes sense for a $1,000,000 supercar. Fundamentally all the new battery chemistries have serious underreported problems that make them dead-on-arrival. Either short cycle life (nanowire) or impractical manufacturing (solid state) or middling performance versus LiPo (sodium). Hopefully some of these may find niche applications where their advantages outweigh their problems but don’t expect more than a 50% improvement in density over the next 20 years.
Because every time an article that’s critical of China or Russia is posted, the whataboutists crawl out of the woodwork to steer the conversation away from those countries.
I guess people care more about government abuse in their own countries. Also, do you know what kinds of things people get in trouble for in Russia? I suspect most social media arrests in Russia are related to Isis.
I think the difference is more whether you can criticize the government. In the UK that's fine, in Russia it causes issues. I assume even if the US if you posted "let's have a progrom in Washington DC tonight, klan outfits and let's kill some jews" you'd have issues with law enforcement over that? I think all countries have restictions on what you can say when it comes to murder and drug dealing. It's more where you draw the line.
The UK laws mix language which bans calls to violence with bans on “offensive” speech. So its not about where to draw the line, its about banning criticism of immigration, which you basically cant do without offending immigrants.
Why did people downvote this? Do they not realise its accurate?
In 2023 in UK 3300 people were arrested for online offences.
In 2023 in Russia 400 people were arrested for online offences.
Liberals correctly understand that the uk government is putting conservatives in jail whereas putin’s law will be used to put liberals in jail.
Im curious to know what those 400 people said. Do you know?
The UK is not decending into totalitarianism. It has laws against inciting hatred of the "let's kill all the immigrants" type which is not the same thing. The law was passed democratically with the approval of the majority of people. Whether it's a good idea or not is debateable.
Speaking as a Brit there has been quite a pile on by Musk and US based social media types saying weird stuff about us that is kind of inaccurate. Like saying alot of these laws are socialist policy from Keir Starmer when they were all passed by the previous tory government.
The Russian law was also passed democratically, but liberals dont like it because its going to be used against liberals whereas the “hate speech” laws are being used against conservatives. And yes the conservative party in the uk is anything but.
Lower revenue isn't "giving away". Under Apple's logic here it's a tiny leap that they should be entitled to 20% of all online purchases. They developed the web browser the customer used to navigate there after all. But it's not clear how an app is really different and some how acceptable to tithe. It's just obscene.
Imagine Tesla decided to charge you 20% of all annual income you earned by driving to work with your Tesla. Who owns your iPhone? Apple or you?
I think its fair to say that Microsoft Windows is a different product entirely. Microsoft's business model literally a monopoly (100% install base) and they were willing to make different trade offs to get there. Interestingly though, the OS cost money--not free. So to run that "free" software, you had to pay MS money for the privilege.
iOS dev tools may be cheap. But that's not point. Apple has invested billions into that ecosystem. And to foster adoption, Apple's licensing model allowed for "free" software. But that was funded by the revenue collected from non-free iOS apps.
>different trade offs
Different from who? What company in the 1980’s or 1990’s did what apple is doing now?