In Ireland I've seen some private dealers saying that they won't accept EVs as trade-ins (outside of manufacturer warranty) because of the liability on them if something goes wrong.
Basic model ID.3 is already €39260 with no extras.
VW seems to be trying to get a subscription model for a lot of features that come standard in most cars.
> Your not telling me, that you are just now discovering VWs price list for options, are you?
The relevant part of their paste is the price is specified as a recurring monthly subscription, not that there's such a thing as a price list for options.
But you knew that and conveniently ignored it because Snark.
An obvious end-goal for car companies is turn all ownership into ten year leases, at the end you give the car back and they recycle it replace the battery and sell/dispose of it.
That implies they can avoid competitors doing something different. The hardest part about building an economical electric car has been cost-effectively producing the battery. Within a few years that will be a commodity.
Then what stops a new car company from forming that will sell you a car that lasts for 20+ years and you own it? Only the inability to get customers because the incumbents are offering a better deal. So to stop it they'd have to be offering a better deal.
I think it took the whole context of the converstion into consideration, you should create a new converstaion instead and see if it responds differently.
Or you could be more specific, like "Rephrase the following sentence: 'Are the original stated objectives still relevant?' in a formal way, respond with one option only."
Minimum wage does solve a certain kind of unskilled worker exploitation. I don't think passion tends to be at play for minimum wage jobs. This is a different kind of exploitation that's more difficult to regulate.
I'd much rather implement a maximum wage, would do a huge amount of good for our society. Let's say a cap on any more than $10M a year for total wealth gain for any individual. Everything else is taxed at 100%. Suddenly, we could all have healthcare, kids would get the supplies they need for school, a UBI scheme would be doable. Basically, we could finally stop acting like a poor third world country.
This is literally how the freemasons started as a secret society btw. After the black plague there were salary caps on skilled labor but the masons decided to hell with that and colluded to demand higher wages under the table
if you wanted a cathedral or a city hall built they held all the leverage
Please explain why taxing people beyond $10M at 100% will result in better social programs?
Your theory can also be countered with another theory: people making a certain amount of money will simply leave the country, leaving you with less tax revenue than the current system.
Also, how does one tax unrealized stock market gains (which is what most wealthy people's wealth are)? I have not seen that policy anywhere and I imagine it would be very difficult to implement.
Why tax income? Wealth should be taxed. The problem is hoarding, not doing valuable work.
For example, owning land that is empty or an empty building for years just so it appreciates deprives the community. Tax the shit out of it so it forces the owner to use it productively or sell it so someone else can figure out how to use it productively.
If you use your car only couple of days a week, should you be taxed more on your car than someone who uses theirs every day of the week? What about a piano you haven’t practiced on for a few years? The expensive ski boots you haven’t touched since high school?
Maybe, but we can at least start with the more fundamental resources that have to be shared amongst people and are in limited quantities, such as land.
Driving giant pickup trucks for no productive reason also uses up a societal resource, and increases societal risks, so I would not mind seeing extra taxes on those compared to more reasonable methods of transport, and a case could be easily made that all personal vehicles should be taxed much higher to incentivize public transit construction and use.
Society is not losing out much if you don’t use your ski boots since college, but maybe society does benefit if you consume less throwaway things, so a generally increased tax on consumption, perhaps based on mass and distance (since more mass moved further distances takes more energy to move) might work. Easiest way to do this is simply 10x tax on fossil fuels, it will flow down to everything.
Tax things you don’t want. Taxing the result of productive work (income) is disincentivizing something we do want. We want people working hard and striving to do the difficult tasks that are in short supply of expertise (and higher income).
Do you understand that for many people in the world, the car you or at least people in your peer group might drive would be the equivalent of a giant pickup truck to them? Who decides what a reasonable method of transportation is? For example, the bus system is terrible where I live. Am I allowed to have a giant pickup truck under your scheme or should that be taxed the same as if I had a better mass transit system near me? How would you monitor use of my giant pickup truck to be sure I was using it practically in a way that meets your requirements for proper pickup truck usage?
> Do you understand that for many people in the world, the car you or at least people in your peer group might drive would be the equivalent of a giant pickup truck to them?
Yes, I am aware these schemes would require reducing consumption for quite a few people.
> Who decides what a reasonable method of transportation is?
Society? But it has to be planned with long term consequences in mind. Are we prioritizing pedestrians over individual car owners and detached single family home owners or not, because the two are wholly incompatible.
> For example, the bus system is terrible where I live. Am I allowed to have a giant pickup truck under your scheme or should that be taxed the same as if I had a better mass transit system near me?
You are allowed to have whatever you want, just like you can have a $10M home right now, but society does not need to give you the streets and parking lots to use the giant pickup truck.
The mass transit system will come about eventually, but probably will take decades of rezoning. I think voters making this kind of sacrifice is realistic at all, people’s priority at the polls is which politician will allow them to consume as much as possible.
> How would you monitor use of my giant pickup truck to be sure I was using it practically in a way that meets your requirements for proper pickup truck usage?
Again, high fossil fuel prices take care of this, especially at marginal tax rates. Use a little fuel? Less tax. Use more fuel? Higher taxes. At some tax rate, it will no longer make sense for 90% of people to use a pickup truck if they don’t need it.
What about the people who install your HVAC or hang drywall? Are they allowed to use their giant pickups without punitive taxes? Will it help inflation to tax them heavily? Will it help them lower their prices? Will it lower housing prices?
Why is it “punitive” taxes? If they are performing sufficiently productive work with the giant pickup, then they will be able to pass down the cost to their customers.
The purpose of the tax is to dissuade frivolous use that harms society at large. If the use is valuable enough, it will be reflected in the prices of the services it helps provide.
Taxes by their nature tend to inhibit the thing being taxed. This is why every state in the USA has heavy liquor taxes, and it’s why places like New York City and Seattle tax soft drinks extra.
The taxes you are proposing are literally designed to inhibit people from buying the vehicles they want.
FYI, NYC does not have a soft drinks or any sweetened drinks tax.
Yes, the tax is supposed to dissuade people, but obviously if you are paying $5 per mile in tax to use the pickup truck, but earn $20 per mile profit from the work accomplished using it, people will still be able to buy and use the truck for a productive purpose.
The mass transit system will not come about eventually in my opinion. Self driving cars will almost completely replace mass transit, especially in the suburban areas.
This is neo-georgism, no? I knew somebody always advocating for this while simultaneously resigned to the fact it wouldn't ever be pulled off (too much inertia in the status quo i guess) but i like it a lot better than "eat the rich"
no, I just think that minimum wage is the worst possible way to address the issue, from an economic perspective.
It would be far better to pay people what their work is actually worth, and then give them charity through the government, supported by taxes, if need be.
Same goes for healthcare, which should absolutely not be a mandated part of employment. Pay people what they are worth, and let them buy healthcare.
If we want to subsidize or provide charitable healthcare, then we can do so too.
if the work isnt worth a living wage, the difference is charity.
Nobody is owed more than their work is worth.
If we want to have charity to make lives easier, that's fine. There are lost of good reasons to avoid angry and starving people in the street. They can be paid by taxes. You could even tax businesses to pay for it.
Pretending it isn't charity is what I object to, and the economic problems it creates.
Jim Rose, ceo of CircleCI, responded by pointing out on social media that “Paul does not speak on behalf of” the San Francisco-based company, which he declared was “committed to our customers in Israel and around the world”. Soon afterwards, however, Rose posted: “Effective December 22, Paul Biggar is no longer a director at CircleCI. We thank him for his contributions on the board and wish him the best for what’s next.”
> Tech For Palestine (Twitter, Github) is a collection of over 40 tech founders, engineers, marketers, community builders, and investors, working towards ending tech's support for Israel's war on the Palestinian people across Gaza and the West Bank, and working towards a free Palestine.
Establishing a free Palestine is less about fighting Israel / empowering Palestinians, and more about getting foreign influence in the middle-east to want peace. At Camp David, the reason Arafat gave for rejecting the peace deal was that other Arab countries did not want to share Jerusalem with Israel. The majority of Palestinians supported the peace deal.
You really think he’s going through all this effort to sell supplements?
The community found what is likely the source of the olive oil, and surprise, it’s being sold at just about cost.
He created a team and measured his biomarkers, then came up with a strategy to improve them. That’s what blueprint is. You likely shouldn’t copy him, as you are not him, but some of the things, like improving sleep, exercising, improving nutrition, can be followed by many.
He’s just a rich dude focused on improving his health. It’s nice he’s publicly documenting his results, but it’s not expected for you to follow everything.
He's smart enough to understand that while these interventions might help, they're realistically only going to add a decade or two to his life. And the stuff he's doing is fairly intensive – it's not like he's just changed his diet or something. Going to such extremes for an extra decade isn't affordable and likely not even worth it for most people who want to balance enjoyment with longevity.
I don't get the claim he's doing this for science either because even if he lives a couple of extra decades (say to 100) it would be difficult to claim that his interventions did anything at all given no trends can be made from a single data point. And the bulk of any longevity gains is probably going to come from simple interventions like exercise and diet.
So I think you have to be cynical... I think you have to assume he's taking an extreme approach to gain some notoriety within the growing anti-aging community and is trying to leverage that for self-promotion and profit.
I mean, why is he being so public about this stuff anyway? The guy has a YouTube channel where he talks about all the things he's trying so it's not like this is simply something he is personally interested in and occasionally writing about. He's clearly making his self-experimentation a business and clearly wants people to follow his journey. For example, this isn't simply information, this is marketing material likely designed to be shared on social media, https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/0128a596fea8b3a19e55...
I'm not hating though... I think it's kinda cool what he's doing honestly, but it's hard to not see this as a play for fame or clever marketing for a wellness / supplement business.
Correct, I've only heard this from two people and this is only their take. This is not an official position.
But the fact that people within the company are saying this to me directly is enough to get me to believe it.
I wouldn't trust a random person on the internet saying stuff like this either, but even without any inside knowledge, it's just logical that they should try and limit time spent developing two of the exact same product .. and I think it's probably becoming apparent to you as well which one is on the chopping block.
From what I understand the goal at the moment is to get GitHub closer to feature parity with ADO before they start to deprecate it .. so hopefully it's coming.
And obviously, grain of salt, third-hand knowledge, etc.
My thinking is that you should extract as much logic as possible into some neutral format that you can run on any CI platform. Bash, Docker + Makefile, Earthly, python scripts... whatever keeps as much logic out of a proprietary vendor specific format.
Basic model ID.3 is already €39260 with no extras.
VW seems to be trying to get a subscription model for a lot of features that come standard in most cars.
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--- Assistance Package - €29.94 €/month (RRP €1,540.00)
— Anti-theft alarm system, interior monitoring, backup horn, and towing protection
— Central locking system "Keyless Entry" with fingerprint "two-stage unlocking"
— Outer ambient lighting (variant 1)
— Park distance control, front and rear with rear view camera preparation
— Passenger Protection System
— Rear View Camera
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--- Assistance Plus Package - 53.47 €/month (RRP € 2,750.00)
— Anti-theft alarm system, interior monitoring, backup horn, and towing protection
— Area View
— Central locking system "Keyless Entry" with fingerprint "two-stage unlocking"
— Interior ambient lighting, type 1
— Lane change assist
— Lane keeping system plus semi-automatic vehicle control in a medical emergency and traffic jam assist
— Memory feature for park assist pro
— Outer ambient lighting (variant 1)
— Park distance control, front and rear with rear view camera preparation
— Passenger Protection System
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reference: Why I won't sell pre-owned electric vehicles | Newstalk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uuz3UQpiqQE