Yeah, that's why they need china to not only finance, but also manage and implement as well. I imagine the chinese would only agree under terms like that.
More people, but significantly less users, and less intensive users. People in nigeria largely aren't charging electric cars, running laundry dryers, or have much industry that requires as much electricity as the industry in california and texas. In fact, I would guess that the electrical power consumption in Nigeria would be far less than either state, and the overall number of people wouldn't be as big of an impact. Any major infrastructure investments now would pay huge dividends to the people in the future. You don't plant trees because you need shade today, you plant trees because you need shade in 20 years, and that's what I think the goal is here, to prepare africa for a major technological and per capita consumption leap in the next two decades. If they start building today, with many partner countries, it'll prepare the region to succeed better.
The cybertruck was largely a marketing exercise, and hype generator, same as the Roadster 2. They were "announced" in a time when Tesla needed all the spare cash it could get, so they opened up pre-orders that they had no intention of fulfilling for 4-5 years.
Learning English is priority #1 for any human being right now. If you are able to communicate in english, so many opportunities and sources of information open up to you. It shocks me that some countries aren't making it mandatory, but that's due to nationalism and not wanting too much emigration/brain drain I suppose.
Not being moderately fluent in english is inexcusable in the modrn world, in the same that not being tech savvy, or not able to do math is inexcusable. There are basic skills that one needs to operate in a modern world. English is one of them. I appreciate the sentiment, but it's akin to complaining that "In the star wars universe, scientists who don't speak Galactic Basic Standard are at a huge disadvantage." Yes, they are, and it's their fault for not learning the common language. Same with English in 2023.
All of the peer reviewed articles linked suggest that "wine tasting experts" can't differentiate or produce any sort of reliable results, or detect flavors consistently.
almost any serious research in this field suggest that is completely false, and that even highly trained "experts" are incredibly bad at wine tasting, are inconsistent in their ratings, and fail to identify fakes, white wine with red food coloring, etc. It seems like you've fallen for the wine industry propaganda.
Of course. It controls 90% + of the global PC desktop OS market. Every single business runs on Windows, and a tiny fraction on Apple. It's a classic monopoly, kin of like when US Steel had some refineries and technically competed with Standard Oil in the oil industry, but only on paper, and mostly served to create the illusion of competition.
All of my friends who live in 2 bedroom apartments in decent neighborhoods in chicago are paying $2300-2500, without parking included. Chicago median rent is artificially depressed because there are a lot of very bad neighborhoods you would never live in, while those in SF are quite rare (Tenderloin, SoMa)
The weather in florida is pretty awful, and the taxes are basically the same as elsewhere. If it isn't income taxes, then your property taxes are just higher
Exact opposite for me moving to SF mid 2021. Plenty of availability, barely more expensive than Chicago, landlords were bending over to get us to rent. Ended up landing a lovely 2 bedroom for 2800/mo with parking included and rent control in a great neighborhood.
"The US failed to break up a monopoly that to this day stifles competition and prevents effective capitalism by making itself to complicated to regulate, so lets keep making the same mistakes"
See: Wikipedia, Craigslist, AO3. all perfectly great websites not ruined by spam, tracking, backend, fancy graphics. Just great content, lightweight and clear UI.
And also reducing US reliance on foreign energy. Farmers make 10x the corn that we can eat, why not make renewable, albeit kinda dirty fuel out of it? Still better than importing arabian oil on a supertanker 10,000 miles, right?
Because the internet and everything you use every day was invented in america, the waterways are controlled by american aircraft carriers, the moon is american, the silicon you use is made in the american pseudo-colonies of japan, south korea, and taipei. America is the invisible roman empire, and the american corporate oligarchy is Caesar. Weapons systems generations ahead of the competition. All trade done in dollars, all entertainment and science conducted in english. All data flows through american megacorps that answer only to the american oligarch. Pure hegemony so strong most people aren't aware that it exists.
The same people who pay $3500 for a LV bag or $1500 for a GPU. rich people, aka Apple's primary customer. The secondary customer is poor people, so Apple will eventually release a $1799 VR headset in a couple of years, and it'll be available for $72/month via payment plan.
"People who do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it." - people who said the original iphone will fail due to being super expensive for it's time.
and this is all coming from an apple hater who has never owned an apple product
To me, the biggest joke/travesty is their "algorithm" which literally builds a top20 radio station echo chamber around you the moment you dare casually play a song
This is literally by design. Amazon doesn't want you to search, they want you to buy what they suggest on the homepage. Spotify doesn't want you listening to what you want, they want to shove profitable songs down your throat. you know how radio in america is controlled by the labels? Same with spotify.