No, it's not. The exported BYD cars do not get any unusual subsidies. Their initial R&D was subsidized, but not the production.

Traffic within a region is not free in AWS :) You're thinking about traffic within a single AZ.

Except for us-east-2. Traffic between us-east-1 and us-east-2 costs the same as traffic within us-east-1.

Glyphosate (plants are also pests).

In case of the CIA top-secret cloud, Amazon had an actual SCIF (Secure Compartmentalized Information Facility) where only people with an appropriate clearance could come in. It's probably be something similar for Google.

Because an Interstate can carry more people and cargo, and far more flexibly than a railroad.

The problem is that the most-often taught English cursive style is bad. Spencerian cursive _is_ faster than block letters, because it allows you to smoothly move the pen. It's also slanted because slanted movements are faster than straight up/down lines.

Not really. Plastics require hydrocarbons that can be sourced from anything, including coal or wood. Oil is just the most convenient source, but it's certainly not the only one.

And anyway, only 6% of oil is used for plastic production. Even increasing the demand for plastics won't materially affect oil consumption. Fossil hydrocarbons are also used as a feedstock for other industrial processes (fertilizer production mainly), but adding up all these uses accounts for just about 15% of global production.

There is no "glut of cars". China still has a lot of unmet internal demand. The problem is that EVs are becoming a commodity in China now. So all the business models designed to exploit high-margin expensive products are becoming obsolete.

Dealerships are suffering the most, there is simply no margin for them to exist anymore, so they're doing all kinds of tricks to make sure they appear to be useful to carmakers. The double whammy is the fast depreciation of EVs. Just like with computers in the 90-s, people know that in 3 years a new EV will be better in all regards. So why waste money on expensive value-add services provided by dealerships?

You can get permanent residence easily, this gives you access to the all-important Chinese ID card and all the rights of residents. Including an ability to register a business. Naturalization is possible and technically you don't need anything special for it, but it's exceedingly rare. You also need to renounce your other citizenship(s) for that.

China is now becoming a popular emigration destination for Russian scientists. It's now very hard for them to emigrate to Europe/US, but China is easy. It's also helpful if the emigrants still want to visit Russia from time to time.

No, they don't. The competition in China is cut-throat and the exported cars are not any cheaper than the ones in China. That's really all there is to it.

I'm using Kagi these days. It still has it indexed.

So Google is shooting themselves even more in the foot. Their search is already questionable, and they keep making it worse.

I used to run analysis using the US road network and the list of charging stations. A year ago, the longest stretch of roads without high-speed chargers was Montana to North Dakota, with 220 miles. The next one was in Oregon, something around 180 miles. More than 99% of the named locations reachable by numbered US highways and freeways were within 100 miles of a fast charger.

So technically, if you did even a bit of planning, you could reach ANY point on the public US roads and still have energy to drive to the next charger with a car having around 350 miles of range. With just 20-30 carefully placed stations, you can cut that down to about 250 miles of range, well within the current capabilities of EVs.

I eyeballed the map, and it looked like around 200 additional fast DC stations would put _any_ reachable location in the lower 48 states within 50 miles of a charger. This is the endgame for the range anxiety. And even at $1m per charger, it would cost less than one day of funding the military. Heck, even at $10m per charger it would still be less!

Connected appliances are great, as long as the connection is completely local.