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Comment Re:Abandonment of small and entry-level car market (Score 1) 305

There are some weel'estabilished Japanese brands that had figured out how to make affordable small cars, because in their internal market they are making them, due the Japanese regulations. Most four seaters have a funny look, but I think that the Suzuki Jimny it's cool and has impressive off road capabilities, but the two-seaters, like the Toyota Coper are cool cars.

Comment Re:White noise (Score 1) 315

The technological evolution of radio communications makes them harder to find and decode them. One aspect is the use of more and more digital, compressed and encoded transmissions, that make all the signal band limited noise. Another thins is the lowering of power usage and not using any more some easily detectable parts of the radio spectrum. Also more and more communications channels are transitioning to cable and wireless transmission goes local. Think about the phone microwave links that now are replace by fibre connechion, for example.
There's a small window of opportunity that one civilization could listen the radio of another.

Comment Re:We've always had it. (Score 1) 198

The dinner menu and the weekend menu are different products. I know a fine restaurant that is near an industrial area. It has a la carte menu that could go easily to a 80 euro dinner, but during the lunch has also a lunch menu that is on 14 euro and there's a a couple of first courses of the day, a couple of second course of the day, water, bread and coffee.
They know that on lunch time the customers are truckers and workers, and they prefer a quick and cheaper lunch. On the other hand a dinner customer it's one that prefer a wider choice of courses and it's going to drink wine and want a more relaxed experience.

Comment Re:Tim Cook should have taken Elon Musk's Call (Score 1) 244

For public transportation and freight there are some proven solution for EV that don't need batteries. I can understand that a tram or a trolleybus are really boring engineering solutions, but they are now a reliable and proven solution, and if you factor in the expected lifetime compared to a diesel bus they're actually cheap to operate.

Comment Re:Wise choice. (Score 2) 179

Another solution is to build electric vehicles that don't need big batteries to operate. This is a problem for private cars, I agree, but for public transportation there are two proven and successful solutions, namely trolleybuses and trams.
There are some places that before WWII had tram service like Druento, Italy and now are served by BEV bus line.
Having reasonable public transportation means that people could buy only one car per family instead of two or three, because one could take a trolleybus or a tram for the daily commuting. The question now is it's better to use public money to build chargers for private cars, or to build and run a tramway?

Comment Re:It's more than just "predatory acquisitions" (Score 3, Interesting) 206

Also for public companies they could give at a service at a loss, but if one considers externalities they are useful. For instance the prices for running a small railway for commuters costs more of what tickets and passes are covering, but if this means that people don't use cars to go to work, so the road maintenance costs are lower and there's no need to build new roads, not to mention less pollution and car accidents, at the end for the governments there's a gain.

Comment Re:Lamborghini has what market share? (Score 1) 81

Maybe is the other Lamborghini, the brand owned by SAME/ DEUTZ-FAHR.
Or maybe because The founder, Ferruccio Lamborghini made successful side projects. He started making agricultural tractors, first getting military surplus stock of engines, then designing new engines, then made a spin-off making Lamborghini cars, and then another less known for making hydraulic pumps. So it's a brand that was already used for side projects.

Comment Re:Ok (Score 1) 221

Because Poland is in the EU, there are a lot of other manufacturers willing to sell trains to Polish railways, and even if is the case to refurbish those bricked trains with all-new electronics.
On the other hand in poland the main operator it's PKP. They are holding the knife by the handle, because they can simply refuse to make business with them.

Comment Re:No Android Auto = No Sale (Score 2) 164

Yest I think that some standards organization maybe one located in Berlin, near Potsdamer Platz, so carmaker could make a standardized hole in the dashboard and electronic manufacturers could make radio, and other infotainment systems that could be installed easily in all car models. While at it another standard organization with headquarters in Geneva could make a standard connector for power and loudspeaker connections, so it become easier to electrically connect the infotainment system to the rest to the radio, at least one could buy adapter cables if there's some mismatch on different models.
I think it's an advanced concept and maybe in the future car makers could implement it.

Comment Re:Illegal in Europe, I believe (Score 1) 154

It's very similar at what happens with Italy. Except that normally there's a test period of some weeks or months where the employment it's basically at will, so one could be fired or quit immediately.
Another thing is that vacation days could accumulate and have to be paid if not used when one quits or is fired. So if one has a lot of unused vacation days could quit and the missing vacation day could compensate the remaining salaries, or normally there;s an agreement to get a vacation for the renaming time that it's better for fiscal reasons for the employer.

Comment Re:delusional and disengenuous (Score 1) 145

Exactly this. Amazon has a vertical integration that makes more efficient for them to send parcels. When I buy expensive stuff I prefer to use the general delivery at the post office instead directly at home, because the post office it's at walking distance and it's way more difficult to steal stuff in a post office with bullet proof glasses than my mailbox.
I see that the postal express service can deliver overnight, but there's always one or two days between the order placement and the start of delivery due to the handover of the parcels between Amazon and the postal service.

Comment Actually something similar exists. (Score 1) 194

In Italy you have to use, to access public administration services a form of Single Sign On with 2FA.
You could use SPID That normally uses an email/password and a token or sms confirmation. An older system, that could also be used to digital sign documents it's the CNS that require for 2FA a smart card, isn't widely used because it requires a smart card reader and it's difficult to use with smartphones. A new version stat uses NFC it's the CIE that's embedded with newer plastic ID cards.
So at the end in Italy you have three different single sing on systems to access public administration server, multiply it to 27 and you get a complex multistandard system.
So the solution, as always, it to make another standard, so you have now, instead of 81 standards, 82.

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