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Comment Re:Chinese cars aren't all crap... (Score 3, Insightful) 205

Just free trade with a dictatorship which has control over literal slavers doing phonescams doing double digit of Billions of damage, sponsors regular cyberattacks and ransomware doing triple digit Billions of damage, which has suppressed wages with a three decade long campaign to buy foreign debt. What's the worst that can happen which is so much worse than it already is?

Comment Roundabout protectionism (Score 2) 205

Rather than letting the Yuan rise, Chinese getting sweet deals on a centrally planned glut of EVs suits Xi more.

Unfortunately a lot of that glut is trash because its produced without sufficient market discipline. They can do better, and will for the major export brands, but what's the point?

Comment Re:Seems like Airbus's 737 Max (Score 1) 37

Not maintenance, repair.

Operators : Take away the legal culpability for dangerously ignoring the need for prohibitively expensive frequent repairs from us, or no more sales. Airbus : Okey dokey.

If this goes wrong and a plane crashes (not unrealistic when a pilot had to leave the cockpit and then couldn't stand any more), the changes to the repair recommendations are going to hang them. Hell, if there are too many long term health problems a class action could destroy them too.

Comment Re:Seems like Airbus's 737 Max (Score 1) 37

The occurrences exploded after they stopped revisions every time it happened, because the operators found it too expensive/unreliable. So even at that point, it was not a maintenance issue, but a repair issue.

For it to be preventative/maintenance the revisions would have to be performed even more often than that, which would be even more expensive. A plane too expensive to maintain in a state where it doesn't routinely poison the crew and passengers has a design flaw.

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