I'm curious, but suspicious. Tesla Y is the top selling car model by a large margin inside China, and UK reviews I've read of Chinese EV imports has made them sound underwhelming. UK reviews make them sound nowhere near as good as a Tesla, although decently priced.

But if you could post what model you're talking about, and what the cost of that car is vs. a Model Y in your home market, that might be interesting!

Ultimately the Tesla 3 or Y cost less than median value new car, Nissan Leafs are cheaper than that, and compliance cars like the eGolf or the eFiat 500 were (once you consider the lower maintenance/fueling) the cheapest new cars you could buy.

Electric cars are the future, whether that happens in 5 years or 20. I think the subsidy helped get the industry started and smoothed the 1st stage of adoption, which was always going to be rocky. Despite my issues with Elon Musk, ultimately I think it's a good thing that the world's #1 largest car company by capitalization and world's top selling car (along with Rav4 and Corolla) is from an American company, and the subsides made it possible. But of course they were temporary, and while personally I think they should have been phased out, they were always going to be a temporary measure.

Before September 2025, the government was throwing in $7,500, and maybe your state government was kicking in a few thousand extra, and then the local utility maybe was subsidizing your charger. So your $45k Tesla was effectively selling for $35k. Of course nobody is going to buy a used Tesla for $33k when a new one is selling for $35k, but the depreciation was still being taken as if a $45k vehicle was selling for cheap. What we're seeing isn't as much a change in demand for EVs, as much as seeing that removing government subsidies has normalized the used car market.

I remember buying an egolf back in 2015, I paid like $21k after subsidies. This was a good price, but that basic value held true for a number of years. Used price was great, for many years I could have sold it for $15k+, and it even went over $21k during 2022 due to supply side issues. But articles talking about used value mentioned that the egolf used value had tanked, going for $37k to $18k. But really that was a 10% drop, because if it went down a normal 30% or whatever you'd literally be buying a used car for more than you would spend on a new one!

The numbers are often taken from sticker price (the article itself doesn't discuss how it got its numbers). But of course many cars sell for under sticker price...or in 2022, during supply chain shortages, were actually selling for $5,000 above sticker price. Now that we're mostly over the supply chain issues, these cars are going to see an additional $5,000 drop in used value. But it seems statistically unuseful to account for a one-time extraordinary industry issue.

China has attacked most of its neighbors, but can you possibly justify their ongoing military incursion into Bhutan? Do you think it was to protect national security?

You have a very strong emotional opinion for an admitted ignoramus. If you calm down, I'll be happy to discuss this point with you rationally, otherwise I'll just leave you stewing in your emotional ignorance.

China sees taking Taiwan as in their interests, and indeed, controlling the entire first island chain to be in their interests.

Currently the US is involved in two different wars. The US weapon supply is depleted, but it will be rebuilt, stronger than before. If China does not move militarily now, then they will not have another window of opportunity like this one for a long, long time.

Why would you doubt it? China has never been reticent to enter war in any way, and certainly has been provoking for the last couple decades.

In the Chinese worldview, peace can only come though the sword of the emperor.

Maybe link to one or several of those channels.

Google set its SEO guidelines to favor longer articles. So that's what we ended up with.

Google is responsible here. The could penalize websites that have too many ads. But they won't because that is how they make money.

It's a clear example of a monopoly making the world worse.

I bow to your superior research and data.

A lot of the older ones should either be discounted or adjusted for inflation, but even if you only take the movies since 2001, most of them have not been profitable.

In Russian, the word "soviet" just means committee.

They're trying to make a bipolar world. Well if China doesn't enter the war in the next few months, then all that will go out the window as Iran gets rolled up followed by Russia. Putin should have focused on his economy if he wanted deterrence.

If you are running JFrog Artifactory you need to put it behind a firewall immediately. It should not be accessible on the open internet. Jfrog has a giant target on their back now for hackers all across the globe.

Realistically speaking, you shouldn't have any ports open to the general internet except 80, 443, and 23.

Which makes sense, since if you give them instructions to decrypt it, they will have the decrypted version anyway.

You should have read the summary before posting...

A $45 million film with Nicholas Cage will almost certainly be profitable.

LLMs are good at interpolating but terrible at extrapolating. The only difficulty is figuring out what to omit so it can't interpolate to instructions for synthesizing cocaine. It's not magic. It's also fairly easy to verify for the provider, they just have to ask it to synthesize cocaine without the controls in place. If it can't do it, problem solved.

Incidentally, in my own experiments with ChatGPT I'm not convinced it can actually provide good instructions for chemical synthesis (at least, not without some luck).