Are the benefits of using tools like composer worth these risks? Why is that still the norm, rather than the exception?
Because 1) handling exceptions is hard and 2) keeping everything updated from the myriad of sources is hard too.
Whether the benefits are worth the risks is surely complicated, but if it means updates get done that otherwise wouldn't (and it does) then there's at least a reasonable chance that it's a net positive overall.
I'm down with practically anything, or at least just about anything practical, over NCM. It just has issues on every level from political to technical.
I've got my fingers crossed for sodium, but sure, nickel-iron would seem to make sense for stationary applications. I'm hoping though that they can come up with a sodium battery that wouldn't be toxic even if you blew it up.
Hmm, I was under the impression that the US regulator wasn't entirely useless
Please, please, please re-read that sentence and think about it in light of what you know about the US auto market and its protectionism.
Surely if they had such a serious flaw they would have been replaced already.
I see you're new to capitalism. Can I borrow your unicorn? I want to take it on a walk through fantasy-land.
Great, let's have another world record setting BESS fire.
These are the same packs that caused the last one.
Surely it's a good plan to double down instead of recycling them into something less shit!
I think these are their iPace taxis, so they will be LG Chem batteries.
So then the same shit NCM packs that caught fire in Moss Landing?
Capitalism is all about the free market.
More importantly: Capitalism is an ECONOMY and market system. It is NOT a blueprint for a society. You can run your commerce and trade as capitalism, when you run your SOCIETY along capitalism principles you end up... essentially with the USA.
This is the part that is constantly forgotten. As a society, we have values that are not represented well within capitalism. But for some reason, we dumb shits think that we can treat everything as a market and apply capitalism to it and that will magically solve problems. But in education, just as one random example, the goal of it all is educated adults as output. It is not maximizing profit. Same for the prison system, the healthcare system and two dozen others.
It's greed, pure and simple.
Making a good product is possible. KEEPING making good products for decades is hard. Even more importantly: You will have hits and misses. Which, for a quarterly-result-bonus oriented manager is a no-no. Subscription models mean plannable revenue streams. Then all you need to do is negotiate your bonus package so that the already existing subscriptions will provide and you're home free and can already order your 2nd yacht.
It is better to give than to lend, and it costs about the same.
