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The Olina isn't targeting the same market as the Nano. The Nano tried to be a household car but failed because a 6 person household (2 parents, 2 grandparents, 2 kids) would also need trunk spa…

Depending on monthly financing, an $8500 electric rickshaw might work. I guess the big question is how much is monthly financing for a used Nissan Versa? If I can purchase a used Nissan Versa for ar…

I've seen Bajaj autos/mototaxis as well as the Qute in non-touristy parts of Yucatan and Chiapas that a friend took me to, but definitely not in CDMX (but tbf I also didn't visit the le…

Agreed! I think Olina can successfully replace pulmonias, three-wheelers, and moto-taxis, but forcing a narrative that they can replace cars will only set the project up for failure.

Based on Olina's marketing [0], they are primarily targeting to replace auto rickshaws/three-wheelers. It isn't meant to be a direct competitor of a Nissan Versa, Chevrolet Aveo, Nissan…

> why is everyone suddenly selling 1. Korean equities have been undervalued in comparison to Asian peers for a couple decades. 2. A couple Asia targeted funds began hedging ASEAN, China, and India …

India and most of ASEAN (Vietnam, Indonesia, Malaysia, etc) are expected to see GDP grow rates in the 6-8% range for the next decade. Their carbon footprint is only going to increase as a result. In…

The effects of climate change aren't felt on a per capita basis. Edit: can't reply > they don't pollute because they're Chinese, they pollute because they're your factory I…

> As long as major countries like Germany are keeping their ban on nuclear power Frankly, it doesn't matter what Germany or other European nations do - their carbon footprint has dramatically …

The Jewish community in Singapore is mostly Baghdadi (Iraqi Jews who immigrated to British India and later Singapore and Hong Kong). That's why it's the same recipe for Bamia.

No. It's basically allocating funding for 250 PhD seats across a couple top engineering programs (CMU, UCSD, UIUC, Columbia SEAS, Penn SEAS, etc) with the expectation that said research would be …

I'd recommend the I-PhD's page instead of the NSF grant as it goes deeper into the partners as well as the program. https://uidp.org/i-phd-scholars/ …

> There’s already a 3-4 year advanced degree in the United States with an optional thesis component... There isn't. And if you are trying to snarkily describe an MS, then most MS programs are …

Here is the I-PhD program's website - https://uidp.org/i-phd-scholars/

At least in SF, condo prices have stagnated or started falling becuase condos are aging and liability starts becoming much more of a risk.

> Where redistribution runs vertically and broadly, the welfare state absorbs global finance shocks... If this was true, then the Eurozone crisis would not have been as severe as it was in Portug…

There used to be a third one a couple blocks away from Sofiya/Halal Dastarkhan in Tenderloin, but I think that may have shut down. There also used to be 2 actual ethnic Uyghur restaurants (not Ch…

Much of the Uzbek and Central Asian community is largely located in the Bay, NYC, and DMV. There are around 3 Uzbek restaurants in SF alone.

True, but a lot of that was due to a lack of integrated water management (IWM) in California at the time, and led to significant reforms as well as infra expansion to prevent that from happening again…

We haven't had any significant flooding in past El Niños. Of course, it will probably be different this round, but at least El Niños tend to align with Mediterranean weather instead of droughts a…

> home made rockets made with dung from the Gaza Strip Homemade bottle rockets are a 2000s era Israel thing. Now it's Ababeel, Mohajer, Shahed, Arash and other Iranian drones deployed in Leban…

> Romania is spending a lot of cash on defense measures for drones and other armament Some of this is going to be stalled - Romania was planning on deploying the Iron Dome [0] and Spyder [1] for AD…

The CJP Bitchat takedown notice is standard practice in India - what I meant is ID linking with social media such as ChatControl 2.0, the UK ChatControl proposals, and similar proposals making the rou…

VLMs are the name of the game now in the UAV space, as well as distilled models that can perform well on edge compute (eg. Processing sat images directly on the sat instead of dealing with C2 latency)…

Ownership and corporate governance is much more state-led via GGIFs as well as mandated party oversight depending on the size of company.

> U.S. policymakers believe that even if the gap is small—like six months to a year—whoever reaches AGI first... From past experience, AGI was never seriously discussed in these kinds of conversati…