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Comments: How a battery breakthrough from China’s BYD could be about to bury Elon Musk’s TeslaThe Chinese automaker has overtaken its US rival to become the world’s largest electric vehicle manufacturer, writes Anthony Cuthbertson. A new charging technology could now prove catastrophic for Elon Musk’s car company
Comments: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/vj-HFFEikmw
Comments: It can jump! 😂
Comments: 1,084 horsepower and 0-100 km/h acceleration in 2 seconds
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Comments: Reza check this out https://www.youtube.com/shorts/ii1je2_q7VA
Comments: Game of chicken and bluff! China retaliated against Donald Trump’s latest tariffs by hiking duties on all US goods, while calling the administration’s actions a “joke” and saying it no longer considers them worth matching. Beijing will raise tariffs on all US goods from 84% to 125% starting April 12, the Ministry of Finance said on Friday, after the White House clarified that levies on Chinese goods rose to 145% this year. “Given that American goods are no longer marketable in China under the current tariff rates, if the US further raises tariffs on Chinese exports, China will disregard such measures,” according to the statement. With tariffs at levels now set to halt most all trade between the world’s biggest economies, the concern now is that the economic fight could spill into other areas of the relationship. Trump and Xi are locked in a standoff over who will move to deescalate first: Trump has said he’s “waiting” for a call from Beijing, while Chinese officials have repeatedly said they’re open to negotiations but won’t be bullied into talking.
Comments: Back a day or two and already sick of the arguments about Trump and his supporters. It is hard to understand or accept but his supporters and by extension elected officials are just not interested in facts and logic. The more we argue and try to use facts and figures, the more they dig in and the only answer they have is that he knows what he is doing. It’s a total waste of time. This country is divided between MAGA and the rest. It’s not red or blue. It’s not about conservatives and liberals. This is all about Trump and his cult. There is zero chance in hell they accept “reality”! Let see what happens, I know what I’m doing because I’m a genius, fake news, … is the only thing they believe. No one trust the government anymore. No one discusses politics. It’s all a political game. We as citizens are not part of the game.
Comments: If this administration really means business, I would take a hard look at these ivory tower universities and where their money comes from. But my eyes do not drink water. I think this whole thing is just a show. Big names will escape unharmed.
Comments: These monies are nothing to these places. It will not hurt them a bit to cut this out. I have served on proposal review panels for NIH for years now and I have seen my share of proposals coming in, we evaluate them as crap, yet they still get funded through some back doors. When this happens it is usually huge chunks of money. I give you two examples: 1. Some people from the universities on this list proposed a new genomic database for TB. In the discussions, I asked what the reason was when there are already a half of dozen of these in existence. Why not adding the data to the existing ones so to cut the cost by a tenth. They did not have an answer and a lot of objections ensued. We were certain that the project would not get funded after so much criticism from the panel of experts. They were asking for $10M. Later we found out that they actually got funded for $42M. Five million from NIH and the rest from the Gates foundation. As soon as the project was funded the champion for the project from inside NIH quit and took a job with the project. Five years and $42M later there was no database to be found publicly. When I asked for an account to use the data base, I found not much more than a few hundred genomes. In the same period, my team had created a database of our own of over 5000 genomes with only $50K. Their justification for the expense was that they used this team of experts from the University of Texas to build the database. Turned out that they were cancer people and had no knowledge of TB. Yet they burnt through the money to setup some crap that is now in the graveyard of science history without anyone using it. 2. Harvard University received over $10m annually for a similar project to find strains globally and sequence them. The idea was for them to put that up on the internet for free to enable wide range of science projects. As far as I know this has been going on for over 10 years (so, $100m). They only have a few thousand strains and what burns me is that they do not put up the meta data so people know how to use the data. So, what is out there is technically open to everyone, but it is just a bunch of numbers without a key to decode it. Complete waste of taxpayer money. These places have trillions of dollars of investments and can easily afford all these projects themselves. The reason they go to the government is because they know the projects are crap but free money is hard to turn away.
Comments: I have to say that there is a ton of fat to cut at the top of this list:
Comments: Full list: Colleges and universities hit by Trump’s federal funding cuts
Comments: Wow that car is amazing! I do agree that Tesla is a thing of the past. As soon as the doors open, these companies are going to overrun Tesla! Musk made a big mistake getting involved in politics. I do not think he realized what a stiff competition he is in.
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Comments: BYD n Xiami are going to bankrupt Tesla the same way Toyota n Honda took out GM.
Comments: Back when I was traveling to China, I used to work with BYD. Back then, Warren Buffet started to invest in BYD because of their battery technology. I am not sure if he still have those investments or not, but BYD should be more valuable than Tesla at this point.
Comments: BYD up 5.2% in this shitshow.
Comments: Helicopter crashes in Hudson River in New York City, all 6 on board killed
Comments: Congress is potentially voting this week on a bill that could make it harder for millions of Americans to exercise their right to vote. The Safeguard American Voter Eligibility (SAVE) Act would require people registering to vote or updating their voter registration to show documents in person proving American citizenship. In theory these requirements sound reasonable, but in reality they may become a big barrier for many Americans to vote, according to opponents of the bill. For example, potentially 69 million married women in America who have taken their spouse’s last name and don’t have a birth certificate matching their legal name could face hurdles when registering to vote or updating their voter registration.
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