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LammyL | 1 year ago | on: Members of British punk rock band UK Subs denied entry into the US

If you’re going to perform in the US as a foreign musician you need an O or a P visa. Trying to do it on a B1/B2 is a no-go. This isn’t anything new.

LammyL | 1 year ago | on: Diesel shop fined $10M for making and selling Emissions Defeat Devices

How much does car insurance cost per year in Germany?

LammyL | 1 year ago | on: Who Owns Nebula?

It sounds like standard is just a holding company for Nebula to add a layer of protection in the ownership structure.

LammyL | 1 year ago | on: Who Owns Nebula?

This corporate structure seems a bit sketchy for creators if the platform wants to sell. If they sell Nebula then creators split half of the profits. If they sell Standard then creators get nothing.

LammyL | 1 year ago | on: London Drugs closes stores until further notice due to cyberattack

It’s provincial and most provinces have it with varying degrees of data collection and accessibility but data isn’t shared across provinces.

LammyL | 1 year ago | on: Tesla risks losing its lead without an inexpensive EV

The EV market is basically (1) Tesla, (2) a bunch of Chinese auto makers (BYD and ten others you’ve never heard of), (3) and every other well-known legacy auto maker.

BYD is giving Tesla some healthy competition.

Tesla is working on a $25k auto right now that should be available in 2026.

There isn’t much hope for legacy auto in the EV space. They’re too far behind and their costs for production are too high to remain profitable.

The Chinese auto makers have announced plans to open factories in Mexico which would give them easier access to North America under the USMCA.

LammyL | 1 year ago | on: Fastest way to get IPv4 address from string (2015)

Yes and further to that, not properly handling octal properly has led to security exploits. There is a whole defcon talk on this topic.

LammyL | 2 years ago | on: Are US EV sales a disaster or a booming segment? The answer may be both

BYD is opening a plant in Mexico to avoid tariffs. If that happens we should see BYD cars in the US and Canada by 2030.

LammyL | 2 years ago | on: From Seattle move in a straight line due East. What country will you hit?

Shouldn’t the answer be Canada?

LammyL | 2 years ago | on: Western firms are quaking as China's electric-car industry speeds up

Chinese manufacturers like BYD are opening plants in Mexico to get around the US protectionism against Chinese made cars. Blocking this would require serious changes to the USMCA.

Tesla has proven you don’t need a dealer network to sell cars in the United States.

LammyL | 2 years ago | on: Tesla Model Y: My 6 months impressions

The model Y is getting a revamp over the next few months. It will be interesting to see how many of the things in this article Tesla decides to change.

LammyL | 2 years ago | on: E621, Pornhub, and others block North Carolina residents

It is one thing to show ID. It is an other thing to show ID and have the details stored in a database in perpetuity by companies who don’t have huge budgets for data privacy and security.

LammyL | 2 years ago | on: Dramatic Increase in DPRK-Russia Border Rail Traffic After Kim-Putin Summit

Rail is certainly not an efficient transport between the DPRK and Russia. They run on different rail gauges, so all freight would need to be manually transferred to Russian box cars, or the bogeys on each rail car would need to be swapped out.

LammyL | 2 years ago | on: Cops still take more stuff from people than burglars do (2021)

If it is crime related, then the courts could impose criminal asset forfeiture (aka a fine) after a criminal conviction.

Civil asset forfeiture needs to disappear completely and forever.

LammyL | 2 years ago | on: Google and HTTP (2018)

I don’t think people remember the days when ISPs/free wifi hotspots would inject their own ads into the content of pages served over http, or replace urls on YouTube content to show lower resolution copies of videos.

LammyL | 2 years ago | on: Florida has banned direct-to-consumer auto sales, but Tesla and co get a pass

Wouldn’t not buying a car from a dealership have more incentive to end the corruption?

LammyL | 2 years ago | on: Ask HN: It's 2023, how do you choose between MySQL and Postgres?

Is there a good way to do case-insensitive accent-insensitive collations yet in postgresql? It’s been a holdup for using that for some use cases like searching for data, like a person’s name, in pgsql when the casing or accents don’t match perfectly.

Mssql has had this for ever, and I’m pretty sure MySQL has it as well.

LammyL | 2 years ago | on: IRS files $44B claims against bankrupt FTX

Does this also suggest that the execs charged with the FTX fraud may also get hit with a huge tax bill?

LammyL | 2 years ago | on: The Cybertruck is years behind schedule, so Tesla is launching a $30 beer

Cybertruck has 1.5 million preorders and revolutionizes the technology used today in cars and trucks. It may be ugly but it will win in every other category.

LammyL | 2 years ago | on: The Cybertruck is years behind schedule, so Tesla is launching a $30 beer

Tesla is going to win on cost. They keep driving down the cost to manufacture EVs. That will bring down the selling price as well. Legacy auto makers offering EVs won’t be able to compete on price with Tesla without huge losses.

If you bet against Elon, you will lose.