Toyota sold 29 million hybrid cars worldwide in 2024:
Toyota electrified vehicles sales in 2024 (all brands)
POWERTRAIN GLOBAL SALES
Hybrid electric 29,315,916
Plug-in hybrid electric 761,578
Fuel cell electric 27,723
Battery electric 289,840
Mild hybrid electric 141,593
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Countries with large numbers of English speakers are overrepresented here. Given PC ownership numbers, you'd expect Japan and Brazil to feature in the top 10:
China – 357.4 million
United States – 269.3 million
Japan – 59.5 million
Brazil – 52.5 million
Germany – 49.2 million
India – 41.6 million
United Kingdom – 36.9 million
France – 33.3 million
Russia – 32.1 million
Canada – 25.9 million
A tale of the APS returning to Vegas in 2023:
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The population of the richest country in the world enjoys spending its money buying nice things. Since they are the richest country in the world, the mean wage there is high. Consequently, it's much cheaper to buy certain things from other countries, where the wages are far lower.
The carrier sued Austin, Texas-based CrowdStrike three months after the July 19, 2024 outage disrupted travel for 1.4 million Delta passengers.
Delta has said the outage cost $550 million in lost revenue and added expenses, offset by $50 million of fuel savings.
TFA gives the relevant numbers.
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Having the ability to do basic mental arithmetic is a valuable skill we use every day. Being able to make reasonable estimates can save you from making potentially expensive mistakes.
What's 23.71 x 42,372? No idea, but having a feel for numbers and mental calculations allows me to work out straight away that the answer is going to be somewhere near 1,000,000. If I then input the numbers into a calculator and get an answer closer to 100,000 or 10,000,000, I know from my estimate that I've messed something up.
How would somebody with no grasp of estimating numbers detect that error? Now use the same logic with somebody trying to understand a terrible car-finance deal that a salesman is pushing at you, or any kind of loan or contract?
Sidenote: I was cleaning out the attic last year and I found a whole lot of CDs. I *OWN* them. They don't depend on any server. I can't play any of them. Even if I were to jump through hoops installing dosbox to emulate an old system, my PC doesn't have a CD drive. So where does ownership get me? Just another thing I can't play.
You could order a USB DVD drive from Amazon for 10 bucks, if you had any interest in playing your old CDs.
Why not? There's a weird misconception on Slashdot that AC posters are all illiterate trolls. The majority of my posts are made AC, and all of my posts going back 20 years were AC until Slashdot forced us to create accounts. AC is one of Slashdot's best traditions, using it to make non-trolling posts helps to keep it alive.
I am not the AC you replied to.
The easiest way to tip your driver is through the app. At the end of your trip, you’ll be prompted to rate your driver. Once you provide a rating, you’ll be given the option to add a tip. Giving cash directly to your driver is also an option.
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2024 Walmart:
US sales $527B
International sales $114B
2024 Amazon:
US sales $387.5B
International sales $142.9B
AWS $107.6B
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California's statewide recycling rate is 41%, better than the US's 32%, but not as good as the UK's 44%. However, Californians are better at publicizing how great they are, so just ignore those numbers.
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Fun fact Nintendo didn't make the original donkey Kong game
Has Shigeru Miyamoto been deceiving us all this time?
Nintendo of America was founded in 1980 with minor success at importing its parent's arcade cabinets from Japan. In early 1981, its president Minoru Arakawa bet the small startup company on a major order of 3,000 Radar Scope. Its poor reception in America filled a warehouse with 2,000 unsold Radar Scope machines, so Arakawa requested that the parent company president (and his father-in-law) Hiroshi Yamauchi send a conversion kit of new game software. Yamauchi polled the company's entire talent pool for fresh game design concepts to save the distressed startup. This yielded Shigeru Miyamoto's debut as lead game designer of his Donkey Kong concept, and Yamauchi appointed head engineer Gunpei Yokoi as project supervisor with a budget of $267,000 (equivalent to $895,000 in 2023) according to Miyamoto.
Ikegami Tsushinki was subcontracted for some of the development, with no role in the game's creation or concept, but to provide "mechanical programming assistance to fix the software created by Nintendo". Nintendo instructed Ikegami to produce a program according to its instructions and put it onto read-only memory (ROM) chips on printed circuit boards (PC boards). This later led to mutual lawsuits in 1983, as Ikegami asserted ownership over Donkey Kong which Nintendo denied as Ikegami was a subcontractor who had already been paid. Game Machine called it "simply a nuisance tactic" on the part of Ikegami.
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Some excellent points there. Given how incumbent telecoms companies behave in Western countries
Apologies, that should have read 10Mb/s, so 8 times slower. On another tangent, it seems that
Starlink’s competitive rates have forced local providers to lower their prices.
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What about cellular internet? That's probably cheaper.
Not in Zimbabwe. You can buy 55GB of mobile data for $126 USD/month - apparently 10MB/s is a good speed for mobile data over there.
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"A mind is a terrible thing to have leaking out your ears." -- The League of Sadistic Telepaths
