And yet the banks are governed by consumer protection laws that Paypal previously wasn't, and Paypal infamously had an entire website www.paypalsucks.com dedicated to their shitty behaviour.
This isn't a reflection on banks, but more like a real case of WTF were you doing that you found a bank worse than paypal? Were they actual banks, or did you just lend your money to someone with an Italian sounding name who made you an offer you couldn't refuse?
It's not about consumer protection against stolen money. It's against a "bank" freezing access to your money for fake and dubious reasons. Even the USA, land of the "hahahah you want consumer protection laws? FUCK YOU" has consumer protection laws that protect against this kind of behaviour.
That Paypal has been able to store people's money for 25 years without being registered as a bank is frankly criminal.
Can you imagine finishing a project and then a magical tax suddenly appearing before you get to even turn it on simply because the government of the day hates you. America is shooting itself in the foot. No one in their right mind would invest in any infrastructure there right now.
Damn, I was a happy Firefox user for years... now I'll have to try and avoid AI using some other browser.
Don't you think a smart company would have surveyed their market before making such an announcement?
It's much easier to keep customers happy and attract new ones if you give them what THEY want, rather than what you think they want.
You will find an "opinion" that is endlessly repeated in many forums (including right here) that it is impossible to build a fully autonomous driving system unless you are using LIDAR. It isn't true and Tesla has pretty much proved it by this point.
Telsa has precisely zero fully self driving autonomous miles on record. Not even their robotaxis have driven anywhere without a driver, and even in that time they have had many issues.
The fundamental issue with Muskworship is that you can't see the forest through the trees. The point is not that we can't eventually get cars to drive like humans using just vision alone, that is an engineering certainty. The point is that THIS SHOULD NOT BE OUR GOAL. Human drivers fucking suuuuuuck.
As it stands Tesla has the *worst* performing driver assistance systems in torrential rain and heavy fog, situations where LIDAR and RADAR has no problem with. It never ceases to amaze me that people hold up Musk's vision while neglecting to see that he has set the bar for his tech stupidly low. Don't believe me? Ask Naibel Benavides Leon, but you'll need to ask him about his experience with FSD using a Ouija board.
In the meantime some of Tesla's competitors are using LIDAR centrally in their platforms, have millions of self driving miles on record and have a body count of zero.
I wonder how much of Luminar's business plan was based on this myth.
Luminar's primary customer was Volvo and they had an incredibly (LIDAR unrelated) disaster of a launch of their LIDAR included vehicles. They are a victim of another company's fuckup.
Well almost. The idiots in Sweden would have been right, it's just their engineering was rushed and the QA was completely absent. The actual SPA2 platform and its idea was quite sound, and by all accounts should have been glorious.
I bet you the release date of the car was decided by someone with an accounting degree.
The same Elon whose cars utterly underperform in safety tests compared to their peers during fog, heavy rain, or sunlight glare?
$TSLA has been devoid of any reality for a long time. Their share price at this point is meaningless noise.
Why wouldn't they be in business? Postulate an alternative for us, and make a business case, then sell it to people. When you fail to do what high paid consultants have also failed to do, you'll understand why they are in business.
Clearly the world cares about something else than insecure cyphers.
The first day speed limits are introduced or changed there are also people who speed. What's your point? There's literally zero laws that are 100% effective. Murder still happens, fraud still happens, and if tomorrow it becomes illegal to say mindblowingly stupid stuff on the internet, you will none the less still be here.
The law is a success by your own measure: *some* kids are using social media, down from "all".
When have I NOT done that? I'm always willing to get my hands dirty and beat people at their own game.
I'm just giving you advice. If your answer to "you look like a douchebag hypocrite" is "I've always been a douchebag hypocrite" just remember that others won't take you seriously. I certainly don't.
That's the joke. The EU has rules about handling people's money, PayPal is a registered bank in Luxembourg which is why www.paypalsucks.com had stories almost exclusively American based, because things like arbitrarily freezing customer's financial accounts is likely to get the regulator to shove their foot up your arse in Europe.
It seems that they were never serious about being an EV company, they just followed the fad of the day.
This does not inspire customer confidence or trust.
I drive a Tesla. They are committed to EVs
Not really. They are only cancelling a single product that didn't have a sane market segment placement. Ford still very much make several electric vehicles, in fact their e-Transit is neck in neck with the eSprinter one of the best selling EV vans on the planet. They are still selling Mustang e-tech (despite those being objectively shit cars, at least someone is buying them). Ford have EVs in every market segment in Europe, from small all the way to performance.
You drive a Tesla? Cybertruck by chance? If not why not? Is it because oversized electric pickups are fucking stupid? Ford is right to cancel it, maybe if Tesla were a serious car company they'd cancel their abortion of a "road vehicle" as well (dare not call it a car, and it's way too shit to be a pickup truck).
Funnily enough though Ford managed to adapt the Transit to the e-transit and by all account it's a very good van.
Not just good, it's an outright roaring success, at least in Europe. There are many logistics fleets that are migrating to it. It also seems to be one of the few "cars" Ford is able to reliably sell internationally.
The cybertruck is pure shit.
Correct, you understood the parent's insult.
Is the phone "discounted" if you do this?
You don't need SIM locking to put a discount on a phone, just only offer the phone with a contract term with a termination clause to recover the cost. SIM-locking is a stupid solution to a stupid self-made problem.
I never owned a sim-locked phone and never will.
Same, because I live in a country where such stupidity is banned.
In order to get a loan you must first prove you don't need it.
