Tja

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[–] Tja@programming.dev 0 points 4 days ago (2 children)

Among others. Ford, GM, Rivian, Lucid, etc.

[–] Tja@programming.dev 5 points 4 days ago

Unfortunately none of the above.

[–] Tja@programming.dev 1 points 5 days ago (9 children)

California is famous for having different safety regulations.

I don't see how the percentage should matter, absolute numbers matter. You get money for every sale, if you sell to 1% or to 99% is irrelevant.

[–] Tja@programming.dev 1 points 5 days ago (4 children)

I never said my opinion about that, just said what tariffs are for.

Obviously protecting an industry makes prices go up, that's exactly the intended effect.

[–] Tja@programming.dev 1 points 5 days ago (6 children)

Yeah. Having stakes makes people irrational, they do the dumbest things.

[–] Tja@programming.dev 1 points 5 days ago

You can go as much as you want almost, as long as you have money to sustain yourself...

[–] Tja@programming.dev 5 points 5 days ago (4 children)

And industry. I work in IT and like 20% of people go on sabbatical after a decade working, sometimes to ponder a career change.

[–] Tja@programming.dev 1 points 5 days ago (11 children)

Still, the absolute number is what matters, still bigger market.

[–] Tja@programming.dev 1 points 5 days ago

Not only do Chinese (and Korean) cars beep at you when they think you're tired, they are louder, more annoying and more difficult to mute than other brands.

Plus most of them have a screen with the face of an AI assistant on the dashboard, it seems to be almost standard in China.

[–] Tja@programming.dev 3 points 5 days ago (10 children)

That's what tariffs are for. There is no contradiction and no hypocrisy.

Nobody is against tariffs as a concept, every country protects some industry that is deemed critical (like agriculture) with tariffs and trade barriers. What people complain about are wholesale, generalized tariffs on everything from everywhere based on a ChatGPT suggestion.

Protecting a key industry like electric car manufacturing using tariffs is fine, using tariffs for everything because you just learned the word, is not.

[–] Tja@programming.dev 3 points 5 days ago
[–] Tja@programming.dev 1 points 5 days ago

He can't. For a while at least.

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