"Tesla's more than 70% market share in EVs could drop to closer to 11% in the next three years, as competition increases from legacy and startup competitors."
Also predicts EV adoption will be 20-25% in just a few years.
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Car wars: Analyst predicts GM, Ford will surpass Tesla EV sales by 2025
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Sanctions drive Russia to first foreign debt default since 1918
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Some medical debt is being removed from US credit reports
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A Professor of Strategic Studies at the University of St. Andrews also seems to think Russia is exhausting its combat capability. (Interesting Twitter thread...)
https://twitter.com/PhillipsPOBrien/status/15410363767030906...
The strategic studies professor says "the Russians are only making an effort in a very small area of the line.... This scaling back is a sign of failure. The Russians have shown no ability to make and exploit a breakthrough in the Donbas (indeed I haven't seen anything worthy of being called a breakthrough in the whole battle). They make small, incremental, expensive advances.
"Russian failure has led them to 'recalibrate' their entire plan and add very limited objectives. They have finally achieved one (seizing SDonetsk) but compared to where we were on April 18, this was probably the least ambitious objective Russia could have set.... The Ukranian withdrawal from Severodonetsk is not some great 'strategic' victory for Russia. It does not effect in any way Ukraine's ability to regenerate force and keep fighting the war. At best its a tactical adjustment."
"Also worth pointing out that there are signs of a growing Ukrainian resistance movement behind Russian lines."
The article cites both a senior Western official and actual UK intelligence assessments to back up its claims:
The “creeping” advances are dependent almost entirely on the expenditure of vast quantities of ammunition, notably artillery shells, which are being fired at a rate almost no military in the world would be able to sustain for long, said the senior Western official. Russia, meanwhile, is continuing to suffer heavy losses of equipment and men, calling into question how much longer it can remain on the attack, the official said.
Officials refuse to offer a time frame, but British Prime Minister Boris Johnson, citing intelligence assessments, indicated this week that Russia would be able to continue to fight on only for the “next few months.” After that, “Russia could come to a point when there is no longer any forward momentum because it has exhausted its resources,” he told the German newspaper Süddeutsche Zeitung in an interview.
For another perspective, here's the director of the US Treasury Department's Office of Foreign Asset Control.
Speaking to CNN, they said that Russia has "an experienced central banker who is making it look like the Russian economy is strong when it's not."
https://www.cnn.com/2022/06/17/politics/nerd-warriors-treasu...
Russia will soon exhaust its combat capabilities, Western assessments predict
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Are today's programmers leaving too much code bloat?
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One thing I've tried is switching the display to greyscale. (On some phones, it's a built-in option under "Bedtime mode.")
The idea is it makes everything less attractive on your phone.
And of course, turn off as many notifications as you can. (Sometimes I'll even power it off, and only power it back up when I need to do something.)
I really like it. So clean. Lots of whitespace. Even non-serif fonts (for maximum clarity?) :)
Also - nice choice of colors. They're pleasing, and readable.
How the Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act Became Law
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Suspected Russian spy was well-liked by classmates, but something seemed off
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White House approves student loan forgiveness for 45K more public sector workers
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I feel like Unherd's article is actually misstating things. For example, "no infected animal on sale in the market or elsewhere in China has been found..." In fact, Bloomberg reported:
"Disease detectives arriving from Beijing on the first day of 2020 ordered environmental samples to be collected from drains and other surfaces at the market. Some 585 specimens were tested, of which 33 turned out to be positive for SARS-CoV-2... All but two of the positive specimens came from a cavernous and poorly-ventilated section of the market's western wing, where many shops sold animals."
The Unherd article also claims: "There is no evidence of exposure to SARS-like viruses among Wuhan market traders prior to the Covid outbreak." But CNN reported:
Research helped [Michael] Worobey come up with a map of the earliest cases that clusters them all around the market. "That so many of the more than 100 COVID-19 cases from December with no identified epidemiologic link to Huanan Market nonetheless lived in its direct vicinity is notable and provides compelling evidence that community transmission started at the market," he wrote.... "The virus didn't come from some other part of Wuhan and then get to Huanan market. The evidence speaks really quite strongly to the virus starting at the market and then leaking into the neighborhoods around the market.... So many of the early cases were tied to this one Home Depot-sized building in a city of 11 million people, when there are thousands of other places where it would be more likely for early cases to be linked to if the virus had not started there.""
https://www.cnn.com/2021/11/18/health/covid-origins-market-t...
Interestingly Worobey actually signed a letter demanding the lab leak theory be investigated. But he now believes there's -- in his words -- "a big red flashing arrow pointing at Huanan Market as the most likely place the pandemic started."
They lied, and it's been documented - but that cuts both ways. They also lied about wild animals being sold at their market.
From Bloomberg:
When an international group of experts organized by the World Health Organization traveled to Wuhan, China, earlier this year to research the origins of the coronavirus that sparked the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, they visited the Baishazhou market, which is larger, but perhaps less well-known (internationally, at least) than the Huanan market, where many people initially believed the virus first jumped from wild animals to humans.
The research team was told only frozen foods, ingredients, and kitchenware were sold there. But a recently released study that had previously languished in publishing limbo showed, thanks to data meticulously collected over 30 months, that at least two vendors there regularly sold live wild animals, Bloomberg reports. Bloomberg also notes that one of the earliest recorded COVID-19 clusters in Wuhan [December 19th] involved a Huanan stall employee who traded goods back and forth between the two markets."
It seems likely to Goldstein that some authorities didn't want the presence of a thriving wildlife trade to become public knowledge. "It seems to me, at a minimum, that local or regional authorities kept that information quiet deliberately. It's incredible to me that people theorize about one type of cover-up," he said, likely referring to the hypothesis that the virus actually leaked from a nearby government-run lab, "but an obvious cover-up is staring them right in the face."
https://news.yahoo.com/virologist-suggests-coronavirus-origi...
‘The impossible’: Ukraine’s secret, deadly rescue missions
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What a former GitHub CTO learned about scaling
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Nobel sold for Ukrainian kids shatters record at $103.5M
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I have a friend with ADHD who really appreciated the input of a business coach. (Basically they prioritized the jobs based on which ones brought in the most money the fastest -- and streamlined things by also recommending which projects to deprioritize/put on hold.)
But as a freelancer myself, the problem was always just earning enough money - so I never hired a coach or PM. I guess theoretically they can pay for themselves by getting you to finish more billable projects. But you have to be really objective and honest with yourself about whether that's actually happening.
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