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But "they" aren't. So your point is irrelevant.

I don't understand your example.

2) BAD website says “We’ve sent you an email, please enter the 6-digit code! The email will come from GOOD, as they are our sign-in partner.”

Does that mean that GOOD must be a 3rd party identity provider like Facebook, Apple, Google etc?

I've sat through numerous Air New Zealand safety videos over the years and whilst every now and then they hit the spot most of the time they're lame and overly long.

It also seems like a waste of money that presumably finds it way onto ticket prices.

The plummet as reported compares the final months of sales that benefited from the clean car discount against 1 month of sales after the discount was scrapped.

Hardly surprising there's a large difference - savvy buyers swooped in and purchased an EV before their price went up overnight.

As others have mentioned, changes to road user charges are another part of the new government's changes.

EVs now pay a road user charge whereas previously they did not. This was a secondary subsidy to further incentivise EV uptake and EV owners understood that it was always going to be a temporary exemption.

(The government plans to standardise road user charges across all vehicle types. Currently ICEs pay no direct road user charges and instead pay taxes on fuel.)

So there's a bit of double whammy here and it's hardly surprising that EV sales are experiencing a dip.

But once road user charges are standardised and more and cheaper EV options become available (as they are all the time) I expect EV sales to bounce back and continue to increase as a percentage of car sales.

PriceOps? Really?

The idea that pricing and billing are separate concerns seems entirely obvious to me.

There’s no authoritarianism going in here.

The New Zealand government did what you should expect of a government: they governed.

They made a tough decision and explained their reasons why.

Public support for the lock down is high as are compliance levels with the restrictions.

It's not a literal description of what happened.

Read the article you linked to, not just the headline. It explains the additional factors that informed the decision.

The "1 positive case" narrative is nonsense.

New Zealand just shut down everything over a single case

It's maddening to see someone peddling this narrative in a discussion on HN.

This squares nicely with my understanding of what "reserves" are when talking about extractive resources.

Namely, the known quantity of a resource that can be extracted in an economical viable manner using current technologies.

So there are a number of variables that can affect the size of a reserve that have nothing to do with how much of the resource is known to exist.

The idea is you get a re­quest, you val­i­date it, maybe you do some com­pu­ta­tion on it, then you drop it on a queue and for­get about it.

The next stage of re­quest han­dling is im­ple­ment­ed by ser­vices that read the queue and ei­ther route an an­swer back to the orig­i­nal re­quester or pass­es it on to an­oth­er ser­vice stage.

In this scenario, what are the mechanisms by which a service could route an answer back to the original requester?

There's a fair whack of poetic license in the headline, but isn't there always?

The idea that you can get a meaningful take on a story just from the title seems a bit lazy to me.

I reckon, having read the article, that the headline is reasonable.

Aquemini and Stankonia are both all-time classics.

I actually believe that there's a culture war implied in this debate; the question of who deserves to reap the gains of automation is more than just philosophy or ethics. The question "is there inherent nobility in work itself?" seems to be just as much a political divide as any of the current popular hot-button issues.

Agreed, there's a lot of meaty ethics and philosophy tied up in this issue.

For most of my life I've tended to believe in the nobility of work, that it gives my life meaning and purpose.

But as rates of automation increase my children (or more likely their children) may well seek different ways of defining themselves.

Before that can happen though there'll have to be some fraught and difficult changes to our societies.

Companies are easier to not do business with. Governments only get voted out if enough people agreed to vote with you.

Monopolies are hard to avoid doing business, and some form of proportional representation reduces the number of people who have to agree with you before you change the makeup of a government.