The point is the difficulty of the comparison. They are tariffed in the EU and NA to the point of near inviability so I don’t see that as a valid comparison. Outside the EU and NA they are Chinese made cars.
So basically you either compare current NA/EU Teslas to a hypothetical untariffed BYD (I don’t think this is fair) or you compare Chinese made Teslas to BYDs (which of course leads to similar prive perf ratios).
Ok, but "where the rubber meets the road", I've seen 0 BYDs in the wild in the US, including a recent 1,800 mile trip half way across the country. Earlier in 2025 I took a trip to Scotland and they had 2 dealerships I saw and I saw a couple of them on the roads.
The correct time to stop Putin's war of aggression was the day he sent troops over the border. He should have been met with ferocious force from the entire western world. But he observed the weakness in the West for decades and knew he could get away with it. Obama's failed "red line" was the end of any nation on earth taking the western world seriously. The end of western liberalism is nigh.
Clever reframing putting all the blame on Ukraine and the western world. You conveniently "forgot" to mention that Russia is the sole aggressor in this story. And no, Ukraine would have fallen a while ago already if not for western aid, so it wasn't at all for nothing. And then it would have been Poland's turn.
> Hundreds of thousands of Ukrainians would be alive now if not for this dispute
I mean, we (the west) could have saved ourselves a lot of money by putting it to Russia that if they crossed the border then we'd defend the airspace. Essentially, being half assed about it is going to cost more money and lives. The Ukrainians were going to defend themselves whatever we did.
I don't think Europe has a choice but to be involved.
> We have lots of problems of our own
I don't really understand that. You don't get to turn away from new problems and global problems because you have some economic issues of your own. Indeed, it's all the more likely to be why you get dragged in.
> The West has sent hundreds of billions of dollars worth of aid to Ukraine
We can afford it. The US is probably well ahead due to the sale of new weapons as well.
I wanted to say I that I think it's overrated in terms of its position on HN, but rather than criticize side issues of it, which often point to something being a weak article in general, I probably should have just said exactly what I don't like about it as a whole. So I'll do that.
I think the headline is problematic because it suggests the raw photos aren't very good and thus need processing, however the raw data isn't something the camera makers intend to be put forth as a photo, and the data is intended to be processed right from the start. The data of course can be presented in as images but that serves as visualizations of the data rather than the source image or photo. Wikipedia does it a lot more justice. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raw_image_format If articles like OP's catch on, camera makers might be incentivized to game the sensors so their output makes more sense to the general public, and that would be inefficient, so the proper context should be given, which this "unprocessed photo" article doesn't do in my opinion.
> I think the headline is problematic because it suggests the raw photos aren't very good and thus need processing
That’s not how I read either the headline or the article at all. I read it as “this is a ‘raw photo’ fresh off your camera sensor, and this is everything your camera does behind the scenes to make that into something that we as humans recognize as a photo of something.” No judgements or implications that the raw photo is somehow wrong and something manufacturers should eliminate or “game”
There are also no citations, and it has this phrase "This website is not licensed for ML/LLM training or content creation." Yeah right, that's like the privacy notice posts people make to facebook from time to time that contradict the terms of service https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/facebook-privacy-notices
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