CCP pays huge subsidies to the company to produce electric cars... Enough to cover the cost of manufacturing. They can't sell them because there's too many, they're too expensive, unreliable, and unusable in many parts of the country. So the company "sells" them to fake buyers, then dumps the cars. There are thousands and thousands of new electric cars roting in rural fields in China. The scandal broke last year. Some whistle blowers provided some documented proof and a bunch of photos and videos of vast fields of new electric cars that we'd consider EPA super fund eligible sites due to the chemicals leeching from the roting cars.
Not the most profitable... The least expensive, long term. The most profitable would be the cheapest option but the most possible tax is collected. The whole point is to reduce burden on the tax payers, not maximize tax revenue.
It's not free, it's socialized. This means expenses are passed to the tax payers. But like you said, if it lowers costs long term, it's worth the short term cost increase.
If only there was some sort of legal agreement that should and could be reached when the govt wants to use some private platform to communicate something important to people. If only.
They all wear. C seems to wear faster and easier. I'm buying the "good" cables. Only stuff with really high reviews (score and count), such as ugreen. The better quality so last a lot longer, but not as long as other formats. I have 10 year old lightning cables. I can't get more than a couple years out of a C cable.
Most certainly easy to believe. China is not that far off from DPRK anymore. Look at what they did during covid (welding people in their apartments, killing all pets, arresting people for curfew violations, etc). Look at their typical workday (14x6) and wage (a few $/day). How do think we get cheap products like $25 microwaves and $15 coffee makers. CCP wants a slave population, not citizens.
Pushing 30 years myself and I confirm literally not a single person I've worked with has ever used **bi... terms. Also, I recall the switch where drive manufacturers went from 1024 to 1000. I recall the poor attempt from shill writers in tech saying it better represents the number of bits as the format parameters applied to a drive changes the space available for files. I recall exactly zero people buying that excuse.
Not without violating a bunch of NDAs. Lookup Sandvine and Deepfield. There are other companies that do traffic identification too.
If you're just curious about what I worked on, ask away and I'll answer what I can.