My understanding is that the initial Mini models were made with Peugeot engines, which were underpowered and pretty unreliable. At some point BMW switched Minis over to use a Beemer engine, at which point quality improved dramatically. Mini has been on an upward trend since (as has BMW).
Anecdotally, someone in my family has a Mini with the BMW engine, and it’s been ticking along just fine. Maintenance is expensive though.
“The rules on making multinationals pay taxes where they operate - known as "pillar one" of the agreement - would apply to global companies with at least a 10% profit margin.
Twenty percent of any profit above that would be reallocated and taxed in the countries where they operate, according to the G7 communiqué.”
How will taxing authorities determine which companies meet the 10% profit margin threshold? Which jurisdiction is this threshold calculated in for multinationals?
It’s mind-blowing to me that a 3-year car is considered aging.
Anecdote time: my parents bought a secondhand 93 Toyota Corolla that I inherited and drove until 2011. They continued using it until 2018, and got rid of it. It was still running. A few plastic internals had failed and the engine was rough, but still going. It easily had another 5ish years on it.
I once read (or heard?) that the reason why Twitter has such outsize importance is because a lot of journalists use it. They’re on it a lot, follow a lot of people, use it to discover what issues are blowing up...
I’m sure that’s not the only reason, but I thought it an interesting idea.
We’ll see the same reaction that people had when witnessing extreme weather events: focus on the immediate problem, and refuse to engage with larger issues on the basis that “it’s too political”. For extreme weather events citizens and authorities showed an aversion to discussing “Is it climate change?”, and “How should we deal with climate change?”, etc.
I would, on balance, prefer to have a language with a smaller feature set that limits the amount of syntactic variability in the code I see. This, I believe, allows me to focus on the problem, not on the language features the person is using to solve the problem.
With Rust it always feels like there are changes and, at times it feels exhausting having to ‘keep up’. It also means that there’s high variability in the code you see in the wild.
Specific conspiracy theories aside, it’s unsurprising that a lot of people - hell, even I! - find the course of events surprising.
The man had a dubious source of income, was offered an incredibly irregular plea deal, all sorts of theories abounded about his having information on other connected people, attempted suicide in jail, was (surprisingly) taken _off_ suicide watch, and then died conveniently. Seems like quite the chain of coincidences.
Anecdotally, someone in my family has a Mini with the BMW engine, and it’s been ticking along just fine. Maintenance is expensive though.