Denmark is right next to Germany, so has a high affinity for German car brands. Even with worse specs than the chinese imports, the danes feel the german brands are a higher quality a more stable producer who will be there for the long run, so service and guarantees can be trusted.
From the Netherlands - German neighbors from the other side..
Chinese cars can be superior on paper, cheaper to buy or operate. The factors on a consumer mind is
1. If something is wrong(modern cars are like beta software), will I get the support and service?
2. Will the car company exist in 5/8/10 years after my purchase? Resale value, parts for future maintenance etc.
The Chinese brands IMO are not there yet. A few years ago, Nio was very cool and tempting.. now they are winding down in Europe. There are plenty of reviews online where people struggle with service on their Chinese cars. Plus, it doesn’t help that they are dozens of brands(BYD, Xpeng, Zeekr, Cherry, Nio etc) instead of the confidence a brand like VW would instill(in the sense that your independent mechanic would know what to do if it’s VW).
Perhaps if the Chinese brands stand the test of time in a few years, we would trust them like Hyundai/Kia of today.
Thanks for keeping the lights on for my neighbors for a few more years.
However, I think BYD is there, and if weren't for the EU's Chinese EV Important tax, you could almost buy 2 BYDs (one for driving and one for spare parts /s) for the price of an equivalent VW.
I am not a car journalist and therefore have only seen 10s and not 100s/1000s of cars, but for my limited sample size: 100% of German(and most American and Japanese) car software is offensively bad.
No idea whats so hard about getting at least the performance of a 10 year old iPad in a car.
Also: If you want "German Quality", the closest you will get is by buying a Japanese/Korean car.
If money is of no concern, the Mercedes EQS might be an OK option, but they lost their stand out feature by no longer selling (giving up on?) Level 3 self-driving.
1. they are building their service network, they are taking over EU factories so they can produce cars here, it is not really anything new, it is Japan/Korea story all over, just instead of ICE it is PHEV/BEV
2. that's why you choose decades old company like BYD, Cherry (Omoda, Jaecoo) or Geely (with their sub-brands Zeekr, Lynk & Co, Volvo), I would refrain from companies like Xpeng or Nio which doesn't have strong company behind them, actually I would not be so sure either that Tesla car brand will still exist in 10 years (at least outside US)
I sure have bigger trust in future of big Chinese companies than those EU companies like VW with very uncertain future, they survived Japanese/Korean ICE invasion with big losses (my mother has Toyota, my father has like 3rd or 4th Japanese car, I think in last 30 years he had only one European brand car, because EU brands just can't compete), I am not so sure these legacy EU brands will all survive Chinese PHEV/BEV invasion, if they will survive they will be most likely acquired by Chinese like Volvo anyway.
From an investors perspective, this is truly a paradigm shift - this will kill a whole range of startups in Europe which were packaging privacy and wrapping around large hosted models. There's absolutely no reason to use a "Privacy GPT tm" provider, then I have it all on my own laptop - There is also no need for banks or other regulated institutions to rely on those providers when they can selfhost with this much intelligence on tap.
It will when they can get the performance up a bit.
My brief experiments with the ternary version suggest that it broadly meets their claim to be a 27B model that fits in much less RAM, that is for sure. It is about as fast as the underlying Qwen 27B but it gets stuck in reasoning loops quite easily.
I think the form factor is basically the same (maybe slightly thicker) as a Macbook Air. It's basically an Air with lower performance in most dimensions.
The issue with them is that the loans to build the properties are socialised, so if the other members can not pay the debt, the entire loan is the responsibility of those members who can.
Also, the incentives of a cheaper than market rate flat, means that corruption and nepotism is rampant in those buildings.
This is purely anecdotal, but I find that the buildings with professional management and purely renting tenants, look better and seem more well kept, compared to the smaller "Andelsforeninger" where its a volunteer management team trying to run it.
> Also, the incentives of a cheaper than market rate flat, means that corruption and nepotism is rampant in those buildings.
Maybe there's some middle ground between socialized housing that incentivizes people to take advantage of overly cheap housing, and a 100% capitalist USA style housing market where lots of people are 1 missed paycheck away from being homeless.
Maybe there is, but human history proves we can't easily reach a equilibrium where everyone has it equally good, due to human greed, envy, cronyism and corruption, making any kind of equality just a fairytale utopia.
So we just bounce between extremes because as always, few people strive have it good and the rest get screwed over in order to pay for the privileges of the select few. There will always be haves and have-nots, no matter how many thumbs the government puts on the scales to try to balance things out for everyone which only breaks things for the worst as they distort economic reality.
Meanwhile from the numbers I gathered, despite the "evil capitalism", statistically by most metrics, Americans enjoy the highest purchasing power for home ownership in the developed western world by a large margin. So Americans love to complain too much, but the truth is by the numbers, most of the world has it much worse than they do.
1. Demographia International Housing Affordability | Lower median multiple = higher affordability (2025 Edition)
Singapore 4.2
United States 4.8
Ireland 5.1
Canada 5.4
United Kingdom 5.6
New Zealand 7.7
Australia 9.7
2. World Population Review: Housing Affordability Index | Higher index = higher purchasing power (2024 Data)
United States 3.3
Denmark 2.1
Belgium 2.1
Ireland 1.8
Luxembourg 1.8
Norway 1.7
Sweden 1.7
Finland 1.7
Spain 1.7
Netherlands 1.7
Germany 1.5
Switzerland 1.5
3. Numbeo Property Prices Index | Lower ratio = higher affordability (2025 Mid-Year)
United States 3.44
Germany 8.5
United Kingdom 8.71
Italy 9.04
Canada 9.45
France 9.89
Japan 11.34
I haven't dug into how they average these numbers out, but Singapore is especially interesting because their housing market is closer to just NY, SF or LA than it is to the general average of the USA.
In that sense they're doing really well. Actually their system is the hybrid market/subsidized one I theorized about above.
That's why Singapore is only top on one ranking and absent in others while the US is consistently at the top of housing affordability in most rankings, probably because US is a lot bigger than just NY, LA and SF.
I firmly disagree that history proves this. The history of certain countries, certain economic systems, and certain systems of social organization have proven inequitable, but most people are unfamiliar with the many systems that have proven workable, but have not provided for a small hierarchical cadre of people with coercive power over others. It's not surprising that this sort of thing is not taught within a capitalist or statist system, but they certainly do exist, and have throughout human history, which is much longer than the last 500 years or so existence of hierarchical states and capitalism.
See David Graeber's The Dawn of Everything for a deep dive into some of the many successful systems of human societal organization.
Can you prove those numbers lie? Because then what's the point of science and statistics? Should we just argue based on vibes then? Where does that get us when we start the conversation with the assumption that all data is always false?
I kind of agree and don't. You could say HTTP+DOM is the API, we're already there. But it lacks the structure and a more explicit regularity (in part because it's meant for human consumption, not programming). And if you were to describe the whole protocol (including CSS and JS as they can change ordering, even content, of what's shown) it's incredibly more complicated than the equivalent, distilled representation.
There are efforts going back at least fifteen years to extract ontologies from natural language [0] and HTML structure [1].
I have been using it since it got released and its as good for scoped coding tasks, as the other big models I use, but just soo much cheaper.