[–] 1 point 11 hours ago

Also promoting local manufacturing.

Nothing is manufactured in Australia any more. Everything is imported from China.

The housing industry has been propping up the economy with Taxpayer funded corporate welfare, and Superannuation funded public welfare and a giant Ponzi scheme of suppliers and it has finally failed over.

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  • [–] 2 points 18 hours ago

    The door skin is specifically designed for a slimline hidden handle. It wouldn’t be too difficult to build a retrofit an external handle but it will look like arse.

    The door skin would need to be modified to accommodate a recessed external handle, which wouldn’t be impossible, but would require a bit more specialised labour.

    I’m not saying it can’t or won’t be done, but the bean counters would probably just prefer to replace the entire door assembly.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 day ago (1 child)

    EVs are pretty much fly-by-wire (autocorrect tried to change to fry-by-wire, LOL) so LH/RH conversions are pretty straightforward.

    That said, retrofitting safe door handles is even more straightforward.

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  • [–] 2 points 5 days ago (2 children)

    Even scientific formulae are simplifications. The difference between using Ohms Law or Boyles Law in engineering vs the plethora of formulae used by economists is that engineers are aware of the simplifications. The materials that engineers use have inherent resistance, capacitance, flex and impurities that affect the outcome, so they reduce or account for them in their calculations.

    Economics is not an exact science; the laws are not immutable, and some of the assumed constants are not constant at all.

    Also, except for Quantum mechanics and Heisenbergs Uncertainty Principle, engineers are changing the output by observing.

    As soon an economist publishes their predictions, people react to their predictions and change the outcome. It isn’t a closed system.

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  • [–] 5 points 5 days ago (4 children)

    It is a very simple formula, that doesn’t take into consideration other factors.

    When individuals have institutionalised debt, (IE no disposable income because they have such high repayments), any increase in interest rates only increases their debt; they need to borrow to make ends meet.

    This also means that the economy suffers because people are unable to purchase any luxury items, which also affects inflation.

    Economics is not rational, there are lots of different factors that may seam negligible under certain conditions that are actually significant under other conditions.

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