There are government subsidies for consumers to either have a fixed price or a price cap on electricity in Norway as a political response to the increase. This would be harder to pull off if not most of the profits from export didn’t land in the public sector (either taxes or government owned energy companies).
I’m not sure about the US, but their European service is very transparent on pricing (they offer two different products between the two markets). Some edge cases are generally hard to cover though, especially for unauthenticated users browsing: young driver fees and increased insurance premiums if you’d like a lower deductible.
Disclaimer: co-founded a P2P car sharing service in Norway that was acquired by Getaround in 2019.
I'm concerned if BNPL practice flourishing because it's quite easy to trigger systemic crisis later on. Also quite ironic Tencent funded them, Ant group was whammed by Chinese Govt because they were promoting BNPL on scale.
>I'm concerned if BNPL practice flourishing because it's quite easy to trigger systemic crisis later on.
Genuine question - how would that work?
BNPL companies tend to have pretty low limits and demand repayment fairly quickly, so I don't think it could lead to a GFC-scale bad debt situation at the very least.
I think in this case about DNS caching, "long tail" is better than "infrequent". In the wikipedia graph, some of the domain lookups in yellow may be "frequent" (absolute sense) but simultaneously but much less popular (long tail) such that they don't stay in DNS lookup caches.
DNS is essentially a cache. I've never once in my life heard of infrequently accessed cache items as "long-tail". This is definitely a dumb phrase that should be avoided.
You also used the word "domains" when you asked about "infrequently used domains" and that's the context I was responding to. I didn't say that cache items are labeled "long tail".
Norway has a fiscal deficit every year, in order to cover the deficit we're allowed to spend a couple percent of our holdings in the Oil Fund to. To my understanding, this is done by selling assets on a monthly basis in exchange for Norwegian currency by Norges Bank. [0]
One could argue that the government would not be able to offer subsidies on EVs without that option.
I believe the "We need contacts permission" message is key here. The message should include the purpose for what the contact data will be used for when asking for consent.
> Specific – consent must relate to specific actions relating to the data rather than for any purpose the business wants it. For example, if the data is for a newsletter subscription, it must say exactly that.
