To be clear, my working assumption is that there is a nefarious reason, it's just not immediately obvious to me what it is.
As someone else mentioned though, you could be a bit fucked if your eyeball data is used to identity fraud you, so perhaps not the best idea for a security standpoint
So why do they want people's iris scans? Like they say it's an easy way to verify someone signing up is a real person but is there some other nefarious reason I'm missing here?
Hey, so an update. I've put a deposit on a leaf - I took yours (and others) advice and looked further afield. I ended up going up to a ze1 as they seem like really good value. I'm looking forward to getting it.
Cheers, well I have to say you got me interested. I test drove a couple of leafs over the weekend, doing the numbers on it and talking to my bank about finance. I'm still on the fence but more so on working out how much makes the best sense to spend for me right now.
Anyway, I wanted to let you know cause your post was what's got me thinking hard about it.
Interesting, thanks. Yeah I'd heard that they were pretty stable with limited quick charging. The main thing holding me back was a lot leafs on trademe are close to or below that 100km mark would be my very maximum daily range.
True about the depreciation and options for second life as home backup batteries though so maybe something with enough range would be alright for a few years then pass it on. Perhaps I'll take another look.
The thing putting me off with the leafs is the battery degradation. 130km range would do me nicely but as that reduces (especially with fast charging) it gets less viable once it goes under about 100km.
Other EVs that don't have this problem cost way more at the moment, and I don't drive enough to justify dropping 30-40k on a car.
I guess you can potentially sell when it's no longer usable for your needs and you still save compared to an ICE vehicle?
I think the worst part of it is that its not actually hopeless, at least not in theory. It's just that we, or more accurately the people with actual power, refuse to act because it would mean slightly less profit.
They understand it alright, they just care about renters and want those gains for their base.
This will help keep rents high because as they keep rising, putting larger amounts down up front as a bond will otherwise become more of a barrier. Same type of barrier as a house deposit but this is apparently where we're at now. Depressing
Yeah it's the first part of what you said. Anyone with experience renting in NZ as a young person will know how common dodgy landlords dubiously claiming bonds are.
On your second point, it's not so strange if you recognise national are out for the minority of NZers that benefit from our status quo fucked housing situation. Their policy is extremely constrained by this fact (Labour too, but less so imo).
In effect more wealth transfer from renters to the pockets of landlords, this time direct from their retirement or first house deposit savings. It's all national are here to do.
Price controls, tax rates and national wage arbitration between businesses and unions were all inflation influencing levers govt used.
Fucked if I know for the bit between the late 80s and 1999 though cause all that other stuff was dumped throughout Rogernomics era labour and the 90s national govt.
Presumably they maintain full access because they control both ends. The encrypted part would stop others intercepting messages. At least that's how I've always read it
Edit: I'm wrong, end to end does exclude even the app provider from seeing messages. So yeah, either not enabled or they lied
To be clear, my working assumption is that there is a nefarious reason, it's just not immediately obvious to me what it is.
As someone else mentioned though, you could be a bit fucked if your eyeball data is used to identity fraud you, so perhaps not the best idea for a security standpoint