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by atom058 1mo ago
I agree that this is a reasonable place to start. Unfortunately, I don't think that politicians will be able to implement reforms like this without severe backlash from the public. So the ones that do might just get voted out in the ne
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by atom058 2mo ago
Another interpretation of the high modal share of cars in the US is that there are no viable alternatives to driving in many US cities. In Europe, public transport and biking are viable forms of transportation, so we're not forced into
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by atom058 2mo ago
I might be ruining the joke, but are you talking about kids?
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by atom058 3mo ago
As a support for this comment: doing some estimations, the of average kWh household use in the US is about 10,500 kWh, with about 19% being used for Air Conditioning. The energy mix in the US is quite carbon-intensive, with an average of 0.
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by atom058 4mo ago
Ernst & Young officially change their name to just "EY" some years back. Unfortunately, they forgot to check the name beforehand, and it turned out that "EY!" already existed: a gay porn magazine. Yes, this really ha
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by atom058 5mo ago
Alas, it is unfortunate that the founders did not consider a mechanism for amendments to be introduced
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by atom058 5mo ago
I also did a double take on this one! New word discovery. Sharing the same root as e.g. 'Emporium' I would assume.
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by atom058 1y ago
But it's not clear how to interpret the date code: 05-06 could be 5th June or 6th May; same sorry for 06-05. Very confusing due to American-style date formatting. Versions number are at least sequential, with a bigger number being a la
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by atom058 1y ago
As an outside observer, I believe that it's dangerous to disregard the threat of a dismantling of the democratic system. The current administration seem to have little regards for any traditions or rules of law, and is actively targeti
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by atom058 1y ago
We visited a manufacturing / assembly plats for industrial vehicles in Sweden during the autumn. Everything was spotless, bright, and almost silent. All the tools were neatly organised in overhead ergonomic hangers, reducing the stress
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by atom058 1y ago
This is what happened in Sweden about 10 years ago, when they started charging a $7 "administrative fee" on all packages privately imported from China. Prices for resistors went from $1 for a pack of a hundred to $8. As a student
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by atom058 2y ago
It's all vehicles who got early access to the auto pilot features
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by atom058 3y ago
This resonates a lot with me, and I think you expressed what has been running through my mind lately. Sometimes, I feel like I lack agency; lile I'm not a primary character in my own life's story. It's so easy to sit back, fo
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by atom058 3y ago
We are born meat and die meat; our life spans are short "Hyrdogen core clusters" might be around a bit longer On a related note, it would be curious to see how many years a computer could keep chugging along silently doing its job
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by atom058 3y ago
I live in Sweden and we live with slightly-above-freezing temperatures (often with rain) for 4-6 month per year. Perfectly possible to bike if you put on the right clothes. Even when it has been snowing, as the bike paths are cleared. Sever
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by atom058 3y ago
Scooters live a hard and short life from what I have understood. So they are not very environmentally friendly given their resource intensity over their life cycle.
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by atom058 3y ago
But most cars are not filled with 4 people: quite often it's only one or two And many don't drive a Honda civic: they are driving the biggest, heaviest car they can get their hands on
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by atom058 3y ago
Actually, in accounting Money turns into Goodwill when a company is acquired, representing the premium that is paid above a company's assets. I accounting, this value is not amortised, unless something exceptional happens that affects
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by atom058 3y ago
There are dedicated keys for this on most keyboards: PgUp, PgDown, Spacebar (context dependent)
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by atom058 3y ago
It's due to the higher interest rates A higher risk-free rate of return from e.g. Government bonds entails higher 'required rate of return' for all other investments in the economy Suddenly, all companies need to increase the
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by atom058 3y ago
You should continue to be scared of horses. There are quite a few injuries and deaths related to horseback riding every year.
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by atom058 3y ago
Start menu search is unfortunate broken in Windows 11 (even more so than in W10). It needs to do a Web search before returning results, which makes it too slow to be reliably useful in my opinion. It's easily solved by installing Power
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by atom058 3y ago
The marginal tax rate is going to be quite a deterrent when you're working two jobs. 55%, and then an additional 25% VAT, and you're at about 67% tax. In Sweden, it's difficult to get rich through salaried work. Startups, inh
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by atom058 3y ago
Looking at the raw statistics, it seems that the US could do more to improve road safety I'm not a traffic engineer, but I believe better street design (meaning slowing cars down) and roundabouts could help. Building more public transp
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by atom058 3y ago
"Tubi is the largest free movie and TV streaming service in the US. Unfortunately, we're not currently available in your area." Oh well...
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by atom058 3y ago
No, no. You need to fine each person for the maximum potential harm that they inflicted to the licence holders. Downloaded a movie that's not available to buy anywhere via P2P? That will be $10.000.000 due to lost potential revenue. Se
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by atom058 3y ago
I dislike shortcuts with special characters, as its availability depends on the keyboard layout. It's quite common that the shortcut doesn't work when you have to use modifier keys to invoke it. Some vendors make an effort to supp
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by atom058 3y ago
> Worlds smallest violin? It's a turn of phrase, where you are mocking someone by accompanying their expressed sadness (or whining) by "playing the world's smallest violin", e.g. by rubbing your fingers together
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by atom058 3y ago
Have you heard about this newfangled GDPR thing? You comment kind of reminds me of that
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by atom058 4y ago
I just had a discussion about this with my family, and I'm in your camp of living small and avoiding the painful adjustments that might come in future. If I wanted to, I could get a house or buy an apartment, but it would require me to

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