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by kgran 4y ago
Electric cars are as zero-carbon as the cost-equivalent space of a freshly paved asphalt concrete highway or parking space. If not more than that due to the more special materials required to make them. Also note that, due to much heavier w
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by kgran 4y ago
Says zero-carbon, proceeds to show single-family detached homes in a suburban setting, mostly accessible by car only. P.S. The concrete foundations look far from zero-carbon.
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by kgran 4y ago
Let's monetize and scale all forms of humanity. For sure, this will not decrease trust between people in the vein of what happened to the "salesman smile".
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by kgran 4y ago
There are jokes this that go like this: - lawyer to defendant [in private]: tell me the truth. how much did you steal? - defendant: not much, just [enter small sum] - lawyer: then i won't be defending you
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by kgran 4y ago
Well, you could say the same about all dictatorships, whether organizations or countries: if you don't like it, leave it (unless you can't, e. g. North Korea). But I think this argument is flawed, to say the least. After all, an e
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by kgran 4y ago
Good luck finding US dollars for the official rates: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-05-17/in-ussr-f...
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by kgran 4y ago
Also: https://back-on-track.eu/
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by kgran 4y ago
Warriors of the OpenBSD tribe.
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by kgran 4y ago
I also find it horrifying that HN folks downvoted you for your well-founded opinion.
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by kgran 4y ago
I'm European and weigh around 70 kg but a bottle of wine is definitely not a light drink. To me, it's somewhere between medium and heavy drinking, depending on how fast I drink it and the ABV.
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by kgran 4y ago
>I even own an EV I don't want to be that guy, but driving an EV (unless you drive some sort of electric bicycle or scooter) is not that environmentally friendly as the manufacturers and marketing people want you to believe. Source:
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by kgran 5y ago
Also, uneconomical use of urban land.
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by kgran 5y ago
http://ninjaflex.com/
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by kgran 5y ago
Now imagine you're hiking in the woods and, all of a sudden, you reach a fence with a sign "PRIVATE PROPERTY NO TRESPASSING". Years go by and even more rich people build such homes in the woods. Now you're hiking in the
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by kgran 5y ago
Also causing the prices in some sectors, such as real estate, to raise abnormally.
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by kgran 5y ago
Now we need to adapt and tell fairy tales about big bad cars that gonna kill you once you step into their territory.
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by kgran 5y ago
I know a little about car-dependency in the US, but sheesh... I am always astounded how such things like driving being a basic skill or having a car being a necessity are unquestionable parts of living and culture there.
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by kgran 5y ago
On point 5. There was this website that tried to promote RSS and Atom but, unfortunately, it doesn't work anymore. You could get some ideas for how to explain why RSS/Atom is important, so here's an archived version: https:&
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by kgran 5y ago
In Putin's mind, USSR and Russia might be one and the same. But I'm not sure Putin's words about the ideals and politics of a historical state which was originally built after a revolution led by a radical Marxist faction, th
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by kgran 5y ago
I agree. But still - I see no Marxism in Putin's Russia.
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by kgran 5y ago
>3. anything that gets invented after you’re 30 is against the natural order of things and the beginning of the end of civilisation as we know it until it’s been around for about ten years when it gradually turns out to be alright really
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by kgran 5y ago
>Russia trying to recreate the USSR, I can see. USSR? Nope. Russian Empire? Maybe. Any resemblance to USSR, IMHO, requires at least some kind of Marxism derivative and state-planned economy.
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by kgran 5y ago
Not just American homes. In Europe all the new flats and houses are designed with kitchens merged with the dining room. Even the old flats are often redesigned by owners or developers by tearing down the wall(s), separating the kitchen from
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by kgran 5y ago
Too bad I couldn't find the HEV suit voice from Half-Life. At least it has GLaDOS though.
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by kgran 5y ago
It seems that pure Lithuanian air cans are all sold out. As an alternative, you can buy Lithuanian cow dung in a can here: https://dovanusalis.lt/lietuviskas-karvutes-sudas-skardineje I couldn't see an English translat
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by kgran 5y ago
That's why I like websites that offer RSS feeds by tags, author, search queries, threads, etc. Also, there are news readers that offer different types of filtering as well. Personally, I use newsboat, though it's a CLI program, so
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by kgran 5y ago
I got the same argument after I asked why there's no more RSS/Atom feed of the news section in my municipality's website. Some positive people tell me that RSS is not dead and it's still everywhere. Unfortunately, especi
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by kgran 5y ago
Almost all Kazakhs are Sunni Muslims. If you've meant Christian populations like Russians, then I would be interested to see what's special about Russian Kazakhstani's Santa traditions. I'd also like to see a hundred or
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by kgran 5y ago
I use RSS feeds for some forums. For example, phpBB-based forums provide such feeds for new messages in a thread or new threads in a forum. The downside is that you could not reply using your feedreader. But then again, I'm more of a l
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by kgran 5y ago
I wonder if a reversed version of such a feature would be better in some circumstances...

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