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by pg314 2y ago
> An iPhone or a Toyota Corolla costs the same in the US as it does in China. A maxed out iPhone costs RMB 13999 in China, which is about USD 1925. The same iPhone costs USD 1599 in the US. In Brazil it costs the equivalent of USD 2565.
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by pg314 2y ago
> The paper suggests biking only 118 days per year. The car ownership costs are not "saved" - the projected savings are wrong. Were does it suggests that? The number 118 doesn't appear anywhere in that document. > Owner
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by pg314 2y ago
> It is outrageously expensive. Quite the opposite. > Can you point me to a report that has a cost/benefit analysis of adding bike lanes for a city? A city that isn't "ideal" for cyclists... https://www.
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by pg314 2y ago
> It’s 100% that they cost as much as a decent used car. Apples and oranges. You can get cargo bikes second hand too.
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by pg314 2y ago
Yes, I own both. The three-wheeled ones take some getting used to. You can't take turns at a high speed or you'll tip over. They are nice when you are standing still, because they stay up-right. They are easier to turn-around on f
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by pg314 3y ago
No, it preheats the cold water connected to your shower. Warmer cold water means you need less hot water to achieve the same temperature in the shower.
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by pg314 3y ago
Why not? I do.
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by pg314 3y ago
Why would the number of cars grow by 5% for the next 100 years? Currently there are 1.4 billion cars. Projections say the world population will peak at 10 billion. Even if everyone would have a car, that’s only a sevenfold increase.
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by pg314 3y ago
Adidas adizero adios (the old ones, before they grew a thick sole). Allbirds had a nice shoe they developed together with Adidas, which is discontinued now. Some Nike free, but they have too thick a sole for my taste… At the moment, the sho
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by pg314 3y ago
> Second important thing are fresh shoes. No more than 600km. That’s what shoe companies want you to believe. I just run until they fall apart. A couple of thousand km easily. 2:45 marathon at 41.
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by pg314 3y ago
A Google search of 'bedbug' and any major city in Europe will return plenty of hits.
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by pg314 3y ago
Maybe I'm missing something, but after a cursory glance, I can't find any place where that library does an fsync() call. How does it handle durability?
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by pg314 3y ago
> If, say, ChatGPT is superintelligent, the only way it can hurt you is through insult or persuasion. People are already hooking up ChatGPT to the command line of their computers and giving it access to the internet. There are plenty of
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by pg314 3y ago
The problem is far from solved. It's not enough that carbon emissions will peak soon. They need to come down fast. And we do not have a decade or two.
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by pg314 3y ago
> Ultimately not much you can do with money except spend it on things you enjoy You could spend it to help other people, if you’re out of ideas.
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by pg314 3y ago
> It’s not just that it’s a big spend, but it’s a big spend on something 75% of people don’t use even if you did it. Are we to take your word that 75% of the people won't use it? Countries like the Netherlands and Denmark show that
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by pg314 3y ago
I cannot speak for the safe part, but here in Belgium plenty of people leave their Urban Arrows outside (with a rain cover).
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by pg314 3y ago
It's true that you'll get more exercise if you do the same trip on a regular bicycle. But according to [1], e-cyclists cycles more and longer than regular cyclists. End result is that they exercise about as much. [1] https:/
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by pg314 3y ago
Do a google image search for 'Dutch on bicycles'. None of those people in the pictures need to change or shower after their ride. Same thing were I live. We only wear special cycling clothes if we go out cycling on a road bike or
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by pg314 4y ago
> Okay, weird bit of pedantry - pretty sure that if a math test asks you to ‘calculate the product of 127 and 954’ you wouldn’t get many marks for answering ‘about 100,000’, but feel free to staple a copy of the dictionary definition to
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by pg314 4y ago
> You can’t calculate NPV. You can only estimate it. According to Merrian-Webster [1]: calculate: 1 b: to reckon by exercise of practical judgment : ESTIMATE [1] https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/calculate
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by pg314 4y ago
> In real terms, you will get back exactly a hundred million. In nominal terms. In real terms you have to adjust for inflation. [1] is a starting point if you want to read more. > As long as you hold to maturity, the number of dol
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by pg314 4y ago
> If those assets are in your hold to maturity portfolio, they are still worth $100m. They are still worth $100m at maturity . $100m in ten years is (usually) worth less than $100m now. Do you really want to pretend that a ten year bond
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by pg314 4y ago
> The amount it will pay at maturity remains unchanged and in 10 years it will be worth exactly the same no matter what the financial history that brought it to that point was. Wrong. You're forgetting about inflation. Interest rate
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by pg314 4y ago
> The bonds are worth exactly what they thought they'd be worth if held. That's wrong. A 10 year treasury bond with a .60% you bought in august 2020 is now worth significantly less. Whether you hold it or not is irrelevant. If
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by pg314 4y ago
> If you hold a bond to maturity you get it’s NPV. Valuing it at NPV vs mark to market The NPV calculation should use the market intrest rate. If you use that, it should be pretty much the same thing: an efficient market should value a b
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by pg314 4y ago
>It's not really possible to write hand-coded assembler that's faster anymore. That is wrong. Just because you didn’t succeed in writing faster code in one case, doesn’t mean it’s impossible. See e.g. [1] on why the Lua vm is w
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by pg314 4y ago
> That is bad for your knees. [Citation needed] I wouldn't recommend speeding up on the downhills for beginning runners. But if you're well conditioned, running slightly faster on the downhills in a relaxed way won't hurt
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by pg314 4y ago
> No one has said Twitter operates entire data centres. They do though. 3 in the US alone ( https://www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/news/report-elon-musk-... ).
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by pg314 4y ago
Could you give an insight into the reasons that such a system never replaced the existing implementation?

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