Maarten88

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by Maarten88 4y ago
why settle for advertisements or user subscription when they could have the Chat AI make transactions for the user and take a cut from the seller. They could publish an API spec for many transaction categories and providers would be in line
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by Maarten88 4y ago
As long as safety for people is not prioritized over car speed, no amount of spending will make streets substantially more safe. Cars are the problem, they cause all the deaths.
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by Maarten88 4y ago
As I understand it, the problem is not so much the revenue they made for the government. The issue is that they are making a much higher (and recurring) revenue that they keep for themselves, for running a website that the government may ha
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by Maarten88 4y ago
Those same large agri companies are working behind the scenes to stir up the farmer protests, hiding behind likable small family farmers. See some recent TV commercials to positively frame farmers' image. But many of those farmers are
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by Maarten88 4y ago
All true, it will take a while for EV supply to catch up with demand, and Tesla is in a very good position, they seem to have locked in a lot of battery supply, their production is very efficient and they have much better margins than all o
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by Maarten88 4y ago
Yes, there are still many problems in need of a solution in the Netherlands. I sometimes wonder if they'd get solved better when managed by boring bureaucrats who do thorough analysis and slowly implement consistent long-term policies,
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by Maarten88 4y ago
The US had many beautiful city centers that were walkable and had public transport. It was bulldozed to make room for the car. They went so far as to invent the concept of jaywalking to get rid of those pesky pedestrians on the road, so tha
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by Maarten88 4y ago
The surprise in this for people from the Netherlands is that this is a surprising statistic for people from other countries. Having lived here all my life, my first thought was: 2/3 seems a bit low to me. I had to read the article to s
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by Maarten88 4y ago
I wonder how that car (McMurtry fan car) would do in an acceleration record attempt, I'd guess it is in the same ballpark performance. And it is also electric.
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by Maarten88 4y ago
I think in Visual Studio, if you start a comment block with 4 or more slashes and hut return, it will automatically start the sentences after that with 2 slashes so you can write more comment lines. Close with 4 slashes or more to end the b
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by Maarten88 4y ago
I can get a straight torx screwdriver with shaft diameter smaller than the screw at my local hardware store. No need for worldwide shipping, I can get that on bike. There exist also torx bits with long shaft.
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by Maarten88 4y ago
> being able to buy a custom “off the shelf” part without making a special internal part number How does that work? I have been searching the internet for stainless steel M8 x 20 set screws with a torx socket, maybe uncommon but straight
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by Maarten88 4y ago
> Unions... MBA style management focusing on short-term economics and management bonusses seems more likely to me. I don's see how treating employees well leads to poor service and quality.
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by Maarten88 4y ago
Long ago Microsoft had MSN Messenger, which was one of the leading messaging apps. It worked well, and many 'normal' users were using it. Then Microsoft dissolved the team behind it and screwed up the product so bad with bloatware
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by Maarten88 4y ago
Car drivers who hate bikes are dumb. Why don't they understand that every bike trip means one car less in traffic, thus freeing up space for their car?
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by Maarten88 4y ago
Exactly what I thought. Laminar airfoils with max thickness far back do very well in the computer but they behave poorly. I would want to see proven that this plane is stable in all conditions. Putting a hydrogen engine in it seems like a d
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by Maarten88 4y ago
> telling ourselves we'll find hypothetical solutions sometimes in the future Or we just put in LFP batteries now. No cobalt and nickel needed. Energy density is a bit lower, but costs are lower and durability is better Most Chinese
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by Maarten88 4y ago
Yes. The affordability issues do not seem to affect Chinese car manufacturers, who are producing EV cars that are quite economical without subsidies. EV's may introduce new challenges for the grid, but when a country is unable or unwi
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by Maarten88 4y ago
There are many examples in the world of successful new city developments. I used to live near Java Island in Amsterdam, a newly developed neighborhood which is very densely populated (60.000 people per square mile) and quite popular. There
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by Maarten88 4y ago
> People like to live in single family homes and live next to single family homes. People like living in walkable neighborhoods with public transportation more, as proven by housing prices, but those are mostly illegal to build. Also I t
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by Maarten88 5y ago
I think the publication describes they scaled it to a 120L pilot reactor and ran the process continuously for 3 weeks feeding it 11 to 23 L of gas per min.
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by Maarten88 5y ago
Yes, changing metrics often in unpredictable ways. I have seen this in a company where they would change employee objectives every year, and also promote and demote people into unexpected new roles. This seemed to result in everyone underst
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by Maarten88 5y ago
Yes, it's funny that when the standard unit is a somewhat lower number (so the KW number is the same magnitude but just a bit lower / less impressive than in HP) there is more resistance to the change.
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by Maarten88 5y ago
This is the genius of what the top 1% in the US have accomplished: they have convinced almost half of the population to take their side, against their own interest, by making them feel they are part of the upper class when they are actually
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by Maarten88 5y ago
> which does not receive general fund support This is the part that surprised me most. So instead of the government making sure that the market is kept fair using taxation, the AG finances this function by extracting money for its own us
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by Maarten88 5y ago
I think Apple does not hold much sway over lawmakers here in the Netherlands. US tech companies are not very popular in general, and politicians are not corrupt for the most part. Many laws originate in Brussels. Incompetence/cluelessn
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by Maarten88 5y ago
> Blame the legislators. Those assholes left barn-door sized loopholes in their legal requirements for Apple's compliance. Well that remains to be seen. The court just applied existing law for this specific conflict. Apple was found
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by Maarten88 5y ago
You could use the tax income to subsidize healthy foods. Or just redistribute it to low income people. It cuts in many ways: save money and gain health by drinking water/tea/coffee instead of softdrinks. Use the money for healthie
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by Maarten88 5y ago
As a test I recently bought a pair of Li-ion AA batteries, that are recharged through a micro USB connector in the battery. They are rated 2880 mWh and are advertised to provide a flat 1.5v during the whole discharge cycle (they have intern
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by Maarten88 5y ago
I also recently got solar panels, they were calculated to provide more then my household consumes year-round, and should pay themselves back in 6-7 years based on 2021 energy prices and regulations. I anticipate having to get an electric ca

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