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by bertil 3y ago
Rome is an excellent example of a city with an extensive local rail system that everyone would love to use. Still, disinvestment and lack of organization have made it unreliable and unusable. Every time I go there, I make a point of using p
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by bertil 3y ago
> noise, smells, crowds Those are caused mainly by cars. Take away the cars and there’s a lot more space and fresh air for everyone.
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by bertil 3y ago
I’m surprised by the association that Americans make between suburbs and cars. Sure, it’s common there, but it wasn’t always, and it’s not outside of the USA. Take something as far back as New York in the 60s depicted in _Mad Men_: Don Drap
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by bertil 3y ago
Do you have any data to support the claim that cities are becoming more violent? That’s a common trope that is generally debunked by police statistics.
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by bertil 3y ago
I agree that 5% efficiency justifies widespread adoption, but that didn’t require much more than a few hours of maintenance to set wingtips up. I’m not sure that 10% would justify switching to a new engine, a new airplane type, and investin
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by bertil 3y ago
The article explains briefly: fuel that is not from fossil sources. Essentially, organic waste converted to petrol-like hydrocarbons. Used frying oil from fast food is a large, consistent source. Ethanol from corn is also common in the US,
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by bertil 3y ago
Rolls-Royce, the historical company, hasn’t made cars in several decades. The car brand is part of a German conglomerate. Given the expected price point of the car brand, they can afford very interesting exploration in the EV space. They’ve
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by bertil 3y ago
“game-changing” and “10% efficiency” don’t seem to match that well… I suspect that the ability to handle pure Sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) is the critical improvement here, but the article doesn’t provide the context that: - current engi
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by bertil 3y ago
Even with simple Google queries, I’m seeing very different results: - This says 5 https://www.google.com/search?q=carbon+footprint+per+person+... - This says 10 https://www.google.com/search?q=carbon+footpri
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by bertil 3y ago
You are confusing paternalism (deciding what others want without asking them) with informed democracy. I’m not saying to decide for American voters. I’m saying that, if you explain GDPR to American citizens, they overwhelmingly think it’s a
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by bertil 3y ago
And you are more than welcome to design one and submit your proposal to the Council. Note that no one here objects to asking for permission. People resent the intentionally poorly designed version that doesn’t give visitors a meaningful, in
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by bertil 3y ago
I’ll let you deal with the threats from Faroese that you dare not respect their autonomy and/or independence, but — Yes, you are right: I picked the wrong crown that they are not controlled by. I can’t remember: they are not part of
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by bertil 3y ago
I wouldn’t exclude an oversight, given how they didn’t exclude Åland. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35914946 If you look further down that thread, people also highlighted they included more countries with “adequacy,”
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by bertil 3y ago
I can assure you that most Europeans think the reason US meat is not for sale here is because it is unfit for consumption: look at the debate in the UK around “chlorinated chicken” just after Brexit, or hormone beef. For most processed food
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by bertil 3y ago
OpenAI already went through a cycle with the Italian authorities (with presumably the German regulator listening in too). The fix was very simple: give users the option not to have their queries used for training. We are still pretty far fr
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by bertil 3y ago
Åland is squarely part of the European Union. (It’s also never really claimed to be a country, more a cultural exception within a de-colonization effort and a tax loophole.) The relevant regulator if Google infringes the privacy of someone
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by bertil 3y ago
For anyone wondering how Google could make that mistake: - Talk to your data engineers more often: they knew that would happen and they need your shoulder to cry on. Don’t mention “disputed territories” and time zones unless they feel in a
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by bertil 3y ago
Because it’s a large market and Google has a commercial incentive to make their offers available where they can legally do so.
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by bertil 3y ago
The appropriate reaction is probably the same as if you hear that a brand of snacks is not legal to sell as food in the EU. You probably want to investigate. EU is many things and has some wacky laws (check Northern Ireland), but if a digit
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by bertil 3y ago
EU privacy rules are not about the horrors of web-cookies. They require asking for informed consent when you do things that are invading privacies. All the annoying cookie pop-ups are not mandated by the EU; they are a consequence of websit
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by bertil 3y ago
To do that, you have to ask for users’ informed consent.
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by bertil 3y ago
This is cause for celebration, but it shouldn’t hide the reality that with more than 8 tons per person per year, the UK is in the top 5 most carbon-emitting countries. The country has significant agriculture or industry can justify such a h
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by bertil 3y ago
I’m absolutely not defending misrepresentation and dubious marketing. However, if a company is not known for having that information, it’s less likely that a judge will know they can share it, and therefore compel them to hand it over. I’d
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by bertil 3y ago
Google operates in the US, and therefore any data that it holds (in clear) can be subpoenaed. If a judge in, say, Alabama signs a warrant, Google has very little leeway to refuse to hand over evidence that your phone was in that parking lot
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by bertil 3y ago
I suspect that having visited one of those places could be considered proof of wrongdoing in a legal proceeding. I’m not sure that visits are sufficient to lead to incrimination now, but it might be soon — enough that those visits should be
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by bertil 3y ago
There are a lot of better and more specific answers about canceling and how useful meetings are. I can give you an insight into one way to measure that. (Like every time you measure things with a normative proxy, this gets far more controve
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by bertil 3y ago
That tooling is helpful, but because of asymmetric dynamics, many individual contributors who have things on their minds don’t put things on that agenda. You have to work to make that agenda not “manager domain.” As a manager, I often reach
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by bertil 3y ago
Technology ~Connection~ Ingredients is a fantastic YouTube channel that shows how to build all sorts of useful things. Their latest video is on passive cooling and very impressive. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dNs_kNilSjk
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by bertil 3y ago
Vietnam is presumably a lot more humid than Death Valley. I would compare wet bulb temperature instead.
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by bertil 3y ago
I was not ready for the sperm twist on the wet bulb temperature…

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