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by bertil 4y ago
Your mileage will vary, but the order of magnitude works: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7EyRqQhuwio
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by bertil 4y ago
> "never in a lifetime on average" crash That’s a strong argument against SUVs, a type of vehicle that is notoriously dangerous because drivers can’t see children in front of their hood. It also flips over and kills people insi
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by bertil 4y ago
“The market” spoke twice, during the oil crisis of 1975. It was made very clear to said market that if oil was priced at competitive levels, people who made that decisions would be bombed out of existence and the memory of men. Horrors are
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by bertil 4y ago
Bicycles are the most common form of transport where I live in Umeå, and in the two nearest cities, Oulu and Vaasa. I’ll let you check what the weather is like today. I’m not advocating bicycles to transport wood (the most common industry h
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by bertil 4y ago
The price difference is because the vast majority of costs for car transport (direct, like road maintenance and indirect, like millions of people dying because of pollution) are handled by the state. Trains can easily be much cheaper as mos
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by bertil 4y ago
This article and the IEA sources that they rely on assumes that an EV is a car. That’s not a good assumption: electric bicycles and trikes like the Aptera are much better direction for the vast majority of individual transport. At that size
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by bertil 4y ago
There are a lot of examples here of where that would fail (openings, checks). Would it make sense to introduce rules like letting people pick any move they want for the first three turns, or allowing any checking move and counter-checking m
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by bertil 4y ago
I don’t think this is bad advice, but you can’t do that for everyone, not all the time. First, make sure that feedback comes in a context of trust. Say it’s a vendor — give it after it’s signed. They’ll likely forget your name seconds after
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by bertil 4y ago
There might be as many people from Pakistan, East Africa, or China who have to migrate because of global warming this winter too. Not sure whether they’ll go to Europe, but millions isn’t an exaggeration in those cases.
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by bertil 4y ago
The idea is for HR to implement a reporting system that allow the team to give that feedback to someone high-up enough to do something about it.
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by bertil 4y ago
I’ve seen two situations one that sounds a bit like your is poorly managed but isn’t bad, one that is really bad: 1. Co-founder likes to make stuff, build stuff, sell stuff, raise money, etc. but does not like, or care for leading 50+ peopl
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by bertil 4y ago
I’m disappointed they didn’t leverage the expectations to have that van electric. There are now several prototypes that prove that vans have enough surface to charge with solar panels (and some extensions) and be fully off-grid.
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by bertil 4y ago
Turkmenistan is a country that keeps John Oliver excited. That's saying a lot.
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by bertil 4y ago
I think it’s less about strictly better talent and more about trust and familiarity. Musk trusts Tesla software engineers to tell him what is good, what is better than Tesla, and what is concerning. I’m not a software engineer (data scienti
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by bertil 4y ago
That’s a big, big detail to cut.
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by bertil 4y ago
Any government can submit a request or a subpoena to any commercial company in any country. That company might comply, demand a formal subpoena, or oppose the subpoena in court. An international company can choose to leave a country if it t
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by bertil 4y ago
The need for a balance of power is a moral argument. And again: there were no ties until the invasion (in 2014). After that, I’m not sure how talking about balance of power justifies overstepping national boundaries, but it’s not going to c
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by bertil 4y ago
That's the framework Russia, and OC, chose: outrage that NATO was helping Ukraine. If you want to use microeconomics, sure, go for it but… NATO, Ukraine and Allies vs. Russia on a pure realpolitik plan doesn’t seem to lead to better ou
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by bertil 4y ago
I’m not entirely sure what is the moral case for Russia to complain that NATO is supporting Ukraine. They seem to think that justifies aggression, but I’m not sure that’s as convincing as they make it.
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by bertil 4y ago
I suspect it’s less a complete review and more an interview of the senior technical manager, to get a sense of whether they are up to par. Do they think about observability, alerting, refactoring, service architecture, etc. reasonably well?
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by bertil 4y ago
Adguard works at the computer level, so all browsers are protected.
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by bertil 4y ago
Ask you project lead if they can do without you for the next few months before starting to play Factorio. This game is very addictive
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by bertil 4y ago
Tech companies have complained about poorly sourced stories. I know that I’ve posted many times my confusion in cases where I could have been a primary source for stories that I knew were wrong —— not just wrong spelling (something fact-che
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by bertil 4y ago
Not really: in that case, no one is dupe. It’s just a kid who is being blatantly churlish and wasting everyone else’s money.
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by bertil 4y ago
I can assure you that there’s a way to do nothing cool and still have things catching fire. Don’t ask me how I know, the school made me sign a lot of papers after the incident.
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by bertil 4y ago
You can share a video privately, and later open it for anyone to see. Comments from people who were able to see it would appear like that.
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by bertil 4y ago
Ice doesn’t go into EVs, but that one will be depleted within 30 years. Lithium is the most common element cited when that argument is raised: you can find trace amounts in seawater, so the total amount is enormous, but the extraction cost
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by bertil 4y ago
Does that mean that you expect the rural population to pay heavy taxes on pollution, or to be reduced dramatically? They will be far more exposed to the increase in floods, fires, and hurricanes. Insurance will likely refuse to cover the mo
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by bertil 4y ago
We are less than a decade away from triggering lynchpin mechanisms that will completely transform the world, and force half of humanity to either emigrate or die. If you believe that it will take longer to have enough electricity for everyo
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by bertil 4y ago
The plan shouldn’t be to replace 100% of existing ICE cars with electric cars. The carbon impact of the construction of those would still be too high. The plan should be to invest in public transport and electric bicycles, and use electric

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