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by chroma 3y ago
In the US, Tesla sells 2x more EVs than all the other manufacturers combined.[1] In Europe, Tesla is the most popular EV manufacturer, though Volkswagen is very close behind. Until April of 2022, Tesla was paying a 10% tariff on their Model
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by chroma 3y ago
> The only meaningfully reusable rocket right now is the Falcon 9, and while that significantly reduces the already cheap launch costs, it doesn't really change them by an order of magnitude, and with so many other costs, it doesn&#
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by chroma 3y ago
If everyone chooses not to confront car thieves, then car thieves have successful careers stealing everyone's cars. If everyone chooses to confront car thieves (preferably with friends, preferably armed), then car thieves quickly choos
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by chroma 3y ago
If there were an HN thread celebrating some holiday in Scientology or FLDS or the Westboro Baptist Church, would you hold people to these same rules and flag any criticism? The founder of Islam was far worse than the founders of any of the
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by chroma 4y ago
Electricity isn't the only cost of operating an EV. There's wear and tear on the drivetrain, suspension, and tires. And every mile driven slightly increases the chance of a collision. That's why insurance companies charge mor
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by chroma 4y ago
You can look this information up pretty easily.[1] If you only count physical goods, the US's biggest exports are cars, aircraft, petroleum, food, drugs, industrial machinery, and semiconductors. Even if we count the value of all the m
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by chroma 4y ago
The US runs on rule of law, and copyright law has been around for centuries. Many sites that violate copyright laws would be fine if left alone. That doesn’t mean they should be immune from lawsuits. Everyone was telling the internet archiv
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by chroma 4y ago
$80k/year is rich? That’s less than the median household income in a half-dozen states. 18% of Americans make over $100k/year.
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by chroma 4y ago
The comparison is valid because people in this thread are saying that bikes should substitute for many car trips. If they were saying the same thing about walking then I’d make the point about waking safety. But walking can’t substitute for
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by chroma 4y ago
The important metric is fatalities per distance traveled, not absolute numbers. In the Netherlands, bicycles have 11 fatalities per billion kilometers traveled. Cars have 1.6.
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by chroma 4y ago
So the reason more people are cycling in the area is that the government made cars extremely expensive, almost certainly more than the externalities created by those cars. If they instead instituted a carbon tax and congestion pricing, I do
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by chroma 4y ago
Considering the size of the cities and how close they are, I'm surprised train transportation is so slow. Paris has 11 million people (comparable to Los Angeles). Berlin has 6 million people (comparable to Philadelphia). As the crow fl
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by chroma 4y ago
Depending on how you measure it, aircraft account for 1.9-3.5% of greenhouse gas emissions.[1] The biggest source is electricity and heating, followed by ground transportation.[2] Compared to almost all other sources, air travel is a roundi
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by chroma 4y ago
Is there any camera that doesn't let you disable advanced image processing algorithms? It'd have to be some sort of locked-down phone, because there are many camera apps for both Android and iPhone. Also the default camera apps do
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by chroma 4y ago
Back when net neutrality was a big deal, there wasn’t nearly as much competition between ISPs. Now that cell data has improved and Starlink has launched, there is a floor on how bad a wired ISP can be.
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by chroma 4y ago
SpaceX is a private company so they don't publish revenue numbers. Also your revenue estimate is from 2018. Current estimations put their 2022 revenue at $3.2B. And BDS does much more than orbital rocket launches. They are the third la
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by chroma 4y ago
It's a landing page saying when the restaurant will open and what it will have, along with a couple of links to hiring, contact info, and social media. You have to have js enabled so it can show the fancy animations. There's no fa
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by chroma 4y ago
The human body is not a closed system.
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by chroma 4y ago
I was responding to the point about counting crashes after autopilot disengagement, not the criteria for what counts as a crash.
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by chroma 4y ago
That's what Tesla is counting. From the methodology section of the safety report: > To ensure our statistics are conservative, we count any crash in which Autopilot was deactivated within 5 seconds before impact, and we count all cr
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by chroma 4y ago
That's like saying it's OK to pour your used oil down the storm drain because Exxon-Mobil pollutes in the Gulf of Mexico.
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by chroma 4y ago
I have no idea what you're talking about or how that relates to the problem of people stealing from stores.
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by chroma 4y ago
So what do you think should happen if someone takes stuff without paying?
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by chroma 4y ago
The producers most likely selected kids with personalities more conducive to the outcomes they wanted. I don't know why the author concluded that the girls did a better job of living together. 20% of the girls left early, while all of
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by chroma 4y ago
You only see the objectionable stuff if you follow those accounts or people who retweet those accounts. De-federation prevents people who want to communicate from communicating.
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by chroma 4y ago
To give you some idea of the eras of the internet I've been through: I used BBSes. I posted on alt.2600.hackerz. I attended the defcon shoot before deviant took it over. In the past, you had to do some crazy stuff to get your blog take
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by chroma 4y ago
The problem is that if you federate with the bad instances, you'll get de-federated from other instances. The people running the biggest instances think that anyone who reads anything on poa.st or gab or truth.social for any reason mus
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by chroma 4y ago
Blogs getting banned was much rarer back then because people were less censorious. But the proper model isn't blogs, it's e-mail. Imagine getting banned from your email provider because you sent a political opinion, or even a sarc
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by chroma 4y ago
> I haven't seen any servers with peculiar rules. The peculiar rules aren't written down. Admins will ban you for whatever reason they want.[1] This can include DMs that both parties are fine with (but not the server admin, who
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by chroma 4y ago
Remember three years ago when AI couldn't do any of the stuff you described? I'm confident the capabilities will continue to improve.

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