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by dalyons 8mo ago
Sadly they might not be allowed to choose profit. ~25% of US counties have adopted regulation effectively blocking new solar and wind (1). Up from 15% a year ago! Peoples stupidity and self sabotage truly knows no bounds. 1 https:/&#
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by dalyons 8mo ago
I know this is an old thread, but a new study just came out [1]. 300% overestimated utility factor. It underscores my point that the category of PHEVs is largely a scam to cheat emissions regs. However! It somewhat undermines my argument ab
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by dalyons 8mo ago
Of what? Other stuff? Or packing materials? Or
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by dalyons 8mo ago
It’s not entirely clear to me why tariffs would help your local logistics businesses? Doesn’t the same amount of stuff get moved around , just changes origin? I believe you I just would like to understand
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by dalyons 8mo ago
Aren’t a lot of extra north south links in progress already? So won’t it be better soon?
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by dalyons 8mo ago
If you build a product that most people don’t “use correctly” then you have not built a good product suitable for that use. Blaming the customer and expecting them to change is a losing strategy
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by dalyons 8mo ago
Yes, probably not people extinction. But economic extinction - the tiny amount of young supporting 10x the amount of elderly will lead to economic collapse. On top of the collapse in raw productivity. It’s not hard to imagine that level of
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by dalyons 8mo ago
The cars fine. It’s great it works for him. I wouldn’t personally buy one today when lots of options for real BEVs exist, but you do you. What I do care about, and why I care that he’s an outlier, is that low range PHEVs mainly exist to get
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by dalyons 8mo ago
> This sounds like you basically have to plug it in every time you park it. And there’s no way you could do any sort of (even small) road trip without using gas. Yep, so people (mostly) don’t , in aggregate: https://www.thegua
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by dalyons 8mo ago
European registered cars. The RAV4 PHEV is a popular car in Europe so is assuredly well represented in this data set of 800,000 phevs.
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by dalyons 8mo ago
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/oct/16/plug-in-... “ The researchers attributed most of the gap to overestimates of the “utility factor” – the ratio of miles travelled in electric mode to th
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by dalyons 8mo ago
Toyotas hybrid uses gas when you accelerate hard to get that 0-60, it’s a combined system horsepower. Unlike phevs, EREVs are only driven by the electric drive, and the gas system is a series generator, so the EV is fully capable & alwa
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by dalyons 8mo ago
How do you find communities like that? It’s not exactly a Redfin search.
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by dalyons 8mo ago
i have a rivian, and despite being a carplay fan before, i do not miss it. Carplay is a crutch for legacy autos who cant make software, so you just want to overlay a phone feed over their crap. But its very limited, its essentially a video
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by dalyons 8mo ago
The RAV4 EV capacity is so small, the electric engine so weak (cuts to gas well before highway speed), and the charge speed so slow, that in practice its a 100% gas car. Only a small number of disciplined owners are going to be able to run
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by dalyons 8mo ago
and its going to get so so so much worse. Look at this pyramid. https://www.populationpyramid.net/republic-of-korea/2025/
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by dalyons 8mo ago
> In the U.S., the peak of non-productive populace is only the next decade or so. for a contrast, look at South Korea - https://www.populationpyramid.net/republic-of-korea/2025/ That tells a quite grim story,
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by dalyons 8mo ago
poorer nations have for the most part also slipped below replacement birthrate already, or will shortly. hell, Bangladesh is at ~ 2.1
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by dalyons 8mo ago
if they didnt come with the religion and discrimination i might be interested. alas.
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by dalyons 8mo ago
i think those stats show the opposite. They had higher fertility rate when things were worse, but women mostly didnt have a choice. Now they're better but still bad, and women do have a choice - so they are choosing not to, judging by
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by dalyons 8mo ago
> I was young and cool once. I traveled, I did wild things that make good stories, and I did wild things that I will never tell a soul. I think that I had all the adventures that I could handle without having a criminal record. yes me to
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by dalyons 8mo ago
That’s not actually quite true. You can own a business on a work permit, you just can’t work for it. Which is mostly a pointless arrangement, but possible.
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by dalyons 8mo ago
they could lower the price, destroy these compounders via competition, and still be some of the most profitable companies on the planet.
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by dalyons 8mo ago
The square km the US uses to grow corn for ethanol is about ~~ 1/3rd the total global area required for solar in this article. Ethanol that is a gigantic waste of resources. They seem like big numbers until you compare it with the enor
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by dalyons 8mo ago
Me too. This particular Wild West scenario clearly benefits the public
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by dalyons 8mo ago
It’s kind of remarkable how little operational maintenance mysql requires. I’ve been a Postgres fan for a long time, but after working with a giant mysql cluster recently I am impressed. Postgres requires constant babysitting, vacuums, rein
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by dalyons 9mo ago
https://singlelunch.com/2023/09/13/the-bad-economics-of-wtfh...
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by dalyons 9mo ago
The trade off equation has been: some inflation, in return for much larger economic growth & fewer less devastating crashes. Seems to have been a good trade so far.
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by dalyons 9mo ago
nah. They never came, or took hours. Taxis were awful services and deserved to die. (australia)
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by dalyons 9mo ago
What? That makes no sense

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