donjoe

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by donjoe 6y ago
Man thanks so much for your work! Been using it for some time now especially for planning long distance routes. That's where cycle.travel really shines (plus I really love the 3D altitude visualization ;-)). I usually tend to export ro
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by donjoe 6y ago
cycle.travel does have a feature for mileage requests. It is not very much optimized for dirt routes though...
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by donjoe 6y ago
... throw universities and schools into the pool also and you might finally get something which 'just works'. Difficult question: how do you make people in power agree on a solution? Not even universities managed so far to standar
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by donjoe 6y ago
I always rent through some sort of AAA (automobile club). Almost each country does have a similar organization. I do mostly rent my cars through ADAC (German AAA) which usually comes with unlimited miles, no excess insurance(s), young drive
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by donjoe 6y ago
The car reminds me a lot of the Twike 5 [0] which - besides being all electric - can be pedaled, too. [0]: https://twike.com/twike-5/twike-5/
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by donjoe 6y ago
Now take into account electricity costs. Where I live, running a Lenovo constantly @10w for a year would cost me $30. Then you avg the remaining lifetime of your laptop (5yrs) and the time you spent setting it up and you will find out, a $5
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by donjoe 6y ago
Depends on what you call 'local'. Up until now, eating wild mushrooms and boars in the south of Germany is not considered healthy due to Caesium-137 emitted by the Chernobyl-accident decades ago [0]. Each shot wild boar needs to b
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by donjoe 7y ago
Firefox seems to be missing some features (such as RTX support) which makes it hard for jitsi devs to get it up and running. They seem to have gotten close though: https://github.com/jitsi/jitsi-meet/issues/47
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by donjoe 7y ago
I wonder how Oktoberfest will turn out this year. It's like 6 million people coming here each year to share all kinds of things for 16 days. It wouldn't surprise me if the city would at one point decide to cancel it for 2020. Cons
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by donjoe 7y ago
It is all about trying to avoid having a broken/breaking wind turbine. A spinning wind turbine falling apart is no fun for bystanders involved [0]. [0]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7nSB1SdVHqQ
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by donjoe 7y ago
In Germany, a km of Autobahn costs ~10M € which is around 16M €/mile [0]. An Autobahn built in/towards a city tend to get way more expensive. [0] https://www.spiegel.de/wirtschaft/soziales/bundesregierung
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by donjoe 7y ago
Rainer Moormann's [0] recent statement concerning current nuclear costs Germany is facing in a single case: " Here an info about #NuclearWaste. A particularly bad kind are the 900,000 HTR-balls from Hamm and Jülich. It is being co
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by donjoe 7y ago
My favourite German expression which doesn't exist in English is still "Ohrwurm". It refers to a catchy song/tune stuck in someone's mind [1]. [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earworm
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by donjoe 7y ago
Apparently, the avg cyclist in the city pedals at 50W to move forward. Now, imagine you'd have to power your USB charger at 20W at an 80% efficiency factor (which is what current high-end hub dynamos manage regarding efficiency): Your
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by donjoe 7y ago
I think this car will seriously hurt the car insurance industry. Just imagine a car that cannot get scratches and/or mailbox dents which cost thousands of dollars in repair by simply... not colouring the car and making the surface more
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by donjoe 7y ago
Germans pay rent on a per month basis. The prices mentioned are in €/sqm/month.
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by donjoe 7y ago
I hope you see your point of argument regarding weather conditions: just because you aren't able to deal with the circumstances doesn't mean that everyone else needs to be forced into car/climatized shadowy areas. The article
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by donjoe 7y ago
Been in these temps. Not in Australia though so can't talk about UV protection. Sunscreen helped me in other environments though. Doesn't 'Tour down under' happen during Australian summer months? Somehow they manage, too
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by donjoe 7y ago
Yah... Bad weather isn't an argument though. I'm faster with my bike no matter the weather. Especially when it's snowing outside. Gosh, snow slows cars down massively. I love this time of the year: no one tends to speed any m
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by donjoe 7y ago
Get yourself a Bullitt [1]. For your grandma you might consider a three-wheeled version of a bicycle. My cousin's granddad stopped cycling in the city at the age of 94 since he had problems getting off the bike. He got himself a home t
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by donjoe 7y ago
Everytime I read about glasses I have to think about the Luxottica-Monopoly which kind of controls most of the market and prices of glasses/lenses. https://www.latimes.com/business/lazarus/la-fi-lazarus-glass.
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by donjoe 7y ago
Where do you store your car? Assuming your car takes up 12sqm * 2m I assume you'd find plenty of space to store some panties replacing your wet ones ;)
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by donjoe 7y ago
Momondo.com does it, Cheaptickets.de as well. Whenever I talk to my friends from the States I get the feeling no one compares flight prices. Most of them book with 'their' fav airline of choice without comparing different options.
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by donjoe 7y ago
I wouldn't say it's per se wrong. The tax is based on a per liter basis and not on a per distance/liter basis. If you'd want to tax CO2 emissions, Diesel would need a higher tax rate than gas since it'll emit more C
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by donjoe 7y ago
... whereas less CO2 emissions caused by Diesel engines is a misconception, too. Diesel comes with a higher energy density which means there are more CO2 emissions per burned liter of Diesel in comparison to gas. Burning a liter of Diesel e
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by donjoe 7y ago
Similar to this map? https://ss2.climatecentral.org
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by donjoe 7y ago
Does your car parking cost as much as renting a flat/sqm? I bet it does not. Where I live, parking space costs you about 15€/sqm/month on a single floor/no floor since it's 'public space'. A flat is avg. 2
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by donjoe 7y ago
I bet he/she's talking about Houten: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gFEfr7Amn6U
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by donjoe 7y ago
... until a service reaches a certain level of operation costs, a switch to other, more efficient technologies will be enforced by management. Nicely put! ;)
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by donjoe 7y ago
The avg. speed in London for example is already down to 19km/h due to traffic jams. I don't see a problem with setting it to 20. You'll even reduce the chance of traffic jams by lowering speed limits. There's quite a ple

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