jimmytidey

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What if Apple made an eBike?(jimmytidey.medium.com)
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by jimmytidey 3y ago
Am I missing it, or does this fail to convey the key information: how long does it take?
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by jimmytidey 3y ago
Yes, driving a car makes you morally culpable for the harms it does. If you ranked the harms you are likely to cause, driving a car would be very near the top of the list. You are exhibiting an aspect of the myopia the article is highlighti
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by jimmytidey 3y ago
I remember reading that Royal Navy engineers maintaining nuclear submarines use Li-Fi to connect their workstations to the network. They said it was a security requirement - does seem extraordinarily elaborate. It feels like using wires cou
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by jimmytidey 3y ago
OK - I see there is a pretty strong case here. One of the most astonishing Kant facts I've read (I've no idea how this could be verified) is that despite the sea being an hour away Königsberg, where he lived his whole life, he nev
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by jimmytidey 3y ago
Royal Society for the Protection of Birds is the largest charity in the UK by membership. People do take a lot of direct personal action on this topic.
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by jimmytidey 3y ago
Because of his regular schedule?
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by jimmytidey 3y ago
I've heard the safety argument before and I find it astonishing. If you can't drive safely without making a noise audible from miles away, your vehicle isn't fit for the road. However this argument does hint at what bikers ar
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by jimmytidey 3y ago
This makes so much sense. I wish the UK would take the same approach.
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by jimmytidey 3y ago
There are legal standards for both vehicle noise and vehicle emissions, at least in the UK. When owners modify their exhaust to make them noisier, they are likely breaching one or both standards. It is specifically illegal. https:/&#
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by jimmytidey 3y ago
No doubt engine noise is caused by lots of factors. You can modify they exhaust to make it louder or quieter. I understand a lot of bikers modify their exhaust to make it louder. As I understand it, there is a legal limit on noise emissions
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by jimmytidey 3y ago
In suburban London and the surrounding countryside, so much of the noise is caused by a handful of motorbikes that have been made deliberately, I think usually illegally, noisy. Stopping noisy vehicles would improve millions of people'
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by jimmytidey 3y ago
A agree you can't 'get all the guns back', but there are still reasons to consider more stringent controls, two spring to mind: 1) It's about the social permission you give to people by making guns easily available. For
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by jimmytidey 3y ago
I don't know, but I'm guessing there's a big difference between knowing how to play your scales and playing perfectly evenly and fluidly.
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by jimmytidey 3y ago
All those young people on Facebook...
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by jimmytidey 3y ago
What is the prison meaning?
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by jimmytidey 3y ago
As other commenters have noted, surely the goal should be to make usable designs, of which looking beautiful is a small part?
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by jimmytidey 4y ago
Germany does have a plan: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energiewende
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by jimmytidey 4y ago
A real middle finger to existing customers. It's so instantly and visibly rude.
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by jimmytidey 4y ago
The system doesn't work anymore. I don't think There is a country-specific elite culture now.
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by jimmytidey 4y ago
Yes, although I'm not sure they had the capacity to institutionalise eduction to that end.
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by jimmytidey 4y ago
Amazing reference!
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by jimmytidey 4y ago
"Drunk the cool aid..." In the UK case I've heard the idea that the Publc School system emerged for exactly this reason. ('Public' schools being the most elite schools in the UK). A relatively small number of school
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by jimmytidey 4y ago
Lol, Gowanus canal
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by jimmytidey 4y ago
I feel bad we didn't get dang anything.
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by jimmytidey 4y ago
I don't know the book, but I assume the criticism is that a rich person can give money to alleviate suffering, but by the same token their wealth means they will not have to experience the suffering intimately. The richer they are, the
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by jimmytidey 4y ago
Here's a thought - through proactively seeking help by posting on HN, you just made it to the front page. You got feedback from people across the world. Some highly skilled (and paid) people stopped what they are doing to help because
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by jimmytidey 4y ago
Yes this. I've been on Twitter for decade, it's nice to be somewhere different.
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by jimmytidey 4y ago
I'm an unashamed Mastodon advocate. Firstly, a significant fraction of the most interesting accounts I follow on Twitter have moved to Mastodon. Secondly, Mastodon feels incredibly fresher than Twitter, which has completely ossified. T
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by jimmytidey 4y ago
"Nothing is any good if other people like it." Isn't Gladwell's crime being too popular? And perhaps honing his style of writing so much that it seems like a pastiche of itself? I think perhaps some people wanted reading

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