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by logifail 2y ago
> In reality manufacturing is about 10%, disposal 5% and the other 85% from running it e.g. fuel and maintenance I imagine this depends hugely on the kind of vehicle? Our small [petrol] car cost the equivalent of $10k on the road, includ
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> Nobody is crushing their ICE and dumping it in the lake when they replace their existing and working ICE with an EV Although maybe we're missing a trick. Not the dumping-it-in-the-lake bit(!), but the taking-an-old-ICE-out-of-cir
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> Here's Top Gear explaining it [...] (Apologies for the snark but...) mythbusting articles without any experimental data or references to back up claims - or claims they say they've debunked - aren't really my thing. Ho
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(from 14 years ago, but still an interesting read) https://www.theguardian.com/environment/green-living-blog/20...
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> the total carbon footprint of ICE vehicles quickly overtake that of the EVs after 15,000 miles (24,140 km) of driving Shouldn't we be comparing an old ICE which was already built years ago but is still operating vs building a new
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> The electric motor I can't imagine its worse to produce than a combustion motor I assumed we're attempting to weigh up keeping an ICE vehicle that already exists - like my 10 year old diesel - vs building building a new EV ve
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by logifail 2y ago
> If you look at the lifecycle analysis of ICE cars, burning the fuel is the major contributor (Genuine question, not whataboutism...) what about the environmental aspects of manufacturing and distributing a vehicle other than CO2 emiss
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> it's just not a compelling offer I drive (and have driven) a fair number of rental cars due to travel, and I have to say I feel that way about many new vehicles in their entirety . So much vehicle tech is at best unimpressive a
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by logifail 2y ago
I'm currently looking for similar info but for MySQL/MariaDB for an IoT side project ... any suggestions?
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Given that the UK doesn't have any kind of compulsory identity card or requirement to register your residential address, once you've entered the country once it may be fairly straightforward to overstay.
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Our family is going through the experience of a elderly relative with dementia and I have to say it's pretty depressing (and borderline destructive) all round.
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> Double opt-in I know it's in widespread use through the online marketing sphere, but I really dislike that phrase. If I give you an email address, until it has been confirmed - by means of you sending me an email which I have to c
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> They want to throw LLMs at everything [..] Oh yes. I had a discussion with a manager at a client last week and was trying to run him through some (technical) issues relating to challenges an important project faces. His immediate respo
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> Why would the Ran Air Turbine be time restricted? Gravity?
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> I find it a but strange the countries with growing deficits thinking that raising taxes is the right move towards improving the economic situation instead of restructuring Speaking of restructuring, how about we restructure the way mul
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> My biggest concern when using it as a system component has been durability guarantees. I don’t have a lot of trust on broker implementations not to lose data (If we ignore retained messages) MQTT brokers are not designed to store data,
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> Publishing in Academia is a scam Relatively soon after starting work on my PhD, one of my more-experienced colleagues explained the affect of "impact factor" on academic publishing. Back then I was young and naive, and assu
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> VAT (and sales taxes) are absolutely paid by the company, not by the consumer [...] companies instead keep track of their sales and need to pay the associated VAT to the state every month Businesses collect it on sales to their consume
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by logifail 2y ago
"VAT is... - an indirect tax on the vast majority of goods and services - borne by the final consumer, not by businesses - charged as a percentage of the sales price and collected fractionally at every stage of production and distribut
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> It is not faster to press the big red button Indeed. Surely Ctrl+W (with a 2nd decoy tab already there and at BBC Weather) is 10x faster than finding and clicking a button on the page you're reading? EDIT: another issue with the E
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> We (almost) invariably tax money when it changes hands. Like if you own something and then I own it, there's a tax [..] But that's the general premise. I appreciate HN is USA-centric, but over on this side of the pond it&#x27
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by logifail 2y ago
> Being able to accumulate capital, at least without having to resort to extreme violence is also about as "unnatural" as it gets.. (This is a genuine clarifying question, because I'm struggling here) are you suggesting th
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> users in spain will have to go through the same procedures and configurations whether they are in italy, spain, germany, france or any other eu member state "The same procedures", really? Can you use a wifi hotspot anonymousl
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by logifail 2y ago
Q: Is there a reason for making a lease 99 years, rather than - say - 999 years?
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by logifail 2y ago
“It ain’t what you don’t know that gets you into trouble. It’s what you know for sure that just ain’t so. “ – Mark Twain
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Visitors to the UK might be charged roaming fees by their foreign mobile provider.
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> I see. That seems like pretty good evidence then. Two data points, one gathered immediately after another for the same route from a separate device, from a provider known to track demande and use "surge pricing"?
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by logifail 2y ago
google.com/search?q=smb+3 agrees - SMB 3 is the network file sharing protocol
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by logifail 2y ago
> 710kg for the Deutsche vehicle is only for the payload, that doesn't include the weight of the vehicle for StreetScooter Work Curb/Unladen Weight: 1,275 kg (2,811 lbs) Max Laden Weight (Gross Vehicle Weight Rating): 2,130 kg
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My maths may be way off, but isn't this around 80% heavier than the Deutsche Post DHL Group StreetScooter Work delivery vehicle from 2017... ? ( https://www.ft.com/content/c6913394-1ea6-11e7-a454-ab0442897... &#x

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