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by logifail 4y ago
> Charge petrol users the true costs of their transport choices Petrol/diesel users still massively outnumber EV users, and [at least in most places] everyone has a vote. Many less well-off voters are way more concerned about thei
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by logifail 4y ago
> Norway is largely there regarding transitioning, despite having a cold climate. Took less than 15 years and their grid didn't collapse [Norway] "Sep 2022: Over 25% of all cars on the road are plug-in electric"[0] They&#x
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by logifail 4y ago
> It's really not the issue you'd think it is [..] I appreciate that there are a lot of happy Tesla owners, indeed there are two in the office I'm working in this week, their Model 3s are parked outside. I had a ride in o
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by logifail 4y ago
> Doesn't seem too bad for a car that was over $100k when it was new. This vehicle segment has always been notorious for depreciation, look at all the stories about buying a used S-class "for cheap".
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> Cells don't degrade uniformly, so refurbishing the existing battery is gonna be a couple hundred bucks to tear the car down and expose the battery, and then identity the bad cell and pop in a new one This sounds great, for which E
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by logifail 4y ago
> If you don't need the extended range of a brand new battery [..] My OH drove the best part of 200 miles, round trip, on the spur of the moment to pick me up at an airport late in the evening after my flight was badly delayed, she
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> I don't think that very many people believe that if the market were left to itself the climate will solve itself Even if every single car across all of Europe and the USA were to magically become an EV overnight, the climate will
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> The Chevy Bolt is pretty cheap $26,500? [0] How much is a new Mitsubishi Mirage (for instance) where you are? > There are a lot of people who just can't afford a new car I'm talking about people who can afford a new ICE
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by logifail 4y ago
> The average new car price is $49k Right, meaning there are a lot of car buyers who pay less than that. In many cases a lot less . I'm one of them(!) The last time I bought a new car I paid $11k, although that was around five
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> Right now a base Model 3 is around $36k after tax credit Not wishing to be obtuse, but is that good? There are a lot of people who would never dream of paying that much for a new car.
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> People are buying EVs because they're better This is only true for people with a certain amount of spare money to pay the extra, since EVs are more expensive to purchase. "The new EVs cost an average of $65,041 in November [2
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> no-one's telling you to just throw the AI output up on to a website unedited Is there a genuine problem that we're solving here? "Quickly and cheaply create a large volume of mediocre content" will definitely appeal
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> Latest example from today - search for "micropython html parser" [..] Are you entering the micropython search term in quotes in the Google search box, because I've found that's a moderately good way to get rid of t
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> A level playing field ensures that everyone in the market is making safe, hopefully good quality, products for that market I don't believe "safe" and "good quality" are necessarily aligned. I live close to a d
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> large scale paper ballot tampering scales very well to the point of turning elections, and is much easier to pull off because it happens in the fringe where no one is looking In many countries, there are many tens of thousands of indiv
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> By looking at the receipts printed by the ballot machines. Let's the clear, you're not really "recounting" the ballots at that point. If the machine is compromised - and we're discussing a situation in which w
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> If the results were electronically tallied to generate an official result Electronic voting doesn't make bad politicians less bad. In this instance, the bad guys were prepared to deliberately remove CCTV so when they sent their
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by logifail 4y ago
> This is a great example of why electronic voting is important and can help secure democracy. If those in power are against change, I wouldn't want to have to put my trust in electronic voting if I was hoping for change. I was left
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by logifail 4y ago
> so executives got static IPs mapped to their machines. The late 90s and 00s were crazy In my Uni days, all our department's machines had public IPs; no NAT, no firewall(!) So much simpler to able to telnet, FTP and/or rem
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by logifail 4y ago
> Passing a driver's test was not possible in 2015 and it's not possible today My friend moved from Europe to the USA and took a driver's test in California (been driving in Europe since the 1980s). He tracked the test, he
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by logifail 4y ago
> that's just standard business assessment Maybe it's time businesses actually did some honest assessment on cloud providers and their services? So many managers appear to think the cloud is powered by magic pixie dust.
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> Americans are fat, through they aren't twice as fat as other people They are, almost: "US obesity prevalence was 41.9% in 2017 – March 2020"[0] "25.9% of adults in England are obese"[1] [0] https://w
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> having conversations about things you don't understand with a machine, where you don't have to keep up social decorum and can ask the dumbest questions should help a lot with improving the decision making of non-technical per
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> This is going to be hilarious, giving kids prolonged access to these AI tools [..] we have the internet and wikipedia now, we have ipads in classrooms. They all have a role, and we have to incorporate them in sensible ways I have three
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by logifail 4y ago
> Those parts would still be handled with GPT-X talking to another GPT-X in the other company. Even the requirements might be given by a GPT-X. What happens if one (or more) of the GPT-Xs starts having hallucinations while they're b
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by logifail 4y ago
> If you think generating a good hypothesis wasn’t the hard bit then in my opinion you never did get what science was about [..] Is a good hypothesis important? Sure. Is it easy to get that bit wrong? Yes, and lots of people do. I&#x2
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> a hypothesis generation machine Is anyone claiming there's a market niche for hypothesis generation in the natural sciences? Full disclosure: I have a science PhD and a couple of published papers as a result. It was a long, slow,
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> Passing such a test is not a property expected of the average human [..] I'm thinking of the rabbit hole that is the hurdle to get citizenship in a particular country. "Outsiders" have to apply, pay, take and pass the
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> LLMs have been proven to demonstrate intent [..] That's quite the claim. Can you provide references?

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