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by namdnay 5y ago
Maybe because it's because within the three groups (cyclists, drivers, pedestrians), cyclists are the only ones who haven't got their own infrastructure. If cyclists had 90% of the road, and cars were forced to share the remaining
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by namdnay 5y ago
55mph on an ebike would be insane :) even 55kph is really really fast if you're not on perfect asphalt - the slightest pebble hitting the front wheel and it's goodbye
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by namdnay 5y ago
What are the rules where you live? In France it's either a bike if the assist is limited to 25kmh (you could go above that on a nice flat road, but the gearing usually isn't designed for it) , or a "<50cc motorcycle"
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by namdnay 5y ago
> are doing so illegally on trails and paths don't you have restricted ebikes in the US? In most of Europe they're either sold restricted to 25kmh, in which case they're legally bikes, or unrestricted, in which case they&
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by namdnay 5y ago
Probably because the people who stopped them from retrieving the material were better connected politically... I agree that there's something very fishy in the story
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by namdnay 5y ago
You go through the agencies that have bought in bulk. In the same way that you don’t go to a Black&Decker office to buy a drill, you get it from one of their distributors, who buy in bulk
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by namdnay 5y ago
Rail is amazing for the environment. A Marseille to Paris on the TGV emits less than 2kg of CO2 per passenger. That’s 80 times less than a plane, and 20 times less than a car! And how is this CO2 miracle achieved? Public spending on core in
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by namdnay 5y ago
I guess it depends where the power comes from. The French TGV is close to 0 Co2
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by namdnay 5y ago
I want to tax something that is very bad for the environment and fund something that is very good. The free market is great for many things, but not for core infrastructure. What’s missing in the US is a basic passenger rail infrastructure.
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by namdnay 5y ago
The solution seems quite obvious: a big tax on flights, reinvested in rail infrastructure. At some point we have to help the market find lower carbon solutions, what better way than replacing short haul flights with trains?
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by namdnay 5y ago
I’m really not sure the military did much pushing for Iraq or Afghanistan. It was the ideologues in the CIA, the Government and the media who pushed and lied till they got what they wanted
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by namdnay 5y ago
"best of breed" + "we want to avoid vendor lock-in" :(
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by namdnay 5y ago
So an app for schoolkids is a really good idea. In France the app is built by the (semi-public) post office, it's called "kidscare". teachers can upload photos live, you can set who is allowed to pick up your kids, you can se
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by namdnay 5y ago
And then the oil companies turn around and sponsor someone like Greg Abbott, and you realise “oh yes, they are face-eating leopards after all”
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by namdnay 5y ago
Clickfraud
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by namdnay 5y ago
In fact the airlines are charged per book, but if and only if the look to book stays within reasonable bounds. If it rockets up, they’re on the hook for the penalties
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by namdnay 5y ago
I think the praise for Half Life was the story telling. The story itself is pretty generic scifi action, but the fact that you discovered it through the player rather than a paragraph of exposition or a cutscene was pretty novel for that ge
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by namdnay 5y ago
(6) - what do you mean by “should have the right”? Anyone has the right to buy a trailer park, including The residents.
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by namdnay 5y ago
Have you ever been to London?
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by namdnay 5y ago
> The architects themselves had no true intention of making "art" - they were embodying evil, actually broadcasting and embedding evil into everyday life, for no reason other than pure hatred of the basic human needs in everyda
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by namdnay 5y ago
How long are your power cuts? If you keep it shut, a freezer is fine for 24-48h
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by namdnay 5y ago
> It is in the end, simply a client app that sends data to other client apps That's not the case. Consider the "one tick" messages - they must be on a server somewhere. One tick means they've left your phone but aren&
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by namdnay 5y ago
I think everyone agrees that you shouldn’t abort at 8 months..
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by namdnay 5y ago
I agree. Luckily (a) is slowly changing thanks to ebikes (you can even get child ebikes now!)
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by namdnay 5y ago
The problem isn’t the cyclists or the pedestrians, it’s that they are both combined to less than 2m of space on the side of the road, the rest being reserved for the almighty automobile.
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by namdnay 5y ago
Well, Foundation at least was clearly written by someone who had just read Gibbon
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by namdnay 5y ago
> do you really think so little of boat-builders that you don't think they'd turn their hand to something else than building yatchs, that would be good and profitable for all involved do you think so little of boat-builders tha
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by namdnay 5y ago
In the US and UK you can choose a (completely unrelated if you want) “minor” subject to broaden your horizons
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by namdnay 5y ago
The problem would be separating correlation and causation. It’s obvious that higher education is correlated with critical thinking (uneducated adults are far more likely to deny climate change or believe in pizzagate etc) But maybe this isn
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by namdnay 5y ago
Except that the plumber’s knees and back will be shot before they hit 50. People forget that “real” work is not kind on the body.

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