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by ppf 6y ago
That's nice, and I suppose everyone entering and leaving the country will need vaccine passports. It's as if everything that we were told would never happen, is going to happen. "A few weeks to flatten the curve", and no
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by ppf 6y ago
How exactly will staying at home "for a few more months" stop a virus mutating forever? It's not that bad, we have to live with it. Viruses mutate all the time. I'm not sure what your point is with the apparent difficult
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by ppf 6y ago
We need to get off the internet, and re-discover how to connect with real humans and form lasting social bonds. I can't imagine how different (and more socially vibrant) life was 40 years ago.
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by ppf 6y ago
I would love to have a choice in determining whether the various risks are worth it for me, but my government has insisted on shutting all "non-essential" businesses, and only lifted a 3-month "stay at home" order last w
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by ppf 6y ago
It's a sad state of affairs when online comment sections have become an integral part of the social cohesion (such as it is) of a society. In my opinion, the current state of our response to Covid shows that the social cohesion of soci
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by ppf 6y ago
Android and Youtube are garbage.
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by ppf 6y ago
Absolutely perfect take. We are truly atomized and isolated, thanks to tech (and especially "social tech"). I know this may be controversial, but our (IMHO) huge over-reaction to Covid is just an indicator of the damage that has a
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by ppf 6y ago
How many of the (mostly web-based) technologies that we all love to discuss on HN are any different?
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by ppf 6y ago
>Because they do not match solar time? Precisely that. If we want to re-define things to make the most of the daylight, when why don't we just start everything one hour earlier? It would achieve exactly the same outcome, and twelve
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by ppf 6y ago
Seeing ETH2 in full operation would satisfy them more.
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by ppf 6y ago
"Here in the West, we have moral superiority, and will bribe poor countries with unfathomable wealth to behave as we think they should". Now, where have I heard that before? I see very little difference in the "altrusitic&quo
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by ppf 6y ago
Funny, I've just gone back to a Nokia.
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by ppf 6y ago
I thought the accepted solution to entrenched incubents was "disrupt!".
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by ppf 6y ago
No, it's about people dying as as result of our response to Covid (that is, lockdowns), and not of the disease itself.
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by ppf 6y ago
Sorry, have you owned a car made in the last 10ish years?
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by ppf 6y ago
Which is why I smile every time someone tells me that EVs are "more reliable" because they have "less moving parts". That might be true, but they also have vastly more components and structures, of all different sizes fr
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by ppf 6y ago
Yes. People are not being given a choice (at least, here in the UK). Petrol cars are being legislated out of existence. Ideally, I want a reliable, cost-effective family car without any extra gadgets, and I don't want an EV. However, t
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by ppf 6y ago
You're not wrong. However, every time I think about that, I just tell myself to pedal harder ;)
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by ppf 6y ago
The textual content of a conversation is the tip of the iceberg in the information that is shared during a face-to-face conversation. If you include "face to face" in your "platforms", then it absolutely blows anything e
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by ppf 6y ago
That should frighten you. If Whatsapp went away tomorrow, would you have any friends?
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by ppf 6y ago
They don't mention the other issue - Whatsapp and similar are, if anything, the worst form of social media. You have shallow conversations that dribble your attention away throughout your entire day, yet you have not gained any meaning
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by ppf 6y ago
Also, just for fun, the embodied energy of a 1960's Fiat 500 (assuming its entire 500kg weight is made of steel, which is probably a good enough approximation) is 3MWh, or three laptops. So what is more sustainable?
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by ppf 6y ago
That is a very interesting point. I have specifically stayed longer on various platforms, because I really did feel that I had an interesting and more mature point of view that the clearly younger (and immature) general populace of those pl
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by ppf 6y ago
I really regret using the example of a Tesla, as it conflates too many issues. I meant that it takes around 300Wh to move a car about the weight and shape of a Tesla, one mile. It is a very interesting calculation to look at the energy cost
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by ppf 6y ago
You can, but that wasn't the point I was making. My only point was that it takes around 300Wh/mile to move a car about the size and shape of a Tesla, regardless of how you power it. I won't use the example of Tesla next time,
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by ppf 6y ago
Now take a look at all your other laptop-like gadgets (the infotainment in your car, your smartphone(s), TV(s), PC, gaming rig, etc etc), and tell me how much flying and driving they prevent.
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by ppf 6y ago
Indeed. The embodied energy of the items we use every day is so under-appreciated, probably because we have outsourced the production of almost all of them to countries that have no problem burning oil and coal in the process. Really, if we
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by ppf 6y ago
No, I was just using it as a easily-understood reference of comparative energy usage. Really, it's about the same value for any other car with the same aerodynamics and weight as the Tesla. As you point out, it gets a lot more complica
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by ppf 6y ago
I was using that number to represent just the energy required to motivate the car, and assuming that an EV has near-perfect energy translation from battery to movement (and therefore providing an accurate enough representation of that energ
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by ppf 6y ago
Well then, let's see your working. Gas is really quite efficient in all ways.

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