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by rsynnott 7mo ago
I feel like this is one of the things that people will look back on as the peaking of the bubble. Like, c’mon, this is ridiculous.
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by rsynnott 7mo ago
> No, Windows Start did not use React [except for the bit that does]
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by rsynnott 7mo ago
> boilerplate Ruby on Rails and its imitators blew away tons of boilerplate. Despite some hype at the time about a productivity revolution, it didn’t _really_ change that much. > , libraries, build-tools, Ensure what you mean by this;
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by rsynnott 7mo ago
So, first, it would be rare to bring in restrictions of this sort without doing something to buses. But even if you _don’t_, reduction in traffic helps buses (assuming you already have bus lanes, which any city doing this stuff generally wo
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by rsynnott 7mo ago
Oh, I had completely missed that he’d done this in a Dutch paper too. All I’d heard of it previously was that his articles had been pulled by the Irish Independent, so I was expecting the apology to be in English.
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by rsynnott 7mo ago
Particularly given that the dreaded em-dash is not commonly used in Irish or UK English; it’s mostly a US English thing.
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by rsynnott 7mo ago
… Ah. So I just looked it up; no-one flies to Dublin from there (Aer Lingus is 2A, Air France is 2F). Possibly it’s a Schengen-only terminal. (Living inside Europe but outside Schengen tends to get you the worst terminals/sections of t
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by rsynnott 7mo ago
People have been trying hydrogen. It’s generally a bit of a disaster. And increasingly I think that is being quietly admitted. It has a weird afterlife in buses (where the range potential is interesting for long-range intercity routes), but
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by rsynnott 7mo ago
They just have to replace most use cases. There will come a point, not too far away, where battery progress makes them cheaper to purchase than petrol cars (for many use cases the point may already have come where TCO is lower, and Trump’s
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by rsynnott 7mo ago
Which should in itself tell you that VW can compete on price if it has to.
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by rsynnott 7mo ago
Stellantis, the company which owns all the brands which make you go “wait, they still exist?!” when you see one.
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by rsynnott 7mo ago
The third-biggest BEV maker is VW AG, a legacy car brand. Likely soon the second, given their hefty (33% last year) growth vs Tesla’s modest shrinkage; unless something changes they’ll overtake in a year or so.
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by rsynnott 7mo ago
Ford of Europe is arguably a European car brand which happens to be owned by a US company (in much the same way as Chrysler/Jeep etc are clearly American car brands, despite being owned by a European company).
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by rsynnott 7mo ago
The Focus is about the only European-designed Ford which really made it to the US in significant numbers (albeit somewhat late) at all, AIUI.
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by rsynnott 7mo ago
> and high restructuring costs from the shift to electric vehicles. I’m baffled how you think “it’s going to cost us a lot to shift to electric vehicles through 2030” could be read as “VW is retreating from electric vehicles”.
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by rsynnott 7mo ago
Does it still have the weird security procedures? (Security at CDG is IME very slow and just, well, strange; at least once they were asking people to _carry their passports through the scanners_, rather than leaving them in their bags like
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by rsynnott 7mo ago
Concentrating on the very wealthiest is perhaps unhelpful, as there are very few of them, so they’re kinda irrelevant for planning purposes. Most well-off people I know commute to work on the train or bus; the city center offices where well
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by rsynnott 7mo ago
… Huh, never heard of anyone actually _liking_ CDG before.
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by rsynnott 7mo ago
… It’s about collectivism? If you’re such a rugged individualist that it reads this way, large cities are probably not for you. Like “we are trying to make the transport work mildly better” is the tip of the iceberg.
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by rsynnott 7mo ago
I think you’d have a fairly miserable time navigating any major European city _by car_, even before these policies. They’re largely not designed for it. For a start, where are you parking? It’s not like parking was particularly plentiful or
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by rsynnott 7mo ago
> I was thinking more about the unofficially mobility impaired people by obesity, like me The vast majority of obese people are not meaningfully mobility impaired.
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by rsynnott 7mo ago
I would assume that if you’re commuting to Paris from far away, the train is generally _quicker_, tbh. AIUI the RER is mostly 140km/h quality lines.
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by rsynnott 7mo ago
Generally, restrictions on cars make public transport better automatically, as they make buses work better.
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by rsynnott 8mo ago
Presumably simply following Dear Leader's lead: https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/elon-mus...
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by rsynnott 8mo ago
I mean, honestly, "HN voting is poorly designed and is vulnerable to coordinated action" would explain it fairly neatly; I'd totally buy that this is incompetence vs malice by the operators.
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by rsynnott 8mo ago
I mean, even for the completely amoral investor, they would still have to think about whether the magic abomination generator will _make money_. I would imagine that the Venn diagram of people who think that SpaceX will make loadsa money an
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by rsynnott 8mo ago
I mean, there's "this is a risky investment in rockets and stuff" and then there is "this is a risky investment in rockets and stuff which has for some reason been coupled to a CSAM generator". One is going to be mo
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by rsynnott 8mo ago
In the US, lawyers may generally work on a contingency basis ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contingent_fee ), and many lawyers and law firms also do pro bono work. That is, almost certainly no-one has paid for the lawye
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by rsynnott 8mo ago
Yeah, nah, it's that. Always happens.
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by rsynnott 8mo ago
Elon's simps tend to flag everything which is unfavourable to dear leader; this being flagged is nothing in particular to do with the actual topic.

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