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by tda 5y ago
Used to take 45-55mins on a speed pedelec (45km/h) but I sold it and bought a regular ebike set at the US speed limit of 32 km/h. Depending on wind it takes me 60 to 70 minutes for 28.7 km.
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by tda 5y ago
I don't think there are more than a handful of "heating vs eating" people in the Netherlands. On the contrary; poverty is positively correlated with obesity. We do have lots of baby boomers in big houses that they heatup just
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by tda 5y ago
These high energy prices mostly hit wasteful industries like greenhouse tomato growers. That is because they gave always relied on cheap, subsidized natural gas. Consumers pay approximately 75% energy tax already so even a 100% rise before
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Even with the recent rise in prices, energy prices are still way to low to actually influence choices most people make. Trains are still more expensive than car travel by car, flying is still cheaper than rail, I still don't know how m
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by tda 5y ago
I hope the folks at nextcloud are paying attention!
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Previously discussed here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2266924
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Of course different languages have different syntax, but it is a pretty hard requirement that within a (specific version of a language the syntax rules are both explicit and consistent.
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And that is why perhaps so much of us like programming: there is exactly one correct way to interpret code. And stylistic differences (different notation for the same thing) are usually discouraged with style guides
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I have created an app with such a hybrid approach as the part if the model was very dynamic. The idea was that I would slowly migrate the stable bits to proper columns, but in practice that never happened. Partly also because it is not real
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This is what I think the most often overlooked problem inherent to nuclear power in any form: whenever you create a nuclear reactor, you are betting on future people to handle it correctly. And not only during it's operational life of
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In theory that sounds nice, but somehow all the referenda I got to participate in asked the wrong questions. I also recall the Brexit referendum... I've heard the Swiss have organised it better, wonder how it works for them. The most p
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Perhaps because laws and regulation are part of the market. And unfortunately even in democracies, small but vocal minorities have proven to be very able to bend the laws i their favor. I bet there is no democratic majority to support DMCA
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by tda 5y ago
TLDR: Image2voxel algorithm with a trivially simple voxels2lego bit tagged on for fun and/or clickbait
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Don't forget the substantial costs to clean up. Just think about growing up in a world full of EOL nuclear plants left by generations before you that need to be cleaned up... In a political unstable world due to an ongoing climate cri
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We can at least try putting a price on fossil fuels. Actually the 1973 oil crisis had a profound effect on behavior, so yes a capitalistic system is perfectly capable of responding to something being (artificially) scarce. OPEC should reall
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As pointed out in he comments below, the climate crisis will reduce political stability. And stability is essential to ensure that there will be a strong enough society left to properly decommission a nuclear plant when it will be EOL in 50
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by tda 5y ago
And the reclining political stability will make it even harder to do long term investments with no immediate pay-off. Which will probably reinforce this climate crisis.
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by tda 5y ago
except that the boundary between device and service is steadily eroding. A screen is a device and netflix is a service, but a smart tv that won't function without an internrt connection? A nokia was a device you owned, but any Apple de
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by tda 5y ago
Buying plastic crap from amazon, commuting to office work every day, SUV's, eating too much meat, flying halfway accross the globe for a business meeting or vacation. It all still happens (though Corona proved how much if that was not
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by tda 5y ago
The exam in interview form is called an oral examination (vs written examination) and in my university in the Netherlands they were not that rare, especially for exams in the senior years where class sizes are smaller.
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On the bright side, using a tool like Internet archive it should be easy to filter out which articles were removed and/or edited by the BBC, in a way highlighting the most historically important articles.
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and it links to the "related question" https://www.quora.com/Around-when-did-the-88x31-for-website-... which seems like an AI misinterpretation of the question, as it goes back to the prehistoric
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by tda 5y ago
No, please don't tax something because it is wasteful or not, but tax something based on how much resources it uses. In fact, tax the resource usage not the activity. Even an extremely efficient car uses a ton of energy to move around.
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It seems like this is adding some vectors on a gridded base map. But OSM has every object in a vector form, also coastlines etc. So I don't think there is a technical reason why coastlines would have to be fixed for a historical map. O
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If this gets enough traction this could make historical maps so much more accessible. Instead of every historian writing their own magnum opus of a particular area and timespan, all the geographical information can be combined in a single s
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I wouldn't be so sure about that, but I tried to look up some numbers and couldn't find any for the capacity planning of last mile delivery. 10 kWH per day is about the average electricity use per home in the Netherlands, so the a
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by tda 5y ago
seems like tension cables to pre-stress the structure
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See here for some pics https://nypost.com/2021/04/29/worlds-first-floating-sky-pool...
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The decision already applies to all of the 1100 holdings Shell has. The mother company is held responsible for all activities of the subsidiaries

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