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by zamfi 5y ago
> In theory you can charge only from renewable energy sources, but in many areas you still burn fossil fuels, and in these areas hybrids are way more ecofriendly Now, maybe (though nowhere on your site does it even remotely suggest &qu
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by zamfi 5y ago
Huh? That link suggests the top two greenest vehicles are EVs, and 7 of the top 12 are EVs, with 3 of the rest being PHEV, and the bottom two are standard hybrids. What am I missing?
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by zamfi 5y ago
OP is talking about e.g., Lucid, Rivian, etc., not Tesla -- which is definitely not a startup anymore.
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by zamfi 5y ago
> Regular green tea is not Not…very high? Just “regular” high?
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by zamfi 5y ago
Sure, but why would you rather play whack-a-mole than get lasting change? If you want an actual lasting change in how housing is created and allocated, you need regulation with teeth around the behavior you want to actually alter. Or incent
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by zamfi 5y ago
> Without AirBnB, or some other similar service , this isn't as big of an issue. Emphasis mine — this is my point. The barn door is open; the horses are gone. Get rid of Airbnb and others will follow. Music piracy didn’t magically
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by zamfi 5y ago
This isn’t an Airbnb problem. This is a regulatory problem. Tons of people want to visit a city, airbnb makes it possible for short-term rentals to find short-term tenants. Getting rid of airbnb doesn’t solve your problem because some new s
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by zamfi 5y ago
One thing we've lost in the transition to two-earner families with the expectation that everyone has a career is exactly what's coming up in this thread: 1) People derive a lot of meaning from their interactions with other people.
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by zamfi 5y ago
> it's been long acknowledged that "accident" is a problematic word to describe vehicle crashes because it minimizes the agency of a driver and intentional decision making processes that lead up to a crash I seem to recall
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by zamfi 5y ago
Not justifying Amazon’s labor practices by any means, but Amazon delivery != UPS. It’s quite possible that Amazon only runs its own delivery in areas with a high enough order density that 400 packages/day is possible, and UPS doesn’t r
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by zamfi 5y ago
All models are wrong, but some are useful. (George Box)
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by zamfi 5y ago
Also, what is this “has become” language for? It implies that the this elite group is more self-reinforcing than it used to be, but there’s no evidence for that. Harvard’s 1940s admission rate of 85% was certainly not a more meritocratic
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by zamfi 5y ago
I believe you, on the other hand, you’re one data point, and apartment buildings have stricter rules about acceptable activities and behavior (as I propose above). Even in the biggest cities, apartment buildings often have board that approv
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by zamfi 5y ago
Err…no one wants their neighborhood to suddenly have a bunch of new unknown people in it, right? You don’t have to be a nimby to be concerned about who you live next to. It’s not a “misconception” in that sense, especially if moving is impo
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by zamfi 5y ago
> they know your neighbors will do the dirty work of artificially constraining the housing supply, which makes it a good investment ...until your neighbors are all renters, at which point the tide turns?
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by zamfi 5y ago
Now that duplexes are allowed, how long does it take to get one approved?
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by zamfi 5y ago
> will never allow my children to play that game I can see not forcing them to play the game, but "will never allow my children to" always struck me as a weird tone.
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Life by the Bay: A Moveable Feast That Moved When I Wasn’t Looking(lithub.com)
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by zamfi 5y ago
I like this line of speculation, though what to make of the fact that the average military pilot and average coder probably differ...substantially...in physique? Not to mention ongoing training active pilots likely engage in that may help w
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by zamfi 5y ago
Sure, and my point is that...there's not a lot of room for valuation growth, since their current valuation already prices in extreme success.
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by zamfi 5y ago
Yes, but Tesla’s market cap already assumes all those things happened ...it’s worth 1/4 of Apple already, but hasn’t actually done those Apple-type things!
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by zamfi 5y ago
What taxes favor day trading commodities over labor?
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by zamfi 5y ago
This analysis totally ignores a whole bunch of factors, including that you can’t pay someone else minimum wage for a bunch of things, and that “hiring someone to do X” has a huge transaction cost associated with it. Not just the hiring part
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by zamfi 5y ago
Elon probably read about the retired coal power plant in New York state that's being retrofitted and brought back to life for the explicit purpose of mining bitcoin [0]. Honestly, this is really frankly terrible. Even though I knew tha
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by zamfi 5y ago
> There is no incentive for landlords to put extra money on the place, it will not increase the price at which it will rent. Oh, it definitely will. The well-maintained places rent for astonishingly crazy amounts, which is why most peopl
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by zamfi 5y ago
You’re not wrong (though I’m not sure what 1800 has to do with anything...I was just pointing out, as you also do, that by 1900 the state’s forests were gone), but: > Really the problem in California is that a lot of people from the East
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by zamfi 5y ago
Much of California’s forest was clear cut by the logging industry in the 1800s. The “old growth forests” are preserved and form a tiny fraction of what once was. California is no longer as big a source of lumber as it once was.
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by zamfi 5y ago
You're probably on the right track. One thing to mention, though, is that all the easy-to-dig carbon fuel has been dug, so "use coal to power X" just isn't quite as feasible. Biomass just doesn't work for a lot of i
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by zamfi 6y ago
I’ve felt the same way about IDEs in general. We need more tooling to help people understand and mitigate necessary complexity, not tools that help one muddle through or — I shudder to think — extend complexity. I’ve changed my mind on thi
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by zamfi 6y ago
I have. What information exactly can you get from a debugger with watchable variables and immediate mode code execution, that you can't get from print? I'm not making the argument that people shouldn't use debuggers -- obviou

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