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by zamfi 3y ago
Yes, you're not the first one to express this concern and this thread is addressing the concern in general, not you specifically -- and surmising that the recent emergence of this concern is a result of some vague anti-EV sentiment giv
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by zamfi 3y ago
Sure, but the point is that large, heavy consumer vehicles have been extremely popular for decades (see: F-150, the most popular vehicle in the USA, which weighs substantially more than most EVs). Where was the concern with weight then? Or
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by zamfi 3y ago
> > You're gonna have to replace gas tax > Texas is doing this just by increasing the price to register an EV. Not just Texas: a lot of states that have weight- or value-based registration fees, and thus are already charging E
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by zamfi 3y ago
Royalty != bill. When I pay the DMV to get replacement license plates, that's likewise not a tax just because the DMV is the government.
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A royalty, paid to a government, as a condition of business? Yes, I’d call it a sales tax, property tax, income tax, etc. based on what it was grounded in.
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by zamfi 3y ago
Neither Europe nor the USA are a monolith in this regard. Live in NYC or even S.F. and you can 100% walk to the store and take transit to work. Live in rural or suburban Germany and you’re driving everywhere.
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by zamfi 3y ago
The story itself is quite tragic, and indeed everything you say is true. However, that doesn’t change the fact that the warning label “CAUTION: Contents hot” on a paper cup is indeed pretty useless and likely exists as a result of this laws
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by zamfi 3y ago
> Housing cannot simultaneously be affordable if it is also supposed to increase in value endlessly. Someone has to lose. It can if density increases too. Existing home increases in price, but new homes being built are single-family home
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by zamfi 3y ago
If anything that makes its use more interesting: > J. Robert Oppenheimer, American physicist and director of the Manhattan Project, learned Sanskrit in 1933 and read the Bhagavad Gita in the original form, citing it later as one of the m
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by zamfi 3y ago
I’m not sure we got the same thing from this essay. Picking problems is one of the first things mentioned in this essay, and neither soccer-playing nor strawberry-picking seem like fields where there are lots of questions folks haven’t answ
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by zamfi 3y ago
Seems like they were doing some work in there, and some stuff spilled. They probably cleaned it up, and then discovered a crack some of the spilled stuff leaked through?
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Leak in a stainless steel floor let radioactive stuff into the ground under the site.
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Doesn't need to be easy for any particular condo -- just needs to be more appealing to own (in) a 4-plex with a yard than a larger faceless tower? You can't exactly force people to sell SFHs either, but that doesn't stop deve
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by zamfi 3y ago
Or worse, a pocket: phone floats up with you as you jump, then starts to freefall, then slams hard against your rising pocket.
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by zamfi 3y ago
This is an easy explanation, but not the whole story -- single-family homes can be a good investment even while allowing the construction of apartment buildings. Without the limitations of zoning, a single-family home could be worth the sam
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Perhaps the ocean is protective to some degree, but beyond very short lengths undersea cables have powered repeaters that draw considerable current, and which would plausibly be destroyed if the base stations are too.
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by zamfi 3y ago
It took me an embarrassingly long amount of time to register apis mellifora as anything other than APIs mellifora.
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Minor point perhaps, but there's no question about whether the police are violating the rule when they drive their car into the park: they are. The question is whether it was justifiable and that's not what the original game a
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by zamfi 3y ago
Anything can be slippery-sloped into being horrifying for privacy. If there were some kind of sensor that could detect, say, physical child abuse and nothing else —no video, no audio, just a binary yes/no is there physical child abuse
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by zamfi 3y ago
> People buy crypto without a real use for crypto because they think they can sell it for more later. That's not what makes something a security -- many things fit into that template that aren't securities: collectibles, commod
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by zamfi 3y ago
Vehicle noise is dominated by road noise beyond about 25 mph -- that's why the mandatory sound on new EVs or Priuses typically cuts out around 20-25mph. Presumably this intersection is at high enough speed on the cross traffic that it&
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by zamfi 3y ago
Am I, though? The grantparent post was about fundamental research producing results in other areas, and then the parent post complained that the invention of the Web would have happened with or without CERN. I don't think anyone is rea
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by zamfi 3y ago
With the exception of HyperCard, all those other “giant” technologies were also developed at research institutions whose purpose has been questioned many times: UMN (Gopher), IBM Research (SGML), MIT (FTP). That the Web was “inevitable” d
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by zamfi 3y ago
Avoid working with people who care primarily about titles. Is the CEO actually a CEO? I.e., does everyone else report to them? If so, they should get involved and help you resolve. If they don’t want to, take your equity, cut your losses an
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by zamfi 3y ago
They kind of do — at least, at the end of the market where insurers aren’t willing to do it for the price California allows: https://www.cfpnet.com/
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by zamfi 3y ago
> not aware that other people are doing better, even if only subjectively This is not actually a requirement for happiness, turns out.
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by zamfi 3y ago
If you've never had this kind of an interaction with a person, though, might I suggest spending more time around a broader diversity of people?
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by zamfi 3y ago
I love this. Also, in my experience doing the same thing with recipes from pancakes to roast chicken, I think it’s not just about kaizen—it’s also about the “tacit knowledge” that can’t necessarily be communicated through words. I definitel
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MIT was only a few decades old at the time -- having been founded about 75 years prior. Columbia was over twice as old at the time (185 years) and was well-established as a global center of physics research.
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by zamfi 3y ago
That is exactly what I mean to say, and why I included a link from the published that says exactly that: > Each issue of Animal Frontiers will consist of a series of invited, peer-reviewed articles that present several international pers

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