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by zelos 5y ago
Sorry, I didn’t mean to be snarky. It’s just that it’s a weird argument for the head of a car company to make, as the alternative to EVs currently is no cars at all. That seems pretty bad from a profit perspective.
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by zelos 5y ago
There’s also a significant amount of emissions from the production and transportation of petrol/diesel for use in vehicles you have to factor in.
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by zelos 5y ago
Because it's pretty easy to use google and look up the fact that the carbon intensity of EVs is already significantly lower than ICE vehicles, and the gap is only going to widen as more renewables (and possibly nuclear) come online.
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by zelos 5y ago
Looks like a good product. One very minor point: on Safari 14.1.1, the "Say goodbye to publishing code" line is too close to the "coding tutorials" line above it, so the descender of the g overlaps the b beneath it.
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by zelos 5y ago
"I could try composing wonderful musical works, or day-long entertainment epics, but what would that do? Give people pleasure? My wiping this table gives me pleasure." (Iain M. Banks, Use of Weapons)
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by zelos 5y ago
Shelving is closer to git stash than WIP branches, though. No history etc.
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by zelos 5y ago
In the short term by moving responsibilities around - in my inexperience I didn't realise that it was okay not to be able to cope with that level of work. In the longer term (eventually) cancelling the project and reorganising.
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by zelos 5y ago
For me it was the constant feeling that tasks and responsibilities and difficult decisions are piling up faster than I could process them. Not just "I have too much work to do", but "I have too much work to do and every day i
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by zelos 5y ago
Most of the Nit level issues should probably be caught by the linter/static checker, which reduces a lot of the minor comments. Not that that seems to stop some people, of course.
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by zelos 5y ago
If you get enough men to walk slowly towards a trench protected by machine guns, eventually some of them will get close enough to use a shotgun. (Actually, trench warfare by later WWI had developed significantly since the early war, it wasn
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by zelos 5y ago
I just wanted to come back and say thank you for this fantastic list.
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by zelos 5y ago
So much so that they eventually removed it from hazard warnings.
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by zelos 5y ago
To be fair, though, the prime minister's salary is generally a drop from whatever job they would be doing instead (making no comment on whether that's right or wrong). Same with judges, I believe.
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by zelos 5y ago
You also lose your personal allowance between £100-125k, which bumps up the effective tax rate.
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by zelos 5y ago
* I save money by spending less on food, drinks, and electricity. I've been enjoying not having to spend £4k/year on a rail season ticket. It looks like in the UK the new part-time season tickets are aimed at people commuting 2 da
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by zelos 5y ago
It's not that bad is it? Lead developer puts you on a similar salary to senior doctors or lawyers, generally with a significantly less stressful work environment and shorter working hours. I've seen several developers work towards
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by zelos 5y ago
Following the link from that page, the impact of privatisation is debatable: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impact_of_the_privatisation_of... Reduced subsidies (per journey), massively increased passenger numbers, impro
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by zelos 5y ago
> the communities they represent, and cultural rivalry between communities. This has always confused me: what's the connection between the community and the club? How does Man City 'represent' Manchester?
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by zelos 5y ago
Reducing congestion and the kind of dangerous behaviour that produces presumably has some impact? You'd think that spread out cars all travelling at similar speeds are in general safer than more tightly packed cars with impatient drive
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by zelos 5y ago
I don't know if they did start showing worse results. I think the problem is that a death from a collision with a stopped car is very visible, while the drop in average accidents over a longer period isn't.
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by zelos 6y ago
Is this a general problem with regulations? These regs look fairly sensible to me: https://www.hse.gov.uk/fireandexplosion/portabable-petrol-st...
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by zelos 6y ago
I was trying to figure that out too. Part of the problem is that the figures are apparently percentage of value, which might give misleading figures if a country produces a lot of its high-value requirements: producing all your own asparagu
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by zelos 6y ago
Is it feasible for many countries - particularly small, densely populated ones - to be self-sufficient in food? In the UK, at least, I'm not sure there's physically enough space to farm enough food to supply the population. About
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by zelos 6y ago
I'd guess figuring out where you can safely attach the tug boats, monitoring stability and stresses on the container ship and so on is non-trivial, too.
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by zelos 6y ago
> Buying a 6K second-hand car is not only much more ecological than buying a brand new electric car, I'm not sure how true this is: 80% of ICE CO2 emissions are from driving/servicing I believe.
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by zelos 6y ago
What's the alternative? The status quo isn't an option, so something has to replace it.
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by zelos 6y ago
> One of those unfortunate decisions was the decision to swap out GTK for QT; That was kind of swings and roundabouts, though. The second version of the Maemo app I worked on ended up being a major rewrite Gtk->Qt thanks to the switc
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by zelos 6y ago
I guess I'm misunderstanding what value people see in the NFT. If they really are paying for the right to claim the first entry in some blockchain then I guess it works as intended.
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by zelos 6y ago
But presumably you could create an identical image with a different hash by changing 1 pixel? I'm not sure what trust problem the NFT solves.
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by zelos 6y ago
Explain how?

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