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by zhdc1 3y ago
Wonder how this differs from something like Airalo or bnesim then, aside from the free tier.
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by zhdc1 3y ago
Can you explain how your paid tier works? Is it 1.95€ a day unlimited worldwide, or are there charges on top of that?
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by zhdc1 3y ago
There was a good discussion on Reddit about it. I don’t have the link but it should be easy to find. Annual meetings are apparently organized by local groups who lobby/compete with one another. China has a very large SciFi readership a
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by zhdc1 3y ago
> It is also, IMO, a lot of protein to consume a day. I personally have never done that level of protein intake, ever, but I know a few who have, its an insane (to me) amount of protein powder, chicken, and broccoli (or alternatives) you
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by zhdc1 3y ago
> I usually don’t care how much I weigh, as long as I look fit. Building muscle increases your weight, but makes you look better and be healthier. Also muscle burns more calories to maintain, so you can eat more. I completely agree, but
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by zhdc1 3y ago
It was the opposite, to be honest. Chrysler knew they were toast. They either had to be bought out, mortgage everything for massive capital investment (which is what Ford did), or eventually go under. Meanwhile, Daimler executives wanted a
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by zhdc1 3y ago
Doesn’t track with me. Live in Central Europe. Most of the people we know either own their cars outright or take public transportation. Many companies north of the border (Germany) offer company cars as an incentive, which iirc are leased,
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by zhdc1 3y ago
Vanguard consistently gives extremely conservative, bordering on pessimistic, estimates.
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by zhdc1 3y ago
I agree, but the issue is that, globally, ICE is still the best option for the majority of use cases. EVs have a place. I'm a fan of them. However, until recharging an EV becomes as quick and convenient as filling up a fuel tank at a s
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by zhdc1 3y ago
> Plug in at night and unplug in the morning. That's the issue. This simply isn't possible if you live in an older apartment complex or rely on street parking. ICE wins - at the moment - simply because it takes less than five m
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by zhdc1 3y ago
Range anxiety and charging infrastructure are also major hurdles. Around 50% of people in the EU live in apartments. Most apartments were built decades ago and lack EV chargers - and, in many cases, enough dedicated parking spots for each u
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by zhdc1 3y ago
> There are industries & companies that have grown fat & lazy and could use a few annual 6% culls, but you eventually run out of fat. Agreed, but there's also an unaddressed issue of whether many (most?) positions at large t
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by zhdc1 3y ago
Vanguard lucked into hiring one of the greatest fund managers of all time in John Neff. There were very, very few people who could do what he did.
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by zhdc1 3y ago
> Climate change is a species-ending threat. Emissions caused by fossil fuels is a huge piece of that. It's not a species-ending threat (at least, to humans). That said, the realistic outlook for global warming is bad enough. EV is
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by zhdc1 3y ago
> The grid - will be updated. I know that, but it is, propaganda. We do not know how much of it will be upgraded and when. You write about Oslo. I write about Poland, where electric infrastructure is from 70s and 80s. EVs aren't goi
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by zhdc1 3y ago
> For most people, I suspect a plugin hybrid will be the right solution/tradeoff until the technology evolves, or charging infrastructure becomes more prevalent. Mild hybrid is winning out. > If we care about reducing carbon, we&
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by zhdc1 3y ago
> I don't know why people are saying this though - they are catching on massively. Marketshare growth is excellent. Car manufacturers and government regulators bet the farm on mass EV adoption. Current EVs and EV infrastructure have
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by zhdc1 3y ago
So yes and no. > ...and you never have to worry about stopping at a gas station - the car is ready to go every morning and you don't even have to think about it! If you have a home charging station. This immediately excludes a - ver
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by zhdc1 3y ago
> Don't forget that this is actually money laundering. Our NIH grants had major strings attached, like "you may not buy non-instrumentation computers" (at least, that's what I was told, I did not actually get to read
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by zhdc1 3y ago
PHEV = plug-in hybrids.
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by zhdc1 3y ago
> I believe this is what the CEO of Toyota was promoting - emphasizing hybrids as most realistic route for most consumers. He was slammed for it. Hybrids haven’t had much success. The market, at least in Europe, is flooded with slightly
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by zhdc1 3y ago
The previous poster is likely referring to something like a GeoTIFF, which more or less accepts an arbitrary number of bands (matrices).
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by zhdc1 3y ago
> With a lot of weather data you end up with these large gridded files like grib, netcdf, hdf, etc. Does anyone know if theres a way to get this kind of data into a database or something where you can query it quickly? I've been won
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by zhdc1 3y ago
> Note that the linked webpage… It is. That said, the website is legitimate. They’ve put out a lot of very good content, for years, albeit with a pessimistic slant. The firm founder is also active on Twitter.
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by zhdc1 3y ago
I doubt it. Labor costs are the main differentiators for high quality textiles. If you’re paying a skilled cordwainer 25 or more an hour, it doesn’t make sense to have them work with faux leather.
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by zhdc1 3y ago
Good.
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by zhdc1 3y ago
> TBH PRC "growth rate" is roughly in line with expectations Iirc the expectation in the early teens was a slowdown to 3-5% growth around the middle of the last decade. The argument then was that PRC officials knew they needed
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by zhdc1 3y ago
> I'm still not sold on the "China is dying" theory. I don't know if it's as much a story of decline as it is one of unmet expectations. China has a declining (and likely overstated) population. They have a very
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by zhdc1 4y ago
Everything is right where it should be : )
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by zhdc1 4y ago
> You won’t see these threads about Zurich, just saying. Nope. Taking a train from Zürich HB to Bellinzona for the holiday. The train is full. My suitcase is in the next car. It will be there, untouched, when I get off in an hour or so.

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