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Who is talking about punishing hydrogen? And what about the fact that gas is currently massively subsidised, is removing subsidy a "punishment"? And what about the fact that we all need this air to breathe and we're all collectively subsidising this lifestyle with our health? Also note that trucks bringing goods into a city could still be subsidised separately from other things if we chose, and that bulk goods distribution have more options for on-premises fuel tanks than people's homes do, things don't have to be binary.
I pretty often make the drive from SF to Tahoe which requires a supercharger stop for ~40min.

For this distance it's really not an issue. People typically stop once for bathroom or food anyway. The tradeoff of low cost fuel is also a factor.

All the other times an EV is a strictly better experience (not having to go to gas stations, pay gas costs, cleaner, better performance, etc.)

Longer trips outside of that kind of thing are exceedingly rare for the vast majority of drivers (iirc the data correctly).

I don't think it's about renting a car, I just think the supercharger network is at a point where things are good enough today for that kind of use case.
We should look at countries like Australia, they are among the worst with no reason to be. China has a still growing economy and while they continue to bring coal online they are the world's leading solar producer and have heavy investment into bringing more nuclear online.

Contrast this with Australia that is a fully developed economy, has the easiest location to install and generate solar, has tons of uranium in the ground that it doesn't have a single reactor to use, and still burns and ships coal to act as an enabler to other coal burning nations.
I made an implementation of Pomodoro on my website here: https://www.locserendipity.com/Pomodoro.html. I think this version works better for me than others. You write in the tasks and then mark off each 25 min chunk with a checkbox. Then, I screengrab the tab to see my productivity during the day. This aspect is missing from most other Pomodoro implementations. Also, you can right click and download the page to use offline. It will still work. Part of the problem is the actual Pomodoro method involves breaking down tasks into discrete chunks and checking off completions and most implementations ignore this crucial aspect.
> I would never buy a Tesla because I see better options in the EV space
Out of curiosity, who do you see as a better option and why?
Cooperation and competition are both necessary. You look at competition to see what is possible and then you cooperate to make it happen. Without competition you don't know what to aim for. In the teams you work at likely some others handles the competitive aspects and delegates the necessary information so you don't have to, but someone has to do it.
The best way I've found to think about this is that, physiologically, there's nothing stopping your brain or mine from being the brain that holds a GM mind.

However, in order for that to have happened, we needed to have our brains manipulated a very specific way as children, when plasticity was at its highest, into learning how to think the way that best fits with being a chess GM. Since that didn't happen, our minds have settled into patterns of thinking that are very hard to now undo or rebuild, and likely not as well suited for chess.

Could we tear down how we think about problems at a fundamental level and rebuild ourselves to think like GMs? Yeah, probably. Could we do this while maintaining any amount of day job, social life, or literally any other aspect of a natural human life? No, probably not. Changing not just your opinion on a topic, but literally how you think, seems pretty insanely hard to do after childhood/adolescence.

I don't love the phrase "mental capacity", maybe "mental configuration" is more accurate.
Of course. Becoming a milionaire because your dad gave you a million is not what people understand as being meritocratic.

They already get a lot of advantages during their life because of the position and wealth of their parents.

Is it bad to leave things for your kids? Nope, it's completelhy natural. But you can't claim that the society where that happens is a meritocracy.
Hahah. I'm assuming this is a joke. But for the delivery person they are making the recipient of the package happy AND making their company happy by reducing need for a repeat visit by ringing neighbors to be let in - so I'm afraid your complaint may not get very far.

Go complain to your neighbors instead - aren't they supposed to come down and escort in their guests etc? They are the ones unlocking the door, not UPS!
No one is arguing any of these points. The problem is that currently the increased efficiency of ICEs are externalized from the people who are profiting from it.

Pollution, noise, power distribution (fuel vs electric) and the toll on public infrastructure are all externalized costs for these businesses.

The detail that is really exciting is that as EV technology is improving and people are becoming more aware of the realities of climate change and our complete inability to practically affect change as individuals, more and more people are starting to look to sustainable choices, and ICEs based on fossil fuels simply aren't one of them. AFAIK hydrogen fuel cells still aren't simply because the cheapest source of hydrogen is still fossil fuels, by a long shot (unless there is a more recent study that shows otherwise).
> I'd rather make that decision for myself thank you.

Are you filthy rich? Because if you aren't, then you don't get that choice. If cures for aging become a reality, you don't think the filthy rich will hoard it for themselves and deny or ration everyone else's access, just as they do with so many other resources? The richest of the rich will decide who lives or dies even if such research yields any results.
If they plan on going full vape by then, it seems what they really want to do is avoid leaving competition behind.
the fact that one of their big things to show off in their expo is the deep sea submarine they got running in 1991 is kind of telling of that.
> Their description of the issue is not hyperbolic

Saying that police are never held accountable is, in fact, hyperbolic.

> Their description of the solution is well-reasoned

There's no reasoning beyond first order "this thing sucks, progress isn't fast enough, it has to go". No consideration is given to the second or third order effects of such a massive change. So no, it isn't "well-reasoned."

> I do think it's unreasonable to expect a detailed description of this solution off-the-cuff.

Hacker News is _supposed_ to be a place for curious and insightful discussion. Not just issuing complaints about the social issues of the day.

I made an attempt to engage in order to try and produce something substantive, but that fell flat pretty quickly because no effort was made to produce something well-reasoned.

> A simple search would have provided you with that, though: https://defundthepolice.org/alternatives-to-police-services/

A simple search yielding a page that ignorantly proclaims "But we have to remember that police do not prevent violence." Who responds to mass-shootings in progress? Did a cop not prevent someone from being stabbed in the Makhia Bryant case? Does solving cases and locking up the right people who are violet not prevent them from committing further crimes?

Your own link is agenda pushing, not a serious analysis of how & why policing has reached its current state, how this new system will avoid the same fate, and largely avoids talking about the potential problems of this new system.
They don't contribute to society because their wealth is formed by taking from society (the cumulative surplus value of the thousands of workers below them). That is why I believe their taxes should be significantly higher. Billionaires owe society, not the other way around.
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Could you point to the part of the paper that you're drawing these conclusions? It's been a while since I've done serious econ work, but I'm not seeing a spending variable when I scan through the paper.
Reminds me a lot of DEVONthink for Mac
Why do you want to change that?

You sound fine the way you are, and you can still be successful.

I find tremendous peace at being almost completely noncompetitive (except when it comes to combat sports, but even then it's pretty friendly.)

Perhaps work on being more strategic when cooperating with others and learn to watch out for your self-interests better. At the same time, helping other good people will pay dividends, down the road.
The hypothetical $2000 cellphone doesn't exist in a vacuum. It's entirely conceivable that income difference from the increased purchasing power of domestic labour would more than offset the potentially increased prices.
He has the choice of sticking to policy but having an accident, or ignoring the policy to avert the accident, only to cause a different accident later due to some additional factors.
Toyota isn't the shining star it once was. Cost cutting has pulled Toyota vehicles much closer to the industry average. As well as the general quality level of American and korean automakers improving over the last 10 years.

Notable exceptions being the Prius and some of the Lexus lineup.
As someone who's been working in the industry about 20 years now, I agree with some of the points. I don't agree with the attitude toward testing.

I worked at Microsoft for about 12 years and when I joined I was an SDET (sort of a dev who does testing). I honestly found it strange that there was a separate role to test code that was written. It just seemed so wasteful. There were strict "QA testers" as well, but they worked with the finished product as opposed to writing code that tested other code.

When I finally switched to the dev role at the company, I would routinely see other devs writing code and throwing it over the fence to be tested. Testers would find an issue and then throw it back. Many of these bugs were such obvious things that could go wrong to me that it was clear the developer didn't take 5 minutes to try scenarios other than the happy path.

I do think you can go too far with TDD and unit tests and that often they are more trouble than they're worth to set up and do prevent you from moving more quickly. Often, you don't know your problem space well enough to start planning your tests. However, it's a very old school attitude to think that you can just rely on QA to do testing for you. It may have worked in the past, but only products took longer to release and there was a smaller audience for what you did.
If they accumulate too much at the expense of other - eventually they'll self destruct.

I honestly think that natural evolution of this process is better than government-managed.

Because the smart people who accumulate more advantages tends to share it with other more and this helps them to maintain wealth.
Dumb wealthy - will self-destruct faster via natual evolution of events.

Whenever government decides that they can do it better - disaster results typically follow for all.
hi ksaj, frettr has that feature- it's just denoted as "tune up 1/2 step" because the chords are tuned up in the recognition process. I'll change it to "tune down 1/2 step" though because I see how it's confusing. I'm a big SRV and Hendrix guy, so I couldn't forget to add this in development though. thx for the feedback! -grudnyai22
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> cheat out some legislative relevance rather than compete on product. Many companies being disrupted do that (see recent viasat story, US car dealerships, etc.)

Or all the recent hullabaloo against Apple’s App Store
At current gas price there are many places where EVs are already cheaper to operate.

It's unrealistic to switch everyone to EVs right now. But many two car households could reasonable have one EV and one ICE car. The Chevrolet Volt was pretty much perfect for the current situation: most commuting would happen on the battery but the extra long trips would switch over to gas.
Personally, I would choose option 3.

If you control the NAS, physically, then you can reduce some complexity by having unencrypted (and easily browsable) backups there ... and save the encryption for the rsync.net side of things ...

ALSO, if the NAS side of things is unencrypted, then you can establish a nice zfs snapshot schedule on the NAS and have those quickly and easily browsable as well. If you have borg backups on the NAS then even the simplest of restores becomes a full blown "restore" operation with decryption and keys, etc.
I think what you're thinking of the "made for kids" checkbox, which just decides if YouTube can collect data on the audience if the video is the target audience of a video is kids: "To help protect kids’ privacy and meet legal requirements, we have to limit data collection and use on videos that are set as “made for kids." [0] I agree its very confusing for creators.

The age restriction is a separate option, and it's unclear whether the restriction on this Harris/Weinstein is self-imposed or imposed by the platform.

[0] https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/9684541?hl=en&ref_...
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Also they’ve had a few explosions.

Usually hydrogen delivery trucks, but they list them as explosions “at the plant” in what I guess is a trick to hide the fact that these trucks that are driving around city streets can explode. Then also some at retail filling stations.
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> There are people who live in very remote places where electric is not possible, and in some cases extremely dangerous.

Not sure where that comes from. Modern EVs have > 400km of real range, which is already more than what you'd regularly want to drive in a day. Charging is fast enough for longer journeys and if you don't drive the full range every day, regular at-home charging should suffice. (The obvious factor is the price, which hopefully shouldn't be an issue by then, since EVs are currently coming down in price fast)

The more interesting thing is that for people in the big city, EVs are maybe also not so great. You aren't gonna take a 15 min break while quickly charging on a few minute shopping trip and charging for street parking doesn't look like it's coming soon. Additionally, (at least here in germany) charging stations are way more expensive than at-home charging.

> If the people who live in the big city make it economically infeasible to have anything that's not electric,

I known this doesn't help, but regarding climate change: It's economically infeasible to have anything non electric already. The cost is simply deferred to the future. The additional question is if simply switching to EVs is enough, but there's not a lot of certainty in either direction.
That also depends on passenger weight, or if you're hauling something. The new electric trucks plummet on mileage if they are carrying weight. I understand that gasoline vehicles do the same thing, but not at such a steep rate.

I don't think a lot of commenters here have much experience living in rural environments.

This doesn't even begin to touch on the ability to repair the vehicles.
Seems awfully lopsided. Wonder how that will play out.
>The "court of public opinion" didn't prevented walled gardens on the mobile world

That's more like megacorp vs consumers, not megacorp vs megacorp. Trying to force vendors to remove piracy apps would be closer to the latter. As a concrete example, apple's app tracking transparency seem so be doing pretty well.
The chance that you live for 70 years after you have an extra $40,000 to invest is highly unlikely unless you started out wealthy. Also, you will not get 7% annual interest on $40K.

Edit: Let me expand. You won't get 7% real returns on $40K. Yes, the S&P500 can return that much, but that's before inflation.

OP was comparing the cost of a car now to the average wealthy person's inheritance now, which isn't a fair comparison. You have to account for inflation over 70 years.
Oxford Languages defines censorship as "the suppression or prohibition of any parts of books, films, news, etc. that are considered obscene, politically unacceptable, or a threat to security."

Mirriam-Webster defines a censor as "a person who supervises conduct and morals," adding a subdefinition as "an official who examines materials (such as publications or films) for objectionable matter." The relevant definition for "censorship" simply points at the word "censor," so it was not useful for my argument.

In any case, I think wiki is not 100% right according to the actual language authorities. MS deliberately categorizes otherwise-harmless piracy-related software as deletion-worthy, and that isn't censorship? When they clearly have a conflict of interest in that some of that software represents a direct threat to their revenue stream? C'mon dude.
> Of course, the untraceable payments ....

Undermined his credibility right there. Not worth reading the rest.
Nit: a queue is a line waiting for something (stuck in the queue), a cue is a signal to perform some action (that's my cue)
I'm also curious - I looked at a lot of EVs (maybe all that were available?) before getting the Model 3 (and had a Fiat 500e prior to that).

None of them really came close in features and most were not competitive on cost either.
Taking your question at face value.

Meritocracy: A system in which advancement is based on individual ability or achievement.

If you think the most able individuals are creating and running the largest organizations, and know whats best for those organizations, why would you want the state to allocate those resources upon death of the individual?

Also, most people have a time span much greater than their own life. I know I do. If I knew I wasn't able to leave a better life for my decedents, I wouldn't work as hard. If you have a wealth creation mindset (wealth is created) then this would be devastating to productive individuals
> It's no wonder people think violence has increased... as you yourself said, there are more murders!

Well, no. People think crime has increased because that's what people always seem to think. Why is that the case? I don't think anyone knows for sure, but probably some combination of the media amplifying the most egregious crimes ("if it bleeds, it leads" etc.) and politicians (of both parties, historically) hoping to gain an advantage from painting their opponents as "soft on crime."

> but that people's perceptions of crime are wrong in that they believe it's increased

I never claimed this. I claimed that the evidence shows that people's perceptions of crime bear no relationship to actual crime stats. (And therefore "perceptions" are a bad way to make policy in this particular case.)

> Here's yet another gotcha when evaluating crime stats: the idea that any crime is interchangeable is silly. Some crimes are many orders of magnitude worse than others.

This is true of course, but as far as perceptions go the most egregious forms of crime are actually the ones most people are least likely to be exposed to (thankfully!). I am with you in that the rises in murder rates are concerning. But - as I've been saying all along - to have a reasonable discussion about what we ought to do about it requires first laying out the facts.
How many people die because they didn't listen to their doctor?
(Ignoring the comparative suitability of European countries) It bears mentioning that TSMC and ASML are fundamentally different businesses in terms of their clientele, costs, inputs, institutional knowledge, sales volume, and other key characteristics. They operate at very different stages of the semiconductor supply chain.
I think that you've got to take American culture's Calvinist roots into account. In many pockets of American culture, especially historically but even now, the distinction between wealth and merit is fuzzy at best.
Range isn't the problem, lack of charging stations is. Drive around any city at night and look how many cars are parked overnight on streets and in parking lots with no chargers anywhere near. That infrastructure can be built but it will take decades.
Let's split the difference. "Emotionally rejecting strong evidence contrary to their belief system."
Yeah I listened to a podcast recently about sleep, and how 'sleep' medications such as Ambien are only a partial method of inducing sleep, more like inducing unconsciousness and thus it changes your sleep architecture and prevents you from entering the proper deep sleep cycles. Wouldn't be surprised that benedryll has a similar problem if you use it to help you sleep and not just as an anti-histamine that you stay awake throughout.

https://www.peak-human.com/post/dr-kirk-parsley-md-is-sleep-...
The S&P 500, over its history, has returned north of 9% per year.

https://www.investopedia.com/ask/answers/042415/what-average...
The "shirtsleeves to shirtsleeves in three generations"-* is already a well-established pattern (if it was newer, we'd call it a meme, but this concept is older than that word).

* - The general inability of grandchildren to effectively manage the wealth passed down to them from their grandparents and parents. This is made even worse when it's an operating business.
generally I consider this a benevolent act, a big improvement, but in China's case, a post-NAT world makes digital survellianceuch easier, if every device is directly on the internet.
My version of this is https://dogsheep.github.io/ - the idea is to pull your digital footprint from various different sources (Twitter, Foursquare, GitHub etc) into SQLite database files, then run Datasette on top to explore them.

On top of that I built a search engine called Dogsheep Beta which builds a full-text search index across all of the different sources and lets you search in one place: https://github.com/dogsheep/dogsheep-beta

You can see a live demonstration of that search engine on the Datasette website: https://datasette.io/-/beta?q=dogsheep

The key difference I see with Apollo is that Dogsheep separates fetching of data from search and indexing, and uses SQLite as the storage format. I'm using a YAML configuration to define how the search index should work: https://github.com/simonw/datasette.io/blob/main/templates/d... - it defines SQL queries that can be used to build the index from other tables, plus HTML fragments for how those results should be displayed.
U.S. Centric Comment: I like to think about a system where major monetary and land inheritances are taxed 100%, put into a fund that is given out equally to all citizens, i.e. The American Inheritance.

Pros: Meritocracy which emphasizes personal responsibility and makes it clear that the whole ship rises or sinks together. Would diminish disparities.

Cons: Lot's of nitty gritty complications, loopholes, etc. attachment to places and things. Longevity, medicine, and wealth.
I just figured he was referring to USD.
Surprised that they need to pay. Plenty do it just for the views.
In this case based on them targeting node/express on the backend and react on the front, the advantage is that you can create a language that is easily-ish translateable into Javascript.

The problem with using a Ruby or other language DSL is that since you're giving the developer full access to the programming language, you now have to also support translating the full scope of the programming language into Javascript.

One might then say just make it a JS framework except that JS syntax doesn't lend itself to these kinds of DSLs the way Ruby and several other languages do.
>> with a sheet of paper and a pen, going through and manually checking servers off a list

Military here. We still do that. Classified systems have to be mustered (counted) regularly. Electronic records can be hacked/altered/spoofed remotely. In many situations that clipboard on a hook remains a perfectly valid security device, especially for systems/weapons/things that are not powered up 24/7.