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The point is that creating a new chess site today would require to be better than lichess. If we look where Magnus Carlsen investment goes, they are all paid services (Play Magnus/chess24/chessable). He doesn't event try to compete with chess.com/lichess.

- speed limits are not enforced in practice

- steady 25 km/h on a bike path is still too much, where you can see 8 year olds on their first bikes, runners, animals, roller bladers and all kinds of distracted and inexperienced bikers; 25 km/h is faster than most other users on the already narrow path; 25 km/h + 25 km/h = 50 km/h in possible frontal collisions

- headlights of the e-scooters are pointed straight ahead and cannot turn away; on a straight path they basically blind other users

- in the dark, it's very difficult to estimate the distance to an approaching e-scooter, because it has only one (blinding) headlight, and it moves at a constant speed, and it moves _fast_

So the information which they collect may be the same, but my trust to different entities is completely different. Like most people, I go for a compromise, and I trust some of them, and accept what I can't change. I just want to keep the number of trusted entities as small as possible. The vendors of my car, my bike, my fridge, my vacuum cleaner, and my t-shirt are not among those I want to have any role in my life after I paid them money.

At least with conventional cars there is an option to skip BMWs and get a dumb car. There are vacuum cleaners which don't need an app to work. e-bikes can be used without an app. If I need anything online, I have a phone.

The server fingerprints the user and shares this info with an ad network, fetches and injects a personalized ad. Same result, zero accountability: no way to delete server side PII, no way to know what information was collected, no way to know how it was actually used. Even worse, the server gets to read the ad delivered to you, which may leak even more information.

There is no purely technical solution which can replace regulation.

It would require a commute longer than that of going to the office. An average employee has already organized their life around the necessity of commuting to the office. Office is probably a central location.

Most workers will be found within a circle of the tolerable commute time (isotropy assumption). Let for simplicity assume that all workers live at the same distance R from the office, and are distributed uniformly along that circle. The angular distance between any two employees is distributed uniformly in [0, pi]. Chord length is R 2 sin (theta/2). Integrating, we calculate the average distance between two employees: 4R/pi > R.

Witcher universe is very East European, so this was another show that's not only epic, but it felt different from the generic fantasy. I am not sure how much can be attributed to the original franchise, and how much to Netflix production.

I am glad to see German series. How to sell drugs online fast, S1 was good.

Seriously, though, if the tech needs to be actively camouflaged and there's death penalty only for its possession, there's no way many people will use it. So it will be useless to inform and organize people, it will be useless to broadcast what's really happening inside.

My Spotify history is full of songs and playlists which I don't even like, and I use it to explore other genres and artists. It's reasonable that only 5% of everyday people listen to is good enough to be acquired permanently.

Energy production in EU-27 in 2020: 38% renewables (growing), 25% nuclear, 37% fossil fuels (decreasing). That's already 63% from zero-carbon sources.

I remember it worked better in 2016...

Paperwork is not a bottleneck of the Italian vaccination program (and many other EU vaccination efforts). AstraZeneca not honouring their obligations to EU while prioritizing UK, is actually killing people. There are tens of millions of doses many countries counted on, which are not delivered. That's what's killing people, not the inconvenience of filling a paper form.

It's more likely over Deliveroo fines which are coming. Italy demands €773M in fines for unpaid social security contributions. Italy won't be the only country.

https: //www.reddit.com/r/europe/comments/mbd6q1/the_green_partys_woman_problem_the_spectator/grxxbzx/

As far as I know Reddit doesn't maintain previous edits, so this is also a cover up, and it prevents any recourse.

Various reports estimate electric vehicle cost parity to be achieved around 2025 for small cars, and around 2028 for SUVs (source: theicct.org/sites/default/files/publications/EV_cost_2020_2030_20190401.pdf)

Used ICE cars will probably remain a cheaper option for another 10 years.

Usually there are many parking lots open to the sky, and they even cost less.

Tesla cars are heavier, twice as powerful and twice as expensive. Solar panels trade trade design freedom for utility. I'm not sure that big flat surfaces and an MPV silhouette would do well for a luxury vehicle.

- Annual driving distance of petrol vehicles is 10000 km/year or less (250 km or ~155 miles per work week) [source: ACEA_Report_Vehicles_in_use-Europe_2017]. Extending this range by 112 km/week on average is not a bad proposition, if it's real.

- Average TCO in the first 5 years is over EUR 40_000 anyway [source: www.leaseplan.com/corporate/news-and-media/newsroom/2020/30-09-2020]. So most people who can afford a new car, can afford this one.

- The price tag EUR 25_500 is fair. VW Golf 8 is a vehicle of a similar size, and it starts at EUR 26_100, so it's basically the same.

- In the cities, street parking is often the only option, and most industrial areas use open parking; so getting some sunlight is not impossible.

So this tech is not more expensive than conventional vehicles (at least on paper). It can potentially reduce charging needs by 40% or more for a typical European user (who admittedly doesn't drive much). It's not very attractive without a network of easily accessible charging stations, but that applies to all EVs.

Given that all other businesses pay these taxes, it's only fair that gig economy startups pay theirs.

Just in case, this is the original piece written by Noam Bardin: https://paygo.media/p/25171