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tobylane··on UK to ban sale of new petrol and diesel cars from 2030: FT
> Used cars, which were on the road before April 2017 and produce low levels of carbon dioxide emissions (the limit is 100g/km CO2 or less), continue to be taxed under the old system and retain their tax-free status, whether powered by petrol, diesel or electricity.

The UK is making sensible small steps. That quoted rule has ended and now only electric cars are exempt from that tax. We’ve had high fuel taxes for a while, though frozen lately for poor reasons, rather than the planned increases.

https://www.buyacar.co.uk/cars/economical-cars/low-emission-...

tobylane··on Ask HN: What vitamins and legal nootropics take every day
Do you have some numbers for this? As I understand it anyone with healthy % of body fat has far more than enough reserves for just days of fasting.
tobylane··on The rise of platonic co-parenting
Natural conception is one of three choices and the matching sites do kick men out for insisting on this one. Others use turkey basters.
tobylane··on The rise of platonic co-parenting
From your reasoning I understand why you’re against divorced/separated/never-married parents but not why you’re against single parents. Against might be an overstatement.
tobylane··on PayPal terminates account of Epik, home to Proud Boys domain and Gab
Without Visa, Mastercard or Paypal on the other side how can it survive? Cryptocurrencies as the current niche are hanging on, I suspect for as long as VMP permit them (ie buying bitcoin with a credit card). Everyone else, even Apple, go through them.
tobylane··on AI cameras introduced in London to monitor social distancing
Yes, here's another example in London where a low quality black and white frame was used to see if a bus seat is empty. https://www.standard.co.uk/news/transport/bus-cameras-set-to...
tobylane··on Show HN: Wikimap – A map of all geotagged Wikipedia articles
Interesting. I wouldn't have known about seemingly every village in Iran having an article.
tobylane··on Hydrogen-powered train makes UK maiden journey
Yes, all the diesel train engines are diesel-electric, and on some routes they use bi-mode (eg electric London to near Bristol, diesel-electric to Cardiff) trains.
tobylane··on Show HN: Live dashboard of every email Trump and Biden are sending
I'd like to see their a/b tests. Can you sign up another few email addresses and compare them?
tobylane··on I am sick of people defending Apple
I jailbroke my iPhone and tried out many from the most popular list in the Cydia? store. After about two months I unjailbroke because I didn't care for any of benefits I had personally experienced. It sounds like there's a lot of people who did this, in part because Apple takes inspiration from the jailbreak-only apps.
tobylane··on Ask HN: Does Apple profit from sharing user data?
Apple launched their privacy protecting ad network iAd 10 years ago, it mostly closed 4 years ago.
tobylane··on How to Talk About Books You Haven’t Read
As the article somewhat proves: just read a review of it. This morning I read the LR review of a book about the Habsburgs [1]. This afternoon I will watch Lindsey Ellis's third video on the Hobbit [2], where I've learned not just what LOTR and the Hobbit meant to readers but the influences on readers, watchers and people in the country they filmed in. Both have changed how I talk about books I've read fully.

https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v42/n18/ferdinand-mount/the-... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qi7t_g5QObs

tobylane··on Britain’s CO2 Emissions Have Fallen to Levels Last Seen in 1890 (2018)
I interpreted it as we (UK) are piped gas from Russia. We aren't, our gas is primarily from the North Sea.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-43421431#:~:text=However...). (link jumps to the chart)

tobylane··on The economics of the Tour de France
Formula1 has the Concorde Agreement (re-agreed last month) which sounds like it solves that problem. UK football has something similar.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concorde_Agreement

tobylane··on Data Broker Opt-Out List
The EU says individuals, and I've always understood it to be anyone in the EU countries plus EU citizens anywhere.

https://ec.europa.eu/info/law/law-topic/data-protection/refo...

tobylane··on The Architecture of Open Source Applications
Are you looking for a book club like group to hop around with or some projects eager to have you?
tobylane··on App Review process updates
It wouldn’t be a good reviewing process from the users side if you can’t have certainty that the apps in the store have passed the process successfully. The users should have this certainty, not the devs.
tobylane··on SQLite 3.33
For those of us who haven’t had a few GB SQLite db, does it perform different to one that is a few MB?
tobylane··on TSA considers new system for flyers without ID
Does that make it zip code lottery for your right to drive or fly?
tobylane··on Marmalade: A Very British Obsession
I didn’t know that and I don’t think we were taught that detail. He was from New Zealand and ‘we count that’ as some say. The teachers probably stressed the British expedition part of the truth.

I can’t stand Seville orange marmalade but lime marmalade is good.

tobylane··on Ask HN: Are ongoing stimulus and extra jobless benefits economically dangerous?
It may be more related to the death count, and subsequent trust in the administration. It's complicated, and a mix of opinions, betting and hedging. You are certainly part right but I don't think it's a majority.
tobylane··on Amazon’s UK FBA operations will be split from the EU
No. Notably in picking seasonal food. The supermarkets don’t pay enough for the food. The picking companies don’t demand enough, plus they have some questionable or outright illegal employment practises. Most of all it’s hard work and Brits simply don’t last in the job.
tobylane··on NewPipe – ad-free, open-source Android YouTube client
That’s not live playback, and I think it’s a scraper rather than using the API.
tobylane··on U.S. attorney general: Hollywood, tech companies “pawns of Chinese influence”
Robin Hood isn’t exactly in line with American principles either. Guy against the law robs from the rich to give to the poor. I feel like Peter Pan is the replacement figure.

Cultural manipulation is a little woolly, does it have other names you like?

tobylane··on What if the Trinity test had failed?
I really enjoyed the Manhattan series, which covered similar ground. Some reasonably accurate but dramatised scenes about viability of the bomb types and exploring how to get there, both physically and in maths. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manhattan_(TV_series)
tobylane··on No, you couldn't have made more money than the Twitter hacker
You probably have to give Robinhood information about yourself for anti money laundering legislation. I don’t use them, but I had to give my birthplace and National Insurance (UK’s SSN) because of the latest round of aml law.
tobylane··on An Iron Age skeleton with his hands bound found in Wendover
There’s been a few interesting finds in peat bogs.
tobylane··on Ask HN: It the trend toward RISC permanent?
Intel's x86_64 and AMD's amd64 are RISC underneath. Does that make everything in the mainstream RISC, just that most of it isn't exposed to the user? https://stackoverflow.com/questions/5806589/why-does-intel-h...
tobylane··on U.S. Supreme Court deems half of Oklahoma a Native American reservation
I think it’s not about his freedom, but one of the two courts that could charge him have the death penalty. His legal case is about avoiding that.
tobylane··on Help Message for Shell Scripts
If I understand your need correctly: pandoc.
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