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I guess that is worth the death count to you? Not to me.

Dedicated servers are often so much cheaper these days, but it is not the new cloud, so a lot of startups look the other way.

> Human beings like yourself require material inputs to live – food, shelter, energy, to name only a few. Just by being alive on a biosphere, you are impacting the environment in some way. T

They would be doing that if they were not giving massages.

I love the idea of someone having to use a globe in their job.

Also, a great way to trick people into buying less.

> The alternative is to reduce quality, which usually results in a death spiral.

Or increase cost.

This is just stupid. Does this ignore the calories the driver uses up as well?

> I don't know why Tesla and other electric car manufacturers don't yell and shout more about how much better electric cars are for human health in cities.

Well, because they are not that much better. Still more people are killed directly by cars (40,000 a year in the USA, more than guns deaths), and they still cause plastic pollution due to their tires.

If anyone actually cares about pollution or human health, they will not be buying any car.

Ok, fair. But how about them being free to not interfere with what their players and managers support?

If you are in the US, are 40,000 deaths a year and over 2 million injured of disabled worth it for the convenience they bring? Not to me. Are those direct deaths going to stop with electric cars? Not while people are in control.

> Cars are fast, and in areas that are not ultra high-density, they save time relative to ANY alternative (walking, biking, buses, trains) and therefore drastically improve your quality of life

I mean, of course, does anyone deny that. They improve your life over the lives of others. Cars are incredibly bad for society, insanely bad. If someone had come up with the idea of a private car today, they would be rightly lambasted for their idiotic and dangerous idea. 2 tonne chunks of metal hurling down streets at 50mph mere feet away from unprotected people? Insane.

> as a person that used to use the bicycle to commute to the office I can tell I had just 6-7 months when I was able to do that

I had no problem riding every day of the year in Paris. Loved it. The cobblestones were worse than the weather.

> toaster strudels

I am sure you can get the same effect in your country by just pouring a cup of sugar on each slice of toast.

There are high end toasters in the west. I feel like no one did any research at all.

https://www.toaster.org/glass-toasters/

> Really cheap? I have a friend who is a single mother with a 7-year-old Lego addict, who also loves all things Jurassic World.

Well, like all of us who didn't grow up rich, she has to adapt and get the cheap lego sets, rather than whatever the kid wants.

> Now I see them as just like any other business

That is more on you than Lego.

> Fleabag is a spectacular show, and deserves every accolade.

And it hardly has anything to do with Amazon, they just helped fund some of it with BBC3.

> Reducing the chance of having to live with the fact that I ran somebody over and seriously harmed or even killed them, that's indeed worth an extra y dollars to me.

If you actually cared, you wouldn't drive at all.

Oh yes, forgot about all those cars killed by pedestrians.

And 2.5million people are injured or disabled every year.

> around for the next "it" device but creating nothing that is truly revolutionary.

I hate people who talk like this, as if there is something magical that people should be working on.

Road crashes cost the U.S. $230.6 billion per year, or an average of $820 per person.

https://www.asirt.org/safe-travel/road-safety-facts/

Don't forget about the huge amount of spending on hospitals and morgues required for the 40,000 dead every single year (more than guns shots), and 2.35 million that are injured or disabled.

> The massive waste of resources involved in hauling 2 tons of steel and glass down from speed to 0

Even without slowing down this is huge waste of resources. The fact we allow people to do this is insane.

> When I rule the world, there will be a ban on 4-way stops, red arrows, and parking lots without walkways.

You are insane if you think you can make cars safe. They should just not be around people at all.

Do you really imagine a lot of people would the satisfied working in a pizza restaurant for life?

If you are driving a car you are destroying our planet.

>Global warming has been self-reinforcing since before my dad was born, so a 100% reduction in human co2 emissions will not stop climate change, just slow it down.

Just like death, I guess we shouldn't bother with trying to slow that down.

Didn't they just get a 300m injection? That is a pretty big confidence boost that you are doing things right.

Oh, you are, are you?

Why is spacex trying to show you ads?

> She coded circles around (and out-adulted) her younger colleagues.

How would you ever know this?

> People in tech generally have no clue of how much money gets made in finance

People in everything have no clue. Nothing to do with tech people being ignorant.