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The applications of this technology in this particular space seem limited, given the inevitable demise of the internal combustion engine as a mass market technology. Barring any massive breakthroughs, thermoelectric generators are simply not efficient enough to adequately offset the heat energy losses in ICEs.

I guess it could be argued that it had been in the process of sinking for a longer time, but I don't know enough about the history of the USSR to assert that being the case

What changeover is there to be had if using trailing commas is not mandatory?

It's kind of a joke to conflate either of those presidents with social democrats.

I don't know, I think Kotlin strikes a pretty good balance as far as languages go. What's your preference over it?

The real improvement is to lift nullability up to the type system. That way, every type acts as an optional by default, and the computer can infer when a nullable type has been null-checked.

This is what Kotlin does - it's truly freeing to work with.

You can certainly do that if you want, but lying on the sofa is quite viable as well.

The point I wanted to make was that if you go hard every day, that will be actively harmful to your fitness goals.

5/3/1 has a bunch of variations that take about that amount of time and still gives you consistent progress, as well.

Exercise does however explicitly require some zero days, a lesson I've learned the hard way. You need time to recover, and that involves doing nothing.

That's a different topic than whether driving is absolutely safe or not. It's been proven that it's very much not.

It's of course easy to be abstract and talk about the value of lives versus your favourite mode of transportation.

Would you have the same opinion if the deaths were concentrated to your particular branch of the human family tree? Everyone else gets to drive. Is the value proposition still as clear to you?

This might seem like a good idea at first, but it would essentially result in complete gridlock as the roads fill up with circulating self-driving cars.

No, there's definitely a better solution for this - using self-driving trains to move people.

What a weird thing to lie about.

There were a grand total of 50 homicides on U.S transit in 2022. The number of deaths from drivers was 42k that year.

This is not a serious concern, and it's telling of the mindset of drivers in the U.S.

42k people in the U.S die per year from being hit by drivers, and far more get injured.

There's no credibility to your statement, whatsoever.

This comment is telling about your values when it comes to both cars and buses.

Consider some introspection.

Nope, it's been great for poorer people who take transit at higher rates than others, and congestion pricing funds useful transit expansions for them.

I agree that semis are subsidized to a ridiculous degree, but I don't agree that we necessarily _need_ them. What we need is a way to transport things, and in a non-subsidized world, we'd probably come up with a different way which could be just as good or better.

You can already extrapolate from the results from other cities who have implemented the policy, where it has been wildly successful at reducing congestion.

In practice, number 1 really never happens in Sweden. Sure, there are people looking for bottles in public trashcans, but they are not exclusively homeless nor do they leave a mess behind after collecting any potential recyclables from the cans. Private trashcans don't really contain recyclables as everyone collects what containers they buy and redeem them at the store when going to buy groceries. Number 2 doesn't happen either because the bottles have to have barcodes that actually grant the reward, which foreign containers do not.

Note that our method of "recycling" plastic is burning them for energy in the form of district heating/electricity.

Still, beats landfilling.

I'm enjoying my iGS630 as well!

I've been considering getting the Magene power meter cranks as well but was a bit hesitant on account of the relatively larger price tag, and it being the first item I would be buying that is subject to tariffs in the EU (it's hard to figure out whether there are anti-dumping tariffs in place).

How are you enjoying them? Also, do you have any other nice Chinese cycling gear to recommend?

I'm not sure I'd consider Copilot the best tool in the space, but I agree otherwise.

You're off the mark here - I'm in great shape and exercise more or less every day.

At the same time, I keep up with the latest science and understand the limitations of exercise as a means of sustainable weight loss for the general population.

Please stop talking about simple arithmetic - the body is not a simple machine and trying to conceptualize it as such is willfully ignorant.

You're treating the human body as a far simpler system that it actually is, leading to drawing unsupported conclusions about the efficacy of exercise as an intervention for fat loss.

Yep, I've noticed this as well.

The desktop UI actually worked pretty much fine on mobile, to be honest. I ran it for a while using the porting methods available from the desktop binaries to an APK. The mobile UI basically just changes the interactions from a small button on the card to a drag-bases UI, which is slightly better on mobile.

>> If the car industry is that important to the west, then we can nationalize it

>Nope. History has taught us --many times and across many cultures-- that this is a truly bad idea.

I don't think there's any valid argument for protectionism without accountability or in the very least any form of return from the car industry. Currently, there's very little of that.

>> we could reduce the relevance of the car market entirely by transitioning towards a transportation system that is not focused on automobiles, favouring trains

>Nope. If we are talking about the US, this is impossible. It would require a complete re-engineering of not only our society but every single town and city. We have enough problems that we fail to address to add another pipe dream to the list. Look at the disaster that is the high speed train project in California. Now imagine that multiplied by a thousand, or ten thousand.

China has built arguably the most expansive HSR network basically from scratch in 10 years - what essentially entails a complete re-engineering. Decarbonizing will be a complete re-engineering. Hell, building out the road network was arguably also a complete re-engineering.

Quit making excuses and start delivering results, there's no valid argument for the west adopting a position of patheticism given our past.

>> and bicycles <snip>.

>C'mon.

Not exactly what I would call a compelling argument.

>> This also helps with the energy consumption issue since these modes of transportation are vastly more energy efficient.

>Given reality, this is irrelevant.

Yikes.

If the car industry is that important to the west, then we can nationalize it and strip the current ownership/management of everything they gained from the venture, since they've clearly squandered their lead in the space in favour of siphoning of cash instead.

Alternatively, we could reduce the relevance of the car market entirely by transitioning towards a transportation system that is not focused on automobiles, favouring trains (these are still competitive when built in Europe afaik) and bicycles (we'd have to learn to make these in the west again, but this is a smaller leap than doing the same for cars). This also helps with the energy consumption issue since these modes of transportation are vastly more energy efficient.

>No. Housing projects lead to nothing but misery and more homelessness.

Now there's a hot take if I ever saw one.

That source makes claims that its data does not actually back up - that road infrastructure is actually paid for by user fees, while only actually providing data that highway infrastructure is paid for by user fees. Highways are clearly not most road infrastructure.