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> Open source tech is a marketplace of ideas. If you have a more perfect alternative then it will prevail.

React has had Facebook promoting it for over a decade… it's hardly a marketplace of ideas… more "Facebook is using this so it must be good enough for us"

The rise of the trillionaires is predicted on someone to buy their products and if 'everyone' is laid off due to AI they're not going to have the money to spend

I’ve heard enough about their past behaviour from separate independent sources to know I’d never use Ladybird

And how long before this gets flagged off HN?

You're not paying for someone else's roof… it forms part of the house value when you sell

Given shingles last between 20-30 years someone's got to pay the cost of re-roofing on a regular basis throughout the house's lifetime

Then you've got the added maintenance, flammability and other downsides of a shingle roof to take into account too

When we moved in I had my house re-roofed to add insulation and a breathable membrane

Took a day to take all the tiles off the front, add insulation, membrane and batten it. Then another half day or so to put the original tiles back on

Back took slightly longer because we had some alterations done but it was just over a week in total effort

I’ve never understood why so many houses in the US have felt shingles rather than a longer lasting alternative

Tiles on my house are at least 150yrs old

This Estonian companies does that https://roofit.solar/

There’re commonly used on new build houses in the UK — new roofs in the UK have a waterproof but breathable membrane under the tiles

Also see https://roofit.solar/ used in a few houses… mainly self build a or architect designed

What 40k cars were available on Motability?

Article in the Guardian suggested the medic had been in a tandem jump before bu the doctor hadn't (or it might be the other way around)

There’s not actually that much high level waste… thing the UK has a couple swimming pools worth after 50 years of operating reactors

Currently reading it and I’d agree!

> The other major issue with "free money" is that it is purely inflationary,

Free money as in quantitative easing that overwhelmingly benefited the wealthy?

There are / were no £40k+ cars available on Motability

Can't find it now but there's a breakdown of the cars supplied somewhere and even when small BMWs etc were available very few people chose them - most people chose smaller average cars

Motability also plays a huge role in priming the used car market in the UK - without them there would be less choice and cars would be more expensive

Yes and to get a 'luxury car' aka small Audi, BMW or Mercedes someone had to put down a deposit of £3,000 of their own money

This has a breakdown of the numbers by fuel type, brand etc.

https://www.smmt.co.uk/vehicle-data/car-registrations/

Motability is not 'a Government scheme that buys people cars'

People use the mobility part of their PIP payments to lease a car from Motability which is an independent company, they could use the mobility payment to pay for taxi instead.

Diesel is down YoY https://www.smmt.co.uk/vehicle-data/car-registrations/

How long does it take to get from a helipad to the terminals at JFK?

Even at 15 Euros I bet its way cheaper than a helicopter or electric VTOL aircraft

iOS Safari definitely used BoringSSL last time I checked it with Frida

> The UK does not have a good, cheap solution plentiful cheap electric in the next decade or two, so any major increase in demand will mean even higher costs.

Of course it does… the UK has tariffs that change by electricity demand and supply capacity

As we build out more renewables there will be more times of excess supply and hence cheaper electricity during these times

The buildout of battery storage and north-south inter-connectors will reduce this fluctuation but it’ll still be there

Over time the UK is going to switch it’s pattern of electricity consumption

Nope…

People who receive PIP can choose to use to lease a car from Motability which is an independent scheme

Those people could equally choose to have an ICE car

Yes… but (from memory) someone recreated it but can remember who

Just introduce a charge per mile for EVs as the current government have already done

ICE cars are already hugely subsidised by ignoring the health issues they cause e.g. air pollution

What we really need in the UK is better mass transit systems in cities and their commuter zones to remove cars from the roads

iOS (and MacOS) now use Google’s BoringSSL instead and have for many years

The Spruce Mine story was a classic case of this hysteria as there were other sources of pure silica e.g. Norway

And of course it's now flagged…