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> An iPhone or a Toyota Corolla costs the same in the US as it does in China. A maxed out iPhone costs RMB 13999 in China, which is about USD 1925. The same iPhone costs USD 1599 i…

> The paper suggests biking only 118 days per year. The car ownership costs are not "saved" - the projected savings are wrong. Were does it suggests that? The number 118 doesn't ap…

> It is outrageously expensive. Quite the opposite. > Can you point me to a report that has a cost/benefit analysis of adding bike lanes for a city? A city that isn't "ideal" for c…

> It’s 100% that they cost as much as a decent used car. Apples and oranges. You can get cargo bikes second hand too.

Yes, I own both. The three-wheeled ones take some getting used to. You can't take turns at a high speed or you'll tip over. They are nice when you are standing still, because they …

No, it preheats the cold water connected to your shower. Warmer cold water means you need less hot water to achieve the same temperature in the shower.

Why not? I do.

Why would the number of cars grow by 5% for the next 100 years? Currently there are 1.4 billion cars. Projections say the world population will peak at 10 billion. Even if everyone…

Adidas adizero adios (the old ones, before they grew a thick sole). Allbirds had a nice shoe they developed together with Adidas, which is discontinued now. Some Nike free, but the…

> Second important thing are fresh shoes. No more than 600km. That’s what shoe companies want you to believe. I just run until they fall apart. A couple of thousand km easily. 2:45…

A Google search of 'bedbug' and any major city in Europe will return plenty of hits.

Maybe I'm missing something, but after a cursory glance, I can't find any place where that library does an fsync() call. How does it handle durability?

> If, say, ChatGPT is superintelligent, the only way it can hurt you is through insult or persuasion. People are already hooking up ChatGPT to the command line of their computers a…

The problem is far from solved. It's not enough that carbon emissions will peak soon. They need to come down fast. And we do not have a decade or two.

> Ultimately not much you can do with money except spend it on things you enjoy You could spend it to help other people, if you’re out of ideas.

> It’s not just that it’s a big spend, but it’s a big spend on something 75% of people don’t use even if you did it. Are we to take your word that 75% of the people won't use it? C…

I cannot speak for the safe part, but here in Belgium plenty of people leave their Urban Arrows outside (with a rain cover).

It's true that you'll get more exercise if you do the same trip on a regular bicycle. But according to [1], e-cyclists cycles more and longer than regular cyclists. End result is t…

Do a google image search for 'Dutch on bicycles'. None of those people in the pictures need to change or shower after their ride. Same thing were I live. We only wear special cycli…

> Okay, weird bit of pedantry - pretty sure that if a math test asks you to ‘calculate the product of 127 and 954’ you wouldn’t get many marks for answering ‘about 100,000’, but fe…

> You can’t calculate NPV. You can only estimate it. According to Merrian-Webster [1]: calculate: 1 b: to reckon by exercise of practical judgment : ESTIMATE [1] https://www.merria…

> In real terms, you will get back exactly a hundred million. In nominal terms. In real terms you have to adjust for inflation. [1] is a starting point if you want to read more. > …

> If those assets are in your hold to maturity portfolio, they are still worth $100m. They are still worth $100m at maturity . $100m in ten years is (usually) worth less than $100m…

> The amount it will pay at maturity remains unchanged and in 10 years it will be worth exactly the same no matter what the financial history that brought it to that point was. Wro…

> The bonds are worth exactly what they thought they'd be worth if held. That's wrong. A 10 year treasury bond with a .60% you bought in august 2020 is now worth significantly less…