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Comment Re:Do the economics work at all? (Score 1) 72

> So besides a handful of extremely specialist scenarios electric semis or a no-go.

Define "specialist scenarios"

The majority of freight moves under 250 miles per trip. About 73% by weight according to the BTS. So longer trips by truck - over 250 miles - are the exception not the rule. So what "specialist scenarios" are you referring to, since it obviously isn't relatively short trips that are the majority of use cases?

And before you answer, be aware that all-electric long-haul semi trucks have been successfully operating in Europe for years, so any reasons you might come up with why it can't or won't work are immediately scuttled by the fact that it's already being done.
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Comment Re: Cue up (Score 1) 341

You realize there are a bunch of homes available for sale in all sorts of places for next to nothing. The problem isn't "housing", it is "housing where people want to live". Declining population in places like Italy have created housing collapse where nice houses aren't sold, and sit empty, and they'll pay you to move into one.

Comment Re:I guess I stop using Ubuntu (Score 1) 101

One of the things I like about Linux is that it's common to follow a philosophy of "start with nothing then add what you need" rather than "throw in everything and good luck trying to remove anything problematic".

So that's why you refused to use Ubuntu already, because of Unity and Snap, right?

Comment Re:I Wonder Why? (Score 3) 44

Sometimes companies outsource development to India to save money. That doesn't work well, because of communication issues and such.

So they decide to bring the best members of the outsourced team into America, since they already are familiar with the codebase, etc. This is the process that is commonly used across the country to get H1 visa holders.

It's common, advertise for the role and find a reason to reject everyone who applies for it.

Comment Re:A lot of problems here (Score 1) 50

A few rich assholes leaving the roads won't mean they aren't maintained.

The rich assholes who make the decisions deciding the roads don't need to be maintained is a problem. It's tempting to believe that they will want to maintain the system over which they have privilege, but they have shown time and again they have no interest in doing that.

Comment Re: Buses, cars, and planes. (Score 1) 174

No, your buses are shit. That's your fault, not the fault of buses.

Buses perturb traffic, they can't bypass without their own special lanes which are wasteful and expensive, they do massive amounts of pavement damage compared to enough vans to transport the same number of passengers, they can't fit into many neighborhoods and if they could the streets wouldn't be rated to carry their weight. They are used despite these massive drawbacks only for the exact reason which I described previously.

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