> 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 in the US. In Brazil it costs the equivalent of USD 2565. PPP is still very much relevant.
I do all grocery shopping for a family of four with a cargo bike. I pick up and drop off children in the cargo bike. You can think up objections all day if you want, but that doesn't change the fact that some people succeed in living car-free.
Nobody is forcing you to take a bicycle. Even if you personally don't like cycling, you should still encourage others to: every cyclist you see riding around is one less car stuck in traffic with you.
> And I'd like to see other costs of cycling (wet weather gear, helmets, locks) included.
Then you're in luck. On page 24, they include a budget of 117 EUR for gear and accessories.
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 stay up-right. They are easier to turn-around on foot: the front wheels are closer to the centre of mass, so you can easily lift the back wheel and swing it around.
The two-wheeled ones are faster, and handle more like a normal bike. When fully loaded (100+ kg) they take some effort getting them on the stand. They are clunkier to turn around.
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 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 would have a car, that’s only a sevenfold increase.
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 they have too thick a sole for my taste… At the moment, the shoes I like best are discontinued. Luckily I have a couple of pairs in reserve. You know the writing is on the wall when they are heavily discounted; good time to buy a couple of pairs.
By the time I need to buy new ones, fashions will hopefully have shifted back…
By the way, when I say fall apart, I mean it literally: toes peeking out and losing bits of the sole.
I also rotate the shoes: the older ones are for the easy runs, the newer ones for tempo or intervals.
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 and giving it access to the internet. There are plenty of ways a super-intelligent AI would be able to wreak havoc.
> 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? Countries like the Netherlands and Denmark show that if you build bike infrastructure, people will use it. And the health and environmental benefits are enormous.
And even if only 25% of the people use it, shouldn't they get 25% of the spend?
> Sure if you are young and live in San Francisco or New York City, this might seem reasonable. But for the other 80% of America, who are old enough that simply falling off of a bike could cause real injuries, or live somewhere not dense enough to really get anywhere this way, or don’t want to ride a bike in the snow, especially in a city that may not be particularly great at removing it (which is almost all but the biggest of them)
80% of the population in the US lives in cities. The median age is 39. So, no way 80% of the population fit your description. In cycling countries like the Netherlands and Denmark, even 80-year-olds cycle.
> or don’t want to ride a bike in the snow, especially in a city that may not be particularly great at removing it
Ask the Finnish how they do. They have no problem to cycle in the snow. You can change the way your city manages the snow.
> Cars may be environmentally awful, but they’re great in basically every other way,
1.3 million people get killed worldwide by cars every year. A multiple of that get maimed. I wouldn't call that basically great. If you count the time spent in traffic, you are wasting millions of lives more each year.
Electrifying has huge environmental costs. E.g. the Polestar 2 has a lifecycle cost (over 200.000kms) of 50 tons of CO2e compared to 58 tons for a Volvo XC40 ICE [1].
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 that they exercise about as much.
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 cycling clothes if we go out cycling on a road bike or mountain bike in the weekend. And of course then you need to shower afterwards.
> 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 feel free to staple a copy of the dictionary definition to your exam paper and see if that works for you.
I wasn't taking a math test. I was saying something about NPV using a common meaning of an English word. You chose to ascribe a different meaning to that word, and pedantically - and incorrectly - tried to correct me.
A maxed out iPhone costs RMB 13999 in China, which is about USD 1925. The same iPhone costs USD 1599 in the US. In Brazil it costs the equivalent of USD 2565. PPP is still very much relevant.