🗨️ Fui Cars get old. Wealthier people can afford chasing the next shiny thing, so they move on to newer models. That increasingly creates a market for used electric cars. Prices drop with increased supply. That then triggers demand. And as this trend starts gaining momentum, the market grows exponentially. The same is true with the reverse. As the ICE market shrinks, the availability of models and parts also shrinks. That increases the prices. Higher prices lowers demand. Etc.
👉 Léo I think EVs will eventually be ubiquitous, following the process that you described. But there will also be a meantime when both exist. During that time, prices of ICEs will drop. Eventually ICEs will become a relic of the past, and prices would rise again. But there is a lot of in-between while the transition is happening. If you can't afford even a used EV, you will be stuck with your ICE and expensive gas at least for a while. And you still need to go to work everyday.
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Rsm It doesn't tickle my fancy either. The bill was released in the capital cities yesterday. Haven't seen one yet.
👉 Léo Right, and I just found out it is the same size as the $20 bill. Kind of dumb, ruins the whole accessibility thing. I like the white-gray color, looks sleek.
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👉 Léo Today a colleague told me about a potential unintended consequence of the gradual adoption of electric cars. By the point a significant number of drivers stop buying gas, the economies of scale that we have in place right now will no longer apply, and price will rise. The problem is mostly wealthy people will own electric cars, and mostly poor people will be stuck with old combustion engines and unaffordable fuel.
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🗨️ Fui Cars get old. Wealthier people can afford chasing the next shiny thing, so they move on to newer models. That increasingly creates a market for used electric cars. Prices drop with increased supply. That then triggers demand. And as this trend starts gaining momentum, the market grows exponentially. The same is true with the reverse. As the ICE market shrinks, the availability of models and parts also shrinks. That increases the prices. Higher prices lowers demand. Etc.
👉 Léo Brazil now has a $200 bill. The latest Brazilian money, the Real, was introduced in 1994. So far, the largest bill was $100. In 26 years, an inflation of about 2.7% per year would have caused the currency to lose half of its value. The actual annual inflation rate has been at least twice that. So, in practical terms, a $200 bill makes sense... but I still don't like it.
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Rsm It doesn't tickle my fancy either. The bill was released in the capital cities yesterday. Haven't seen one yet.
James Kirk Reminds me of the 100 trillion bill from Zimbabwe :p
Zero Edge Although mental fortitude and inner peace will give you the ability to be content and happy regardless of the outcome of a "material goal"..
👉 Léo Very true. We shouldn't limit ourselves to material goals.
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🗨️ Fui 1. Either that or you are a philosoper, where going down the existential rabbit hole is an art and trade. I'm on that camp.
👉 Léo Cool! That's definitely a valid exception. How did you get into this line of work? Are you in academia? I am sure there is a huge difference between what I go through when I go down an existential rabbit hole and what you do for a living.
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🐢 Keb Is adblock stealing? Do you use adblock? Why? Sure, advertisers don't have the right to your attention, but don't the content creators have the right to your financial support?
👉 Léo Adblock is not stealing anything, it is just rehashing what's been sent to your computer for free. You're not implicitly signing any contract or accepting a terms of use when you access a web link. Adblock is not hacking into a company's servers to give you ad-free content. It may be harsh, but unless you've signed a contract or hold intellectual property you don't have the right to compensation for anything. So it may be immoral, but it should not be illegal to use adblock.
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😀 Tom Do any of y'all have a completely normal (non-vulgar) word that you hate? For me it's "ossify".
👉 Léo Moisture and smear
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👉 Léo two thoughts on existential crises. 1. I should feel lucky that I have the luxury of going down existential rabbit holes, contemplating my own existance and purpose; I don't have to worry much about food or shelter. It would be great if everyone could have that privilege. 2. Existential crises are extremely counterproductive given any sort of material goal. Want to go to Mars? Sitting there and contemplating your existence will not take you there.
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Zero Edge Although mental fortitude and inner peace will give you the ability to be content and happy regardless of the outcome of a "material goal"..
🗨️ Fui 1. Either that or you are a philosoper, where going down the existential rabbit hole is an art and trade. I'm on that camp.
Cole Hudson It'd be nice if there was a way to leave a voicemail on another persons phone w/o ringing their phone. There's a level of interaction between sending an email, which is insufficiently personal, and calling someone, which is far too obtrusive, which I think would be great for modes of communication where voice is crucial. The broader category might be email for voice? Or asynchronous voice chat?
👉 Léo This is actually very common in Brazil, where everyone uses WhatsApp (a Facebook app). You record your voice message on your end and it appears as a playable audio clip for whoever you sent it to. I'm not a fan, but it is the favorite mode of communication of a lot of people, including my extended family.
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👉 Léo Related to subreply.com/trohs... if you leave your fridge open, your kitchen will actually get warmer because the compressor would be running non-stop. The refrigeration system is just moving energy (heat) from inside the fridge to the outside. That's why AC units must have a portion outside, so heat can be moved out of the house.
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😌 Ismail What are your tricks of 'getting things done' ? For me washing the dishes and 7 minutes workout.
👉 Léo That's difficult for me. I feel like I lack self motivation, and sometimes I have an irrational fear of getting things done. I just keep expanding or perfecting something that already works, or find random projects to work on instead of doing actual work. Meditation has helped me in the past, but recently I've been procrastinating even that! I guess my one "trick" would be to have a HARD due date. Like a mean boss wants to see this done by next week or they'll yell at me.
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🗨️ Fui > "Power simply has to go somewhere". Politicians take that observation very seriously!
👉 Léo True story!
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😃 Javier This reminds of the tale of the pitcher who got hit by a line drive right on the head and the ball bounced of his head and flew up to the highest seats in the stadium. A physics professor watching exclaimed: "He is going to be fine".
👉 Léo Ha! That's a good one! I'll use that example from now on :)
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🐵 Max As an engineer I'va always been confused about potential energies though.
👉 Léo I don't know what flavor of engineering you are in. I am in between mechanical and electrical, so I try to see any potential energy as a the behavior of a capacitor or a spring (the two are equivalent). Gravity is like a constant force spring pulling you towards the center of the planet. Heating up and cooling down a pizza stone is like charging and discharging a capacitor. Bond graphs helped me understand these equivalences: en.wikipedia.org/w...
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👉 Léo As an engineer you quickly learn to appreciate how any dynamic system is just a series of energy connections. For example: any driver knows what the brake pedal does; a technician understands how it works, with the caliper pressing the pads against the disc; an engineer, however, understands that deceleration is nothing but a conversion of energy: from kinetic to heat. The car will lose velocity by the same rate as the brakes heat up. Power simply has to go somewhere.
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🐵 Max As an engineer I'va always been confused about potential energies though.
😃 Javier This reminds of the tale of the pitcher who got hit by a line drive right on the head and the ball bounced of his head and flew up to the highest seats in the stadium. A physics professor watching exclaimed: "He is going to be fine".
🗨️ Fui > "Power simply has to go somewhere". Politicians take that observation very seriously!
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