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  • keeping track of people credit history is a huge violation of GDPR and would be illegal in the EU

    it is not precisely answering the question, but here in czechia, debt collecting is a private and pretty shady business. there is centralized database of these debts and literally anyone can check literally anyone else in the database, provided you know the person’s equivalent of social security number, at any post office.

    that is not the debt from credit cards as americans understand it, but debt where you had to pay something and didn’t, maybe you got behind on your rent or w/e, and the court confirmed the debt and allowed it to go to private debt collecting.


  • 14th_cylon@lemm.eetoxkcd@lemmy.worldxkcd #2948: Electric vs Gas
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    4 days ago

    Fuel density doesn’t matter, what matters is how far you can drive on a charge.

    Charge time doesn’t matter if you can swap a battery in 3 minutes instead of waiting to charge.

    1. they matter for the reason i explained. you are acting like we can simply build as much batteries as we want, which is not true
    2. and change them as conveniently as filling up the gas tank, which is also not true.
    3. and the whole “just swap the battery” concept leads to need of more batteries -> go to (1)

    Also you’re ignoring that fossil fuels are also dug out of the ground

    i am not, i am not defending fossil fuel, i am just pointing out that the ev concept has problems that are not widely talked about.

    just because some other strategy has problems doesn’t mean your strategy is problem free.





  • 14th_cylon@lemm.eetoxkcd@lemmy.worldxkcd #2948: Electric vs Gas
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    Are those two things actually important?

    yes, they are. they make difference between actually usable technology and engineer’s dream.

    Electric motors are a lot more efficient, and battery technology is quickly approaching the place where you can get the same range with an electric motor as with an ICE.

    i doubt we even have enough rare metals for 8 or 16 billion batteries. most of them are being mined in politically unstable or to western civilization unfriendly countries, with terrible effect on the environment.

    efficiency matters, it is not a question of how good single battery is.

    As for refuel rate, I spend no time waiting for my car to charge because it charges at home while I’m sleeping, so the refuel rate doesn’t matter.

    oh good. YOU have it solved, so the rest of the world does not matter, i assume…? fuck all these people, right?

    https://i.imgur.com/krFICor.png


  • the truth must be told: Firefox is not as optimized as Chrome

    what are you talking about? my desktop pc is amd fx4300. definition of old and subpar - https://i.imgur.com/WBm5Ub1.png - and i have 313 open tabs right now.

    granted, that is slightly more affected by memory, before i updated from 8 to 32 gb recently, it was admittedly slightly more sluggish.

    but at the same time normal people don’t really have 300 open tabs at once and also you have to ask what is the threshold where you are willing to sacrifice your privacy for slight speed increase.

    do you have some numbers to support that speed difference, or is it just your feeling, or anecdote that is being passed around and everyone repeats it and everyone believes it, because everyone says so?