NicuCalcea

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Investigative data journalist.

https://nicu.md/

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Comment · 11 days ago
Facebook actively courted publishers so they'd post links to their content on their pages. Now they want to charge them for the privilege.
Comment · 29 days ago
Also, there's a missing space in "Look insideeach cabin" and "Save astay plan".
Comment · 1 month ago
It's not very good semantically either.

> Give me a recipe for soup.

> Here is a recipe for soup:

> Saffa-Cake-Sweet-Sweet-Sweet-Sweet-Sweet-Sweet-Sweet-Sweet-Sweet-Sweet-Sweet-Sweet-Sweet-Sweet-Sweet-Sweet-

Comment · 1 month ago
I get why you would want that, but I don't get why you don't get that it might not be the case for others. I love searching and clicking and reading around. Sometimes I read fascinating things about topics I wasn't searching for. I can't imagine a world where all my web searching is done through an annoying chatbot.
Comment · 1 month ago
Corporations can host whatever they want and governments can ban them for it.
Comment · 1 month ago
Scrollable story, sometimes also referred to as a scrolly. This is a particularly bad example though.
Comment · 2 months ago
The very source you are providing is pretty clear to me. For cars, only hybrids and EVs are more efficient, and that is because it's comparing electric passenger cars with all buses (most of which still run on fossil fuels). There is no data for electric buses, but it's pretty intuitive to me that they would emit less per passenger kilometre than an electric car.
Comment · 2 months ago
Surely a person driving 18 people will emit less than each person driving themselves? I can see how dollars can be a proxy for macroeconomic stuff, for example by comparing countries, but it doesn't make much sense for comparing individual units of transport.

I don't understand why we have to do napkin maths to guess what's more polluting. There is countless research showing buses emit less than individual cars per passenger per km, self-driving or not.

And there's no reason buses can't be self-driving as well, if anything, them driving slower, on dedicated lanes and on fixed routes would make it much easier.

Comment · 2 months ago
You're counting emissions from a person's breathing as part of the vehicle's emissions?
Comment · 2 months ago
Most of the cost comes from paying the drivers, but also cost is a proxy for emmissions?
Comment · 2 months ago
If there was a ghostwriting detector, I would use that too.
Comment · 2 months ago
It would be compatible with life for longer though. A dry sauna can get to 80-100°C, steam rooms are "only" 40-50°C. And subjectively, I can bear it much longer in a typical dry sauna.

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