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> 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.

> The paper suggests biking only 118 days per year. The car ownership costs are not "saved" - the projected savings are wrong.

Were does it suggests that? The number 118 doesn't appear anywhere in that document.

> Ownership car costs are 0.167/km and savings by riding a bicycle are 0.349/km.

Where do you get these numbers from?

> carrying capacity (groceries, children, sports equipment, etcetera)

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.

> It’s 100% that they cost as much as a decent used car.

Apples and oranges. You can get cargo bikes second hand too.

Yes, I own both.

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.

I prefer the two-wheeled ones.

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 not? I do.

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.

> Second important thing are fresh shoes. No more than 600km.

That’s what shoe companies want you to believe. I just run until they fall apart. A couple of thousand km easily.

2:45 marathon at 41.

A Google search of 'bedbug' and any major city in Europe will return plenty of hits.

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.

The problem is far from solved. It's not enough that carbon emissions will peak soon. They need to come down fast. And we do not have a decade or two.

> Ultimately not much you can do with money except spend it on things you enjoy

You could spend it to help other people, if you’re out of ideas.