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Cake day: August 8th, 2023

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  • It’s a shitty question. It’s implied by the fact that “24” is wrong that the answer is “6”, the length of the string “Monday”.

    In some languages dot access on objects could give you the properties of the object type (things pertaining to a “day” object) but this would still be ambiguous since a day’s length can be measured in many different ways.

    In others, it would require you to call length as a function (.length()) or not be available at all, or require you to pass the object into another function [ length_in_seconds(day_x)]




  • Those ACEEE numbers are predicated on placing an economic cost on pollution. If you assign a larger price to the pollution, even the PHEV’s fall right off the chart. The E in their name stands for “Economy”. They’re focus is framing clean as a function of the economy. In their model, you can kill a bunch more people and the price of pollution only goes up a little. They even say they’ve left that number constant since 1998. If you value pollution in a logarithmic scale that gets way worse as time goes on, it becomes obvious that the only acceptable vehicles are the ones that have negative pollution costs. Since we dont have vehicles that can remove pollution from the air, getting one that gets as close to zero is the best bet. Right now, EV’s get the closest to zero.


  • A PHEV still has a battery. We’re going to be doing that mining anyway. And we’re definitely going to be using every single battery we can make. So, what’s the point of burning fuels if you can do it all with batteries, which should continue to get better over time? It doesn’t matter if EV’s are slightly less efficient than a handful of PHEVS if they’re using clean energy to charge. Once the lithium and rare earth minerals are mined they’re recyclable, and their value over time will actually make it important to do so.

    And, yet again, burning fuels has to stop. We need to stop putting sequestered carbon in the air. And no, switching the globe to “renewable carbon” via biomass isn’t going to work.