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Cake day: June 13th, 2023

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  • I’m straight up telling you that anyone unable to walk to a store is not going to be able to make do with bikes and scooters.

    Yeah that’s bullshit.

    Sure, there may be some people for which that is true, but anyone unable to walk to a store can’t go by bike? I know for certain that’s not true: one of my mates ex-GF had issues walking, certainly couldn’t walk to the store. She had no problem cycling though. She used a 3-wheeled e-bike. Cycling is much easier than walking, you spend way less energy, especially with electric assistance, and there’s trikes for those who have balance issues.

    Go watch any busy street anywhere in the Netherland and count how many elderly people you see on bikes. You’ll be amazed.

    that’s going to be a horrible time any foul weather days.

    Like any Dutch mom would say to their kids complaining about having to cycle in the rain: you aren’t made of sugar, are you?

    The way to fix that that’s the most kind is to subsidize shopping delivery the way you’d set up parcel post.

    You don’t have online grocery shopping with free next-day delivery there? Hell, we have 10-minute delivery on groceries if you’re willing to pay a bit extra. (Delivery is done by bike, of course).

    Or set up shared transport that ferries the disabled directly to and from places in a realistic, bearable time frame. You could maybe hybridize that.

    That also exists, at least in my country. It’s run by volunteers and you only pay a small fee (mainly to cover fuel costs).








  • The way it works here (the Netherlands) the monthly cost for the connection to the grid depends on the maximum current and number of phases.

    Some examples: a 1 phase 1A connection costs €11,12 per month, 3x 25A costs €168,99 , 3x 80A is €408,94 (there are other capacities available with different rates).

    To me this seems like a fair way of doing it, someone who draws more power (or higher peak power) needs a beefier hookup and that requires beefier and more expensive equipment and cables.





  • Doesn’t this sort of bypass the whole point of encryption in the first place?

    No, homomorphic encryption allows a 3rd party to perform operations on encrypted data without decrypting it. The resulting answer is in encrypted form and can only be decrypted by whoever has the key.

    Extremely oversimplified example:

    Say you have a service that converts dollar amounts to euros using the latest exchange rate. You send the amount in dollars, it multiplies by the exchange rate and then returns the euro amount.

    Now, let’s assume the clients of this service do not want to disclose the amounts they are converting. What they could do is pick a large random number and multiply the amount by this number. The conversion service multiplies this by the exchange rate and returns the ridiculously large number back. Then you divide thet number by the random number you picked and you have converted dollars to euros without the service ever knowing the actual amount.

    Of course the reality is much more complicated than that but the idea is the same: you can perform operations on data in its encrypted form and now know what the data is nor the decrypted result of the operation.