As you hint, the rule of thumb is that driving is (mile for mile) roughly as polluting as flying. But that's surely the point: nobody is going to drive across a continent to go the beach. The problem with flying is…
>China requires showing identification to buy a long-distance train ticket. In China, ID and ticket are the same thing. You know that already. Europe and Japan (what I meant by "rail heritage") are indeed more relaxed.…
The "havnt" is letting you down.
This is a decidedly optimistic take given what we know about social media. HN may be a rare exception. Rather than using reason to get people to surmount their "emotions" and to "think right", I'd argue we rather need…
Good for them. A few years ago I traveled from France to Thailand almost entirely by train (plus three buses and a boat). It's possible. You need time, not necessarily lots of money. Adventure is guaranteed.
In practice, those are two different types of train travel. The former exists only in countries with a rail heritage. Where countries are genuinely trying to replace air travel with high-speed rail (credit to them, it's…
Sorry you're being downvoted for your harmless and jovial asides. Really, downvoting is almost always toxic IMO, I wish HN would turn it off.
The problem with Indian rail is the eccentric booking system. All intercity trains are booked out days or weeks in advance. This is because Indian Railways deals with excess demand not by varying the prices (yield…
All true. Also: Weekend holidays involving flights are a completely unsustainable and irresponsible form of tourism given the climate crisis. Not that anyone much cares.
Sheltered from global depressions maybe, but ultimately not from ecological breakdown caused by the externalities of uncontrolled resource throughput. But your broader point is well taken.
Possibly the first convincing argument I have ever heard in favor of the materialistic accumulative American lifestyle.
And not just thirds, decimal doesn't divide into quarters either.
This comment does not add any value to the discussion.
I like to think we might all agree that two "piles of utter nonsense" are worse than one.
This comment adds zero value. Make a point if you have one.
You're right, of course. Whenever I evangelize for OsmAnd, what always surprises me is that nobody has even heard of it. Must be for a reason. The developers seem a serious bunch, the issue tracker has been actively…
The performance advantage is small to nil, IME. The UI is admittedly cleaner, though partly (as you say) that's simply because it has a ton less features.
Why do people inflict this on themselves? OsmAnd has all the features of Organic Maps and CoMaps and MapsMe (in fact three times more features) and in 15 years of using it I have not any of these problems.
Agree. In terms of features Organic Maps has never been more than a pale imitation of OsmAnd, only "more ergonomic". The developers admit this themselves. So why couldn't they have just invested their time and energy…
The question I ask every time there's a breathless new post about the supposedly revolutionary Organic Maps.
To be fair, people have been writing scathing assessments of newspapers they don't like for centuries.
The Atlantic. Excellent writers, excellent editing. But as a European I find the US slant is a problem. I do miss The Economist's international coverage.
Indeed. I unsubscribed (after many years) out of frustration at their incessant and unquestioning incantation of orthodox economic dogmas, in particular economic growth (which is at the very least a flawed indicator).…
Yes I understand all that. I don't have secure boot, so I'm not protected against the evil-maid attack either. I know that too. It's why I used the word "technically", by which I meant "in the absolute". What word do…
Indeed. Truth be told, I do it too.
As you hint, the rule of thumb is that driving is (mile for mile) roughly as polluting as flying. But that's surely the point: nobody is going to drive across a continent to go the beach. The problem with flying is…
>China requires showing identification to buy a long-distance train ticket. In China, ID and ticket are the same thing. You know that already. Europe and Japan (what I meant by "rail heritage") are indeed more relaxed.…
The "havnt" is letting you down.
This is a decidedly optimistic take given what we know about social media. HN may be a rare exception. Rather than using reason to get people to surmount their "emotions" and to "think right", I'd argue we rather need…
Good for them. A few years ago I traveled from France to Thailand almost entirely by train (plus three buses and a boat). It's possible. You need time, not necessarily lots of money. Adventure is guaranteed.
In practice, those are two different types of train travel. The former exists only in countries with a rail heritage. Where countries are genuinely trying to replace air travel with high-speed rail (credit to them, it's…
Sorry you're being downvoted for your harmless and jovial asides. Really, downvoting is almost always toxic IMO, I wish HN would turn it off.
The problem with Indian rail is the eccentric booking system. All intercity trains are booked out days or weeks in advance. This is because Indian Railways deals with excess demand not by varying the prices (yield…
All true. Also: Weekend holidays involving flights are a completely unsustainable and irresponsible form of tourism given the climate crisis. Not that anyone much cares.
Sheltered from global depressions maybe, but ultimately not from ecological breakdown caused by the externalities of uncontrolled resource throughput. But your broader point is well taken.
Possibly the first convincing argument I have ever heard in favor of the materialistic accumulative American lifestyle.
And not just thirds, decimal doesn't divide into quarters either.
This comment does not add any value to the discussion.
I like to think we might all agree that two "piles of utter nonsense" are worse than one.
This comment adds zero value. Make a point if you have one.
You're right, of course. Whenever I evangelize for OsmAnd, what always surprises me is that nobody has even heard of it. Must be for a reason. The developers seem a serious bunch, the issue tracker has been actively…
The performance advantage is small to nil, IME. The UI is admittedly cleaner, though partly (as you say) that's simply because it has a ton less features.
Why do people inflict this on themselves? OsmAnd has all the features of Organic Maps and CoMaps and MapsMe (in fact three times more features) and in 15 years of using it I have not any of these problems.
Agree. In terms of features Organic Maps has never been more than a pale imitation of OsmAnd, only "more ergonomic". The developers admit this themselves. So why couldn't they have just invested their time and energy…
The question I ask every time there's a breathless new post about the supposedly revolutionary Organic Maps.
To be fair, people have been writing scathing assessments of newspapers they don't like for centuries.
The Atlantic. Excellent writers, excellent editing. But as a European I find the US slant is a problem. I do miss The Economist's international coverage.
Indeed. I unsubscribed (after many years) out of frustration at their incessant and unquestioning incantation of orthodox economic dogmas, in particular economic growth (which is at the very least a flawed indicator).…
Yes I understand all that. I don't have secure boot, so I'm not protected against the evil-maid attack either. I know that too. It's why I used the word "technically", by which I meant "in the absolute". What word do…
Indeed. Truth be told, I do it too.