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).
It takes less than 15 minutes to do a shopping trip. 4 minutes by bike to get there, 4 minutes back. Time inside the store depends on how much stuff I need but usually not more than a few minutes, including self-checkout.
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.
If you have the entire code, not just some part, as most companies do when go Open Source (not free software), then you don't have to worry about unknown behavior because everything is in the source.
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.
Oh, I get to choose health insurance too. Only it’s not linked to my employer. And they all have to offer the same coverage. And they can’t refuse you for the basic health insurance.
The OP mentions he uses Comcast, which is an American ISP. I myself live in ‘socialist’ Europe and I can choose from 13 different ISP on fiber alone. Surely OP who lives in ‘free-market’ USA must have an unimaginable number of options.
A dolly zoom moves the camera, that’s the entire point of a dolly zoom. The zoom while moving the camera is only there to keep the framing the same, the actual visual change is caused by the movement of the camera, not by the changing of the focal length. You’d get the exact same effect if you used a fixed-focus lens and just cropped the resulting video to keep the framing constant.
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.
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?
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).
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).