They have been doing for at least a decade by now (e.g Amazon). So why imply it suddenly isn’t acceptable to show ads (in any form)?

> They have been doing for at least a decade by now (e.g Amazon). So why imply it suddenly isn’t acceptable to show ads (in any form)?

Because it isn't acceptable.

The first thing I've done (for years now) when configuring Firefox is to turn off many of the defaults. Advertisements, pocket, search engine, online spell checker, translator, blah blah blah.

None, except for the fact that the 30% fee will be reduced (not eliminated), has been achieved by the EU ruling.

- Alternative browser engines are useless if the rest of the world doesn't test for them (which they won't because they don't have access)

- You cannot start another marketplace without showing Apple you have the ability to financially support it

- And thanks for the need to support it, 30% surcharge will only be the ceiling

Doubt it. The next chapter for EVs will be truly affordable vehicles, which naturally tend to be smaller. And with a more compact size (and most likely less batteries) will come lower weight. Besides, ICE cars have gotten heavy, too. So the extra 400kg headroom that EVs have should give them a decent fighting chance.

> A 2 ton Model Y produces much less pollution than an ICE compact car.

Because a 1.5t Zoe pollutes even less :P We can argue about the cut-off line, but it'll be arbitrary - the only thing for certain is that the mayor seems to agree with the sentiment.

This is not about ICE vs EV, this is about big vs small. Opulent vs necessary. Like the mayor is quoted saying in the article: It's about "very expensive cars, driven by people who today have not yet made the changes to their behaviour that have to be made". Heavy cars pollute more with their tires and brakes. That is why even heavy electric cars are affected.

Sorry I don't get it. Heavy EVs pollute less than compact ICE vehicles. This is about the weight (and maybe price?) of cars, not about pollution. Maybe it's about cultural hatred of SUVs?

> But electric cars lack all tailpipe emissions.

Like GP mentioned, tires also pollute via abrasion.

> 2 tons is just slightly heavier than a Tesla Model Y, a compact SUV barely large enough for a family of 4

A Model Y by Parisian scale is a incredibly huge car. French (and honestly most European) families get by with VW Golf sized car.

What does the size of the car have to do with pollution? My point was that EVs (even 2 ton EVs) cause much less pollution than even very compact ICE cars. If the parking fees are about the size of cars, then they should be taxed by volume or footprint area.

Because heavy electric cars still pollute more than light electric cars through tire and brake particles. Taxing by size would be neat, but I understand that that would make the calculation even more complicated.

Which means the cute french car has more than 500kg of headroom until it would have to pay the increased parking tariff...

> and more than 2 tonnes for electric vehicles.

Maybe. Many countries in the EU already place heavy taxes on engine displacement, so a curb weight tax or vehicle size tax wouldn't be something entirely new.

> In my experience, Svelte did a much better job and is closer to vanilla html/js

I just looked at some Svelte examples and it's a mix of magic keywords (on, bind) with magic symbols (: | @) and new, completely unrelated syntax to both JS and HTML (#each, #if, :else). I guess it looks way more idiomatic if you have an IDE that highlights and lints it correctly. React with its few rules of hooks seems way closer to vanilla JS.

> and your cat will break it by simply looking at your keyboard.

Being off by one column of keys on your keyboard can really be a death sentence to your buffer (and maybe even codebase).

That would be your fault for not writing prompts for dangerous actions in your elisp automation though.

Most of the danger (for me) comes from evil-mode. Adding prompts wouldn't make sense there ;P

This sounds like running heavy machinery with no safety equipment. Is it really desirable to have a system that would behave this way?

The parent is just being ridiculous, Emacs of course has undo, auto-save and version control. And unlike in certain modal editors it's pretty hard to do any real damage without touching Control or Meta.

Eh, there is plenty of safety equipment. Mainly undo-tree and magit.

... and maybe even your hard drive