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Congress Wants You To Pay $130 A Year Just To Drive An Electric Car

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Damage to the road scales with axle load using a fourth power. Yes a fourth power. So an average truck does roughly 3000x more damage to road surfaces than an average EV.

Yet, weather influences account for the majority of road wear, so the weight of cars really does not matter at all.

I'm aware that vehicle weight is the mechanism to tax cars in many countries, but within groups this makes little sense if it is to compensate for road wear. Whether its fair to exempt EVs from road taxes is a different story, and depends on other externalities and the type of travel behaviour a government wants to promote.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fourth_power_law

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Proton Mail introduces post-quantum encryption | Proton

It seems that I can set it from the Android app, not from the web interface.

Does anybody know what the (potential) repercussions are of enabling PQC? I would hate it if I lost access to some emails this way.

edit: see this message. The feature is temporarily disabled as some users of Proton Drive for Windows (Tux is still crying..) reported issues with sync after enabling PQC. PQC only applies to new encrypted emails going forward.