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by throwaway894345 133 days ago
> Needing to buy a different kind of car and dying from cancer are ever so slightly different experiences. But thank you for the kind of absurd HN take that inspired my username.

It’s not absurdity, it’s analogy. If you can’t distinguish between the two then HN may indeed not be for you.
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wat10000 133 days ago
It's an absurd analogy. It doesn't make the slightest bit of sense. You wouldn't call a cancer treatment that fails to cure a minority of people "fine", so EVs aren't "fine"?
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throwaway894345 132 days ago
lol that was the entire point of the analogy. congratulations, you seem to have accidentally stumbled onto the point, but at least you got there. :)
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wat10000 132 days ago
The point of the analogy was that these things are in no way comparable, and EVs only serving a large chunk of the population is in fact fine?
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