Balero

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by Balero 8y ago
In the UK there is a specific area at the front (which cars will often decide to stop in) just for bikes to stop, called a bike box. I believe it is safer for them to be out in front rather than pushed to a side, or caught between cars.[0]
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by Balero 8y ago
So the norm for a young family is to have two breadwinners by your stated data.
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by Balero 8y ago
I don't think we would have to do it way before. Gasoline is toxic, and flammable. Hydrogen is flammable. Cars pump out Carbon Monoxide which is toxic. We are well past the "safe side" currently and it seems to be going ok.
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by Balero 8y ago
Ramadan is a month of fasting, where no food or water is consumed whilst the sun is up. Children, elderly, pregnant women and the ill are all exempt. Plus there's some interesting rules if you're in an unusual geographical positio
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by Balero 8y ago
Germany is not the top in off-shore wind. The UK is[0]. They are however second. Which is pretty impressive with their lack of coast. The UK has an awful lot more shore to be off! [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Offsh
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by Balero 8y ago
"Reducing equality to equality of opportunity is already a huge concession in favor of freedom." I see the other 'popular' equality, equality of outcome, as, in it's most extreme form, a complete totalitarian nightm
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by Balero 8y ago
Whilst I find that this is definitely a good portion of technical debt, the biggest section I see comes from the intersection of reusing code and moving requirements. Often when some code reuse gets nested (re-using something that is re-usi
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by Balero 8y ago
"(freedom and equality will at some point exclude themselves) " I don't think that freedom and equality of opportunity exclude each other any more than freedom excludes itself. Frankly I would go one further and say that equa
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by Balero 8y ago
OP was referencing Liberalism as a political movement in the UK[1]. This grew as a left of centre party in opposition to the right-of-centre Tories and was formed with the idea of changing traditional values and practices (such as limiting
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by Balero 8y ago
If you don't have an ear for specific accents they start to sound very similar/the same. There are hundreds of British (or Chinese, Japanese etc) accents. But unless you are familiar with them, and often the language they speak mo
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by Balero 8y ago
Lots (rich) of people from Silicon Valley have second homes there. Its lampooned on the tv show Silicon Valley.
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by Balero 8y ago
The music industry seems to have a pretty good solution for this. The performer gets a cut. The lyrics writer gets a cut. The melody writer gets a cut. I'm sure something similar could work. I'm also recovering from just finding o
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by Balero 8y ago
I dunno, I've done some pretty dumb things to impress a girl. If anything that would be even more relatable!
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by Balero 8y ago
I think Tomte is referencing that it is illegal (and dangerous see guy who died when auto-pilot drove into the back of a truck) to let the autopilot drive unassisted, for example reading a book or falling asleep. I got the impression though
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by Balero 8y ago
I think this is a good way of putting it. But it draws to the main point: what is a 'just society' who decides it, what is just for you may not be for me? For example in the USA punishment for crime (including 'victimless&#x2
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by Balero 8y ago
"Consider telling Oscar Wilde that there's been no progress since his day, and he was merely a victim of fashion!" This logic breaks down because it's not an inexorable march forward. However there were a number of socie
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by Balero 8y ago
They do have to make the site usable by everyone including the non-tech savvy, I can definitely see good reasons for keeping the input extremely limited. One of the "downsides" of it being a government site is that it needs to be
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by Balero 8y ago
Do you mean 10% higher? Surely you don't think China's GDP is one tenth of it's reported figure. This would have it sitting between Spain and Mexico [1]. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countrie
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by Balero 8y ago
"People want to look sophisticated but when blindfolded then can't even distinguish between red and white wine if they're at same temperature." I hope you're exaggerating here! I largely agree, the best wines I&#x27
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by Balero 8y ago
But a doctor who's had an 80 hour week, saving lives, helping people, and spending time away from their family, can't feel it's unfair they have to pay for someone to stay at home and relax. The world is more than CEO's
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by Balero 8y ago
Frankly if you can't see why someone working hard would be annoyed with their money going towards taxes that pay for people to enjoy a life that they are not enjoying, then you are no better than someone saying "Don't be lazy
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by Balero 8y ago
Not for most EU citizens.
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by Balero 8y ago
If your going to talk about Socialism you're going to have to define it better. You can argue that Socialism works very well in many places. Such as Scandinavia, New Zealand, Canada etc. It just depends on what you think of as Socialis
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by Balero 8y ago
The problem is often people who work, work hard and importantly pay taxes, don't have the time for this recreation. So you can say that " All of us deserve to have fun once in a while, regardless of socioeconomic status." But
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by Balero 8y ago
Funnily in the UK with the NHS it's again the unexpected things. In this case it's paying for parking, it adds up quick, especially if your'e visiting someone who's in hospital for a while.
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by Balero 8y ago
IF you have good insurance the co-pay is trivial. I broke a bone, total of $80 in copay. Someone with worse insurance is looking at a bill in the $1000's or even $10,000
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by Balero 8y ago
Thanks for the input! I haven't lived in London for long, but I found I had much more disposable income in SF, even compared to living in a non-London uk city. Talking to people from around the US, it's just generally cheaper in
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by Balero 8y ago
The timezone, whilst often being a negative, can also be a positive. If you need a service that is always up and supported, having three teams (GMT-8, GMT, GMT+8) is one of the best ways to do this. This puts the UK in the perfect place for
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by Balero 8y ago
When high paying companies come to London/Oxford/Cambridge/Bristol the effect is just the same, it's not a US only phenomenon.
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by Balero 8y ago
The UK has a higher cost of living, with London pretty much equal to NY or SF and other high cost cities. The other equivalents are cheaper in the US.

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