Jochim

42 ms·

421.
by Jochim 4y ago
The problem in the UK is that conservatives and neo-liberals have been actively dismantling the service over the last 20 years. At a time when there were already staffing difficulties conservatives dis-incentivised people from becoming nurs
422.
by Jochim 4y ago
> I buy electricity. I don't tell the people creating that I am entitled to it because we're both members of the same society. Society, through taxation, has put in place the systems that make large scale electricity generation
423.
by Jochim 4y ago
I made no suggestion of a term that ended on the author's death in my previous post. I was simply pointing out that even a span of 20 years is a significant proportion of the period we expect someone to be a productive member of societ
424.
by Jochim 4y ago
20 years is still roughly a third of someone's working life. I'm not sure what the argument is for longer, even 20 years seems too long personally.
425.
by Jochim 4y ago
> Being born in the same country as you does not entitle you to my property and work. In that case you wouldn't be entitled to any of society's collective work either. Electricity? Sorry you didn't invent it. Fire? Not you
426.
by Jochim 4y ago
> And that matches my assumptions about US vs UK and EU -- US makes energy really cheap for consumers. It's hard to judge, prices here spiked 3-5 times in two years; I'm pretty sure they more than doubled last year alone. I don
427.
by Jochim 4y ago
The UK conservative party is peak neoliberal. The cabinet is/was largely made up of people that have openly written proposals on how to dismantle national services. Our shortest serving prime minister was one of these people. At a time
428.
by Jochim 4y ago
Why build and maintain the entirety of the infrastructure for a national transport system: payment, timetables, rails, signalling etc. and then hand the very last bit - the only bit that actually generates revenue - to a private company? It
429.
by Jochim 4y ago
Cool! I hope I didn't come across as hating the technology. In a perfect world I hope we'd be using geothermal district heating but while we're still installing units in individual homes I think heat pumps are currently the b
430.
by Jochim 4y ago
To be honest I haven't thought about the business case for VR much. I enjoy it as a recreational tool. I do think AR has some amazing potential for business and I suppose VR efforts could work as a stepping stone to getting that right.
431.
by Jochim 4y ago
I'm not sure how they'd work to be honest. The doubts I have about them: * How would the heat be moved around the house? * Obtaining permission to modify the exterior of a multi-occupancy dwelling is extremely difficult. * You&#x2
432.
by Jochim 4y ago
> which I think google dimensional analysis tells me is $.0644/kWh for gas? Which is GBP 0.053/kWh for gas? Double what you are paying? You're paying about half of what I am for gas and electricity, almost 1/3 of the
433.
by Jochim 4y ago
The CEO was the person who personally posted a $30,000 bounty encouraging vigilantes to apprehend an innocent person. The company he was "leading" broadcast that person's photo and name. He should be held personally liable
434.
by Jochim 4y ago
> Is that £10k for a mini split system? It was 2021 when I last last looked into it but I recall that 10k was the list price of the cheapest air source heat pump that wouldn't result in a net increase in energy bills. I don't b
435.
by Jochim 4y ago
I'm in the UK. Our gas is metered in m^3 but our energy suppliers typically bill and advertise based on the converted kWh price. My current prices for electricity and gas are 33.76p/kWh and 10.28p/kWh respectively. That'
436.
by Jochim 4y ago
As a fellow owner of a slate roof I recently came across panels made to look like blocks of slate tile[0]. They look to be a bit less efficient than a traditional panel and I've not looked into the costs yet but it's nice to have
437.
by Jochim 4y ago
It might work theoretically but that doesn't mean it should be done in many cases. Where I live electricity is nearly 3x the price of gas. While some heat pumps can achieve this in certain conditions it eliminates most of the affordabl
438.
by Jochim 4y ago
They often operate at much lower temperatures than gas central heating. In older houses especially this will often require much larger radiators and/or UFH. From my research a couple of years ago: Replacing gas central heating with air
439.
by Jochim 4y ago
Last time I checked, replacing an existing gas installation with a heat pump in the UK just wasn't economically sensible. Air source heat pumps were barely breaking even compared to gas so you'd be spending £10k+ to install it wit
440.
by Jochim 4y ago
I wonder if high quality pass-through video would improve the issue with covering the eyes. I've found that even the current pass-through on the Index has made me a lot more comfortable moving around, knowing that if I'm close to
441.
by Jochim 4y ago
Extremely expensive taxi medallions were only a thing in a handful of US cities. Most places don't use the medallion system at all. The irony is that "democratising the supply side" has in many places lead to worse supply tha
442.
by Jochim 4y ago
Let's also have the market allow consumers to decide how much poison they're willing to consume in their food. After all, consumers will be free to make the choice between poisoned and unadulterated food. Some people are starving,
443.
by Jochim 4y ago
The sale of untreated seafood is banned most places. The vast majority of seafood will have been processed by freezing it below a specific temperature for at least the required length of time. Sounds a lot like cold pasteurisation to me.
444.
by Jochim 4y ago
> Hardly the point. You should be allowed to take risks. Sure, but society has largely decided that you shouldn't be allowed to take risks with other people's lives. I'm perfectly happy for you to squirt milk into your mou
445.
by Jochim 4y ago
Your Amish farmer killed someone with his natural milk: > It all started in 2016, when two listeriosis illnesses that occured in 2014 were traced back to raw milk sold by Miller’s Organic Farm. Both infected people had to be hospitalized
446.
by Jochim 4y ago
Some of the old taxi companies - were - run by small time gangsters. The difference is that when they were found to be blatantly violating the law they served jail time. Uber's criminal activity is frankly less excusable. A group of we
447.
by Jochim 4y ago
No, what was said is that ~15% of the student body is in the top 1%. The top 5% by income make up 42% of the student body. I'm not sure about your own definition but I wouldn't qualify that as middle class. I don't view 95% o
448.
by Jochim 4y ago
As someone who lives in neither China or the US. I'm much more concerned about US companies and the data they collect. China isn't much of a personal threat to me. The US on the other hand has a fondness for extraditing foreign na
449.
by Jochim 4y ago
Indeed! Forgive me, I misinterpreted your earlier post to be claiming that the "low cost" of US healthcare offsets the "high taxes" of comparable countries.
450.
by Jochim 4y ago
Not much no. Most of the places I travel have fairly good public transport options. Still, I was under the impression that it was fairly common for airports and even credit card providers to assist in such matters. I'm not sure I suppo

More ›