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by aseerdbnarng 3y ago
Am I being a moron or are the weights only applicable to trucks? The lowest rung is 7.5tons. But of course it's absurd how big cars have become. If you're a 50kg woman why do you need a 2.7ton SUV to go from stop light to stop lig
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by aseerdbnarng 3y ago
How daft do you have to be go on a hiring binge in Europe without looking into the labour laws. These laws didn't just fall out the sky last Tuesday
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by aseerdbnarng 4y ago
How is this the top comment
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by aseerdbnarng 4y ago
It might mean the switch to EVs are insufficient if it bakes in unrealistic expectations of future benefits. The cost and subsidies to EVs might be better spent elsewhere. I’m not making a comment on pro/against EVs only that the cited
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by aseerdbnarng 4y ago
I read through one of the papers and a key assumption that the energy mix powering the grid will more halve its co2 output over the next 10 years and cites Germany as the baseline trend. This is a crazy optimistic assumption to make
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by aseerdbnarng 4y ago
While the Chinese threat to Taiwan is not something to be dismissed completely, the article doesn’t mention just how incredibly vulnerable China is to possible sanctions targeting their food supply. China imports most of its food and as the
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by aseerdbnarng 4y ago
I’m always curious how different insurers cover the use of hands-free driving. Would anyone still buy the FSD feature if people thought insurers would reject accidental damage claims? It feels like its sitting on sketchy ground
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by aseerdbnarng 4y ago
How exactly is the ECB supposed to provide cheap energy via interest rates? And what exactly is the thinking here? Energy bills have more than trebled and people are going to be thankful to central banks for paying 3x more for their mortgag
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by aseerdbnarng 5y ago
I'd bet anything the restrictions are for insurance reasons otherwise the premiums would be too high
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by aseerdbnarng 5y ago
I price motor insurance for a living and in my models the absolute worst 'insurable' risks (ones that pass underwriting scrutiny) will have some sort of impact every 3rd year. If we filter that to more severe cases where there&#x2
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by aseerdbnarng 5y ago
Things that spring to mind: - Gas in an open space is the main one. It would need to be very potent stuff to be effective and something that potent in tiny doses is almost certain to be highly toxic - Getting the gas widely disbursed in a
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by aseerdbnarng 5y ago
This naturally human response thats existed for longer than commerce needs to be suppressed because it doesn’t further your career. Yup. Makes sense to me.
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by aseerdbnarng 5y ago
There's a (cold) calculated logic to this in that there are more than a dozen countries closer to Ukraine the refugees can escape to, so what exactly is the reason to open up the borders? its not like Germany and France are persecuting
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by aseerdbnarng 5y ago
fair point. I was focusing on the 'removing subsidies' part and not the 'reallocate' part. Accept the correction
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by aseerdbnarng 5y ago
Whoa there chief. The whole 'that would be a good thing' is an overreach. There are 'better' ways to spend that subsidy but having a steady surplus of food subsidy or not is a way better position for a country to be in t
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by aseerdbnarng 5y ago
I dont agree with that and here's why: Whenever taxation > spending (ignore once off liquidation of assets), the government actively destroys private sector savings (dont take my word for it, go ahead and map the transactions on the
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by aseerdbnarng 5y ago
Gov debt is private sector savings. Title rephrased: We've reduced private sector assets by $119bill.
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by aseerdbnarng 5y ago
This is probably written by a programmer for that reason (and reading the ‘why R is bad’ comments) shows how misunderstood R is by most programmers. Its like giving someone an introduction to the english language by showing them the alphabe
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by aseerdbnarng 5y ago
Someone housetrained you very well
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by aseerdbnarng 5y ago
Incredible how this Wired article knows whats better for workers than workers themselves
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by aseerdbnarng 5y ago
Quite right. The small graph in the article confirms it. If you zoom in enough you can see the power and torque are more than doubled during the 20second burst mode, but even so it is very impressive
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by aseerdbnarng 5y ago
Excellent summary!
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by aseerdbnarng 5y ago
Thats a great point! “I liked everything about the movie until my ox was gored” and in this case the movie goes for it leaving no one spared. The evisceration of techno John Galt and the media might be the most flagrant sins amongst profess
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by aseerdbnarng 5y ago
Its not good satire because its very heavy handed (similar to Idiocracy) but its criticisms seemed spot on to me. The characters were all there from the jingoist politicians, a media focused on trivial distractions, techno utopianists, a fr
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by aseerdbnarng 5y ago
"It is exceedingly complicated. There have to be guardrails and guidelines to protect children, to protect developers, to protect consumers" I propose a heuristic that whenever 'protect children' gets used there's a
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by aseerdbnarng 5y ago
This seems like a carbon copy of Notion which seems to have a lot of users so may be a better comparison
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by aseerdbnarng 5y ago
Once you get the hang of it, AN reads beautifully. The concept of Life Tables and the ways the math can be abstracted away using these mystical symbols is incredibly elegant. Side comment, when you get into the weeds with actuarial exams yo
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by aseerdbnarng 5y ago
Good for you for having a spine. I had a similar experience (not google). I was expected to do prepwork and the interviewer couldn’t be bothered to think up any questions other than following a script is incredibly rude and telling of tha
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by aseerdbnarng 5y ago
Return to office is just management reasserting ownership over the serfs dressed up with mindless business jargon (collaboration, innovation, culture etc)
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by aseerdbnarng 5y ago
Bad company who scared of the future and cant innovate, partners with bad people to halt the march of the progressive and virtuous. I believe this to be lazy clickbaity reporting Remove the pearl-clutching and all Toyota is doing is trying

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