boelboel

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by boelboel 2mo ago
Leave the department*, the parts where people get on/off trains are closed off from the seats. There's also some gangway connections which have doors between the wagons.
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by boelboel 2mo ago
It's considered rude in Belgium, at least when I commuted there by train. People would leave the wagon to take a call. Maybe it's changed in the past few years. There were also signs that it's prohibited to call in the trains
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by boelboel 3mo ago
I was thinking about more than just scams when I thought of the comment. But I'm probably looking with rose coloured glasses at the early internet.
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by boelboel 3mo ago
Closer to every 5-6 years these days and with ram prices going up it will be even longer. Especially with the low/mid range phones, which are most phones outside some developed countries, people will keep their phones as long as they c
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by boelboel 3mo ago
Late 90s/early 00s internet would've probably been the sweet spot for utility while causing little harm. Sadly we can't just freeze the internet in time.
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by boelboel 3mo ago
Which type of person is immune to it and where do they live?
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by boelboel 3mo ago
Waymo will have existed for ~25 years by the time it'll be available in most US cities, that's a long while.
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by boelboel 3mo ago
I'd imagine those 300K years they're not just working 40 hours a week, more like 70+ hours. Add higher taxes on those years and it becomes less attractive.
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by boelboel 3mo ago
Multiple Canadian billionaires are pro trump and wouldn't mind becoming a 51st state.
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by boelboel 3mo ago
I think it might be because the tech bros got into a one-off event where a lot of people did and could've made money (as long as they were somewhat intelligent). Now the writing is on the wall that growth in the future will stall, as t
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by boelboel 3mo ago
As someone who's only studied Ancient Greek I can say the reverse is true as well, not much use of my 5 years in HS when I'm in Greece.
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by boelboel 3mo ago
Househelp isn't cheaply and easily accessible for most people in the east, a large portion of people in the east is just poor but you don't consider them in 'most people'.
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by boelboel 3mo ago
Similar things happen in hiking, people who shouldn't be there get encouraged by by how accessible information is to do things whereas before (most) people got info from someone knowledgeable.
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by boelboel 4mo ago
This is why discounts are often a bad way to get customers, you don't want the customers who (only) go for discounts, they're often worse (and not just their sensitivity to prices).
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by boelboel 4mo ago
While I do agree for the most part, some countries which innovated/used resources/used labor better or at the same level as the US didn't have the ability to just send their surplus labor westward to get some 'free'
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by boelboel 4mo ago
Honestly if other countries did the same stuff as Argentina they'd probably be way worse off than Argentina as the country is still relatively wealthy. They were arguably too rich (and not populated enough with 4 million people in 1900
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by boelboel 4mo ago
$10 in Brazil/Argentine would be significantly more in the US because of labour costs I assume. Is there any training needed for the inspections/enough people who could do it on a short notice in the US? Could drive up the price e
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by boelboel 4mo ago
At some point it should but meta has 30 times the revenue of peak yahoo will take a long time before they stop being influential.
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by boelboel 4mo ago
So just bad governance and B-stocks giving zuck control forever meaning nothing will change? Great
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by boelboel 4mo ago
If anything the parents have more responsibility by making a conscious choice vs simply being born in the US. I don't agree with this point of view either.
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by boelboel 4mo ago
Construction notably has had productivity losses since the 80s afaik.
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by boelboel 4mo ago
New factories use very few people, part of the reason why it's difficult for many countries to industrialize like South Korea or China did (climbing manufacturing ladder).
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by boelboel 4mo ago
Many people want to date their own friends? Seeing your friend is on the site would show it's okay to use?
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by boelboel 4mo ago
Yeah I realised the same at some point, most people don't care anyway and we don't really have privacy regardless. There's no salary you can pay that attracts smart enough people to these jobs in some places (while being fisc
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by boelboel 4mo ago
About 50-55% of homes have AC in Rome compared to 25% in vancouver, I'm sure it'll get to 70-80% soon enough. Right now it's unbearable but even 10 years ago you had a fraction of the nights with these temperatures (over 23de
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by boelboel 4mo ago
Haven't you heard if you don't get one of these jobs and get a tc of 500k+ you're destined to the permanent underclass. So cheating is the answer.
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by boelboel 4mo ago
But Rome has more AC than vancouver
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by boelboel 4mo ago
You mean + coal, they don't have a meaningful amount of nuclear (just under 5% of electricity mix and 2% of energy). 50% of electricity is coal.
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by boelboel 4mo ago
I'm not sure about reducing crime but most American police departments have difficulty finding staff. Generally boring job in most places and not really liked in other places (status loss). Speeding things up is one of the ways to deal
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by boelboel 4mo ago
Biden wasn't a free trader at all, more alike to Trump in trade than many would like to admit.

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