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811.
by gaius 8y ago
reliably brings home a week worth of groceries, drives me 2hrs to meet family, and occasionally delivers tools and materials to various points. All that on the cheap, and with easily calculable costs All the talk of banning cars seems to
812.
by gaius 8y ago
Given that the entire NHS budget is £125Bn I'm guessing... not much? How many lives has the road system saved, by the way? What do ambulances drive on? Or even ordinary drivers taking sick or injured relatives to the hospital themselve
813.
by gaius 8y ago
Roads, parking and other infrastructure that de facto subsidize and encourage private car usage but which often are considered "free". Taxes on fuel raise £50Bn/year for the exchequer, which is double the amount spent by th
814.
by gaius 8y ago
privately owned gasoline-guzzlers are an archaic solution to the transportation problem, and they are not effective in today's society For people with a very limited lifestyle restricted to a few city blocks perhaps this is true. But
815.
by gaius 8y ago
Usually companies do that by closing an entire factory and/or shifting production offshore. The performance of any individual at a location that is closing is irrelevant to the decision makers.
816.
by gaius 8y ago
Who cares if it’s slow, tomorrow’s computers will be faster! Well, that’s a misrepresentation of history, the Python ethos has always been to drop into C for performance critical sections. That’s why NumPy won, and why Numba is highly com
817.
by gaius 8y ago
Chefs willing to work 6 days a week instead of the 4 everyone else is doing? I am not anti the concept but it isn’t going to work if it becomes leisure class vs service worker class
818.
by gaius 8y ago
It freaking kills me that management always gets to stay and engineers get the axe. Indeed. Companies don’t hire just for fun, but because they have a plan and they need Workers to execute that plan. When layoffs happen it is always the f
819.
by gaius 8y ago
I believe that was Napoleon and the graveyard, but it’s still as pertinent
820.
by gaius 8y ago
large-scale performance review based firing But that’s not a layoff. A layoff is when the job doesn’t need to be done anymore. It’s completely orthogonal to the performance of the person doing that job. And as you say, performance review
821.
by gaius 8y ago
The people who are being “discriminated against” and can’t find a job are likely to not have kept their skills current. Sounds like you are stereotyping them based on knowing nothing apart from their age.
822.
by gaius 8y ago
Well that is exactly my point. If everyone gets an extra day off then there will be 20% fewer opportunities to spend money with them, or 20% fewer staff in the shop to make sales, 20% fewer chefs in the kitchen, yadda yadda
823.
by gaius 8y ago
I’d also surmise the economy would get a large jolt from people having an extra day off and spending more money on entertainment That only works if you get 5 days pay for 4 days work and everyone else gets 4 days pay for 4 days work. Beca
824.
by gaius 8y ago
For many websites ad serving is the only profitable model. You won't make money off subscriptions unless you are one of the big players I was, until recently, a paying subscriber to the NYT, and there is no difference in the ads and
825.
by gaius 8y ago
Online surveys are a horrible idea for this kind of information gathering It skews the demographic towards people who spend alot of time online and like to do surveys. Most working people won't have the time or even know it's th
826.
by gaius 8y ago
build more apartments. There's no reason there shouldn't be enough housing for way, way more people other than that it's the policy of local government and the preference of many voters. Where, exactly? Central Park?
827.
by gaius 8y ago
My memory is hazy but the first time I saw this, they were all followers of the same guru as the founders. Not actually Scientology but a similar sort of thing. They lost it all in the dotcom crash anyway!
828.
by gaius 8y ago
Their bandwidth bills would be a lot cheaper if they weren’t sending megabytes of JS for every kb of actual content
829.
by gaius 8y ago
The issue of counterfeit branded goods is gathering momentum. Already I know people who refuse to buy anything for their kids from Amazon as the risk is too high. I think twice about it now myself. Such an easy problem to solve, just don’t
830.
by gaius 8y ago
At some point it is successful enough that it can survive having people whose only goal is to direct a large amount of money into their pockets. Seen this a few times, “executives” joining late in the day (weeks before IPO) with 10-100x t
831.
by gaius 8y ago
the government banning Muslims from entering the country. Which government did that then?
832.
by gaius 8y ago
That is explicit race-based discrimination carried out by the government It is also racist to assert that Muslims are all of a single race. Like most religions there are followers of all ethnicities in all countries.
833.
by gaius 8y ago
It looks like this is on Icelandair for hard mode it would be on Wow.
834.
by gaius 8y ago
All of this can be blamed on interest rates being artificially low due to political meddling. Exactly the same as Gordon Brown’s insane policy prior to 2008.
835.
by gaius 8y ago
No one really has a compelling answer they just shrug and say "it's what I've been using" or "I'm bought in." I made the jump from MBP to Surface and I’m very happy with that choice. Great screen and key
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by gaius 8y ago
You should join them instead - it is an excellent work avoidance tactic ;-)
837.
by gaius 8y ago
At a previous job a cow-orker spent literally months trying to get a bigger HD. I had the same issue, so I asked one of the department secretaries to order me a whole new PC that happened to have a bigger disk in it, and it arrived a few da
838.
by gaius 8y ago
In London on average you are never more than 10ft from a rat, or so they say. For everyone 100ft from the nearest rat there is someone 1ft away from 10 rats.
839.
by gaius 8y ago
Was the world designed for binocular vision Ermm, actually yes, in the sense that anything human made was designed for and by those with binocular vision themselves.
840.
by gaius 8y ago
Because the taxpayers are effectively subsidising their employer by “topping up” their wages to the true market level . We see this happening alot in the UK too.

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