iiiieu

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by iiiieu 3y ago
Rejecting statistics that you don't like while pushing those that you do is a case of selection bias, the extension of which is the infamous "the election was rigged" trope. It's easy to select a subset of trains to make
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by iiiieu 3y ago
Which was acknowledged and dramatically increased since then. https://www.deutschebahn.com/de/konzern/konzernprofil/zahlen... Within 5 minutes was at over 90% in july 2023 and within 15 minutes was around 98%
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by iiiieu 3y ago
Perhaps because people realized that the pixel inflation is at some point counterproductive. If you can't distinguish pixels, what difference does it make?
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by iiiieu 3y ago
It's also a great example because the public perception is heavily biased. If you look at the statistics, the vast majority of trains come on time. And have working AC. And are actually quite pleasant to travel with. It's fantasti
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by iiiieu 3y ago
> If getting a company car, you are in for some real tax hell. Only if you want to make use of tax incentives for company cars. It's easy to complain about the downsides and ignore the upside. You can just not put it into your tax d
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by iiiieu 3y ago
Considering the downvotes, you probably forgot the "/s".
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by iiiieu 3y ago
> Unfortunately these are the exact people that Germany wants moving into their country - because they're the one's who pay the high taxes. Not sure about that. The ideal immigrant to a country is young and well educated. Throu
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by iiiieu 3y ago
> As an immigrant (and a very well paid one paying obnoxiously high taxes), Public services cost money. Relative to contributions to society (if you compare to the lady in the supermarket or the immigrant guy cleaning the toilets), SWE p
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by iiiieu 3y ago
Yeah, who could ever afford a £8 ping on a SWE salary. /s