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by iso1210 5y ago
In the UK, I tend to work 9-3 with 5-10 minutes to make lunch most of the time. If I go to an office to see people we'll get to the pub about 1pm and the meeting can go on quite late, but it's rare. Obviously some days I'll w
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by iso1210 5y ago
No, the US arranged to buy far more vaccines at a quicker rate than most european countries, however are below Hungary and the UK in terms of people vaccinated. Does this mean that Hungary and the UK have a better work ethic? Looking at wes
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by iso1210 5y ago
> it's this mindset that allows the US to be far more productive https://data.oecd.org/lprdty/gdp-per-hour-worked.htm GDP per hour worked for the US is $72/hour, same as Belgium. France is $68, Denmark $75
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by iso1210 5y ago
Google maps was developed by Where 2 Technologies in Sydney. Google bought it in late 2004, same sort of time OSM started (in the UK) Microsoft AutoRoute predated that by a decade - NextBase (A UK company) built it in 1988, I think Microsof
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by iso1210 5y ago
In the 60s and 70s, the US population was promised 15-30 hour work weeks by now Reality is 60-80 hour work weeks, and for what? Work til you drop then die. > Technology is opening a new world of leisure time. One government report projec
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by iso1210 5y ago
There's providers with unlimited data in the UK for £15/month, 10-15G range is £4-5/month usmobile.com say 12G is $20/month - about 3 times the price of the UK, but I don't trust US prices as whenever I buy anything
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by iso1210 5y ago
Because the cost of living is set by what other people spend. If I earn $3k a month and my neighbor earns $3k a month, and I want to save $300, I only have $2700 to spend. My neighbor can offer more for limited resources (housing), and thus
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by iso1210 5y ago
Generally they do yes. Average wage in 1970 was about $3.40 an hour, which is about $23.60 today when inflation linked. Today average wage is $25.60/hr But that's only part of the story - while wages haven't gone down over th
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by iso1210 5y ago
Sorry you're absolutely right -- typo honest, not me brainfarting. Inflation whittles away at your debt, which is why inflation is good for the average person who owns very little cash and has lots of debt (i.e. someone with a mortgage
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by iso1210 5y ago
It annoys me about capitalism. There's a massive incentive for manufacturers to cut corners to save $100 on a $30k car, as they sell 10,000 cars and use the $1m to pay themselves a bonus about how great they are. Almost everyone will w
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by iso1210 5y ago
I've driven rentals in Europe with reversing cameras, in fact my current car had it as an option (I didn't bother). They still had physical controls. Sure the screen is a touch screen too (so when the phone rings you can press gre
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by iso1210 5y ago
I have to admit I was unnerved the first time I got in a car with an electronic hand brake - certainly something I would not want if I were buying a car. Especially as there was a "Microsoft" logo next to it (presumably for the te
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by iso1210 5y ago
I think in general percentages less than 0.1% should be reported as "1-in-XXX". Certainly when I create pages to measure packet loss I put 1 in 50,000 rather than 0.002%
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by iso1210 5y ago
But 10 units per acre is what was being proposed with just 1 parking space per dwelling. That acre is not going to get increased commercial (not enough customers in walking distance, no parking for people driving in), or transit (not dense
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by iso1210 5y ago
84 billion hours of driving[0] for 35,485 deaths[1]. That's one death per 2.4 million hours, so that's an indicator of the magnitude that's needed before even talking about it. That number also means no situations where the c
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by iso1210 5y ago
...38,000 times a year As self driving becomes common, people won't bother with getting a driving license. States that do can actually put in decent levels of restrictions and competency to get one rather than letting an 16 year old wi
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by iso1210 5y ago
So this model works well - rather than paying $10k for a feature that only works for 100 hours a year you spend on the freeway, and not the 400 hours you spend on your dirt road in smallville, you get the benefit when you go and visit Aunt
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by iso1210 5y ago
So it comes down to the customers not having the knowlege of what they are getting. Sell something without the extra costs and will people pay more? In the housing sector in the UK that's certainly not the case -- people didn't va
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by iso1210 5y ago
> it doesn't include things that don't have acute tech-driven inflation (housing/education/healthcare 80 years ago the President of the USA suffered from polio. A vaccine costs about $1 now. Education at primary/
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by iso1210 5y ago
Reganomics
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by iso1210 5y ago
Where they do typically have debts, which massively benefit from deflation
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by iso1210 5y ago
Even ignoring smokers - second hand smoking kills more than cars https://www.cdc.gov/tobacco/data_statistics/fact_sheets/heal... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motor_vehicle_fatality_rate_
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by iso1210 5y ago
Why don't they increase those rental prices anyway? A company will aim to charge the most it can to its customers.
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by iso1210 5y ago
And its a great model for people who want a known payment of $x and don't want to take on the risk/reward of deprecation, maintenance, resale, etc. Unlike with say housing, which sits on land which appreciates in value at a rate a
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by iso1210 5y ago
It does suggest that people with 2 shots are unlikely to end up in hospital. I haven't seen enough data about the hospitalisations when adjusted for age+vaccines to draw any more conclusions. There are still many over 70s who haven&#x2
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by iso1210 5y ago
Oh certainly if you want some beefy server with graphics cards, tons of memory etc, running 24/7, it's probably cheaper to co-locate. A g3s.xlarge costs $13k for 3 years with amazon, I suspect kitting your own server out and hirin
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by iso1210 5y ago
You just need an extra developer who's an expert with various AWS services to make sure you're using them correctly However as all developers are AWS experts (at least according to their resume), you have to pay that price regardl
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by iso1210 5y ago
Uber is certainly a win in almost all cities - I can count on one hand the times I've had an issue with them (once in Singapore, once in Kenya), and I've used uber far more than legacy cabs (where I can think of all manner of issu
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by iso1210 5y ago
> A world where my car gets micro-transactions to turn on the AC or heaters etc scares me. It's the HN community that have created this. If I have an EC2 VM, I have to pay Amazon a micro-transaction for every dns request they serve
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by iso1210 5y ago
That's only a problem because people buying them don't factor those costs into the equation. Effectively the company is arbitraging based on laziness of the general consumer to do the calculations

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