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by iso1210 5y ago
Yes majority of the inflation is caused by a lack of supply due to covid (lots of things shut down, from microchip manufacturers to international shipping to lumber mills to refineries and produciton hasn't ramped up), and of course cr
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by iso1210 5y ago
Are you arguing it should be "the EU is building an $11billion tunnel connecting scandinavia to the mediterranean"? I agree the tunnel doesn't run from the Med to Scandanavia, or indeed anywhere in Italy to Scandanavia, howev
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by iso1210 5y ago
The official postcode format insists on the space between the outward and inward. I'm not sure why. The Inward code is always Number-Letter-Letter. The outward code can be variable length and format. The space is certainly beneficial f
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by iso1210 5y ago
It's inconsistent compared with alt-tab behaviour. cmd-tab switches to the last used application (assuming you don't hold down), right now for me that switches from Firefox to Slack. Pressing cmd-tab again switches from Slack back
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by iso1210 5y ago
My Atlassian products have been fine for the last few days, and indeed last few years. I think there was a 1 hour upgrade window a couple of months ago. But then we self-host.
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by iso1210 5y ago
> node was one of the first languages to have a build in standard way to get and manage dependencies CPAN? Pip in python? Pear for php?
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by iso1210 5y ago
Depends on your skin color
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by iso1210 5y ago
My understanding is insulin in the US is sold at ridiculous prices for profit, where as in the rest of the world it's just something that people who need it have it, like water, cabbage and schools.
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by iso1210 5y ago
So the media circus was about a real bug? Sounds like a legitimate media story.
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by iso1210 5y ago
I saw updown.io here on HN some time ago, it's a great service, cheap enough I don't notice, and quiet enough I only notice when there's a problem.
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by iso1210 5y ago
I read through that and I still wasn't sure if he was being serious or not.
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by iso1210 5y ago
You're assuming the direct profit is the benefit, and ignore all externalities. Do city streets make a profit? How about sewers? The value of those resources is immeasurable - they enable trillions of dollars of economic benefit in the
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by iso1210 5y ago
Manchester-London is 180 miles and takes 2h20, which isn't great, certainly not high speed, but that's being rectified. Pre covid it was 3 trains an hour for the majority of the day.
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by iso1210 5y ago
People travel for reasons other than commuting.
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by iso1210 5y ago
It's crazy, there's currenlty only 1,000 seats an hour between Lonodn (10m) and Manchester (3m), having dropped from 3tph for covid. My experience recently is those trains are taking at least 600 people per hour now. In my experie
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by iso1210 5y ago
It's interesting how the American view of transport (other than private cars) has to make a profit. Other countries fund transport to various degrees as it increases economic output and provides social needs. It's a similar distan
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by iso1210 5y ago
New Orleans has a population about 400k, Mobile 200k, it's 140 miles. That should be an hour long trip with 1-2 trains an hour
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by iso1210 5y ago
No, Russia should stop bombing people
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by iso1210 5y ago
My comment disagrees with itself
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by iso1210 5y ago
Rents are capped at the amount people can afford. If you earn €1000 a month as an artist, you can't pay €1500 a month in rent, no matter what supply and demand curves say. Say there's a supply on 100 apartments and a demand from 1
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by iso1210 5y ago
If downtown SF is dead, then people aren't living there, demand is very low and thus apartments are very cheap through simple supply and demand. You may want to increase density in downtown SF, and that's a reasonable decision, bu
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by iso1210 5y ago
> cities like New York and Chicago are not dead like SF and the East Bay are I haven't been to SF, but I have been to New York. I was shocked how dead the area around the WTC was on a Monday morning (I'd just arrived and walked
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by iso1210 5y ago
So demand massivley outstrips supply. If people aren't living in such horrible circumstances (crime, homelessness, drug abuse), why is demand so high that houses are unaffordable?
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by iso1210 5y ago
A better question is probably how many rich people need to take out a mortgage to fund their housing needs. Using equity for cheap money to buy more equity makes perfect sense.
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by iso1210 5y ago
Landlords already charge the maximum rent they can do. LVT doesn't punish wealth accumulation, it punishes monopolies
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by iso1210 5y ago
When was the last time an American fighter pilot shot down a bomber?
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by iso1210 5y ago
Imagine for a second the international language of planes was German. As an American who's an international pilot you of course speak German, although not as well as you speak English. Now imagine you're a bush pilot flying around
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by iso1210 5y ago
AT the time they were. Nowadays people barely know what a file is.
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by iso1210 5y ago
I think some countries are still at stage 2 of the Yes Minister observation of how a government responds, some are at stage 3 > In stage one we say nothing is going to happen. > Stage two, we say something may be about to happen, but
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by iso1210 5y ago
Expanding horizontally doesn't solve land price values -- prices will still be higher in the dense centre The solution is to make better use of valuable land by encouraging (or enforcing) high density

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