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by isostatic 7y ago
I’m fine with economy in Europe, YMMV But yes, it’s about how often you fly. Once or twice a year on a midhaul day flight like Uk to east coast or Mid East in a good economy plane (qatar a350 for example) is fine. flying 30 times a year the
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by isostatic 7y ago
Everyone can afford not to fly at all
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by isostatic 7y ago
Don’t fly in economy then. Take fewer flights and avoid cramped seats by flying further forward.
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by isostatic 7y ago
One of the best sites to 'do stuff' in the UK is gov.uk I've just filled in a new ESTA application on the US gov site too, simple (albeit stupid), and worked. This morning however I tried using enterprise b2b to book a hire c
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by isostatic 7y ago
It's a webpage in the UK, takes about 10 minutes if you have all the data you need (how much interest etc you earned, how many charitable deductions) -- that's assuming you're self assessed. Most people don't need to fil
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by isostatic 7y ago
Sure, for a small area that's fine, but if you're talking about the entire island of Manhattan that's a problem. I suppose if you made say every 20th street open to one way single street traffic (so 20th goes west, 40th east,
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by isostatic 7y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seattle_Underground
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by isostatic 7y ago
> To this day they still let First Class passengers off the airplane first so they get to be the first in line at customs. Doesn't really help at large airports as that just means you're first in the queue behind the previous
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by isostatic 7y ago
Underground isn't an infinite space. Power, Sewers, basements, vaults, foundations, and existing tunnels. In London, building a new tunnel for crossrail involved threading a TBM through a gap with 80cm clearance (that's less than
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by isostatic 7y ago
And deliveries, not just your amazon prime 2 hour service, but for shops to restock, and building sites to handle tons of equipment, cement, rubble, etc?
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by isostatic 7y ago
No. Hale-Bopp was discovered in 1995 and became visible in 1996. Halley was last visible in March 1986.
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by isostatic 7y ago
If Congress passed a law banning discussion of politics at work, yes that would be a First Ammendment issue. Congress shall make no law .... All the amendment does is specify what Congress can't do.
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by isostatic 7y ago
A land value tax, where you pay for the value of the land. Society builds a new subway stations near you, and land increases 20%, you pay 20% more tax. Society puts a power plant on your doorstep, land drops 40%, and you pay 40% less tax. W
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by isostatic 7y ago
> but that often doesn't constrain policymakers. Why don't we see more people with basic technical knowlege in policy making
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by isostatic 7y ago
In UK schools are in session in April, May, June and July (the equivalent of Oct,Nov,Dec,Jan), aside from a week off in may.
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by isostatic 7y ago
The relevant point is > I don't think anyone is suggesting that publicly-funded investment would make this happen faster. Just safer. The point is that while it could be safer per year, being slower means that it's not safer.
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by isostatic 7y ago
If * capitalistic automatic cars mean 2000 deaths per year, reducing linearly to zero after 10 years * socialist automatic cars eventually mean 1200 deaths per year, reducing to zero after 30 years * manual cars mean 1000 deaths per year, n
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by isostatic 7y ago
Surely that’s nice and easy to use and receive punitive damages?
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by isostatic 7y ago
Musk is the most powerful man in history. Everyone else with the ability to wipe out cities has had some form of government controlling their actions or relied on armies to do the deed, and they couldn't do it anonymously. Musk can.
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by isostatic 7y ago
Sounds trivial to me - just accelerate.
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by isostatic 7y ago
It's the failure of modern capitalism. Growth is what's important, not size. It doesn't matter how much you're worth, how good your product is, you have to constantly extract an extra ounce, and that leads to a collapse.
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by isostatic 7y ago
IBM is still around. So is Microsoft. So is Google.
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by isostatic 7y ago
Sure, but this way allows the city to begin again without the angst of trying to ban cars.
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by isostatic 7y ago
Rather than build streets underground, in somewhere like Manhattan why not build pedestrian areas on top, with direct building entrance at level 2?
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by isostatic 7y ago
Something to bypass while you reach for your Perl interpreter?
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by isostatic 7y ago
Their network should be high latency too
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by isostatic 7y ago
If you say no, then you're arrested for contempt of court or similar.
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by isostatic 7y ago
Not sure how the DMCA prevents people in boats from hijacking ships, but your view isn't of any relevance, what's of relevance in France is France's view. The DMCA allows people in non-US countries, working for companies in n
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by isostatic 7y ago
All fallout from the DMCA when the US decided it could police the world.
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by isostatic 7y ago
Yes, it means that facebook can't operate a company in france selling services in france and expect to ignore french law.

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