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by jnty 7y ago
Decision fatigue and opportunity cost aversion is a big factor too, I think. When comparing consumer products where there's lots of choices, I find myself finding an OK options and 'falling in love' with it - when I reflect,
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by jnty 7y ago
No, but you can't browse in a shop while filling up with petrol (at least in the UK where we don't have those locks which keep the pump on while you walk away.)
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by jnty 7y ago
What happens if you uninstall the app before going back online? You'd need to rely on the ticket being scanned at some point to ensure the person was charged, which isn't guaranteed on many transport systems (including the British
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by jnty 7y ago
They do in a lot of metros, although it's often very hard to retro-fit. The DLR got it at build-time. [1] One of the big issues is 'degraded working' where there's been some sort of failure (or perhaps adverse weather co
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by jnty 7y ago
"In 1524, Henry VIII received a box of “marmaladoo” as a gift from a Mr. Hull of Exeter. Although the name of the treat was glaringly and oddly misspelled on the box..." Was the concept of 'misspelling' a thing in 1524?
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by jnty 7y ago
What part of 'let's communicate the case for our new infrastructure' translates to 'shut up'? If anything, they're saying they need to move away from steamroll it through and try and make the case to local comm
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by jnty 7y ago
I don't think it's beyond the wits of engineers to work out which parts of the track need to be 250mph capable given the acceleration profile of the trains that are likely to use it. The ECML out of King's Cross is a 125mph r
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by jnty 7y ago
Cost is a different issue - I'd be very surprised if the subsidy profile of planes vs. trains vs. motoring stays the same over the coming decade. Unless you live airside at Heathrow and your destination is the Edinburgh duty free shop,
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by jnty 7y ago
Equally, we've delivered plenty of surface railway projects on time and on budget - the Borders line and Airdrie to Bathgate in Scotland come to mind. It's a pretty defeatist attitude to cancel ambitious projects because they some
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by jnty 7y ago
Yes - the speed is required for capacity, to minimise journey times to Scotland and ensure competitiveness with air travel and other existing links. Even for closer destinations like Birmingham 35 minutes is a huge improvement on a ~1h20m j
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by jnty 7y ago
Basically, no - upgrades to the existing rail network are exceedingly expensive and disruptive (the whole East Coast Mainline is basically closing this weekend because a single junction needs to be renewed.) HS2 provide lots of fast interci
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by jnty 7y ago
Why did these never take off, even in a 'big niche' way? Is corrected typing on a smartphone sufficiently speedy for it not to matter? Is the skill required more at the 'musical instrument' level than the 'touch typ
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by jnty 7y ago
Emergency response drivers never assume they've been heard by any road users and are trained to look for signs of acknowledgement and awareness before doing anything unusual for exactly this reason. They certainly don't blast at s
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by jnty 7y ago
I see that rule as avoiding the search for perfection - otherwise you might spend hours picking up different stones and contemplating as if it were a jigsaw puzzle, when in actual fact there are 'solutions' everywhere.
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by jnty 7y ago
Hang on - how are you paying for all these services? The money will almost certainly 'touch' a legacy banking mainframe at some point.
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by jnty 7y ago
I was a bit surprised by this too because Maggie's is actually a cancer charity in the UK. [1] As I say I imagine it's being handled fairly sensitively in reality. I'm more objecting to the whimsical feel-good description in
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by jnty 7y ago
It's not a coincidence that the 'original story' completely elides any negligence or wrongdoing by the police.
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by jnty 7y ago
It seems like a well-meant idea but how do you prevent it becoming exploitative? Exposing dementia patients to random members of the public in a service role with no understanding of the state of their condition seems like a pretty good way
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by jnty 7y ago
Yes - this definitely reads a bit naively, like people saying they "don't have an accent". She almost certainly had a leg-up compared to other kids, even if it was just related to how much she overheard her parents talk or h
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by jnty 7y ago
I think you've misunderstood the use of semantic here - it's semantic for all text files. Instead of describing very exactly 'put 8 spaces here' you're saying 'for some reason this line needs to be indented onc
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by jnty 7y ago
This is pretty amusing but highlights the distortions caused by the huge implicit rent subsidy that car parking usually receives. Where else can you hire private space in the centre of a city on an hourly basis for the rates that car sharin
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by jnty 7y ago
I've certainly encountered channels where lack of image embedding is less of a feature and more of a mental health necessity!
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by jnty 7y ago
This isn't exclusive to blue collar jobs. Software engineers seem positively allergic to unions!
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by jnty 7y ago
Microaggressions are definitely a thing and one misuse of the word does not invalidate the concept. If you see a misuse of the term 'sexism' it's not okay to say "I suppose this is the natural consequence of making &#x27
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by jnty 7y ago
"The fact that the combination was in a specific pattern and did not appear to be a random combination of numbers could also factor into a calculation of the odds, he added." Hehe. I guess he'll have to produce a list of non-
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by jnty 7y ago
Maybe it's time to go retro. I don't see any 'ONE MILLIONTH VISITOR!' banner ads any more, time to bring those back..?
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by jnty 7y ago
Does the evidence from countries with tax-funded healthcare and social care bear this out? Are you assuming that everyone will eventually have a Japan-style ageing population timebomb?
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by jnty 7y ago
No - the whole point of pooling would surely be that you don't pay for your own misfortune (or profit from good fortune.) It really just becomes a poorly implemented version of general taxation though. Funding health and social care fr
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by jnty 7y ago
Have we not been optimising for power usage for the last ten years at least? It's really important for tablets, phones and laptops.
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by jnty 7y ago
Is this really that much of a thing? Presumably we're mostly dealing with groups - probably mostly charities. Is it really so hard to create public consciousness that releasing a tonne of baloons into the air for no reason is littering

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