lhopki01

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Waymo gave me a ride in a car with no driver(theverge.com)
4 points by lhopki01 9y ago|0 comments
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by lhopki01 9y ago
Japan has had a falling population for a long time now. London has added 1.7 million people in that time period. Property in Japan also isn't as attractive to foreign buyers. People seem to forget that property isn't like othe
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by lhopki01 9y ago
Yes you should be 'punished' for owning two properties. Or more specifically if you are well off enough to own two properties then you are well off enough to pay for them. Property should not be an investment since it is an essen
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by lhopki01 9y ago
Housing isn't like every other good that you can sell. It sits on land which is extremely scarce. At what point does selling housing abroad become a bad thing? When 5% of homes are empty? When 10% of homes are empty? 50%?
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by lhopki01 9y ago
Had a quick look at the map and it seems Ober-Erlenbach to other other side of Bad Homburg is only 10km. That's not even a half hour cycle for an adult. It also looks like Ober-Erlenbach and Nieder-Erlenbach are the only two villages
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by lhopki01 9y ago
What exactly is it about children under the age of 12 that requires a car?
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But they don't decide the schedule or price or anything like that. The key thing is that the people who decide that aren't motivated only by profit.
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by lhopki01 9y ago
Manchester also has publicly controlled public transport.
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by lhopki01 9y ago
This depends on where you live? In London monthly rent is higher than the cost of paying for a mortgage so it makes financial sense have a mortgage even if the final sale price of the house is 0.
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by lhopki01 9y ago
The UK is a good example of the difference between public and private corporations controlling public transport in buses. In London they are publicly controlled and very popular while outside of London they aren't and are terrible. L
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NYC cops did a work stop, yet crime dropped(arstechnica.co.uk)
62 points by lhopki01 9y ago|35 comments
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by lhopki01 9y ago
Spinning up asteroids can't be done. The speed you'd need for significant gravity would rip the asteroid apart.
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by lhopki01 9y ago
The US has a lack of dedicated voters because of it's voting system. There is not much point voting in a Presidential election in California or New York. That encourages people to think their vote doesn't matter. If every vote
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by lhopki01 9y ago
But that's not an issue specific to the EU. Countries pass laws that they don't obey all the time. Usually the only recourse is to try and get the courts to order the government to comply but depending on the country that might
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by lhopki01 9y ago
That's not quite right. Directives, regulations and decisions are different. Regulations are instantly law in all EU countries. This is because all EU countries have laws that say all Regulations apply directly. This is makes regul
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by lhopki01 9y ago
Your first thought is that this is fraud not that it's crazy that this is still needed? Also where is the fraud? They haven't registered him anywhere legally.
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by lhopki01 9y ago
Celts are a fabricated identity. The modern representation arose out of trying to have a pan European ancestry and identity in the 19th century.
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by lhopki01 9y ago
Nothing is wrong with coalitions but they are demonised in the UK as weak and unstable. FPTP is an ancient system from before the time of parties and needs to be reformed.
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by lhopki01 9y ago
The DUP want a hard border with the Irish Republic. They specifically don't want any special status for Northern Ireland as they're afraid it would bring Ireland and Northern Ireland closer together.
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by lhopki01 9y ago
The supposedly stable system has led to 3 nation elections in 7 years (probably another one this year too) and 2 hung parliaments in the same time. Meanwhile Germany and many other countries have very stable politics with proportional repr
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by lhopki01 9y ago
I'm having issues with gmail.com and youtube.com from within the UK.
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by lhopki01 9y ago
6ft by the end of the century. 160ft in total.
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by lhopki01 9y ago
Where has this happened?
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by lhopki01 10y ago
But if you're travelling via the hub and spoke model you still need to rent at the other end. The US is not adverse to subsidising and providing large tax discounts to companies, if anything this is much more common in the US than the
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by lhopki01 10y ago
I'm not sure this argument holds up. Ryanair in the EU flys so many point to point flights from little airports to other little airports. Why does the point to point model work so well within the EU but not in the US? Ryanair has ac
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by lhopki01 10y ago
I wonder why deregulation within the EU led to such different results than the US? The article makes a point about how there were many mergers in the US which probably has reduced competition. However, this doesn't explain the fact t
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by lhopki01 10y ago
Do you accept that even if governments do take action every person will still need to live within a carbon allowance or else global warming will still happen? If so even if you convince governments you'll still have to fly less and li
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by lhopki01 10y ago
The pound has been 20% overvalued for 30 years? I'm struggling to see why being outside of a large trading bloc is better than being inside a large trading bloc. You've said it is better off long term so there must be advantages
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by lhopki01 10y ago
Yes it is correlation but then there's not such thing as evidence in social sciences. Correlation is all we've got.
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by lhopki01 10y ago
It's one datapoint alongside a well know fact that Southern European vegetables are more expensive atm because of a bad winter. You have pointed out one good amongst thousands that was cheaper when it came from outside the EU. I'

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