lhopki01

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by lhopki01 10y ago
A single lane of highway doesn't get more than 2000 cars per hour. Even self driving won't increase that much. If all cars have to wait for someone to get out of their cars since we're only on 1 lane then it'll get eve
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by lhopki01 10y ago
I never said we'd get rid of roads. Parent was saying that we shouldn't build rail because of autonomous cars.
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by lhopki01 10y ago
How do self-driving cars deal with capacity? Even with self driving cars there isn't enough capacity on the roads for everyone. Highways are terrible at traffic throughput. To give you an example Crossrail in London has the capacity
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by lhopki01 10y ago
Efficiency of what though? Space? Roads take up way more space than tracks. Efficiency of cost? Roads are very expensive. Often more expensive per passenger mile than railroads. Efficiency of energy use? Moving a 2000kg electric car aro
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by lhopki01 10y ago
Yet these same people will complain about public money being spent to subsidize public transport.
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by lhopki01 10y ago
It's not a silly article. Whenever the idea of subsidising public transport people try and claim that we don't need to subsidise cars so why should we do it for public transport. If the true costs of cars were taken into conside
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by lhopki01 10y ago
You're misunderstanding me completely. I don't think that if remain had won it would be more democratic. I don't want referendums at all. I'm not alone in that thought. Germany has actually outlawed referendums. As f
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by lhopki01 10y ago
Wanting the referendum to be overturned doesn't mean that one is undemocratic. My reasons for wanting the referendum overturned are the same reasons I don't want referendums in the first place. Namely I believe that referendums
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by lhopki01 10y ago
The regulation that this article tries to pretend is the problem is actually what protects so many people. Uber drivers are not harmed because the government doesn't recognise them as independent contractors, they are harmed because t
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by lhopki01 10y ago
One thing you need to be careful about is comparing a service in China with the service outside of China. For example Skype in China because of the monitoring put on it disconnects all the time where it would be fine outside of China. Ser
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by lhopki01 10y ago
I've just gone through the process of creating kubernetes configs for our entire infrastructure. I essentially created an identical set of scripts myself to deal with all our existing configs. Would have been nice to have this 4 week
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by lhopki01 10y ago
In the UK the Human Rights Act applies to all Humans (the current government is trying to change this but it still applies) The notion of human rights applying to only citizens is very strange to me.
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by lhopki01 10y ago
The way the US won't work unless tax policies are harmonised between states.....oh wait.
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It's not a new law.
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by lhopki01 10y ago
Somaliland has a government. It's the bits without government that have issues. Only someone who's lived their life in a place with semi effective government will think that without government things will function.
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by lhopki01 10y ago
This argument would hold more weight if the pharmaceutical sector didn't have 17% profit margins. Only beaten by Banks, Financial Services, Shipbuilding, and Tobacco. http://pages.stern.nyu.edu/~adamodar/New_Home
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by lhopki01 10y ago
No it's not. Study after study has shown that building more roads doesn't speed up cars it just increases the number of cards and reducing roads doesn't slow down cars it just decreases the total number.
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by lhopki01 10y ago
Just use yaml?
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by lhopki01 10y ago
Finland isn't in Scandinavia.
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by lhopki01 10y ago
It can also do a number of things: * causes people to not travel far away and to spend their money in the local economy * cause an increase in people using public transport to get into the city because it is now a nice experience inside the
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by lhopki01 10y ago
Monopoly is the natural end state of capitalism. Once a company is big enough it's easy to destroy or buy out all competition. It's only regulation that prevents all industries becoming monopolies over time. You're confusin
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by lhopki01 10y ago
Capitalism has nothing to do with freedom of the press.
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by lhopki01 10y ago
Where is your basis for this statement? Pharmaceutical industry profit margins are about 17% which about the highest of any industry. Pharmaceutical companies spend more on advertising than research and development. Looks less like Europe
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by lhopki01 10y ago
Pharmaceutical companies have an average profit margin of about 17%. That's about the highest by industry in the world. I think it's more accurate to say that America subsidises the profit margins of pharmaceutical companies. Im
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by lhopki01 11y ago
Close 275k but with a slightly larger than 10% deposit. 2% interest rate but the point that it is cheaper to pay a mortgage than rent is valid even if interest rates go to 8 or 9%. Also you consider that in a vacuum. What do you think ha
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by lhopki01 11y ago
As said in other comments buy-to-let is a massive thing in the UK and in London buy-to-leave is big too. But yes profiteering is a major part too.
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by lhopki01 11y ago
London is an even more extreme example of speculation in the property market. There are no restrictions on foreign ownership. In South Kensington an area of London 1 in 50 homes are designated as long term unoccupied. Buy-to-leave is a we
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by lhopki01 11y ago
Even with a 10% deposit it's still only repayment of 1100 a month. The point is that rents are higher than mortgages which gives the case of having money means you can save money. And that's before you consider the massive asset
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by lhopki01 11y ago
London is more extreme but it's the case in almost the entire UK that rents are higher than mortgage payments.
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by lhopki01 11y ago
All a great and good till you do the math. In the UK you can own a house 2 hours away from work or you can rent a house 3 hours away from work. Rental prices in the UK are well above the rate needed to service a mortgage so if you can get

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