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by midasuni 3y ago
For anyone who might not realise in the 20s london had a labour mayor, and the U.K. had a labour government. The usual rebuttal is something along the lines of “no true labour”.
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by midasuni 3y ago
It’s the same reason companies outsource things which aren’t their “core competency”. It’s the same reason that people outsource their infrastructure to Amazon.
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by midasuni 3y ago
We don’t want to be. Look at the glee from the average person when it comes to tracking their every move, from ring doorbells to surveillance capitalism
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by midasuni 3y ago
And how many failures in the most recent 100 Soyuz flights? Crew dragon hasn’t had anywhere near enough launches to compare. F9 itself though has and its a great system. Going to be a long time before it’s a trusty as a 737 max though.
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by midasuni 3y ago
Broadly the same - 7 seats a launch, about 2 failures in about 150 launches, or 14 seat failures in 1000 seat launches. The early launches didn’t have 7 people on but it’s not really relevant. Worryingly for the shuttle the second failure w
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by midasuni 3y ago
The booster experienced a rapid unscheduled disassembly after boostback burn following the successful stage separation
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by midasuni 3y ago
Amazon are double dipping - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38194818 Only consumer equipment company I “trust” are Apple.
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by midasuni 3y ago
Absolute numbers don’t really mean much. More than 14 people have died since this test flight on American roads. Shuttle death rate was about 1 in 75, which is insanely high.
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by midasuni 3y ago
If your program crashes while you are developing it, is that a failure?
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by midasuni 3y ago
The Industrial Revolution had massive positive outcomes for humanity as a whole. Those who lost their livelihoods and then died did not get those positive outcomes.
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by midasuni 3y ago
Yea, same as clocks in orbiting satellites, or even difference in rates between different locations on earth. The difference is negligible compared to leap seconds.
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by midasuni 3y ago
Normally in the U.K. they are fixed for a period of time - 5 years is quite common, but you can get 10 and even full term ones. You can also get ones which track the base rate. Typically people refix after the term. My 5 year recently ende
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by midasuni 3y ago
Those big multinationals are abusing their position I agree. I’d like to see those practices banned, HN wouldn’t because half of HN relies of predatory activities to pay their rent
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by midasuni 3y ago
And of course anyone can use your voice ti voice any opinion. Want Ghandi saying his words are backed with nuclear weapons? Want to portray Hitler as a nice loving chap? And that’s before you get onto current politicians - https:/&#x2
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by midasuni 3y ago
Can you not port mortgages in America? I have 4 years left on my mortgage, if I want to move though I can simply sell this place, buy somewhere new, and phone up my mortgage company and take the debt with me - as long as the new place is ab
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by midasuni 3y ago
All planets (in the same plane of relativity) agree on the length of a second. The length of a day varies - both on earth and on mars, and is meaningless for people in orbit, but a second is a second.
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by midasuni 3y ago
Nothing in the solar system has a relative speed different enough to earth to make common timestamps different - the difference is well below leap second impacts. As for simultaneity we already have to deal with that at the millisecond leve
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by midasuni 3y ago
OP said “ It feels like there's very little social mobility in Europe compared to the US.” But didn’t define it. GP pointed to a definition which shows that OP was wrong.
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by midasuni 3y ago
If the US took all the money it spent on Medicaid alone it could afford to fund U.K. level healthcare for everyone.
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by midasuni 3y ago
Pretty easy really. But what does being a millionaire actually mean in terms of what you can do with your life? Is your goal really “become a millionaire”? Not “have the ability to see the world” or “live in a nice house with kids an a dog”
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by midasuni 3y ago
If you’re earning 5 times median wages it might work out - America looks after it’s rich. If you’re on less then not likely But remember it’s not just your bank balance. Do you really want to live in a society where your neighbour can’t aff
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by midasuni 3y ago
I bet you pay rent
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by midasuni 3y ago
So use “thousands” rather than “tens of” I have tens of phones, well certainly more than 10, that suggest a story on e-waste for the average person.
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by midasuni 3y ago
I’ve seen adverts for it on YouTube in the past
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by midasuni 3y ago
What version of word. PDF has many free implementations for both reading and writing.
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by midasuni 3y ago
Unix time will reach it, even if 32 bit signed representations tick over.
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by midasuni 3y ago
The spectacular events is in Jan 2038, when it reaches a nice round number of 2,147,483,648
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by midasuni 3y ago
Not a user story?
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by midasuni 3y ago
You seem to have made a mistake, as some people do, to assume that everything in the newspapers and on the radio, in the movies and magazines, is “propaganda
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by midasuni 3y ago
Was certainly the goal of some of the cults, at least according to the evidence in the indictment.

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