midasuni

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by midasuni 3y ago
Poorer people in the ULEZ area don’t own cars, they live in flats overlooking car ridden streets. Besides ULEZ is not about stopping Co2 emissions or net zero, it’s about removing dirty smoke from the roads poor people (the ones you see on
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by midasuni 3y ago
You'll never watch your life slide out of view And then dance, and drink, and screw Because there's nothing else to do
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by midasuni 3y ago
If you have two kids and earn 55k from work, you pay marginal tax of 60%, as you have to pay a child tax on top of income and national insurance, plus another 9% or 15% on student loans (which are funded as an income tax)
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by midasuni 3y ago
All assets depend on the governemt. You own land, that’s because the government allows it, you own a company, not if the government doesn’t let it exist.
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by midasuni 3y ago
Of my close friends from uni days, only one lives in london, and that’s by choice (her job was moved from london to somewhere in Surrey well before covid so she was “reverse commuting” several times a week. The others live in a seaside town
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by midasuni 3y ago
From memory when I moved to Debian about 2000, apt just worked, and redhat 5.2/6.0) had nothing to compare. It’s the main reason I changed. Wikipedia says yum wasn’t even a thing until 2002.
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by midasuni 3y ago
Tesla or their representative did accept payment. They then lost it.
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by midasuni 3y ago
The U.K. taxes income from work more than any other income. If you got paid 150k gross you’d end up with 80k net in your bank account after paying both parts of NI (23k) and income tax (46k) If you “earnt” 150k from renting out a property y
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by midasuni 3y ago
Quite. Systemd-resolved breaks dns a lot by default, leaves a pasty taste in my mouth. The systemd-timesyncd also causes undesirable behaviour This shouldn’t affect systemd-initd except it does because of the name.
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by midasuni 3y ago
Those are normal expectation of living in society. Talking you your neighbour is not. I’m sure it was decades ago in the curtain twitching world where people stayed living int he same street for decades, but not today in a highly movable wo
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by midasuni 3y ago
How does a “digital nomad” differ from a resident that works from home?
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by midasuni 3y ago
I’m staying in an Airbnb style holiday cottage at the moment. I hd to register and pay tourist tax when I got here. Maybe the problem isn’t Airbnb, it’s your jurisdiction.
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by midasuni 3y ago
In the U.K. there is no tax related to house prices, just relative prices. If prices double from 250k to 500k government doesn’t get any more money. The fault is entirely with those who don’t want more housing built. The government can use
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by midasuni 3y ago
Most cities where intercontinental tourists go to have Uber. And while I use Apple Maps rather than google I’ve used it in dozens of cities in dozens of countries on 6 continents with limited problems. Or of course I’ve just hailed taxied
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by midasuni 3y ago
You may be, I may be not. That doesn’t lead to any conclusion than “some people like other people” I’ve never need to rely on anyone, other than of course normal economic transactions. Why would I park my car in a ditch?
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by midasuni 3y ago
No we aren’t social animals, certainly not in rural areas. Give me a good book and a quiet afternoon in the shade of a tree with no neighbours any day.
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by midasuni 3y ago
We coped with that decades ago before handhold computers with connection to enourmous global databases. Nowadays you just put the address into google/Apple/etc maps, or get an Uber.
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by midasuni 3y ago
I’m surprised it’s not counted as fraud
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by midasuni 3y ago
A system where land can’t be owned by an individual but instead pay an annual rent based on the unimporoved value of that land, acknowledging they commons is owned evenly by every citizen
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by midasuni 3y ago
Not really because you’re completely ignoring the externalities with that metric. But if you did include the entire supply chain, how many many man hours went into securing oil supply with the invasion of Iraq? Not just the armed forces, bu
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by midasuni 3y ago
Except it’s not expensive.
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by midasuni 3y ago
Reality is wind today is far cheaper to both build, maintain and decommission than nuclear The problem with wind is variable supply - especially in regional areas.
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by midasuni 3y ago
They do however have the ability to ask homeowners for ring footage without a warrant, and British homeowners on the whole are eager to inform on their neighbours
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by midasuni 3y ago
Seems that 30kWh of batteries would be enough to take you off grid completely?
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by midasuni 3y ago
The reduction from 3 to 2 operators, the acceptance of long breaks when there were two operators so there was only 1 in the room for a prolonged period of time, the pressure to cut costs, the lack of understanding of what systems were down
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by midasuni 3y ago
https://mm.icann.org/pipermail/tz/2020-October/029376.html For example - 5 days notice for a DST change.
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by midasuni 3y ago
The relativity and frames of reference are trivial compared to the whims of international politics
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by midasuni 3y ago
I remember having a call with two colleagues once, I was in Sydney, one colleague was in london and one in LA It was quite surreal, although time wise I think the LA person was up early on Tuesday and I was up late.
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by midasuni 3y ago
Time in the U.K. is europe/london. It’s entirely possible in the future that outlying Scottish islands may decide to keep DST while the rest of the country goes to year round daylight saving. You can’t always be future proof.
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by midasuni 3y ago
How much do you need the grid vs storage in winter? Can you increase your generation?

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