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by morepork 3y ago
To add in a slightly different angle, this sort of thing is not exclusive to America. For example, in New Zealand, a couple of weeks ago there was a bit of a kerfuffle due to reporting on those of certain ethnicities being prioritised on su
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by morepork 3y ago
Alternative headline: Britain's coal power plants are so uneconomic that even government subsidies won't keep them open
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by morepork 3y ago
It's a bit more complicated than that, as an EV motorcycle drivetrain tends to be lighter than a petrol one (excluding battery/fuel tank), but that isn't going to make a big difference for aircraft
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by morepork 3y ago
You're comparing numbers in different units. USA is in deaths per 100 million miles. The rest are in deaths per billion km. USA is 9.3 deaths per billion km if you do the conversion.
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by morepork 3y ago
Canada is 5.1 deaths per billion km. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_traffic... USA is 1.5 deaths per 100 million miles from your link. That's about 9.3 deaths per billion km. Other comparable
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by morepork 3y ago
In NZ cohabitation for 3 or more years usually puts you into a de facto relationship which has basically the same legal status as a civil union or marriage.
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by morepork 3y ago
Current EVs are around 200kg heavier than comparable ICE cars. For example the BYD Dolphin is 1285-1450 kg depending on options, where the comparable Honda Fit is 1070-1280 kg. Likewise the Tesla Model 3 is 1611-1847 kg, compared to a Toyot
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by morepork 3y ago
Pixel C and Pixel slate. I had a Pixel C that my employer paid for, nice device, but I wouldn't have paid sticker price for it
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by morepork 3y ago
I don't get your point. The index is mostly non Google companies, and has returns matching Google's share price. Hence the other index components have had share price movements comparable to Google. So judged by share price alone
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by morepork 3y ago
The Google stock price has matched the NASDAQ100 since then, it's underperformed when you take dividends into account. He's made a lot of money for shareholders, but you'd have to say his performance is average or slightly be
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by morepork 3y ago
Aeroplane mode doesn't stop the phone receiving GPS signals. It may also leave wifi and/or bluetooth on which can give a coarse location. The phone's accelerometers will still run in aeroplane mode which can infer a surprisin
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by morepork 3y ago
Apple's famously very secretive, so who knows what they've spent money on internally that has never seen the light of day. There have been rumours for the last 10 years that a bunch of people are working on a self driving and&#x2F
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by morepork 3y ago
They are in fact almost identical. Over that time period both GOOG and the NASDAQ 100 have both gone up 2.8x. They're the same to 1 decimal place edit: but the NASDAQ 100 pays dividends, so Google's stock price has underperformed
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by morepork 3y ago
On top of this, execs typically have a lot of stock based compensation. So buybacks are way better than dividends for them
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by morepork 3y ago
And 2 weeks could suddenly become a lot shorter. I gave 2 weeks notice once, then had a death in the family (covered by bereavement leave) and then got sick. My 10 business days of handover ended up going down to about 4-5.
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by morepork 3y ago
Isn't that just normal? How do people normally resign? I've always written up a letter saying my last day will be x
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by morepork 4y ago
That's not what they're advocating for, they're saying a plugin hybrid with a 75 mile electric range, that uses a fossil fuel engine for more range. The general idea is, suppose you want a vehicle with a 400 mile range. Once
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by morepork 4y ago
Cell phone planes in NZ are typically much less expensive than the US, you can get a decent plan for NZD 20/month, where in the US I couldn't find much for less than USD 30/month, which is over twice as much. I hear that in o
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by morepork 4y ago
If they're planning true 100% coverage, a lot of NZ's back country is mountainous so I doubt you'd get the max range as that would be in ideal, presumably flat, areas. However, the power requirements are probably a lot lower
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by morepork 4y ago
I wonder whether there could be space here for a bank to come in and specialise in loans to cover the tax bill, using the currently pre-IPO stock as security
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by morepork 4y ago
4:30/mile pace is faster than all but the fastest amateur runners, and the effect would I assume be less at a slower pace. 1s/400m is less than 2 minutes over a marathon, so something, but not a huge amount. 1m behind is also pret
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by morepork 4y ago
Storing the water at a higher temperature effectively increases the capacity of the tank. Also the stored hot water has to be above a certain level (~60 degrees) at least some of the time otherwise it won't prevent any bugs growing in
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by morepork 4y ago
Or perhaps the universe is a simulation whose prng was seeded with 1 just like golang does Maybe we're in the first batch of simulations, and the tester came along and asks why they're all identical. The cosmic coder then realises
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by morepork 4y ago
It's a reasonable choice, and will be unique for most program runs, but it's not exactly random
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by morepork 4y ago
Google pays a large amount of stock based comp, so at least that part of their wages will likely go up, at least in the short term.
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by morepork 4y ago
Sure, but Google always billed themselves as a non-traditional company, and prided themselves on social responsibility. That helped in hiring as they became one of the most desirable companies to work for, even when their salaries were outs
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by morepork 4y ago
If you're saying "I take full responsibility", I'd expect a meaningful consequence on your part, such as resigning, forgoing your bonus for the year or a significant pay cut. That's what's happening to the staf
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by morepork 4y ago
In most of the world basic health care is provided to all residents at low or no cost Edit: to the user, paid for via taxes/etc.
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by morepork 4y ago
Similar in NZ, but there are still imperial measurements in places, e.g. PSI for tyres, or inches when talking about TV dimensions, DPI for screen resolutions, a quarter acre section for a house. You might hear people talk about a "pou
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by morepork 4y ago
The current HVDC link has had a lot of upgrades from the original 600MW to 1200MW now, and there are proposals to upgrade it further, but not nearly to the scale you suggest, as there just isn't the need for such levels of transmission

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