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by ta1243 2y ago
The reason there are so many people worth $1b instead of a poor $100m is because of the tax cuts diverting money from crucial jobs.
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by ta1243 2y ago
Is the personnel shortage is because most people can't handle 8 hour shifts, then it's plausible that you'd have more than 4 times as many people that can handle 2 hour shifts If 1 in 100k can handle 8 hours, and 1 in 10k can
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by ta1243 2y ago
Any solution would have to be better than the current one. The last 30 years of the computer industry tells me that is not going to happen.
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by ta1243 2y ago
Live by the platform, die by the platform
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by ta1243 2y ago
The US is talking about annexing Canada, so "western countries" means the USA, which if continuing down this path long enough will become a pariah
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by ta1243 2y ago
There's a 3 in 4 chance an asteroid hitting the earth will hit water, and of the remaining change about 50/50 it hits a desert or ice sheet (Antarctica, Greenland).
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by ta1243 2y ago
That would create far more objects, many on the same rough direction, thus increasing the chance of an impact
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by ta1243 2y ago
And yet crowdstrike's stock price is still 28% up on where it was 12 month ago, 46% up on 6 months ago after their crash. Sibling is right, that type of product is nothing to do with actually preventing problems, its to do with outsour
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by ta1243 2y ago
> Many states have laws preventing direct to customer selling Ahh, land of the free
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by ta1243 2y ago
Youtube came to fame because of sharing copyrighted material without permission of the copyright holders. Still does. With Tesla, I've no idea if there are laws preventing direct to customer selling, the "land of the free" ha
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by ta1243 2y ago
Taxi companies don't like rail going to US airports. With JFK you have to take one train, then change, then another train, then you're at the equivalent of Paddington. Would be like having to change at Hayes+Harlington. Luton has
702.
by ta1243 2y ago
The ones in europe are submarine. AC has its own challenges under the sea. This one for example at 600kV and 2.2GW https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Western_HVDC_Link There are of course issues with all undersea cables (AC
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by ta1243 2y ago
There's half a dozen lines over 500kV DC in operation and as many again under development and construction
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by ta1243 2y ago
What amazes me is how dense Westminster is, considering it contains Hyde, Green, St James Park and significant parts of Regents Park and Kensington Gardens Even with that, it's still the 10th most dense borough.
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by ta1243 2y ago
Depends on the what your goal is when counting GDP. If I spend a day painting my garage door, and my neighbour spends a day wiring a new lightbulb, nothing is added to GDP If I pay my neighbour to paint my garage door, and my neighbour pays
706.
by ta1243 2y ago
More workers to older people ratio More social care from family (which is unpaid and thus is hidden in GDP figures) Less social care Expectation in the UK that wealthy old people should not pay for their own care and instead poorer working
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by ta1243 2y ago
Germany provides about the same contribution to EU GDP as California and Texas do to the US. The top 8/51 states(+dc) generate 50% of US GDP, the top 3/27 EU generate EU. The bottom half of EU states generate just 9% of EU GDP, bu
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by ta1243 2y ago
Certainly not my experience. Phone up for an appointment and get it same day. Seems to be a postcode lottery
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by ta1243 2y ago
And yet you pay more per capita than the UK
710.
by ta1243 2y ago
Vast majority of NHS expense is keeping an aging population alive. A lot of the rest of government spending (nearly 80% of my council tax for example) goes on social care for that same aging population. The NHS spends less per capita than t
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by ta1243 2y ago
Housing+Development Board comes to mind. Singapore housing policies ensures people can afford to live somewhere reasonable.
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by ta1243 2y ago
Eating out is entirely optional, it's property that's the killer, and as everyones wages increase, so does rent, because there's more money chasing the same number of properties.
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by ta1243 2y ago
90% of the problems in the UK come down to the cost of housing in London (and maybe a couple of other key cities, but mainly London) This cost is driven by relatively high wages in London, so people on good salaries can afford more, so pric
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by ta1243 2y ago
And of course there's the old tale: Americans: Please divert your course 15 degrees to the North to avoid a collision. Canadians: Recommend you divert YOUR course 15 degrees to the South to avoid a collision. Americans: This is the Cap
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by ta1243 2y ago
The development was presumably funded off the back of expected revenue. For your "streamer" stuff, I'd expect them to use something appropiate to the job - something connecting direct to a network outputting NDI, or something
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by ta1243 2y ago
> Aren't there like millions of uninhabited homes? No. Certainly not in places where people want to live. Why would you think there are? Why would someone deliberately let their property deprecate while not earning an income, (setti
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by ta1243 2y ago
$70m of that $80m house is the land its on, and that hasn't been destroyed.
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by ta1243 2y ago
Yet it's quite normal - at least in the three schools I know about
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by ta1243 2y ago
I stay in IHG hotels a fair amount booked through work's travel agent - indeed I'm about to check in to one when the train gets in. Always get the points and credited stay. Don't get them if you book it through booking.com or
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by ta1243 2y ago
Teachable moments is things learning about things like DNS, vpns elsewhere, man in the middle attacks, etc.

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