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by jnty 7y ago
Wikipedia seems to suggest this passage is entirely correct https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coronavirus_disease_2019 "Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is an infectious disease caused by severe acute respiratory s
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by jnty 7y ago
You're misunderstanding my point. Transport subsidy funded from current income is a good idea. Spending your entire capital infrastructure budget on making it free for a few years is not. The 'lingering benefits' don't l
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by jnty 7y ago
The non-schematic map is quite out of date given that the Borders Line to Galashiels and Tweedbank opened five years ago. edit: oh, it says 2013
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by jnty 7y ago
But it would only decrease traffic and pollution for the duration of the spend. Once it's over, those benefits stop and there is nothing left beyond the lingering effects of the intervention. It's actually worse than that, because
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by jnty 7y ago
Nobody who says we can get 'improved rail' for the cost of HS2 had ever explained how we get that in the vicinity of London without something which looks extremely similar to HS2. We have solid proposals for 'improving rail&#
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by jnty 7y ago
And after subsidising bus travel for 20 years we are left with nothing - other than, probably, an expectation to fund for the next 20 years too. After HS2 is built we have an extrememly valuable asset which will generate returns for years t
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by jnty 7y ago
Just wait until they see the Windows save symbol!
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by jnty 7y ago
Minecraft was on the cusp of that change, and it's pretty telling how much of a hellscape the code was for years.
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by jnty 7y ago
This was the first thing I thought of when I read this question. So often I find myself and people around me basically assuming that the folks on the other side of the phone are idiots. Well, chances are they're thinking the same. You
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by jnty 7y ago
The definition of niche is literally "appeals to a small, specialized section of the population" so, er, yes.
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by jnty 7y ago
The price of a 32in TV has presumably gone down though right? And the same would surely be true of a 29in TV if you could find one. The fact that the market has moved on and you have to tweak your basket of goods is a measurement quirk, not
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by jnty 7y ago
I don't understand how the situation above is a 'quirk' and not a straightforward example of deflation. The price of a typical TV - now represented in the basket of goods as a 32in TV - has fallen. The fact that lower prices
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by jnty 7y ago
I get this for vegetables, but surely the 'strategy' for a lot of fruit is that they are tasty when ripe and get eaten so that the seed is spread?
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by jnty 7y ago
As the article says, many metros (including the one in the article) combine automation with drivers. You only need to pay for the bit of automation that actually increases frequency and use the driver for all the fiddly bits.
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by jnty 7y ago
So all jobs you personally dislike should be abolished?
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by jnty 7y ago
It's a dream job for many people, and is an extremely skilled job when dealing with technical problems and emergencies is taken into account. There's a lot of worse jobs we should get rid of first.
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by jnty 7y ago
The (poor) economics of removing drivers from existing metros just goes to show what an extremely efficient way of moving people they already are.
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by jnty 7y ago
Do you not usually carry a rucksack or shoulder bag? If you're having to use a new plastic bag every time it seems like it might benefit you to get one - they're much more comfortable to use too.
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by jnty 7y ago
A lot of teams would say that their output is in spite of their manager, not because of it. What if the manager's contribution is net negative?
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by jnty 7y ago
Why would you drive into the medieval centre of a city to do a large supermarket shop if you can drive to an out-of-town one already? Studies show that - particularly in Europe - most people are already walking to these shops everywhere. Th
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by jnty 7y ago
Yes this is bizarre - it's the same in the UK, where crossing the stop line on red is the offence. Often in cities traffic will continue through the amber light so you often have to turn on red to clear the junction. (Pedestrian lights
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by jnty 7y ago
surely that just drives people away from your whole market? "Oh man, don't go to any of the restaurants on that street, they all look terrible."
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by jnty 7y ago
Unlimited call plans in the UK often commence charges at a time limit, often one hour. You can hang up and redial to continue the conversation for free, but presumably it's to make doing stuff like this a little bit harder.
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by jnty 7y ago
"When making experiments it is difficult to resist an impulse to imitate a largescale disaster leading to contamination of one of the urban areas spreading to the surrounding areas." Sim City players and biology academics are basi
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by jnty 7y ago
No - because it doesn't give any context about what the consequences of that might be. The next paragraph could say something like "this is perfectly normal, though, and is very unlikely to lead to an earthquake" or "thi
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by jnty 7y ago
Interesting that despite the huge effort both sides put in to to fixing/exploiting vulnerabilities the biggest risk factor seems to be directly downloading random dodgy stuff.
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by jnty 7y ago
I'd say this is a perfect example of the opposite. The title makes this sound quite odd, but when you actually see the finished result it's fascinating and beautiful.
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by jnty 7y ago
It's slightly unfair, but I read this as Waze deciding to route a bunch of cars down a narrow residential street to divert around a congested highway then going "whoa, that's gonna be chaos! Watch the sparks fly!" More s
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by jnty 7y ago
I don't think 'fake it till you make it' is as simple as that. The whole thing about imposter syndrome is that plenty of fully competent people 'know' they are incompetent (and conversely plenty of incompetent ones
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by jnty 7y ago
To be fair, the affair is only the scandal because it may have caused a conflict of interest. Boris has had plenty of them in the past, to the point where nobody knows for certain how many children he has.

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