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> There may be an end to the damage done to their global reputation, but it's not here yet 80 years down Let's not forget that in the early part of the 20th century, Germany was th…

> The second wants to own an EV because it's green and efficient For suburbanites with off-street parking, overnight charging and few road-trips or long distance commutes, an EV is…

IDK if it's a complaint about London per se, but it's definitely not typical of much of England. And yes, you can say the same about e.g. Amsterdam vs. The Netherlands. And others.…

> In my experience, most large companies do treat not being able to ship code (i.e. deploy to prod) as outages. In my experience, we treat "not being able to deploy to prod" as an …

A while ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36739279

I am told that Left Hand Drive is marginally safer (all other things being equal) because of the preponderance of right-handed people. Driving on the left of the road places the ri…

> It would be way more annoying for LHD countries to change to RHD As a complete aside, 1 country has done this: Sweden on 3 September 1967 and "It was by far the largest logistica…

Could you expand on that please - what exactly do you mean and how did you arrive at that conclusion?

To add to this, Russia recently attacked Ukraine's post and parcel infrastructure (1). Does this not very simply constitute yet another large scale attack by Russia on civilian inf…

> The “minimum” means minimum price. But "worse on purpose" products typically decrease the quality (and cost to make) without decreasing the sale price to match. It's exploiting t…

Not quite. "Getting worse" is discussing a mechanism where a product first has a good reputation, for good reasons. It's not "minimum viable". And then the company proceeds to expl…

> the issue with too big to fail is that it can equivalently be rephrased as too big to learn. it is certainly phrased that way, i.e. "There Is No Alternative (1) to bailing the ba…

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kleptocracy

> That gambling actually led to people getting those homes. The people losing them was the correction. Well, yes but there is a distinction between "led to" vs "losing them". The f…

> Sunk cost fallacy is not relevant to future investment Outside of future choices, what in the world is sunk cost fallacy in fact relevant to? Do you understand words?

Not to disagree with you too much, but > I am still shocked Spain/Italy and USA are considered 'first world' countries. They're a mix. Rural southern Italy isn't the same as e.g. M…

> The classic reply to this is that inequality reduces the agency of people to make decisions in the society - IOW it causes _power_ inequality. Yes! > But the reply to that is tha…

It's not "90% tax" it's 90% or similar tax rate at the highest band, which most people will never reach. Despite you showing your bias by phrasing option 1 to look childish, I thin…

> Perhaps they realised it’s not a good policy? Citation needed that it's not a good policy. Parent comment explained why it was good, and your reply is "or perhaps it was actually…

> the poltical demands trans people make in the explicit name of trans rights necessarily entail enlisting the state to help destroy gender distinctions This is hysterical in both …

> Last time it was opposing LGBTQ and racial discrimination and now it is technology Wut? None of those 3 things are like the others. This is gibberish.

> Non trivial number of people believe that everyone is equal in abilities. really? Have you ever met anyone like this? Cool story, but also another straw man - not relevant to the…

> Attempting to use the government to destroy hierarchies is utopian yes, "destroy hierarchies" is utopian. But that's a complete straw man version of "reduce very high levels of i…

North Korea has an official ideology of "Juche", and "The goal of Juche is to establish a self-reliant state" (1) It may not be like that in practice. But nevertheless, self-relian…