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I'm not sure it is objectively marginal. At Circuit of the Americas where they have both raced recently the difference in lap time is about 10 seconds. That doesn't sound like a lo…

In the context of the issue that doesn't really make sense. The issue is that the home office think you left and didn't come back. How would an exit check tell the home office you …

very true, although in relation to OPs point I was talking less about the why of expiring laws/taxes and just pointing out that creating laws that expire can have its own less than…

Isn't that a big part of the issues the US has with passing a budget? Some of their tax breaks etc. have expiry dates so keep needing to be renewed. I think part of the current shu…

It covers the impact of fuel quite thoroughly but it brushes over the time element which I think is actually a bigger factor in why they don't really do it. Passing on the fuel cos…

Because Iceland is a member of the Schengen zone. It's possible to travel between countries in the Schengen area without going through border control (although I don't know about t…

From my understanding of the article, the BoE aren't concerned about their own infrastructure. They're concerned about all the major retail banks using the same cloud provider and …

Firstly, never and never in your lifetime are two very different timespans. Second, just because those houses from 2008 recession are now worth more than in 2008 doesn't mean they …

If I wanted to create a market in trains I wouldn't hold a bid to run a specific line or route. I would hold a bid to operate specific times on a given line. e.g. Operator A would …

This is something that actually really frustrated me about the Brexit referendum. I remember reading an opinion piece in the NZ herald from a women who explained why she was voting…

One thing I would say on claiming health reasons is, from the employers perspective it might be taken more as "I'm not ready to return to the office" instead of "I don't want to co…

Yeh I'm sure 220k is a great salary for NZ. But in terms of purchasing power, how does it compare to $70k-£80k in the UK (I don't know, as I said haven't lived in NZ for 6 years)? …

Does that figure take into account cost of living? When I left NZ 6 years ago it wasn't a cheap place to live.

My reading of GPs comment was more about the cause and effect of any corresponding price increase, not whether Netflix would actually increase their price in this scenario. For a p…

From the article: "The organisation then tested it out by getting a number of ads mentioning winning prizes, or cocktails, or asking teens if they were “summer ready” approved for …

I was recently in France and was told by a local this was actually an issue with the covid outbreak. There is a department that decides on the gender of new words and they determin…

> So call me skeptical if after a decade or so they will all go back to what we had before. The implicication of the article is that they won't have a choice. If your product doesn…

Currently it costs $400 to repair. If products become more repairable it also becomes cheaper to repair them (in theory at least). This kind of legislation is likely to push up the…

I believe they do use their own ad platform. But I would guess that the pricing of ads on Facebook and Google mean that even if they could charge a premium, it wouldn't be enough t…

As I said in my second line, in the case of Netflix, I don't think this applies. Their business model has always been to charge users for content. However when looking at the rise …

I think you have your cause and effect the wrong way around there. The argument put forward is that Netflix is forced to use a subscription model because Facebook and Google have a…

I can actually see self driving making this worse. If the cars can drive themselves there is less need for parking in the city. Cars can drive themselves out of the city for cheape…

> I can bet that in most big European cities, relying on public transportation + renting a car whenever you need is cheaper than the maintenance costs of car ownership (parking + i…

Creating something without the intention of making money is different from creating something without the prospect of making money. The former is already covered by the likes of Cr…

IANAL but the judgement seems to saying, you can't just use prepned an actualy allegation of fraud with "It is my opinion" to claim it is opinion. My argument isn't that, it's to c…