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Am I being a moron or are the weights only applicable to trucks? The lowest rung is 7.5tons. But of course it's absurd how big cars have become. If you're a 50kg woman why do you n…

How daft do you have to be go on a hiring binge in Europe without looking into the labour laws. These laws didn't just fall out the sky last Tuesday

How is this the top comment

It might mean the switch to EVs are insufficient if it bakes in unrealistic expectations of future benefits. The cost and subsidies to EVs might be better spent elsewhere. I’m not …

I read through one of the papers and a key assumption that the energy mix powering the grid will more halve its co2 output over the next 10 years and cites Germany as the baseline …

While the Chinese threat to Taiwan is not something to be dismissed completely, the article doesn’t mention just how incredibly vulnerable China is to possible sanctions targeting …

I’m always curious how different insurers cover the use of hands-free driving. Would anyone still buy the FSD feature if people thought insurers would reject accidental damage clai…

How exactly is the ECB supposed to provide cheap energy via interest rates? And what exactly is the thinking here? Energy bills have more than trebled and people are going to be th…

I'd bet anything the restrictions are for insurance reasons otherwise the premiums would be too high

I price motor insurance for a living and in my models the absolute worst 'insurable' risks (ones that pass underwriting scrutiny) will have some sort of impact every 3rd year. If w…

Things that spring to mind: - Gas in an open space is the main one. It would need to be very potent stuff to be effective and something that potent in tiny doses is almost certain …

This naturally human response thats existed for longer than commerce needs to be suppressed because it doesn’t further your career. Yup. Makes sense to me.

There's a (cold) calculated logic to this in that there are more than a dozen countries closer to Ukraine the refugees can escape to, so what exactly is the reason to open up the b…

fair point. I was focusing on the 'removing subsidies' part and not the 'reallocate' part. Accept the correction

Whoa there chief. The whole 'that would be a good thing' is an overreach. There are 'better' ways to spend that subsidy but having a steady surplus of food subsidy or not is a way …

I dont agree with that and here's why: Whenever taxation > spending (ignore once off liquidation of assets), the government actively destroys private sector savings (dont take my w…

Gov debt is private sector savings. Title rephrased: We've reduced private sector assets by $119bill.

This is probably written by a programmer for that reason (and reading the ‘why R is bad’ comments) shows how misunderstood R is by most programmers. Its like giving someone an intr…

Someone housetrained you very well

Incredible how this Wired article knows whats better for workers than workers themselves

Quite right. The small graph in the article confirms it. If you zoom in enough you can see the power and torque are more than doubled during the 20second burst mode, but even so it…

Excellent summary!

Thats a great point! “I liked everything about the movie until my ox was gored” and in this case the movie goes for it leaving no one spared. The evisceration of techno John Galt a…

Its not good satire because its very heavy handed (similar to Idiocracy) but its criticisms seemed spot on to me. The characters were all there from the jingoist politicians, a med…

People who seek out drugs are not a good proxy for the general population