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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 cau…

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 …

The non-schematic map is quite out of date given that the Borders Line to Galashiels and Tweedbank opened five years ago.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

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 in…

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. …

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 extre…

Just wait until they see the Windows save symbol!

Minecraft was on the cusp of that change, and it's pretty telling how much of a hellscape the code was for years.

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 id…

The definition of niche is literally "appeals to a small, specialized section of the population" so, er, yes.

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 ha…

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…

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?

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 frequenc…

So all jobs you personally dislike should be abolished?

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 …

The (poor) economics of removing drivers from existing metros just goes to show what an extremely efficient way of moving people they already are.

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 comforta…

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?

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 - m…

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 t…

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."

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…

"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…

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 un…