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My point is that, unless you think that the purpose of human existence is to maximise insurance profitability and mining throughput, lifetime earnings potential is not a good proxy…

> Who produces the food you eat, the clothes you wear, the house you live in, the energy you use, the medicine you consume, etc You could say the same thing about software engineer…

£7 is about the price of a pint. Surely that’s worth it given the convenience of driving right up to the front door of the terminal?

That’s true. But in a world with monthly toothbrush subscriptions one of those end states feels much closer than the other.

I always thought the “you will own nothing” expression referred to a Gini coefficient of 1, not 0. The intent of abolishing private property would presumably be the latter.

> It kind of feels like these countries rediscover summer every year. The graphs in the article somewhat disprove that.

You're right, I was thinking of "slammed" as being part of take-down style news reporting. Looking at Google Ngram, usage of "slams" started inflecting upwards in the early 90's an…

> EU regulators on Tuesday slammed Apple This reads more like a tabloid headline than the first sentence of a Reuters article.

I’ll bite: which ideology are you claiming believers in climate change are motivated by?

"can't afford" in this case is a choice to spend the absolute minimum possible on school lunches.

The one advantage Ryanair has over non-budget airlines is that none of their seats recline.

The more you concentrate taxation via capital gains, the more you incentivise the type of tax strategy where people just leave the state/country before cashing out. Countering that…

> competition always leads to lower prices I don't see how this could be true for emergency visits. Would an ambulance drive you to the cheapest hospital within some fixed radius?

Comparing the total size of countries like this never made much sense to me. It's not like Americans need to drive coast-to-coast to buy groceries or drop their kids off at school.…

> What is “fake insurance?” Do you believe Ro Marine would have paid out claims related to their "insured" vessels?

It’s ironic that after British Rail was privatized, many UK rail services ended up being run by subsidiaries of other European state railways: French SNCF, Dutch NS, Italian Trenit…

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

This strategy would save them having to issue food vouchers at the airport, but not delay compensation per se which is based on arrival time at the destination gate.

I'd be curious to hear LG's defence. Presumably they must have taken the line that they weren't liable for their product self-combusting in the middle of the night.

Are you a software engineer? I'm curious about what your interviews were like. I've done a fair amount of interviews and they all featured some amount of coding in front of an audi…

I also wouldn't be surprised if labs were starting to mix in a few pelican SVGs into their training data.

Walking around in platform shoes as a substitute for driving around in a lifted truck, maybe?

> Insurance is always more expensive than the expected expense without This depends on how likely you are to make a claim, no? I imagine some clumsy/unlucky people get good value o…