efaref · HackerTrans

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NIMBYism and BANANAs are certainly a problem, but this is the planning departments themselves acting capriciously , failing to even apply the law correctly, or having extremely onerous requirements. This applies to individual householders as well as large infrastructure projects. Just look at the lower thames crossing, where we spent £1.2 BILLION pounds of taxpayers money on pre-construction costs and compare that with the original Dartford tunnels and bridge which cost £191M TOTAL in 1990. It's just bonkers.

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Great site. This data should really be more accessible. Planning in the UK is a total crapshoot, subject to the whims of the planning authorities. In our case, a simple rear extension and dormer loft conversion, similar to hundreds of thousands across the country, we ended up having to appeal which added 2 years and tens of thousands of pounds in costs to our extension project. Our area shows up as a high refusal area, which tracks.

It would be good to add appeal data in (also a public gateway) to show which councils are just being unreasonable.

I personally think the planning regulations in this country are the cause of many ills, including the housing shortage. It just costs so much to get through planning these days, it is often just not worth it. Data like this could help us get that changed.

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I wrote streampager a few years ago to scratch a similar itch. It works well enough for my own uses (and is/was used in library form as the built-in pager for sapling and jj).

I think it still needs some work for more general use which I unfortunately don't have time for at the moment.

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I don't believe demand for labour has increased. We used to force children as young as 6 to enter the labour force, and people used to work 6.5 days per week. Demand for labour has been in free fall since the 1970, evidenced by stagnant wages in most of the developed world. Furthermore capital is accumulating at the top as the capital owners use their position to extract it from the people below them. AI will only accelerate this. We are in for some interesting times for sure.

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I don't know about mainland Europe, but in the UK it really was exclusively about CO2 emissions per distance travelled, to the extent that Vehicle Excise Duty (the annual tax you pay on a car) was defined in terms of g/km of CO2 emitted. This happened in 2001 and wasn't changed until the wake of the emissions cheating scandals [1].

[1] https://www.gov.uk/vehicle-tax-rate-tables/rates-for-cars-re...

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The visual IDEs of the 90s (MSVC, Borland Delphi, heck even MS Visual Basic) were way more tightly integrated, performant and usable than anything we have today, despite running on hardware with a fraction of the power. It seems so bizarre how much we've regressed.

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Or DNS.

I think the article is just nonsense.

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The love for diesel came from a catastrophic misunderstanding and the resulting belief that CO2 must be reduced at all costs. Diesel engines of the past produced slightly less CO2 per km than petrol engines in exchange for much worse overall emissions. The fact that they were slightly more efficient in terms of fuel consumption helped with the sales pitch, too.

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For me it was the flashing terminal cursor.

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In most countries doctors and other health professionals are registered and licensed, and must submit to strict examinations.

Mistakes can also be career-ending and potentially result in criminal prosecution.

It's way harder to get hired as a doctor than "do a bit of leetcode on a whiteboard".

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Conversely, have a touch bar, and no one needs to learn keyboard shortcuts.

The touch bar works best for things accessed sufficiently infrequently that muscle memory won't be a thing.

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The touchbar is basically the 2010s equivalent of old-school function key overlays: http://www.hamstuff.com/Overlays/overlay.htm

It does also provide some useful feedback as it can display things, too.

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I thought mostly the farm was owned by landlords, with the people who worked there (male or female) being tenant farmers.

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

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