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It depends on the final orbit. For most orbits you are 100% correct, and I would also add that the ideal position is as close to the equator as possible.

For some orbits (for example around the poles) the UK is actually a good place. Though I don't know the exact details.

You aren't assigned one, its just a thing people pick up on. Everywhere has it to some degree, for example "White trash" in the US compared to "Frat boys".

The onus should not be on a person changing an important part of themselves because of some classist people.

To many people their accent is an important part of who they are, part of their identity and one that can't simply be switched out for 8 hours a day.

I think it is fair for a government to promote such a key industry to diversify where it is based. Currently a crazy percentage of chips are made in one geographical location. A huge amount of the modern economy is reliant on having cheap and easy access to these chips. This isn't a supply/demand decision by governments, but a strategic risk decision. Having some domestic/local regional (think EU based) chip manufacturing is going to be like having steel or food production. A strategic decision.

What is Facebook if not the people leading it? These people are high up in the organisation, and according to OP other people at other levels are also doing this on purpose. Perhaps personifying a huge company isn't the right way to go.

> Conversely, letting them vest will send a message that this behavior is tolerated.

These are colleagues not children. Using threats will not have a good effect.

Also OP seems to have been tolerating their behavior, which sends the message that behavior will be tolerated. This is the right message to send as well.

We (and possible OP) don't know what the employee was going through, giving them lots of slack and support shows to the other employees that they will be supported. As well as just being a good thing to do, it will improve employee retention, effort, buy in to the company etc.

To be clear, you are not suggesting that Cyanobacteria originated from extraterrestrial origins. But when it evolved on earth, it then wiped out all non-Cyanobacteria?

Could you elaborate why?

Why are you driving downtown to supermarket? Perhaps your city needs to be planned in a more efficient and livable manner.

Where in the world do people drive long distances in a car, but don't have electricity? And do many people actually live there? For example the desert might not have power lines, but it doesn't have many people either.

700 real range miles? Why are you holding electric cars to a higher standard than most petrol cars? The average car driven realistically (cities, towns, rural roads, and motorways) gets about 300-500 miles from a full tank.

Why do electric cars, which you have specified to have to charge in minutes just like petrol cars, need to have double to 50% extra range?

More broadly, having to go 700 miles is a niche issue, I don't drive a lorry/flatbed etc. I drive for more than 3 hours maybe two to three times a year. The vast majority of people are in this situation, in the US, in Asia, in Europe, everywhere. Getting 300-400 miles range and charging in 20 minutes is what is needed. The blockers are initial price, and charging infrastructure.

> The guy created 400,000 jobs during the covid crisis,

No he didn't. The business he founded did, the investors that invested in this business did, the customers that paid for services did. The people that made all of that happen were employees. He is not solely responsible for anything. For a long while he was responsible than many others in the organisation, but ever since he hired another person he was never responsible for anything on his own.

The idea that one person solely, directly lead to 400,000 people being employed is farcical. Did he really create a job spec, position, interview and do the paper work for 500 people each calendar day for two years?

No he does not deserve the money he has.

Yes you're quite right.

I don't think it takes away from my point, that some people have far outsized rewards for the risks they take.

> You have no idea about life, to be honest.

And you do? Everyone only has a small slice of what life is like. That is the life that you yourself lead. FYI I was a freelancer, chasing clients and invoices sucked, and was a waste of my time and skills.

You obviously have very strong opinions on how great entrepreneurs are, it is also coming across as "employees are lesser" as well which is not right.

There is nothing wrong (and a hell of a lot good) with not wanting to be a person that doesn't chase up invoices and worry about payroll, it lets you focus on doing a good job. Specialisation is a great thing, and would not be possible if everyone was busy marketing their own business/self.

> At a minimum that's 12-16x more risk than even a freelancer.

So they should get 12x the reward as the average? The average US wage is about $55k, so that would be, for a successful entrepreneur, 660k (and $0 for an unsuccessful one). I don't think anyone has a problem with this I certainly don't. I do have an issue with the ultra rich, like Bezos who have made 7.5 Billion a year since Amazon was founded, or 278,406 times the average wage from 1994 (26,939). Did he take 278,406 times the risk that an employee did. No. No he did not.

> Oh and if insane people like myself didn't take this risk, the world would probably still be a foraging bunch of tribes. And you get hated for it for getting rich by exploiting people...

And if everyone wanted to be an entrepreneur we would also still be like this. People need to actually do the day in day out grind work that is building things. 99% of this is done by employeed people. If everyone tried to do their own thing that would severely limit what can be done. You really need to stop looking down on your (and all) employees.

edit: fixed maths - Bezos has too much money for my math skills.

> I'd say heat the person, not the space.

I agree, but OP seemed a bit reluctant to try that so I suggested the next best thing.

Thanks for the heated vest suggestion.

Was she? Did she? I couldn't place a single example she set for the country, or moral she espoused other than aloofness and politeness. I'm not sure I would count either of those as a moral.

Her behind doors effects on laws and how they would effect her interests may have set an example[0], but not a positive one.

[0] https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2022/jul/14/queen-immuni...

I think a lot of this depends on where you are standing. In the West, 1900-1990 was a huge difference in life and how it was lived, and less so between 1990 and today.

In many other places of the world 1900-1990 had much less change in day to day life, whereas 1990-today has been a huge change.

The massive changes have just finally been getting spread around to everyone (still unevenly of course)

Heat the space immediately around you. Don't bother with central heating. Get a small electric blanket that you can have on your lap.

If you are feeling more adventurous I got through a cold winter where the heating broke when I was a student with a mix of warm clothing, blankets, and doing exercises to keep warm. When you start getting cold, do some press-ups/squats etc.

If you are feeling really adventurous I would recommend going outside wearing less clothes than you want to, just trousers and a shirt/jumper. When you get really cold head back in and it will seem positively warm! Another way of doing this is cold showers.

Yes, though this is probably due to a unique situation rather than anything else.

This was a couple of days after the break. I definitely knew I broke it at the time! Luckily I didn't need anything setting or really anything at all.

For me, no. But judging by the numbers in the opiate crisis it is for a lot of people.

> 75% drug addiction rate

Are you saying that 3 out of 4 people in the US are addicted to one drug or another, or am I misunderstanding.

> there was 70%+ opioid prescription rate

This I can completely believe. I broke a bone, and when the doctor was asking how much pain I was in out of 10. I said 0, when I don't move it. They still prescribed me opioids. I asked if they expected the pain to increase, and they said they expected it to actually get less painful to move overtime if anything, and if it started hurting to get seen by another doctor. When asked about the painkillers then the answer was "Just in case".

Is this yearly or per visit? I think yearly this wouldn't be a terrible figure. One issue, especially in the US is what counts as a city. For example, the SF bay areas has about 100 cities/municipal areas.

As someone in Western Europe working for a US company, the Timezone thing is the biggest issue for me. My company is actually really good with it, but I still often finish work at 7-8pm local time, sometimes with little notice. Everything else can be worked around, or smoothed out, but this is the biggest intractable pain.

Racism isn't just limited to the ones that are accepted as races in the modern day USA (Latino, Black, White, Middle Eastern, Indian, Asian, Pacific Islander). And dehumanization and slavery has happened in many more places and times that the Atlantic Slave Trade. Whilst the current main racism problems in the US all stem from this and colonialism, everywhere in the world has their own unique problems as well.

I lived in KL for a little bit. Many casual conversations turned to how much better things were when the British (which I am) were in charge. Not something I was really expecting!

You can't always grow corn on fields not covered by solar panels as well. Just because they stop one thing, they don't stop everything. You can graze sheep and poultry, you can transport water, people, vehicles, you can park your car, or build a building.

I would agree, but my city is only 600k, and I want a car free centre here as well.

Getting things like a CAZ(Clean air zone), congestion charge, low speed zones, and pedestrianised areas should have full pedestrianisation as an end goal.

It's a mix of tragedy of the commons and needing to be the same size or bigger than everyone else.

The negatives of big cars are not paid for, in large part, by the people buying the car. A bigger car needs more space, making towns and cities less efficient and more expensive. They use more resources, and gas which the negative effects of are not paid for in pollution and CO2. Edit: Also the danger to pedestrians, and people in smaller cars!

Being a normal sized car, amongst huge trucks is dangerous and all over a bad experience. It's hard to see around them, in a crash you come off worse (all other things being equal). So to not suffer this everyone slowly gets bigger, just to not suffer. If people were limited to a standard sized car then everyone would be better off (assuming people don't need a van for work or a people carrier if they have a large family).

> That's why western leaders are putting distance between them and Ukraine reply

Where is this happening? The US sent another $Billion three days ago: https://www.defense.gov/News/Releases/Release/Article/312005...

Western leaders have stopped visiting because they just did a few months ago, they don't need some official state visit merry-go-round to show support.

Also we do not "all know Ukraine is going to lose". In the real world, this is looking like a complete embarrassment for the Russian military. Hell we all knew the Taliban lost in Afghanistan in 2002 as well, and this is going much much better for Ukraine than it was for them.