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From memory the entire ad income for sky was about 1/10th of their income as a whole. That includes all that damaging gambling adverts in football matches.

People are far too accepting of adverts imo, it’s a horrendous industry

Raises a tiny percentage of income. That said seeing static posters for west end shows on the escalators is hardly the worst advert. The trend to do “event” adverts which do confuse people (James Bond Street etc) certainly should be stopped.

Ultimately though people wont pay the extra 20p on their journey to get rid of adverts

I’ve had company devices for over 20 years. I’m currently on the way back to my hotel.

I refuse to carry more than one phone or one laptop, and I sure ain’t brining a personal device into a country I wouldnt go to on vacation.

As a buyer I would value an existing solar/battery system, especially one with actual generation data, thus would pay more

Nobody in the suburbs seems to be trying to fight it, it’s people who like the high density living and want others to do so too.

People can choose now, some like suburban life, some like city life. Maybe this is influenced by media (not many shows with young 20 year olds in suburbia, or families in the city. It’s typically teens - suburbs, 20s singles city, parents suburbs, empty nesters skew more city again. But maybe that reflects what people like.

So what you’re saying is you are against seatbelt laws…

That’s the only thing which makes sense with the magnitude and unit used

I’ve been wondering about just battery and inverter and using an agile tariff. How large an inverter did you get and what happens at full load (oven, kettle, electric shower and hairdryer all on at same time) which is presumably combined higher than the inverter?

Soon you’ll have to pay a dollar and a half just to see the parking lots in the parking lot museum.

Easier to work with files, I can grep them, version them, diff them, edit them with any tool I want.

National government specifies the disability requirements, the rest flows from that.

You’re right that a normal toilet can have an appropiate physical handle. Howver normal toilets are easy to push open as they aren’t moving. Opening a large (and thus heavy) swing door, wide enough to allow a chair to get in, manoeuvre, and close, without it smashing back when the train lurches, doesn’t work, meaning a sliding doors which isn’t appropriate.

As such the solution is an electronic sliding door (as many couldn’t provide enough strength over distance to open a sliding door manually), meaning an open/close button

Once you have that feature adding an electric lock makes sense. A physical lock would be trickier to incorporate.

An old fashioned handle and lock is about as low maintenance as you can get - far less than a complex locking mechanism requiring a computer reboot from the cab to handle when a passenger gets stuck in because they can’t figure out the “open” butto

There’s no reason you can’t flush in a station - modern trains don’t just drop onto the track (and people have to work on the track, so the station is just a PR thing to avoid offending passengers)

In the U.K. any train from the last 30 years fills a tank, like an RV, including ones with physical locks.

Older toilets were far smaller with a normal kayak handle which opened and closed quickly and had a big simple lock.

However those don’t work with some passengers - wheelchair users for example, people with difficultiy holding handles etc.

Making toilets more accessible for some groups makes them less accessible for others (. As a society we choose what level to have it at.

Some trains in the U.K. have a good balance - a large wheelchair accessible toilet, and a small traditional one, although they sometimes struggle with communicating it.

In the U.K. there are massive grants for home owners who don’t have a reasonable income.

It’s ageism - more money flowing from young workers (who pay the highest taxes) to old owners (who pay the lowest)

The generation that can benefit are “Generation Me”, they’ve spent their entire lives having society warp around them and don’t even realise it.

Combine with candles on a cake

I appreciate the sarcasm, but yes I write cgi programs all the time. I go from conception to deployment in minutes.

I was looking at one such system (a bash one) that’s approaching its 10th anniversary. It has outlasted so many systems it’s unbelievable

Do the minimum job you need, just well enough.

iPod touch came out in 2007 and ran iOS, 3 years before the iPad.

iPad was basically a big iPod touch, which was basically an iPhone with no modem.

In the U.K. I can rent that with a couple of clicks for £3.50 from half a dozen stores including Apple, Amazon and youtube. Inflation adjusted renting the vhs in the 90s cost £5.90.

And pirate bay will once again be the place to go

How do private shareholders make a profit and thus increase the gdp from that?

Only at night. Build 3 data centra and you can provide full solar power to at least one of them at any time, just shift the workload to the resource with the power

Or base your DC in a location with lots of other renewable energy

It was far better going into an office with no traffic, being able to drive there rather than a crowded train and tube, having an office with maybe 90% of the normal occupants missing, and plenty of room for those of us who were in.

WFH is great for those who commute to an office, it’s quieter than working on a Sunday.

You can’t guarentee that. The system can be dossed as it’s not a 1:1 mapping, thus there is a queue. That queue may never be used, although sometimes it is, and sometimes it just overflows

https://www.insideedition.com/shortage-of-911-operators-is-d...

But nobody is more turned off. You have 3 people all disliking boring grey, and 2 grey properties for sale, you have more demand than supply and price rises

Build something pink and now you only have 1 person liking it and 2 strongly disliking it, demand now equals supply so price doesn’t rise.

Is it worth the risk?

There’s a reason rented properties are co feed in magnolia, not just because it’s cheaper to get the same paint in bulk, but because if turns off the fewest people, and those it does don’t have any choice anyway as everywhere is magnolia.

Hundreds of Americans?

Beauty isn’t valued in these areas by those with the resources to choose it.

When the majority of people and businesses live hand to mouth, those that don’t have to constantly maximise exponential returns to their owners. Who has money to burn on “valueless” beauty

Even if the cost of beauty is the same, and there is an actual value, as beauty is in the eye of the beholder, you are increasing maximum potential value but you are reducing the minimum (you turn off some buyers who don’t like the look). Throw in the concept changing over time (pale green bathrooms used to be a big think in the U.K. in the 80s) and people go for neutral and boring.

So they have enough people on shift for an 1:1 map with every moving car out there?

If not there’s a queue. The capacity may exceed normal demand, so the queue would be of length zero, but there is still a queue as it’s not a non blocking operation

The kid tax is at 50k, if you have student loans and 2 kids the marginal tax at 50-60k is 69%, then back to 42% for 60-100, then upto 62% 100-125, then 40% upto 150, then 45% above that.

(Numbers approximate)