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To add in a slightly different angle, this sort of thing is not exclusive to America.

For example, in New Zealand, a couple of weeks ago there was a bit of a kerfuffle due to reporting on those of certain ethnicities being prioritised on surgical wait lists.

Those against it were arguing (validly) that prioritisation should only be based on clinical need.

However, the data over many years was showing that for people with the same clinical need, those from the minority ethnicities were not getting the same prioritisation.

So how do you resolve this? In an ideal world you will dig into the details, and figure out why that was happening, and resolve the underlying issues. But as with a lot of these problems with a human element there's no quick and easy solution.

Instead you get a "hack" like this to increase the weight of the minorities to even things out overall, hopefully to be removed later while you resolve the trickier issues.

Sometimes just targeting things to those in most need doesn't always fairly target across ethnic groups.

You can read a bit more detail about the NZ situation here: https://www.newsroom.co.nz/ethnicity-a-factor-in-surgery-wai...

Alternative headline: Britain's coal power plants are so uneconomic that even government subsidies won't keep them open

It's a bit more complicated than that, as an EV motorcycle drivetrain tends to be lighter than a petrol one (excluding battery/fuel tank), but that isn't going to make a big difference for aircraft

You're comparing numbers in different units.

USA is in deaths per 100 million miles. The rest are in deaths per billion km. USA is 9.3 deaths per billion km if you do the conversion.

Canada is 5.1 deaths per billion km.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_traffic...

USA is 1.5 deaths per 100 million miles from your link. That's about 9.3 deaths per billion km.

Other comparable countries would be Australia and New Zealand which have 5.2 and 7.2 deaths per billion km respectively.

USA is still well behind on that metric.

In NZ cohabitation for 3 or more years usually puts you into a de facto relationship which has basically the same legal status as a civil union or marriage.

Current EVs are around 200kg heavier than comparable ICE cars.

For example the BYD Dolphin is 1285-1450 kg depending on options, where the comparable Honda Fit is 1070-1280 kg.

Likewise the Tesla Model 3 is 1611-1847 kg, compared to a Toyota Camry weighing 1470-1660 kg.

The weight penalty for EVs could well go down over time as energy density of batteries increases and weight of electric drivetrains decreases. There is also more of an incentive to keep weight down on an EV as it means you can use a smaller (cheaper) battery for the same range.

Pixel C and Pixel slate. I had a Pixel C that my employer paid for, nice device, but I wouldn't have paid sticker price for it

I don't get your point. The index is mostly non Google companies, and has returns matching Google's share price. Hence the other index components have had share price movements comparable to Google. So judged by share price alone Sundar has had a performance on par with the average CEO of the other companies in that index.

The Google stock price has matched the NASDAQ100 since then, it's underperformed when you take dividends into account. He's made a lot of money for shareholders, but you'd have to say his performance is average or slightly below.

Aeroplane mode doesn't stop the phone receiving GPS signals. It may also leave wifi and/or bluetooth on which can give a coarse location.

The phone's accelerometers will still run in aeroplane mode which can infer a surprising amount about your location.

Apple's famously very secretive, so who knows what they've spent money on internally that has never seen the light of day.

There have been rumours for the last 10 years that a bunch of people are working on a self driving and/or electric car, with little to show for it so far. I doubt anyone outside a select few in the company would know how much.

They are in fact almost identical. Over that time period both GOOG and the NASDAQ 100 have both gone up 2.8x. They're the same to 1 decimal place

edit: but the NASDAQ 100 pays dividends, so Google's stock price has underperformed over that period

On top of this, execs typically have a lot of stock based compensation. So buybacks are way better than dividends for them

And 2 weeks could suddenly become a lot shorter. I gave 2 weeks notice once, then had a death in the family (covered by bereavement leave) and then got sick. My 10 business days of handover ended up going down to about 4-5.

Isn't that just normal? How do people normally resign? I've always written up a letter saying my last day will be x

That's not what they're advocating for, they're saying a plugin hybrid with a 75 mile electric range, that uses a fossil fuel engine for more range.

The general idea is, suppose you want a vehicle with a 400 mile range. Once you have that 75 miles of range (battery pack of around 10-20 kWh), is it then better to add on another 40-100 kWh of battery as a "range extender", or to add a combustion engine and fuel tank as the "range extender" to get you to the 400 mile range?

Cell phone planes in NZ are typically much less expensive than the US, you can get a decent plan for NZD 20/month, where in the US I couldn't find much for less than USD 30/month, which is over twice as much. I hear that in other countries it can be a lot cheaper.

Contrary to the parent I've found coverage to be fine, and haven't noticed losing coverage in places that I'd expect it.

If they're planning true 100% coverage, a lot of NZ's back country is mountainous so I doubt you'd get the max range as that would be in ideal, presumably flat, areas.

However, the power requirements are probably a lot lower than a typical urban base station as they will be getting hardly any traffic.

I wonder whether there could be space here for a bank to come in and specialise in loans to cover the tax bill, using the currently pre-IPO stock as security

4:30/mile pace is faster than all but the fastest amateur runners, and the effect would I assume be less at a slower pace. 1s/400m is less than 2 minutes over a marathon, so something, but not a huge amount.

1m behind is also pretty close to be directly behind someone, you'd be liable to kick each other.

Storing the water at a higher temperature effectively increases the capacity of the tank. Also the stored hot water has to be above a certain level (~60 degrees) at least some of the time otherwise it won't prevent any bugs growing in it.

Or perhaps the universe is a simulation whose prng was seeded with 1 just like golang does

Maybe we're in the first batch of simulations, and the tester came along and asks why they're all identical. The cosmic coder then realises that they forgot to call the function to seed the prng.

It's a reasonable choice, and will be unique for most program runs, but it's not exactly random

Google pays a large amount of stock based comp, so at least that part of their wages will likely go up, at least in the short term.

Sure, but Google always billed themselves as a non-traditional company, and prided themselves on social responsibility. That helped in hiring as they became one of the most desirable companies to work for, even when their salaries were outstripped by their peers (e.g. Facebook).

There will be long term effects on their hiring based on this moving further showing they are becoming just another traditional company. What's to differentiate them from IBM or Microsoft now?

If you're saying "I take full responsibility", I'd expect a meaningful consequence on your part, such as resigning, forgoing your bonus for the year or a significant pay cut. That's what's happening to the staff being laid off.

But because exec comp is mostly stock based, he's actually getting a massive pay increase.

In most of the world basic health care is provided to all residents at low or no cost

Edit: to the user, paid for via taxes/etc.

Similar in NZ, but there are still imperial measurements in places, e.g. PSI for tyres, or inches when talking about TV dimensions, DPI for screen resolutions, a quarter acre section for a house. You might hear people talk about a "pound" of butter when it's actually 500g, or ask the mileage of a car, but expect the response in km.

The current HVDC link has had a lot of upgrades from the original 600MW to 1200MW now, and there are proposals to upgrade it further, but not nearly to the scale you suggest, as there just isn't the need for such levels of transmission.

Unless there were plans for major new hydro schemes in the South Island there's no particular reason not to just build new generation in the North. There is ample wind and geothermal in the North Island.

This would all change if the Tiwai Pt aluminium smelter were to close as that would leave a huge amount of generation that would need to go north to be used.