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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 and then even more strongly in the mid-2000's. [0] I wonder if that second increase represents the type of usage I had in mind.

(I looked at "slams" rather than "slammed" to try to avoid some of the other modern meanings, like being slammed with work.)

[0] https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=slams&year_sta...

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 with exit taxes and such is hard.

Taxing company profits directly may be less efficient from an economics point of view but it's much more politically palatable.

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 Trenitalia, and so on. Turns out the state knows something about running trains after all.

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 audience.

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 out of their Apple Care plans.

How much soy does it take to raise 1kg of beef compared with producing 1kg of beyond meat?

Interesting! Thanks.

I have no idea what “mail” is

Not a native speaker. How do you refer to the pieces of paper that the Royal Mail sometimes drop through your letterbox?

I'm sure you are right, but that didn't stop the landlord from trying their luck. Your observation about serving notice is on point, because in the end the deposit was returned only after my friend filed a small claims case against them.

They absolutely prey on people not being having the time/resources to fight back.

A friend in the UK had his deposit withheld as "mail charges" by his landlord upon moving out. Turned out the fine print in his lease said that he wasn't allowed to receive mail at the house he was legally renting.

For someone intending to overstay their visa, is the loss of $250 really going to serve as much of a deterrent?

Women aren't able to attract the mates they want, so they would rather try to do it on their own or wait, than "settle" for a guy that isn't meeting their standards.

This seems like a rational decision to me. Better go it alone than risk becoming the sole carer of both a baby and a man-baby.

Unless you plan for children to never leave the parental home, wouldn't housing demand caused by births just be identical to that caused by immigration, only phase shifted 20 years or so?

Meanwhile the baby is essentially a net drain on productivity, whereas an immigrant is not.

Maybe not for the client list, but possibly for the team.

How much would the code of say Photoshop be worth if the entire Photoshop team were to leave and set up a competing business?

Deploying spyware against journalists in retaliation for their exposing racism in the governing party's youth wing is petty.