HarryHacker42

HarryHacker42 t1_iyj2enu wrote

Reply to comment by Lelabear in ‘Cleaner Air Is Coming’ as London Expands Vehicle Pollution Fee to Entire Metro Area by chrisdh79

If you play SimCity, you'll learn the time for Mass Transit is when the city is first developing. To tear up the city and put in mass transit later is really expensive.

The conservatives have been fighting against high efficiency vehicles since oil companies first started bribing them.

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HarryHacker42 t1_iyiyk9h wrote

Reply to comment by Foxboy73 in ‘Cleaner Air Is Coming’ as London Expands Vehicle Pollution Fee to Entire Metro Area by chrisdh79

If you make companies pay more taxes/fines for selling high polluting cars, they sell less cars. This has already been proven with US CAFE regulations. The companies will even make EVs or ultra-high-efficiency gas cars just to be able to sell luxury inefficient cars also. So the taxing does work to change company behavior.

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HarryHacker42 t1_iyi2pxt wrote

Reply to Mark Zuckerberg Defends Push Toward Metaverse At DealBook Summit | Skepticism doesn’t bother me too much by BiscuitOfGinger

Please don't discourage The Zuckster from wasting his billions on any stupid concept. This stuff is great! It keeps thousands of people employed, distracts from stealing and selling people's information to future overlords, and might prevent another genocide unlike the Royingya one Facebook coordinated.

Waste Away, Markity Markness.

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HarryHacker42 t1_itqaf2q wrote

Reply to [OC] My aggressive (and comparatively sad) 1-month job hunt as a software engineer with 6 months experience, before accepting a counter-offer from my current company. by coaster132

Statistics show that if you go on an interview, you'll be in a different job in six months. This works from both sides. You are ready to make moves to change your employer and your employer might suspect you're a short timer and stop giving you raises, promotions, or new tasks. Taking the counter offer is good, but it usually won't be a long term job once that happens.

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