Chris Glover

GPU Software Engineer at Apple London. Musician.

[Chris Glover @cdglove98]

@DanielPriestley How many heat deaths occur in the US each year?

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@I_Big_Deano_I @mjwinslade @Ameer_Kotecha That’s almost certainly because of noise or cowboy installs. Not “net zero”. Use your head.

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@PostFromProtest @TheCrescent52 @sjmund @London_W4 @juliatetley This another problem with today’s politics, or maybe it’s always been this way: people feel like it’s only winner takes all, but actually the spread matters because it communicates strength of mandate. This is why strategic voting is corrosive.

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@Noahpinion How many heat related deaths occur in the US each year, and how come it’s not mentioned in the article?

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@RS_Rocket06 @tomfgoodwin Basically the same as yield. Stop signs are rare here. Almost everything is the moral equivalent of yield. Much less start and stop traffic here.

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@NoCyclopathTO @tomfgoodwin Most junctions in the UK are essentially yield (we call it give-way). Stop signs are rare.

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@georgeregnery @tomfgoodwin Doesn’t force anything. Loads of people just run 4-ways on low traffic roads because 4-way means the other people are very likely to stop.

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@BenGeeMan100 @PigWithWings82 Mostly rage bait.

In the UK, heat pumps can receive a government grant. But the grant doesn’t apply if the heat pump is reversible.

Some people post rage bait that that somehow equates to government banning AC.

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@WilliamtheBTC @whippletom @AlsoKnowne @_Harriet90 You think we don’t know how to correct for measurement differences?

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@n0traccoon @MichaelAArouet @TheDataAP That table doesn’t count health care or education. It explicitly says so in the description.

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@BJChippindale @malcolm_reavell The Euro, by Joseph Stiglitz talks about this — essentially he says the Euro zone is in a terrible position because it’s under integrated for the currency union to function properly. It either needs deeper integration, like the US, or multiple currencies

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@sjmund @London_W4 @TheCrescent52 @juliatetley It’s not even odd. People need to get out of the mindset of “voting for a PM” and then treating the PM as if that’s the only person that matters.

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@thatisonur @chrisbulski @MichaelAArouet In many places it’s not possible to open the windows.

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@MichaelAArouet You know this is misleading right?

The US only tracks heat related deaths if heat was the cause. Other nations track it if it was a factor. Ie: man had heart attack, heat made it worse.

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@chrisbulski @MichaelAArouet Agreed. Every time I have to travel to the US I intentionally try to find hotels where I can open a window and turn off the AC. Getting harder to find.

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@ares7210 @DanielPriestley Taxes are a control mechanism more than a revenue stream.

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@AlanJLSmith I actually did that. Lived and worked in the US for 6 years.

I earned more on paper, but quality of life was certainly not higher, roughly the same on average, roughly the same disposable income, but it came with trade offs I didn’t like.

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@BobCrauford @Poshtroll @rcolvile Successful countries with low taxes are rare. Singapore is a cherry picked example: it’s a small city state with a total budget of only about $150 billion. Besides, they have the CPF, which is unsurprisingly roughly the same as most countries income tax.

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@BobCrauford @Poshtroll @rcolvile Well yes, that is the fundamental problem. Bit of a race to the bottom between the stable western democracies.

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@BobCrauford @Poshtroll @rcolvile No it won’t.

My surplus is invested regardless of tax rate. What else am I going to do with it?