That's only really reasonable if you use a truck only a few times a year, honestly. Otherwise it's not reasonable: renting a car isn't extremely easy, often you need the truck for a few days, etc..
But I agree: many people own trucks not because of the utility but because they like trucks.
The rental scene would become different if the incentives were to change. Currently, it is not attractive to rent, so of course the cost and convenience to rent is not optimized as much as it could be by the market.
I can name at least 5 family and friends right off the bat who have large pickup trucks that I guarantee have never used for anything that could not have also been hauled on top of a car with some ties. My neighbor has a 2020 Tundra which I have watched her use to transport her two kids back and forth from the elementary school 1.5 miles away for years now.
It just makes no sense that in the last 20 years, all of a sudden there have been huge increases in the population of the US doing hard, manual work moving heavy workloads such that they can no longer manage with cars that used to work for us in the 1980s and 1990s? I'll go with "it's 90% vanity".
I've switched to a lightweight trailer, pulled by my everyday hatchback sedan.
No fussing with rentals, I can load it up with debris for a trip to the dump while it is detached, and I can fit drywall in it and still have a backseat for car seats.
The trailer cost something like $1000, the tow package $300, plus another $400 to have someone else install it. Probably equivalent to about 30-40 short rentals in price, and far cheaper than a second or larger primary vehicle.
It is also dependent on the cost of fuel. Given that we hardly price any externalities of fuel into the cost of fuel, the current line is probably very far from where it would be otherwise.
Ha, I've found this attitude from a bunch of people in other parts of our extended company.
Cloud means 'AWS', apparently.
Servers only run Linux, supposedly.
btw, Windows Clusters can do a good job, albeit an expensive way to resilience, but not something understood from many of the Linux-only crowd.
We need more openness and less closed views, for sure.
>> We were told it was better to let the teachers teach otherwise kids learn bad habits or don’t engage.
That sounds like very dubious advice to me, even if given with best intentions.
Surely if parents read books to their kids, with their kids, then it is a natural step for the kids to start learning the words and word sounds by reading too?
Reading back what I wrote, yes, we never took this as a warning not to let them learn at all! I think the intention was more that there is less incentive to actively push or pressure kids in to reading before school, and that actively trying to teach them one methodology might even conflict with the method they end up being taught in school. That parents try to "get their kids ready for school" by getting them to read before starting, and that doing so is unnecessary. That is how we took it.
Yeah, I think every person is different. My first kid learned to read himself from watching educational material and using a computer. He knew the alphabet before anyone could really understand his words. His siblings needed someone to walk them through the concepts.
I use booking.com but the user experience does really grate.
Simple things such as putting in the location and date, to get back a list of properties that aren't actually available for my requested date.
Then have to set a search filter to 'show only available properties', which really should be the default. Especially as I set it every time.
An argument could be that people may change dates if they like the property but this is just fluff that gets in the way of finding somewhere to stay.
Could be classed as a 'dark pattern', from my point of view.
Yep, technical debt and atrophy.
If not paying-down that debt, it becomes like compound interest from a loan shark.
If not applying maintenance, atrophy sets in and things get worse and worse.
I believe the topic is about the miscarriage of justice based on how the post office and fujitsu wrongfully harassed and took people to court over bugs, which were known about by those organisations. Hence of relevance to Hacker News types.
It isn't meant to be about your jaundiced view of 'BBC propaganda'...
But it is propaganda - thats what the BBC does. I think the HN types would be very interested in government propaganda from an organization that forced UK citizens to fund it or face jail. I mean you can’t just slip in a statement like that and expect silence and a nod of the head. It’s borderline orwellian
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The horrible truth is that if autonomous driving can save 1+ life, it's better than what we have now so we should keep it and accept that crashes will occur
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As that '1 life' saved may be countered by a number of lives lost due to the system that might otherwise have survived.
In the UK at least, I'd say we have ended up in a situation where banks found that their approach to 'selling financial services' vastly abused their customers and now they are having to pay massive sums in compensation, they need to fleece account holders in some other way to meet their income and profit targets.
Long-gone are the times when high street banks were based on loaning out the deposits from savings accounts. Building Societies do/did this, but of course the banks bought up most of those too in their spending sprees of M&A to become 'bigger and better'. Well, bigger anyway
