magsnus's comments

Fatfire[1] did a pretty thorough analysis of paths for financial success that ties in to this somewhat.

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/fatFIRE/comments/bxa3qz/guide_for_n...

~840 HP (1.4*600) to bring it up to plane with an electric motor but just ~300 HP to do it with a diesel engine? It's obviously more expensive but not that much more expensive.

In Sweden the general rule of thumb is that as a freelancer you should charge 2.4x what you want to (or normally) net since you are responsible for your own vacation-pay, sick-pay, time between projects etc. on top of taxes and expenses.

I deleted everything, going through every page and my whole timeline etc pressing delete on everything. I considered changing my number etc. to nonsense and wait a week and the delete it but I figured facebook are probably versioning that stuff anyway.

Right now my profile picture is a plastic duck, there are no photos and no information apart from my name and my throwaway-email adress (which I hope is hidden from the world via settings).

There is also a "privacy page" there where you can check what information they have saved about you and if you forgot to delete something. I would probably have done it this way first if I where to delete my FB-account but for now I need messenger.

If you are running firefox you should also install "facebook container" even if you don't have an account. :)

Sorry for your loss. Right now I'm pretty happy that I scrubbed all information of my FB account months ago. If only people could stop using messenger so I could delete it.

But I have a similar, but unrelated to FB, problem in that every month I get an offer to work as a nurse in Norway from different agencies. I figured they scraped some "find the number"-site here in Sweden long ago and since my mothers name was on my bill I guess my number somehow came up under her name.

It's been annoying for years but since my mother had a some (non-corona) medical problems last year it has been downright infuriating at times. Anyone know how to make it stop when there is a bunch of different agencies messaging you?

They aren't covered here in Sweden either and there are apparently less then a 1000 actual guide dogs that are covered. But that does not stop people from trying to bring their support dogs in. At least we have official "guide dog blankets" and the training facilities hands out identification cards so the real ones are easy to spot.

My experience (of 1) is also that guide dog owners are mostly reasonable, willing to come to a compromise that works for everyone and have very well behaved dogs. The woman I helped was more then happy to take a window table right next to the terrace door and let her dog stay right outside the window.

"Support dog"-owners (the handful I've met) are in my experience pretty unreasonable and unpleasant to deal with, have a "customer is always right"-attitude and their dogs are pretty universally badly behaved. I've had a group of seven try to argue that one guy in a wheelchair needed his support dog inside the restaurant while the dog was pulling on his leech and jumping on me.

Other dog owners i Sweden are also pretty nice to deal with. They usually keep their dog tied outside, in the car (with the backdoor open if they have crates) or ask if they can bring their dog through the restaurant to the terrace and eat outside (even if it is cold).

Considering how little Uber drivers makes per drive (and they are independent contractors and not workers in most places) a simple divider would probably come close to the "unreasonable cost" in the ADA. It is not that I don't empathize with disabled people but ADA as it seems to be written and all the "support animals" these days would probably drive many small business to bankrupcy.

In Sweden "our ADA" only applies to lead-dogs and they have a special "blanket" and most people that want to bring their dogs into restaurants and hotels don't have licensed dogs. But still, if all the "dog rooms" are taken then the deep cleaning required is a pretty big cost to bear and I have seen customers turn in the door when there was a dog in the restaurant.

So it is not a simple issue and I sympathize with the small independent contractors. Uber, not so much.

How on earth does this apply to cars?

Normally I would be against this kind of "arbitrarily corporate censorship" and think people should be able to have a voice as long as they aren't convicted for breaking any laws. But in this case it seems pretty warranted.

I hate people that trick others in to learning stuff. :) This book really looks nice and short to me and I really wish the other parts comes online to.

Again, 3 day weekend...

So last tuesday they reported 114 deaths yesterday they reported 114 deaths. You can't be seriously looking at the bar graph of daily deaths and see an exponential growth. If anything it seems to have stagnated. Yes we underreport during the weekend and overreport the first days after the weekend and monday was a holiday for us. But it is clear as day if you look at the logarithmic chart over deaths that our growth is slowing.

Exactly, look at the logarithmic curve of deaths and you see a clear flattening so no "exponential growth" as you where saying.

aren't "the libs" outspending trump atleast 2:1?

I really hope this can become a viable alternative to the JS-frameworks we have today for webapps and that more apps can be served via the web.