And cheaper and less heavy than a space shuttle. But neither will seem that relevant when it comes to parking and securing your electric bike when you live 5 floors up.
Lack of parking can be a barrier to adoption with any type of bike. Nobody wants to lug any bike up stairs.
But it's a solvable problem. Newer apartment buildings in London must provide secure cycle parking for residents and visitors.
For older buildings that lack such provisions, London councils often provide secure (covered, lockable) on-street cycle storage facilities. 1 or 2 car parking spaces can be converted into parking for many bikes! [1]
Probably not. The size of the QE has been too big, and more mistakes have been made but that's only natural. What annoys me is the fact that the CB's feel the need to keep lying about this. The whole sticking "transitory" story, while no one in their right mind thought the inflation was transitory (at least for a short period) is the best example but there are many more.
You simply can't shut down the economy for months without having a recession.
The Netherlands has a decent vaccination rate (38.5% fully vaccinated, something like 66% has received their first shot). The delta variant is wreaking havoc here. The number of cases went from 500 to 10 000 in 3 weeks... Yes this coincided with very poor decision making on the government side (deciding to open all clubs/bars for people who had a negative tests), but still something to be taken serious.
So far the # of hospitalizations have stayed low, but if the delta variant continues to spread through groups of people who have been reluctant to vaccinate, this might change.
I would consider the abrupt cancellation of all festivals that had merely weeks ago been granted permission by the government to go ahead, as well as yet another imposed restriction on horeca to be wreaking havoc.
What will likely come soon is reimposed restrictions on Dutch travelers by other European countries, just as people had been given the go ahead.
The government’s test-for-entry system has also shown itself to be problematic.
It is fantastically disruptive. “Wreaking havoc” is certainly accurate.
The spike in cases is very recent, most hospitalizations occur between 3-10 days of onset. [1] reports 31 hospitalizations yesterday (preliminary), a 3-fold increase over last-week's average.
And doesn't the delta variant break through the first shot immunity (after a few weeks) but 2nd dose provides durable immunity.
And parts of the use (including my county) have >70% of 2 doses. (parts of) the US are in a completely different place vaccine wise compared to most of europe.
I think you need to take an even bigger step back. I mean:
>Robots in Government could wipe out just as many high paying jobs
I didn't know there were all that many high paying jobs in government. I can't think of many jobs in government where people make as much as investment bankers for instance?
Maybe he was talking about AI taking out consultants that contract with the government? (I know some of them make in the high 6 figures, and many can make 7 to 8 figures depending on what that consulting firm is doing.) Or maybe he has a different idea of what "high-paying" means? High 5 figures may be high-paying to a lot of people.
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/36317927/ https://www.usada.org/wp-content/uploads/R058.pdf
Now I cannot say this cannot be proven in the future, but right now it is definitely possible, and not even a secret.