But when it's inaccurate then it's usualy blatantly obvious. For example if you are out on an easy jog and it shows 188 bpm then that's your cadence, not your heart, unless something is going down really badly and then you don't need the watch to tell you that.
It's not like it will show 147 when the actual value is 134.
There is a big reporting bias though. You won't see in the news "of the 40,000 railway connections today, most were on time". You only read about some train having had an AC issue or the like.
I have family in Germany and they never go by train but tell me regularly about how bad the train has become. They have literally not been in one for 15+ years. But they watch the news every day.
>There is a big reporting bias though. You won't see in the news "of the 40,000 railway connections today, most were on time". You only read about some train having had an AC issue or the like.
I feel most know about Japan's shinkansen being run well.
For those who don't, the average delay is 1.1 minutes on average.
For comparison, the DB long distance trains are considered on time if they're less than 6 minutes late, and still only 64% are considered on time.
They have dedicated tracks. In Germany all train lines (freight, local trains, long-distance trains) share the same tracks and especially at different speeds this causes delays and problems.
Building new track or even adding more lanes is extremly difficult because of NIMBY's and from 1995 to 2005 switches and extra lanes for overtaking where build back to save costs.
Additionally signalling is in large parts still very labour intensive and smaller tracks are often still running with technology from the early 20th century and late 19th century.
So the problem Deutsche Bahn has to solve is quite a bit harder than shinkansen.
among intercity trains run by Deutsche Bahn, the on-time rate hovers around 2/3. it's technically true that "most were on time", but one third being late is really terrible, especially since you often need to make a tight connection.
even if your family has no justifiable basis for believing what they do about DB, they happen to be correct by luck.
Long-distance trains are worse statistically because they travel longer Router and therefore have more opportubities to gain delay. Across all trains, puncuality is like 95%.
Airtravel is also subsidised by the German tax payer. Much more than the 49 EUR ticket. No matter if you are a tourist or not. (Arguably mostly for tourists actually.)
ICE from Hamburg to Munich is about 5 hours. That's basically the other end of the country. Not sure where 9 hours come from.
And your 2 hour flight easily goes to 4-5 hours if you add the security theatre and the extra overhead that transport to/from the airport entails. They are far outside the city whereas central stations are usually in the city center.
Commercial aviation fuel is tax exempt in the EU, I would already count that as a subsidy (yes, I count not taxing something that's normally taxed as a subsidy, even if it isn't done by directly paying out money).
It's a cultural difference. As a foreigner, the American way of exaggerating everything has always amazed me. They don't even notice themselves, so expect more of these "what's odd about it?" reactions.
I think what sets Trump apart is how straightforward his hyperbole is. It's present throughout American culture but it's usually a bit more subtle. It's even in basic things like answering "How are you?" (in the US, "great!" is a neutral answer and "could be better" would be cause for concern - in e.g. Germany on the other hand, "great!" would prompt a request for elaboration whereas "could be better" would be understood as fairly neutral).
I also haven't seen another country (in Europe at least) where politicians across party lines so frequently emphasize in so many ways how great their country is - not even in a jingoistic way, just as a shared cultural consensus.
the works of fiction should inflame the imagination through originality and the workings on the reader's inner sense. it is the exact realm where I don't want AI to be present.
the article itself is only an analysis of an already present fictional world, created by humans. such content is secondary- or third-rate in nature.
also, the focus on being simply 'entertained' sounds rather depressing to me
Yeah it matters. Tom7 is entertaining because he acts like he isn't struggling but we know he does. Ross Scott's game dungeon is entertaining because of his struggle with dragging old shit into the present.
Shining a laser through a silicon crystal faceted by innumerable human experience is interesting, but that laser does not engage with the human experience of endeavor / struggle.
> So if an Airbnb host steals your laptop, Airbnb should be responsible?
This is like saying "So if an employee of a hotel booked through Booking.com steals your laptop, Booking.com should be responsible?", where the answer is no. When you book on Booking.com or Airbnb you are freely choosing where you stay, and using the platform only as a marketplace.
However, in Uber's case, you are supposedly insured by uber, and you hire them to provide a service, which is then assigned to a driver. You can't choose the driver you get, or the car or whatever, so it's not a marketplace.
A case like Airbnb would also be any flight booking app like Expedia or Skyscanner, where you can see what multiple airlines offer and choose from them, and then book with the airline. If something happens, you file a claim or lawsuit against the airline.
Edit: I'm not talking about factual law, IANAL and I'm not in the US so there's that. I'm talking about what it _should_ be and what _would_ be fair.
Does Airbnb choose where you stay? Because Uber chooses who you drive with, and has all the data around that driver, whereas you do not. Completely different scenarios.
For sure. Airbnb can then go sue the host, but the user has a contract with Airbnb not the host. Maybe then Airbnb would start giving a single shit about abusive hosts.
Possibly not, possibly yes if it is a one time theft depending on juridictions. Definitely yes if this a repeat and it has been made known to them through several customer complaints visiting same host.
> I wish there was another way, but it is genuinely impossible to provide a comfortable level of family life
It's all a matter of perspective, isn't it? It's basically the top 1% speaking. And you can't tell me that the other 99% have miserable lives.
> unless your partner is also in tech and is ok with not being a stay at home parent.
Stay at home parent is a choice, and a pretty expensive one. One does not have to choose that and can still live a comfortable life. Many women (and let's face it, we're unlikely discussing the man staying at home for the next 7-15 years, eh?) even prefer not to interrupt and/or basically end their careers because of parenthood.
Americans often look to Europe, claiming that these things are so much easier there, which might be true, but at least as much is it a matter of personal choice as well.
Can confirm that the 99% have very comfortable family lives, lower stress jobs, plenty family time... (based on having many lower income friends) Bottom n% is a different story, but a FANG salary is not a necessity unless your lifestyle choices and personal expectations make it so.
I'm guessing those lower income folks either don't live in HCOL locations or were fortunate enough to buy their homes before the pandemic. My family is all in HCOL, so with a young kid it's not really feasible to move away (or to go back in time and get a better deal on the house).
Yes, to some extent the asinine expenses of people like me are a result of various choices we made, but that's assuming those choices had any really realistic alternative at the time. And now I'm stuck.
It's not like it will show 147 when the actual value is 134.