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For me if Christmas eve is a Monday we usually get the whole Monday off, if it's later in the week we only get a half day. We get from Christmas eve 12 noon to January 1 off normally

ISP around me had policies like "we can provide Usenet except for the binaries trees"

Legal eagle has a video spelling out which laws are broken. Note that there are specific laws against paying people to vote

Use a throwaway email, drop it as soon as the promotion is over

And goatse gave us the ability to laugh at that Micky Mouse clock

Yeah public transport is ideal for most transport cases and should be funded by cities to the level to allow it to provide that

But still some cases call for individual transport and my preference on that is taxis over Uber and the like as taxis have a duty to pick up anyone who can pay which the newer companies don't

I hope that self driving taxis include accessible ones, I expect there will still need to be a class of staffed cars to help people who need assistance - eg those who can't lift their bag into our out of the vehicle, those who need assistance to put on a seat belt

Thanks, I'm not great on biblical history, so corrections and detail are welcome

Mine are grass finished, and watered with rain - the most environmentally friendly meat available. I expect the cheap meat in Texas is grain finished, which makes each animal fatter and heavier and cheaper per unit weight

I got server space pretty cheap recently. There's a lot of competition in that space and they compete on price as well as quality

So whatever performance level you need doesn't cost a lot more than the fraction of hardware lifetime you're buying

"Harder" depends on what services you're offering. Email is hard now; web is no harder (though web sites are as hard as you want them to be), hosting a game server is as easy as it ever has been

And that cost of labor

I buy a fair bit of meat. At my nearest butcher scotch fillet steak (rib eye, I think, in American English) is $35 per kilo. It is from a meat packing plant with reasonably cheap labor, with expensive equipment amortized over thousands of cattle a year, cutting up cows all day

At my next nearest butcher it's $60/kg. It's cut off a cow carcass hanging in the back of the shop by a butcher with a knife

On the good side there are few middle men in meat

We are more efficient. In my work computer automation has saved the equivalent to five thousand workers

Those five thousand workers don't get to work a fraction of a day for the same pay, the saving is made a level or five above the workers

Some of our savings are hidden by inflation, but many products are far cheaper now

I have lots of books in paper. I have dozens electronically

The paper ones are good. I can lend them to friends, smell them, have them looking good on a shelf, can read while I'm doing something else on my phone

The electronic ones are with me. I can read them when I find myself surprisingly with nothing better to do.