Jeroen

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[–] Jeroen 3 points 1 week ago

Thanks, something like this is indeed already interesting, especially with the return on investment calculation so I'll check it out. But to be slightly more directed at what I wanted, I meant a paper/article researching how much it would cost and it would save to have 90% of the trips in a society be with public transport. I understand if that is not something a lot of direct high-quality research has gone into.

 

We all here want more public transport in our societies and see cars as inefficient and expensive. I wonder if anyone knows any research or well thought-out article about how much it would cost to run a society/city to have a lot of public transport, and how much that would save.

If I think about how in a political campaign it could be (financially) convincing. Let's say that taking, say, 1000 USD/EUR/GBP(etc) more in taxes per person per year, would be estimated to save a person 5000 USD/EUR/GBP(etc) per year in their car cost, medical cost, other societal cost like the parking space. I am curious if there is literature or even just blog posts about someone going into detail about this and detailed (and real life preferably) calculate and estimate these statistics.

To reiterate, I am curious about the numbers and economics of this in as real of situations as possible. How many bus routes would need to be added and how much would that genuinely cost at a level where people can stop buying cars.

[–] Jeroen 3 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

You ask if he agrees in your post, he gives an honest and normal answer, and you call him a joke? That's not much better faith than what you're complaining about.

[–] Jeroen 3 points 3 weeks ago

It's a lot more backed by the faith that if you don't manage to get some you go to jail.

[–] Jeroen 1 points 3 weeks ago

(posted this comment somewhere else too)

(Paper) money is practically actually valuable because you need it to pay taxes. Gold, diamonds etc you could do without. Of course there is more nuance but taxes force people to value currency and therefore also accept it from others (because you need some of it or you go to jail), which gives currency the circular value.

[–] Jeroen 2 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

(Paper) money is practically actually valuable because you need it to pay taxes. Gold, diamonds etc you could do without. Of course there is more nuance but taxes force people to value currency and therefore also accept it from others (because you need some of it or you go to jail), which gives currency the circular value.

[–] Jeroen 8 points 7 months ago

Good point. Now it does make sense. I know the secret to the perpetual motion machine now.

[–] Jeroen 4 points 7 months ago

Okay so individual stocks then. But the advice is for index funds I think. But good on you if it works. I wouldn't try to predict individual stocks personally, too much stress and probably won't do it better than randomly guessing.

[–] Jeroen 2 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Why do you look at your investments? What do you do with the information? I don't want to predict the market and I can't. Looking at it is more likely to make you panic buy/sell than make you do anything useful. But I'm curious why you don't agree with the advice.

[–] Jeroen 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Well its for faster speeds. So I dont get why you would do a backup on a more fragile but faster storage. You described in another comment that you have many other backups, which is awesome. So good on you for taking care of everything. But yhea, using the opposite of what would be better for backups seems a bit counterintuitive to me. And to presume that it doesn't matter to use the more secure option because you have many other backups anyway, is also slightly weird since why bother in the first place then.

I don't mean any hate, you're doing way better than me. Can I ask how fast the RAID 0 gets? And how much it would be on individual drives. And how much data you have to backup daily.

Much respect for your setup, you've taken redundancy seriously and I doubt you'll ever lose anything.

[–] Jeroen 5 points 1 year ago (6 children)

Why would you put local backups on RAID 0?

[–] Jeroen 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Would this for you include accomodation? And do you think you'd prefer a lot of control over that or just a general view? Like a searchpage that has a budget, a starting location and a departure and return date. This would return only the places where the train/bus/flight + hostel/hotel would fit in the budget.

 

I love traveling, and also enjoy planning for it. But I do often find that searching many different sites with basic filters becomes quite cumbersome. I had the idea of adding more advanced features to be able to better pinpoint what exactly the best option would be for each person specifically. It initially started with Flixbus having no "what is the cheapest connection somewhere in May" feature, like Google Flight does have. But I wanted to add more things. I have added that you can add how much it's worth for you to travel an hour less, or a transfer less, or not arrive/depart in the middle of the night. This will then be taken into account when sorting what is the best connection instead of the cheapest. It also already has a search for Flixbus on what the best connection is in a range of dates, and what the best connection is from a place to any place in the desired country. I want to add too that it takes hostel/hotel prices into account, so that you can say you want to go from Berlin to anywhere in Czechia, for 4 days, and it actually gives you the complete best route to a city with a cheap hostel too. I would love to add more things and am very curious about desires from other travelers for a tool like this, so what do you think and would you like to add?

[–] Jeroen 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You seem quite invested so I have a question. I have learned that protein fills more and therefore reduces appetite. Won't a protein shake be a relatively healthy option which reduces snacking and overeating of less healthy meals? This has also anecdotally been my experience but I haven't done it very much.

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