Davriellelouna@lemmy.world to Today I Learned@lemmy.worldEnglish · edit-22 months agoTIL there is a law called Marchetti's Constant. Humans only tolerate commutes of less than ~1 hour. Housing outside that limit will fail.en.wikipedia.orgexternal-linkmessage-square142linkfedilinkarrow-up1572arrow-down110
arrow-up1562arrow-down1external-linkTIL there is a law called Marchetti's Constant. Humans only tolerate commutes of less than ~1 hour. Housing outside that limit will fail.en.wikipedia.orgDavriellelouna@lemmy.world to Today I Learned@lemmy.worldEnglish · edit-22 months agomessage-square142linkfedilink
minus-squaredanhab99@programming.devlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up14arrow-down5·2 months agoA 1hr commute represents 16% of your day, how much of my day should be wasted commuting
minus-squareBizzle@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8·edit-22 months agoTwo hours (round trip) divided by 24 (in a day) works out to .0833, ~8%. I can’t get 16 I’m not sure where that’s coming from.
minus-squareBizzle@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·2 months ago16 waking hours works out to ~12% which is closer but not quite
minus-squareaxEl7fB5@lemmy.cafelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·2 months agoTime actually free? Excluding working hours which is 8 and sleeping which is also 8
minus-squareBizzle@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·2 months agoThat’s 2/8 which is 25% lol I’ve been agonizing over this and can’t figure it out
A 1hr commute represents 16% of your day, how much of my day should be wasted commuting
Math ain’t mathing?
Two hours (round trip) divided by 24 (in a day) works out to .0833, ~8%. I can’t get 16 I’m not sure where that’s coming from.
Time awake?
16 waking hours works out to ~12% which is closer but not quite
Time actually free? Excluding working hours which is 8 and sleeping which is also 8
That’s 2/8 which is 25% lol I’ve been agonizing over this and can’t figure it out