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Brit here. Went to the USA for a three week holiday this Summer. Had zero issues with immigration, or anything at all in the USA.

Had the best time.

You seem very up to date with all of the celebrity gossip.

I hate when these articles include quotes from family/friends. It’s completely pointless. Of course he is a great guy as far as his family and friends are concerned. You even see these testimonials in cases where the person was demonstrably a nuisance to society (I am not saying this is one of those cases).

I was given a Dualit Classic Newgen 4 slice toaster as a wedding gift. It was without a doubt the WORST toaster I have ever used. I've never been so annoyed by a product before. In fact, it annoyed me so much that I ended up returning it and replacing it with a cheap toaster that is 10% of the price and functions better.

I'll list the fatal flaws with it in descending order of importance:

1) Unlike basically every single other toaster on the market, it does not have a cage or other mechanism that closes on to the bread slices and keeps them an equal distance from the heating element. This results in at least one part of every single slice of bread getting burned to a crisp, and at least one part of every single slice not being toasted at all. After using this toaster for a week, I couldn't believe how any engineer at Dualit could release this. Do they even use their product? It is a catastrophic oversight.

2) The timer is an analogue mechanism, much like an egg timer. I found that there was an extremely thin margin in which the toast is toasted. Anything under that and it's not, anything over that and it's burned beyond recognition. I cannot even count the number of times the smoke alarm in my house went off because my toaster burned my bread to a crisp. Another catastrophic oversight.

3) Because the timer is analogue, when you turn it it makes a clicking noise as an egg timer does. This means it's very easy to mistake the toaster for being on, when in fact it's not. The number of times I went to make toast, only to realise a few minutes later that the toaster was unplugged for some reason and my bread was still bread is unreal. I'd then end up ruining my scrambled eggs by waiting another few mins for toast.

4) The toaster allows you to spin a dial to choose how many heating elements to use. This is a pain in the ass. It's so easy to forget about, until you go to pick up your toast and find out that only 1 and a half slices have been toasted of the 4 you put in there.

The sad thing is, the toaster looked awesome. We also have a Dualit kettle (which is great) and it matched. Unfortunately they prioritised aesthetics over function, and it shows. If you want a toaster that requires you to go through a checklist of switches to check before operating, then requires constant supervision to avoid burning your toast, and will still give you burnt sections of toast anyway despite all of that, I could not recommend a better candidate.

Object storage would be good.

My first thought was that the guy sounded like an asshole too.

What on earth are you talking about?

You might need to explain that one.

Doing multiple async tasks concurrently as opposed to in sequence. If you have never used this you have either worked on extremely simple systems or have been leaving a ton of perf gains on the table.

I think you are confusing the speed at which the earth orbits the sun (~29.8km/s) with the speed at which an object needs to travel to maintain earth orbit (~7.8km/s).

Your C.V. isn't well laid out. In <10 secs I can't really figure out what you've done and what your primary skillset is.

Refactor it to more clearly lay out your specific skillset, roles, and what you achieved in them (improving business metrics).

I’m sure your visual analysis performed via a screen is more accurate than the dozens of tests he constantly has carried out by specialists in a lab.

This is beyond the Juicero level of startup nonsense. Watching the video of Gerry Tan and the founder describing the design as “space warping” was tedious.

If you own a business with $500k profit then you can sell it for a multiple of that.

You also have the option to automate yourself out of a job or hire someone to reduce the time you need to spend on the business.

As an employee you trade time for money with no ability to sell or reduce your workload.

In this thread: lots of people who have never started a business giving advice to a guy who was making 600k/mo about why his business was dumb. Hacker News at its best.

You misunderstood OP. They are referring to making the decision not to fly, or “grounding” the plane.

I don’t think anybody reading this story could have possibly assumed the plane could perpetually fly without fuel…

UHT milk is terrible. As a brit, when I'm abroad I notice it immediately and it ruins an otherwise good cup of tea or coffee.

There's something comical about having freezers in Antartica, even when you understand the reason why they are there.

Yes but that is skewed by the South of England. There's a TON of hardly populated land in Scotland/Wales.

You've completely misunderstood my original comment. The process of meeting new people to establish compatibility is absolutely a numbers game. To expect to meet someone with whom you are compatible enough to spend many many years with just by meeting 3 new people is ridiculous. It's not impossible, but given the number of permutations of personalities it's extremely unlikely.

In order to find a suitable life partner, you need to be exposed to a large number of potential partners. Some people get lucky and hit the jackpot after meeting 5 people, others after 50, others still not after 200.

Also, divorce rate is not at all an indicator of healthy relationships. Religious or cultural taboos massively influence divorce rate, and there is plenty of evidence to show that the result can be people trapped in dreadfully unhappy marriages without any escape.

Also, if it doesn’t work out, I’m scared of leaving a broken heart in another person. This is a telling statement. It really highlights his inexperience and immaturity with regards to relationships (not that this is in doubt - it is after all the subject of his post).

Being the cause of, and the sufferer of a "broken heart" is a formative experience. There's nothing like healing a broken heart to teach you that actually things get better, and it wasn't right anyway. There's nothing like the fear of hurting someone else that will trap you in an unhealthy or unfulfilling relationship for far longer than it should have. When you finally summon the courage to end it, knowing it will hurt someone else - you immediately feel the freedom, and the other person's journey to healing begins too.

I find it hard to understand people who make a mountain out of dating. It's a numbers game, and there's a gazillion ways to meet people.