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Yes, much like how they've regulated delivery drivers. The person listed on the app is definitely the one that delivers, very effective.
I detest the concept that we need yet another "law" before we can actual enforce anything. There are plenty of laws being broken already, we should go and prosecute them before we start making up new ones to ignore.
(London perspective), I've intervened from tourists getting scammed before from these guys, and they get violent very quickly. Especially fun because they have their gang all around.
Unlicensed, unmaintained, motorized vehicles on pedestrian paths, a miracle no one has been killed yet.
It's kind of insane, and is a microcosm of the UK's inability to do anything.
- Everyone hates them, from residents, to businesses, to the tourists that get harassed by them.
- There are multiple laws, that if the police wanted to, they could enforce at any time.
- Nothing gets done.
It is an impressive level of apathy from an already toothless government.
Well, at least something good came out of this incident.
Perfect.
As well as the childcare benefit removal others have mentioned, you also begin losing your "tax free allowance".
The marginal tax rate for 100k -> 125k is 60% (due to losing the ~£12k tax free allowance)
"Your personal allowance goes down by £1 for every £2 that your adjusted net income is above £100,000. This means your allowance is zero if your income is £125,140 or above."3 people is insanely lean for something that looks this polished.
Try and maintain that for as long as you can.
Bit of a facetious response and not in the spirit on HN, but you absolutely nailed the choice of noun with MRI machine, lol. Perfect.
https://www.ons.gov.uk/economy/inflationandpriceindices/time...
ONS says RPI is 11% this month, peaked at 14% YoY end of last year.
Highest it's been since 1980
Hitler is currently rank 1, so, that's an interesting application of Godwin's Law
Quick Google searches reveal that Reddit has something between 0.5 and 1.5 billion monthly users
Not disagree-ing with your points, but do you have a source for this? It doesn't pass the sniff test to me.
1.5B people is ~ 20% of the world population, and probably closer to 50% of those with computers & internet capable of downloading reddit.com, an image heavy forum.
I'm in the demographic for Reddit (30s, male, western country), and I think maybe 10% of my friends, family & coworkers even know what Reddit is, let along are an MAU.
This is misinformation. Maybe you've had this situation/contract, but that is very much not the norm.
I would love to just have some nice, high resolution glasses, that would emulate my monitor setup back home with minimal drawbacks.
Boy do I have the product for you!
Exists, in the real world, shipping from Amazon, many reviews on YouTube.
Heaping on the praise, use this tool every day, for years, on every mac I've had. Best 15 quid spent
If you have the physical hardware, there will be people able to produce their own firmware that disables built in filtering, or at least, disables the internet connecting that reports said filtering. You'll have a server that is disconnected from the internet with all your DRM free content.
They would have to outlaw personal computing, and not allow you to build your own servers with no firmware-enforced filtering, which given the current direction, is not particularly farfetched, but at that point battle is lost anyway and your DVD rips are the least of your problems.
The WallStreet Bets, NFT and Crypto ecosystem is very niche
/r/wallstreetbets has 13.5 million subscribers.
I've never disagreed with something more.
On the other hand, something that's cute will be far more memorable and much easier to say.
Citation needed?
How is <random-fairy-dust-word> easier to associate with "Ingest, Processing, & Storage of Thing" than <thing-etl-service>?
EDIT: On closer inspection, I think this is intentional HN rage bait.
You are correct, obviously.
I still want to participate in the collective modern culture ... so somethings got to give.
Same comment applies to this forum. I want to participate in discussions on HN, and therefore I am subject to the occasional job ad from YC companies. It's not perfect, but it's a bit facetious to compare that to the attention grabbing of Youtube/Amazon, etc who will intentionally curtail my efforts to find content I want, in lieu of something they want to promote.
Peep Show, 30 Rock, Community. Modern classics, editing out "offensive" material, that was actually making a point about how offensive it is.
The incentives are misaligned.
Netflix, Amazon, Disney et al, aren't interested in showing me what I want to watch for a purchase price, they are after my attention, and to divert me to their most profitable revenue stream (Netflix in house creations etc).
My attention is not for sale, I'll buy content if it is sold in a manner that is attractive to me in a consumer friendly model, Louis CK selling his standup specials on his own website come to mind, otherwise I won't bother.
The problem is there's no end game for these companies, if you agree to buy something, they'll stop selling it and sell you a subscription instead. If you buy the subscription, they'll chuck ads in front of the subscribed service, and then periodically cut off access to certain content in an effort to maximize their own profit. There's no way to manage you're own library, you're subject to whatever the shareholders think they can keep squeezing out of you. On top of that, even if I yield to them completely, I still have to run their DRM blobs on my computing devices for the priviledge.
It's "amoral" to pirate in my worldview, but these companies are equally amoral. I still want to participate in the collective modern culture of tv, movies, etc, so somethings got to give.
Is it hard?
We had this, for an employee that wanted to move back home to Poland.
We used remote.com, they charge a sizable fee (like 600 quid a month), but the net costs come out about even after considering other costs. You still have to pay for the whatever the local countries requirements are for e.g: holiday pay, sick leave, redundancies etc, but I think it's a decent system.
I suspect the costs will come down quite quickly as it scales/has more competitors.
First thing I thought of, gonna have to rewatch that whole talk now.
Given that his producer was arrested by what amounts to Australia's secret police, at the request of the then deputy premier, I'm not certain that it's easy to dismiss. There's been a pretty strong condemnation of the way that situation was handled, both in the political and legal sphere, that wrong-doing took place.
As for the firebombing, to me that feels much more like ClubsNSW/Bikey gang related hush tactics.
The whole thing is surreal
who is charged 5bp a year (i.e. 5 cents for every $100 dollars)
Am I crazy or would 5 basis points be 0.05 cents (1/100th of a percent)
Not a sound guy, and have struggled for a while w/ this for my plex setup @ home, so grain of salt.
If there's not a separate track for e.g 2.0, then the mixing down from 5.1 -> 2.0 will not have a human who validates the output. An automatic conversion can't accurately confirm that "this is legible for human ears at the right levels"
Well, golang is a tough language.
This _could_ be true for some, but it directly conflicts with the stated goals of the language. Most people (that I've spoken to) would consider Go to be a simpler language, with fewer features, than other comparable languages.
usenet is taking off in a big way (does 1979 tech really count as taking off?).
Alternatively, invite-only/private torrent trackers are as good/better than the old days.
Way harder for regular folks to break into the scene, but it's far more "professional"(?) now
My experience with flaky tests is that they seem to leave some state lying around, or are impacted by some randomness that wasn't accounted for in the test writing (lists in different order, DB state etc).
So I actually do think this would benefit that, as these tests are run "independantly", however that's just going to hide the problem of your bad/flaky tests, and you'll never solve the underlying problem.
This is unbelievably cool. Bookmarked.
Sorry, I should have clarified what I meant.
I meant that 4:3 17" is substantially more than a 16:9 17" monitor.
4:3 vs 16:9 for the same diagonal (17") results in 12% more area. a 16" MBP is already large, and is only 16:10, so 17" 4:3 is comparable to like 18/19" of work space in 16:9/10 world.
Review from Dave2D 4 months ago, addresses the crease & hinge on a pre-production unit
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jFGhvYLbBRE
I think it seems like a cool idea, 17" at 4:3 ratio is alot of screen real estate, at a 12.5" 16:9 footprint.
Lot of negativity in this comment section, personally not something I'm that interested in, but I am interested in people experimenting with the form factor.