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by C1sc0cat 6y ago
Not shure single digit effective is possible nowadays even outside IR35 - and HMRC has unliterally ruled that some professions are in side IR35 eg all it/developer contractors. Actors, film / tv professionals and lawyers etc are f
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by C1sc0cat 6y ago
From a national insurance POV I think you meant. For income tax apart from the £2k(divi) and £500 (savings interest) allowances, it is already on the same basis.
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by C1sc0cat 6y ago
Switching to OMOV One member one Vote for selecting presidential candidates instead of the 18th century open primaries some of which don't even have secret ballots I belive. That is only signed up and dues paying members of the party v
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by C1sc0cat 6y ago
It would be lower wage support staff probably in in the USA not highly paid SV engineers. Its the same in the UK where I used to work (British Telecom) criminals used to approach call centre workers to get info.
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by C1sc0cat 6y ago
Maybe you should do what our CCNA instructor did - if you brick one of the routers you have to fix it yourself. Is it such a terrible "learning" Experience that yanking the power cable out is a bad idea as others have said the pi
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by C1sc0cat 6y ago
I must admit as an outsider I think that might happen. The GOP needs to do what John Smith, Tony and Gordan did and kick out the entryist faction that is destroying the party but I suspect its to late.
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by C1sc0cat 6y ago
Probably as the pi was designed for 6th formers to use - letting 8-10 year olds lose on them :-)
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by C1sc0cat 6y ago
I feel seen :-) In my first job I updated someones (doing a PHD in fluid mixing) Fortran code. The original software to run an experimental rig just put up a ? prompt and you typed numbers in to drive the experiment. You had to memorise whi
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by C1sc0cat 6y ago
I used to work for BT a while back and on the "Engineering" side there where many problems with the drawings of plant being wrong or lost. Also workmanager aka workmangler was known for sending linemen (engineers in BT speak) to t
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by C1sc0cat 6y ago
And what proportion of 18/19 year olds goto university?
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by C1sc0cat 6y ago
Yeh its a grossly abused term. What it should be is you can work at /understand all the OSI TCP/IP layer's Layer 8 and 5 is a bonus - politics if you haven't heard the v old joke
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by C1sc0cat 6y ago
In the UK I think having to many politicians who only have a PPE is a problem
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by C1sc0cat 6y ago
cough back in the 80's I was employed by a division of British Telecom explicitly partially as DEV/OP on a billing system as I had SYSAD experience on the platform. Later on mid 90's the BT World wide intra net was run by
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by C1sc0cat 6y ago
Is that not a problem with the training / education of entry level. This was the problem the raspberry pi was designed for GCSE and A Level students to actually get hands on experience, so that when you go to to university you had at l
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by C1sc0cat 6y ago
Japan was trying to do to China what the western powers did - but with more actual killing. For China WW2 started in the mid 30's
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by C1sc0cat 6y ago
For those of you that have not done hydrodynamics 1 Bar is roughly 14.5 PSI or 10.1 m of water
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by C1sc0cat 6y ago
Or Google turns sates evidence and blames that nasty monopolist Apple for extracting the Vig from them, and suggests that Apple must have a ballot in Mac OS and IOS a bit like MS
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by C1sc0cat 6y ago
Its also contrary to all best parliamentary practice and should be ruled out of order.
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by C1sc0cat 6y ago
See the German and Nordic new Years eve tradition of watching Dinner for One a B&W British Comedy sketch from the late 1950's
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by C1sc0cat 6y ago
That is because of the historic lower status of "engineers" as well you need to compare these salaries to doctors Lawyers. Or in the UK train drivers ;-)
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by C1sc0cat 6y ago
And any "engineer" would know you have to back test any simulation - and predicting the exact failure modes is hard. Having a real world failure under controlled conditions - would show where failure points are and possible fixes.
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by C1sc0cat 6y ago
And its not if trash tabloids don't cancel and destroy people all the time.
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by C1sc0cat 6y ago
There's initial results that indicate that its likely - you wont get hard data for another decade plus - but take it from me you don't want to get CKD or similar organ damage.
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by C1sc0cat 6y ago
Yes I suspect some one suggesting to HR that one of the ways to increase diversity and combat institutionalised racism would to be a transparent pay survey might be in trouble.
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by C1sc0cat 6y ago
Some of the longer term effects are scary though - I suspect that younger people might not be so blasé about chronic illness. At minimum younger people who have had covid are looking at a lot more regular check-ups for the rest of there li
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by C1sc0cat 6y ago
Why do you think that? its stops states playing beggar my neighbour is one good argument against doing this.
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by C1sc0cat 6y ago
So if a US state did something like Ireland and Holland do and help big companies dodge taxes - you'd be fine with that? There is a good argument (for the good of the country as a whole) that sales tax should be harmonised.
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by C1sc0cat 6y ago
To be fair only "workers" and employees should be able to vote on employment law then, no students no pensioners. This is why employment law needs to be take away from the states - have one federally defined set of laws - stops a
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by C1sc0cat 6y ago
"Meritocracy" as originally defined does not mean what you think it does
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by C1sc0cat 6y ago
It was stupid back then still stupid now.

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