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by Nursie 2y ago
The point is that it wasn’t that way in 2008, and in comparison the UK has stagnated and been overtaken since then. I agree, GDP is an incomplete measure, but it does provide a comparison point.
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I am British and have been a consultant. While permanent IT staff are often regarded as generic office workers, usually in poorly performing small to medium enterprises in backwaters around the country, in London and in Finance this is not
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> IT contractors, engineers, healthcare professionals You're not disagreeing with me, other than that I don't consider those "working class" occupations. In general in the UK those are quite often middle to upper midd
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1. Yes, some of them. Spent a little time in New Mexico. I've travelled through the gulf states and Alabama. Particularly outside of Albequrque and Santa Fe, the general level of deprivation in NM was quite clear. 2. I'm glad that
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by Nursie 2y ago
> Councils expanded the number of SEND pupils eligible for free school transport, increasing spending from £9m to £20m - how is that being poor? Because the money is sucked out of the council coffers and they then can't provide a lo
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by Nursie 2y ago
IR35 is not really about the working class though is it? It's about the professional class of contractors, tv presenters etc, who at various times were doing things that looked suspiciously like regular jobs, but somehow were paying a
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by Nursie 2y ago
Because it is. Something I heard on BBC Radio 4 recently is that everywhere in Britain that's outside of London is now poorer than any given state in the US. Partly this is because of the myopic policies of the coalition and then conse
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by Nursie 2y ago
> Google's image generator that generated black nazis. Didn't see this one, but I've certainly played around with Dall-E (via MS image creator) and had things like "You wanted a picture of a happy shark, but we decide
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> You take off for your destination, but when you get there you find out that humans back on earth made a faster ship 100 years after you left and beat you to the destination. A theme that turns up in Starfield as well...
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That certainly isn’t a claim or a point in my post. There are better and worse politicians and parties, certainly, and your vote and who gets power does matter. They certainly aren’t all as bad as each other but neither are any of them hero
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by Nursie 2y ago
I often talk politics with friends, mostly because we all like to moan about the state of things. Maybe this doesn't translate to the US, but in the UK (and the largely British friend-group I have here in Australia) in my bubble we don
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Who is "both" tribes? Why can there be only two? And why do you not think the parent is talking about both of those tribes compared to more moderate, less terminally-online people?
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"Hey AI build me a node app that does X" "Now add a page for this" "Change this field to be that" "Integrate it with service X, Y, Z"
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by Nursie 2y ago
They have a numeric scale as well, which scores fox at 6.1 and the guardian at 5.7 (I think, I looked yesterday) The guardian’s editorial is politically biased, it wears that on its sleeve, their opinion pieces come from a moderate-left vie
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by Nursie 2y ago
Does seem odd to have Fox News, which they describe as exhibiting "promotion of propaganda, conspiracy theories, pseudoscience, the use of poor sources, and numerous false claims and failed fact checks", ranked above the guardia
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> common agenda of finding fault with everything that isn’t British. Believe me they find fault in everything that is British as well! They are most definitely at the forefront of the "everything here is shit and we are all dreadful
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by Nursie 2y ago
Fair enough - I don't think the laws have diverged much in this area in the last several years, and while there was always a difference in national legislation and how the actual enforcement bodies would act, there's generally mor
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Ha, over here in Aus we get Hass most of the year but for a few weeks at the end of March/start of April we can only get Shepard and everyone moans about it! Hass are definitely superior, but Shepard aren’t all that bad. Bit rubbery ma
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by Nursie 2y ago
> I'm really struggling to see how you feel its wrong. https://ico.org.uk/for-organisations/uk-gdpr-guidance-and-re... On the same page that the ICO gives guidance that "consent or pay" is legal, &quo
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> There doesn't seem to be a truly adfree option. We're still talking about The Guardian? They advertise a $20 (AUD) per month "All Access Digital" plan here - https://support.theguardian.com/au/c
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Apparently the ICO in the UK has decided that "consent or pay" can be compliant with the UK GDPR, the post-brexit version of the GDPR that's in UK law. It feels wrong to me, but there we are. Personally I use an ad-blocker, b
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by Nursie 2y ago
Sometimes things are just bad, reporting on them at that point is a duty. Do you dispute that Trump has started talking about a third term? Or that those other actions are actually taking place? > was as extremely polarized as CNN or Fox
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> The Guardian is extremely-polarized ragebait. Errr, nah. It's mostly very high quality, sober and honest journalism. Yes, a lot of the opinion and editorial is very obviously politically biased, and they do publish some absolute l
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> “Consent or pay” models differ from a “take it or leave it” model, as the presence of a “pay” option means that accessing the service is not solely conditional on people providing consent. I feel like this is ... slimy. I suppose it do
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I don't think it would - if the treatment has both been hyped in the press as a potential panacea, and yet is not at a stage of development where any honest practitioner would offer it, there is still a gap where the cowboys will jump
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They have forums if you can find them, I think they call them 'communities', where you can complain. Then a high-ranked non-employee 'product expert' will be along presently to tell you that's not really a problem a
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The ones on the bosch US website do have different model numbers and a different look compared to Bosch UK/AU/DE, which is a little odd. But even then there are models similar to mine, which have Wifi but don't rely on it -
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by Nursie 2y ago
Sure, there's one on my Bosch too. But I'm damned if I know how to set it to (for instance) turn on at 7am by using the buttons on the machine. There's probably a way involving multiple button presses. The app does that easil
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Is this just an american thing/model? I have a Bosch Series 6 dishwasher here in Australia. It has physical buttons for all the stuff he mentions - Machine Care (self-cleaning), HalfLoad, Eco, and Delay start. I did connect it to wifi
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by Nursie 2y ago
That's really orthoganal to the question of "are stem cell clinics in Mexico a scam?" Is there too much regulation in medicine? Could be. There's certainly regulatory capture evident in many parts of many economies.

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