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by a_humean 9y ago
Not sure what your confusion is. Their gross-income divided by hours worked (doing a job or waiting for a job)? I guess they would become zero-hour contract employees, and so have the same statutory protections and benefits as perm employee
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by a_humean 9y ago
That wasn't at all their point.
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by a_humean 9y ago
Seems the study was actually about standing ocupations vs sitting occupations, with nothing about standing desk in traditional sitting occupation workplaces (white collar office settings). https://www.theguardian.com/science
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by a_humean 9y ago
The FT (not pay-walled unlike most FT content) recently had an interesting podcast on this topic with a focus on sugar addiction: https://www.ft.com/content/7af80630-c1a6-4833-9f39-dae093b34...
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by a_humean 9y ago
He is talking about fare subsidies for passengers paid for by VC money, slimmer wage packets for drivers, and extreme tax avoidance. He isn't talking about subsidies from a government source as I think you are implying. Uber lost over
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by a_humean 9y ago
Fairness (distributive) != Lawfulness Justice != Lawfulness - contested Justice ≈ Fairness - contested, but developed world's post-war political-economies are based upon this either explicitly or implicitly. A lately weakened norm (pos
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by a_humean 9y ago
Recent report from the electoral commission on potential and actual voter fraud in the UK with recommendations for better identify checks in the future: https://www.electoralcommission.org.uk/__data/assets/pdf_fil.
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by a_humean 9y ago
Honestly not much, but voter fraud is unheard of in the UK and the UK doesn't have a universal ID card. There is no legal requirement for a UK citizen to carry or have any form of official ID. Its just very impractical when trying to a
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by a_humean 9y ago
In the UK I walk into my local primary school/church/community hall (no more than a 5-10 min walk away), utter my name and address as identification (no other ID needed), and use a pencil to write a big 'X' against my pr
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by a_humean 9y ago
You get something similar to with static methods and properties on class definitions. In plain ES2017-ish class syntax: class Test { static value = 1; static someStaticMethod = () => { return 5; } } console.log(Test.value
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by a_humean 9y ago
Well a common example of something that can't be copyrighted in most jurisdictions is lists of things. For example the recipe list for a chocolate cake can't be copyrighted, but the manner it is presented in a cookbook (flavour te
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by a_humean 9y ago
Web Browser: Chromium, Firefox, Chrome Email Client: Gmail web Terminal: Gnome Terminal IDE: VS Code File manager: nautilus Basic Text Editor: gedit IRC/Messaging Client: xchat PDF Reader: Evince Office Suite: Office360 web, LibreOffic
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by a_humean 9y ago
"Use stage-1 and higher JavaScript (modern) syntax for new projects. For old project stay consistent with existing syntax unless you intend to modernise the project." That seems doesn't seem like a good idea. I can understand
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by a_humean 9y ago
You can use Babel with TS. For example, for JSX you can tell TS to "preserve" the JSX, which means you can tell babel or some other compiler take care of that transformation[1]. You can also use babel with typescript to use the ba
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by a_humean 9y ago
I think its actually a more substantial shift. With media being so accessible it almost feels that the generational cultural gap is blurring and narrowing. I have access within moments the entire popular culture catalog of music, films, and
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by a_humean 9y ago
Subject you to more searches, seize your luggage with few means of appeal, and deport you. More and more reasons not to bother traveling or doing business with the US if it can be avoided.
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by a_humean 9y ago
Even on the phone and sometimes months in advance you can easily haggle a 10-35% discount if demand is low. Especially if you agree to pay in advance on a non-refundable basis. We had price lists updated daily looking ahead 1-2 years.
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by a_humean 9y ago
I used to work a part time job doing hotel reservations for a small hotel a few years ago. Back then about 35-40% of their bookings were made through booking.com, and although I didn't know the actual cut booking.com took, I know it wa
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by a_humean 9y ago
Yeah, but who are the users of Typescript? Developers that, by and large, can usually tell the different between a genuine bug and analogous cases of not understanding where the FILE button is. The signal:noise ratio for reported typescript
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by a_humean 9y ago
I think the cynical and only correct interpretation of this bill is that Republicans ultimate priority is to cut health provisions for largely sicker, older, and poorer Americans in order is to cut taxes for households with incomes above $2
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by a_humean 9y ago
The context you are missing is that the creator of D3 (the best JavaScript based data visualisation tool), Mike Bostock, announced at a conference a new tool called d3-express, which a friend attending the conference describes as something
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by a_humean 10y ago
Volunteer to campaign in a neighbouring constituency. Vote Lib Dem. Contact your local party offices and offer your time.
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by a_humean 10y ago
Given that the country basically fell apart the moment we went out of coalition government - yeah I'm not too uncomfortable with the record at this point despite lots of reservations on things like austerity and the tution fee embarras
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by a_humean 10y ago
As someone who reads The Economist occasionally, you are mistaken about this diversity of opinions idea, but I think I understand why you are mistaken. The Economist is very straightforwardly a British/European liberal (not in the Amer
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by a_humean 10y ago
Previous: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13599074
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by a_humean 10y ago
I live and work in London as a developer with about 2 years work experience, and I do feel the pull of moving somewhere else like Bristol. Hell of a lot cheaper than London and seems to have quite high living standards. I have a feeling its
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by a_humean 10y ago
The defendant seems pretty scummy and deserving to be held accountable, but the plaintiff's strategy seems dead in the water. Judges are giving both a very good grilling.
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by a_humean 10y ago
I would actually strongly disagree with that. Officials need to be able to exchange ideas freely amongst themselves and within confidence in a non-media environment. They need to be able to say things to each other in person, on phones, and
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by a_humean 10y ago
So Reuter's position is that the media environment in the US is rapidly becoming like illiberal democracies in Egypt, Russia and Iran, and so its time to use skills applicable when operating within typically third world authoritarian r
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by a_humean 10y ago
1) If I had to guess you are conflating two things when you say democracy. When people say 'democracy' in western countries they are usually referring to a particular form of democracy: liberal representative democracy, or also oc

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