acatnamedjoe

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by acatnamedjoe 7mo ago
I have a personal current account, a shared current account with my wife, and several savings accounts. It is frequently necessary to move money between these accounts. Also, here in the UK we don't really use Venmo or anything like th
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by acatnamedjoe 11mo ago
In Britain we have quite strong employment laws and a bit less of a ruthless corporate culture, so in many sectors it's fairly uncommon for people to be terminated for poor performance, so I suspect "misconduct" is a higher p
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by acatnamedjoe 11mo ago
"Firing" is becoming a bit more common in Britain, but still sounds like an Americanism to my British ears. I would use "sacking" for performance related termination, and "losing ones job" in all other cases.
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by acatnamedjoe 1y ago
Unlocking trolleys with a coin is normal in Britain too. I'd never considered that this might be unusual. Is this not a thing in other countries? How do they get people to return their trolleys to the bays?
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by acatnamedjoe 1y ago
Can't America fine them? Surely this is illegal there too?
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by acatnamedjoe 1y ago
I think the argument is less that inequality has increased overall, and more that the country is increasingly stratified by geography - with greater concentrations of wealth in the South East relative to the rest of the country. This is esp
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by acatnamedjoe 1y ago
> quite possibly the most spirit-crushingly tedious town in Kent. This is an extremely high bar to hit in a county that also contains Ashford.
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by acatnamedjoe 1y ago
I was curious - what was the angle on Hythe in the book? These days Hythe seems like a posh seaside town with a Waitrose, a nice canalside park, a cute steam railway, lots of boutiquey shops and cafes, etc. I know a lot of places in the ar
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by acatnamedjoe 2y ago
They have something to give away because they have power, which is the only thing that matters in the final analysis. It doesn't matter who created the value - it's who controls it.
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by acatnamedjoe 2y ago
It seems like this is more about the semantics of what we mean by athleticism then? It sounds like for you, being a top athlete simply means being very good at a sport. I've always generally understood athleticism to be about raw physi
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by acatnamedjoe 2y ago
That's only because a capitalist economy uses the circulation of currency and goods as a way to multiply wealth, while motivating the people who generate the wealth. Sufficiently advanced AI offers the potential for exponential wealth
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by acatnamedjoe 2y ago
Focusing on the state misses the point. The state is a relatively modern abstraction for society. Society, state-based or not, has always been dominated by class of elites and governed primarily in their interests. However, for all of human
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by acatnamedjoe 2y ago
> He’s the most successful player in the most competitive position in the most competitive league in one of the most competitive sports on Earth Isn't it exactly the point of the article though that this doesn't necessarily mea
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by acatnamedjoe 3y ago
>The main character isn't complex at all. There's no depth at all to Winston. Of course everyone has their own response to any piece of art but I find this criticism very surprising. Even the "takedown" article you po
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by acatnamedjoe 3y ago
So many critiques of 1984 seem to boil down to "I'd really like 1984 to be a political treatise in favour of my ideology, but it isn't!" All of the things this article says are bad about 1984 are the things that make it
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by acatnamedjoe 3y ago
I don't think Orwell was ever a "man of ideas" and I don't think he would have seen himself as such either. His writing is partly journalistic, partly literary.He's never really trying to assemble a coherent ideolo
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by acatnamedjoe 3y ago
As an English person my first instinct is to add "sorry" to virtually any user-facing text!
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by acatnamedjoe 3y ago
I don't think it's funny because it's "strange". It's funny because it reminds people that they can have very different inner worlds to people they share their life with.
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by acatnamedjoe 3y ago
Did you also guess what the article was about based on just the title?
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by acatnamedjoe 4y ago
But in all of those cases presumably someone needed to figure out what needed doing? (In your case maybe you're savvy enough that you knew what the issue was and just needed a certified person to do the work, but most clients won'
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by acatnamedjoe 4y ago
I see the plumber/electrician thing a lot. But talking to my friends who do these jobs it always seems like it would be even more vulnerable to AI than programming. Experienced electricians get paid decent wages because they have had
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by acatnamedjoe 4y ago
This isn't really true. The article talks about apprenticeships. While traditionally apprenticeships in the UK were mostly for blue collar work, these days you can do apprenticeships in almost anything: software engineering, law, medic
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by acatnamedjoe 4y ago
To be fair, technical skills training in the UK is currently mostly delivered through apprenticeships. The model is 80% "on the job", 20% "off the job" training. So, in theory at least, they should deliver the kind of ex
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by acatnamedjoe 4y ago
Do you have any evidence to support the statement that this is "the rule in the UK"? Anecdotally (in the UK) I've only ever known managers of technical teams to have risen from technical roles, and have never heard of anyone
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by acatnamedjoe 4y ago
"Regarding the complaint of not moving decisions forward with a disengaged manager, if you plan to be absentee you must delegate" I took the OPs point on this to be that, at a certain level of seniority, delegation isn't enou
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by acatnamedjoe 4y ago
Well sure, if a student doesn't engage meaningfully with the essay and just writes a load of waffle to fill the word count, they won't learn as much and they'll get a bad mark. In that case sure, the whole exercise is kind o
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by acatnamedjoe 4y ago
A word count is also a signal to the student of what level of depth the teacher is hoping for. For most interesting questions you could write anything between a few sentences and a full book, depending on how much you develop and defend you
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by acatnamedjoe 4y ago
Word counts in essays in my experience are maximums not minimums. For an advanced student writing about sufficiently complex topic, the challenge is to develop an argument in less than 5000 words, rather than to reach 5000 words. And th
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by acatnamedjoe 4y ago
Perhaps we should credit OP with enough intelligence to assume that their debate with the sex worker didn't happen in a context where OP was their client. Also the fact that sex work can be linked with human trafficking doesn't ne
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by acatnamedjoe 4y ago
I don't understand the point you're making here. Please could you elaborate.

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