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by ck425 6y ago
£1M is plenty if you're frugal. Not saying it's not an idea to try reducing stress and saving a little more but you'd have to be an idiot to accidentally burn through £1m before 50.
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by ck425 6y ago
What are you using our of curiosity? I used to use the amazing TotalSpaces but with recent versions of OSx it was no longer able to work. Now I've just gotten used to OSx's shite version but I really miss using a grid
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by ck425 6y ago
One thing I've noticed is the whole sale importation of the BLM movement to the UK. I'm not overly aware of the issue facing ethnic minorities in the UK (I live in Scotland where it's almost entirely white with some small asi
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by ck425 6y ago
I mean in the UK ours are terrible. We dream of European efficiency as much as you do.
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by ck425 6y ago
We can debate separately if companies should force people back to office. But in this case it is an either or. If the advantage of the office comes from being around your team and colleagues then it very much is an either or between home wo
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by ck425 6y ago
Would that be similar to WeWork? I'd want to be in an office with my actual colleagues rather than remote working from a co-working space.
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by ck425 6y ago
I think part of the issue, atleast within companies, it does need to be either or. An empty office often isn't any better than WFH for many folk. So if in your company you're in the minority then you might need to get a new job. T
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by ck425 6y ago
And what other folk is saying is that enjoying socialising in the office isn't necessarily a crutch and that implying it is is insulting.
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by ck425 6y ago
And that is horrible. But there are a lot of folk who feel lonely from WFH who are not like that. The comment was insulting because it implied that if you're lonely from working from home it must be because you lack a social life. You
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by ck425 6y ago
But you did say that if you're lonely it's because you've not got enough of a social life outside of work. You can have an active social life outside of work and still feel lonely at work due to WFH. That's what you said
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by ck425 6y ago
It's not an either or. You can have a great social life outside of work and still want and enjoy great relationships with colleagues. Yeah maybe they don't last once you leave, that doesn't mean they're not valuable!
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by ck425 6y ago
I had a great social life outside of work but due to covid that's also disappeared. And even then I still miss specifically office socialising. I like knowing my colleagues and having a feeling of we're in this together. I like th
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by ck425 6y ago
Essentially after the great recession graduates starting flocking to traditional 'secure' careers. For Arts students there weren't many options, so a ton of English, History etc grads moved into law as it was seen as a secure
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by ck425 6y ago
Do you actually want the goals? I realized recently that many of my goals particularly my career goals weren't things I actually wanted, they were what I thought I should want, which is why I could never work hard at then for too long.
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by ck425 6y ago
The part everyone forgets is that there have been plenty of other power plan disasters far worse than Chernobyl and most of them were Hydropower. Judging nuclear power by Chernobyl is an absurd proposition.
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by ck425 6y ago
What is the 'right disposition'?
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by ck425 6y ago
Nicotine. I've never smoked but I started experimenting with nicotine lozenges and they are great. It helps my concentrations and focus a lot. So far I've found minimal addictiveness and no negative effects but obviously that vari
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by ck425 6y ago
The difference though is that society is largely aware that newspaper editors have opinions and biases and act as gatekeepers and the editors themselves largely acknowledge their roles as gatekeepers. In tech we still try pretend that these
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by ck425 6y ago
I ask this as a non American who has never lived in SF. Does SF need or even want FAANGs? From what I've read the tech boom has brought a load of issues driven by inequality and they're taxing so much to fix these issues. If the t
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by ck425 6y ago
That's a very good point. I wonder how any regrets of not having them work? Not having kids strikes me as far easier to consistently be at peace with.
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by ck425 6y ago
You have to make it clear that acting on those urges is morally repugnant while also saying that having the urges isn't fundamentally immoral. That's a tricky balance to walk but it's whats needed if we want these folk to com
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by ck425 6y ago
Is that changing? And I mean both the long term relationship and the expense having children part? The majority of my male friends are gay and while there are a lot of happily single men there's also a significant chunk who are in heal
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by ck425 6y ago
A more accurate term would be 'not necessarily romantic' but that doesn't make a catchy title.
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by ck425 6y ago
I do wonder how many actually regret it. It's socially unacceptable to regret having kids, plus it would be awful on the kids if you openly regretted it. I'd expect that the numbers who do regret it are probably higher than those
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by ck425 6y ago
I forgot to add, if your manager is supportive don't quit yet. A good manager is vital during times like these.
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by ck425 6y ago
I've been going through a similar, though I'm guessing milder, thing this year. I'm also not senior but here's a few things I've found very helpful: 1) Be explicit about what you can and can't do and tell your
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by ck425 6y ago
Same here in Scotland. Apparently there's so little sunlight in winter here and it's so 'low quality' in terms of providing vitamin D that it's impossible to get enough from sunlight during winter here. The NHS acti
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by ck425 6y ago
Same here. I recall the story of a Texan heiress you bought a golf course in Aberdeen, North Scotland. One day she came across hikers respectfully crossing 'her land' and the golf course. Went out with a shotgun and threatened the
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by ck425 6y ago
I'm not sure if I can share details but there is emergency vaccine work going on in the UK. The NHS has been using the winter flu vaccines this year as a way to test systems for future rollouts, such as a covid vaccine.
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by ck425 6y ago
Please do reply, I'm genuinely interested.

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