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by desas 3y ago
Usually their app, sometimes SMS. SMS is outdated in a similar way that email is, it's something you use to receive notifications and messages from companies etc, it's not how you talk to your friends.
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by desas 3y ago
"leave it on the porch" isn't even a thing in the UK, unless you specifically nominate it as your acceptable secure place. Amazon knock on the door, if you're not in then they'll come back tomorrow, and if you'
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by desas 3y ago
In the UK both employer and employee pay payroll taxes (national insurance) at about 13% of salary, additionally employers must pay a minimum of 3% of salary to a pension. Contractors paid themselves a minimum salary to avoid the payroll ta
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by desas 3y ago
Countries in Europe have been gradually tightening up on corporations avoiding payroll taxes by declaring employees as contractors. In the UK it's known as IR35 working. The EU have recently proposed the platform working directive, aim
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by desas 3y ago
> it has to be prepared for them to take that money and spend it more or less immediately Right, but the bank also knows that people are doing the exact same thing with other banks; borrowing money from the other bank which will get spen
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by desas 3y ago
That's not how the banking system works in theory or practice. It hasn't worked like that for a very very long time. Lending isn't limited by deposits, it's limited by central bank regulations. Here's what the Bank
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by desas 3y ago
It's a landline thing. It used to be the case on analogue lines in the UK that the caller controlled the connection (probably because they were the ones being billed for it and the recipients phone couldn't communicate it's t
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by desas 3y ago
The difference is that licensed and regulated banks can scale it. Retail customers can trust them due to their long-standing reputation, their banking licence and linked to that, the FDIC insurance.
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by desas 3y ago
Only something like 10% of the world's money are physical bills and coins. The rest is electronic, just numbers in reputable databases. The bank can rely on this fact. It only needs enough notes to support a likely amount of physical c
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by desas 3y ago
As a guy who actually read the article, I can assure everyone else that this American is right > In 2000, the U.S. only had 356 roundabouts. Over the past two decades, that number has grown to over 10,000.
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by desas 3y ago
> nobody gives a fuck about the brutalist structures being torn down, like the VA in Chicago or the Federal Building in Boston, because they're ugly In the UK we have listed some of our most famous brutalist buildings for protection
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by desas 3y ago
Because nearly no-one wants to walk to the store, walk home, walk back to the store to return the cart and then walk home again. I never drive to the store and I still wouldn't do that.
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by desas 3y ago
All ovens (as with nearly all household appliances) in the UK must be displayed with an energy label and include reference to it in adverts. If the same ovens are available in the UK, then maybe look for the model number on a UK website.
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by desas 3y ago
I'm not sure that's exactly true in this context. At least, I've never been in the house in the UK where the electrics in the kitchen couldn't handle a kettle, and a water boiler for hot drinks isn't likely to use m
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by desas 3y ago
Some people have instant boiling water taps with tanks, they're not unknown but rare and becoming increasingly less so. I think this is because a) they're relatively new here and b) last time I looked they cost about £1k plus fitt
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by desas 3y ago
The UK could overthrow lots of places still, so long as the US didn't disagree with it.
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by desas 3y ago
"The best minds of my generation are thinking about how to make people click ads"
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by desas 3y ago
Very broadly and simply speaking you can write-off UK taxes against the US tax bill and vice versa. There's much more nuance than that though.
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by desas 3y ago
As of 2019ish the price limit is up to your employer, my employer has a limit of £5k
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by desas 3y ago
Not everyone can drive a car either. No-one is making the point that there has to be one method of transport to rule them all.
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by desas 3y ago
WordPress is both free and open source, what are the extra dollars for?
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by desas 3y ago
Could you expand? I don't follow. WordPress is open source, you can already download it and do whatever you want.
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by desas 3y ago
It was heavily influenced from outside Britain though, particularly Le Corbusier
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by desas 3y ago
There's a shortage of GPs. Two of the small local surgeries near me have reduced opening times because they don't have the staff to staff them. The need is still there - the villages are growing, but the villagers have to travel t
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by desas 3y ago
Yes for Scotland and Wales but not for England. The discrepancy is known as The West Lothian Question
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by desas 3y ago
> where extremely prestigious schools like Eton are called "public schools" for historical reasons. In the UK public and private referred to who could access the schools (assuming they had the money), whereas in the US they ref
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by desas 3y ago
That's because Facebook didn't wait for the UK regulatory body to come to a decision before completing the acquisition. You don't have to tell the UK Competition & Markets Authority about an acquisition before it happens,
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by desas 3y ago
Eh, it's pretty normal, see also War on Drugs, War on Terror, War on Poverty, War on Want etc.
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by desas 3y ago
And the National Videogame Museum in Sheffield - https://thenvm.org/
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by desas 3y ago
Shipping to where exactly? How lucrative is the middle of the Sahara desert market?

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