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by djmobley 9y ago
Surprised to see so much hatred for self-checkouts. I find it a pretty frictionless experience most of the time. It's usually quicker than using a cashier, and if I'm getting my goods cheaper through reduced payroll costs, who am
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by djmobley 10y ago
> Dwellings should be purchased only by those who are very likely to be able to afford this -- even in the event of unplanned and costly life events like illness, children, the dwelling needing costly and unexpected repair etc. Highly le
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by djmobley 10y ago
In the typical UK buy-to-let model, the renter pays more than the landlord's mortgage in rent. The only thing separating a buy-to-let landlord and their tenants is mortgage availability (i.e. Existing wealth and income multiples)
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by djmobley 10y ago
That sounds like an enormous oversimplification of what, I imagine, is an extremely complex area of the law. In the case of prospective tenants, I assume a fair degree of self-incrimination would be required to prove discrimination based o
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by djmobley 10y ago
It would have been untenable, however, for a government to defy the will of the people as expressed in the referendum.
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by djmobley 10y ago
Also note that EU bureaucracy is utterly bewildering to anyone who does not spend their whole life following it. The average British person has no idea how the EU works. They don't know what the different bodies are. They don't kn
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by djmobley 10y ago
They are engaged in a voluntary exchange of labor for remuneration. Nobody is compelling them to work. They are not slaves.
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by djmobley 10y ago
Although this particular instance is distasteful, as a general rule do you not think individuals should be free to choose who to rent their properties to? What's the alternative; forcing him to accept tenants he doesn't want?
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by djmobley 10y ago
That is fine if there is a stable status quo. The Brexit referendum would have had a huge impact either way. A Remain vote would have weakened the UK government's position and emboldened the EU as it seeks to form an ever closer union
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by djmobley 10y ago
Turnout was amongst the highest for any vote in recent history. What do you propose? Compulsory voting? Many were genuinely undecided and made a conscious decision to abstain.
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by djmobley 10y ago
An endless supply of low-skilled, cheap labour is great for some industries, but not for your average citizen. This is particularly true when public services are stretched, and there is a chronic shortage of housing. That is the perception,
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by djmobley 10y ago
To be explored for their skills? You mean entering into voluntary paid employment, in a civilized western democracy with some of the highest standards of living in the world?
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by djmobley 10y ago
You seem to be forgetting the part where the British people voted to leave the EU.
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by djmobley 10y ago
Foolish and premature. The UK government has not expressed any intention to restrict skilled immigration in industries facing skills shortages. It is totally unrestricted immigration of low-skilled individuals that the government (and it&#x
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by djmobley 10y ago
My thoughts exactly. For anyone not aware: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Veil_of_ignorance
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by djmobley 10y ago
£3,700 is just a monumental amount of money. You'd be much better off buying a cheaper laptop (even a MacBook, or MBP without TouchBar) and a more powerful desktop (Hackintosh if you will)
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by djmobley 10y ago
> I'd rather live centrally. If height restrictions were eliminated and councils started building pretty much everybody who wanted to, could. High-rise buildings are a hugely inefficient use of land and energy. 5-6 storey mansion bl
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by djmobley 10y ago
1) House builders are big land owners; 2) The price of the land is passed on to property buyers in its entirety.
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by djmobley 10y ago
The profit maximising situation for the large UK housebuilders is not one in which planning restrictions are lifted and the price of land collapses. Why would they be trying to advance these policies?
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by djmobley 10y ago
People don't want to live in the London green belt? Let's lift the restrictions and see if that holds true, shall we? I think you vastly underestimate the suffering millions of people in the UK are enduring as a result of the hous
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by djmobley 10y ago
> The London green belt is so far away from the city center that you'd be better of living in Birmigham and taking the train than trying to get in from there. Utter nonsense. Vast swathes of the green belt around London are within w
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by djmobley 10y ago
Guess Evernote are prepping for a sale/IPO? Moving into the cloud at this stage doesn't make any sense otherwise.
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by djmobley 10y ago
So I should spend a load of money buying new cables, which do exactly the same as my existing ones, but also look the same as each other, so I can no longer tell them apart? It's nice to know the protocols my devices use aren't re
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by djmobley 10y ago
I also find this strange. My switch (Ethernet) is 10 years old. My DAC (SPDIF) is 7 years old. My monitor (DisplayPort) is 5 years old. My hard drives (USB Type-A) are 3-5 years old. My thumb drives (USB Type-A) are 2-3 years old. My phone
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by djmobley 10y ago
Indeed. There was nothing special about the Mac line-up in Q1 2016. Q1 2017 should have seen the release of huge pent-up demand with the new MacBook Pro.
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by djmobley 10y ago
Considering the number of drivers/riders these services have, and the number of rides completed, I'd say that's an impressively small list of -- in many cases alleged -- incidents. There's no way you could reasonably e
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by djmobley 10y ago
Assuming you're using Clover, you need to set the darkwake attribute. darkwake=8 worked for me on a Skylake setup (Z170X, Core i5, nvidia graphics card with web drivers). Sleep and wake work flawlessly.
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by djmobley 10y ago
> Because all of the people making the claim backtracked the day after the result. Much as remain advocates backtracked on their claims that a vote to leave would trigger the end of the world, economic catastrophe, would require an emerg
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by djmobley 10y ago
Why have you linked me to an article which states ~90% of leave voters do not regret their vote?
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by djmobley 10y ago
Plenty of statements made by the Prime Minister and others since the referendum could conceivably be interpreted as Article 50 invocations if the EU wanted to go down that road. They won't, of course, because an acrimonious Brexit is i

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