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by flooow 5y ago
1) Tax carbon at the source - yes, that means every oil well and coal mine pays a whopping great tax before any fossil energy leaves the front gate. Prices will adjust all the way down the supply chain 2) Use this huge income source as gl
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by flooow 5y ago
It is quite instructive that the press have managed to damage the Tories' poll rating simply by pulling up the publicly-available list of MP registered interests and reporting them as the scandal they are and always were. Why didn&#x27
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by flooow 5y ago
It is a shame that there is a law of economic nature which states that all billionaires must be dead-eyed psychopaths. Imagine if Rupert Murdoch or Elon Musk or Mark Zuckerberg really wanted to do good. Any one of them could choose to buy u
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by flooow 5y ago
Do people really think Rust isn't a replacement for C? For the work I do - optimisation algorithms that must run As Fast As Possible - it absolutely is a much-superior replacement for C. I think what people mean is that Rust violates t
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by flooow 5y ago
This has to be a key factor. Your average 20-something has terrible life-prospects. If they have a little political nous they will correctly deduce that their parent's generation stole their wealth and wellbeing (through a house price
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by flooow 5y ago
As a highly paid UK tech worker, this scab does not speak for me.
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by flooow 5y ago
Sure. I just did a 12 month stint at £650/day. Assume 220 working days/year = £143K. Now you have a silly dance to minimise your tax. - Pay yourself minimum wage (0pct rate) ~£9K/year. - You can probably write off around £10
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by flooow 5y ago
If you want a high salary with minimum fuss (i.e. no management, no clawing your way up a corporate ladder), this is way to do it. I've been contracting in London for 5 years. Rates are in the range of £500-£700 per day, never had a pr