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Fortunately as society we organise into units which allow us to become more than the sum of our parts through laws and taxes and infrastructure, and in my view societies goal should be reduce tedious unfulfilling work.
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by iso1210 5y ago
You're looking at it from an individual perspective rather than treating mankind as a system to optimise. It would be better as a whole for you to have completed the course either faster or better, and progress onto more productive thi
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by iso1210 5y ago
You could distribute the money raised as either tax cuts to income tax, or just as a flat dividend to every citizen. If a person owns an average house and pays $10k in tax, their dividend would return $10k - so no loss. If they own 5 averag
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by iso1210 5y ago
The claim was that Tim Cook's salary is enough to pay for "every apple salary in new york" Given that equating "salary" and "total compensation" is a reasonable interpretation, and by the context the talk
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by iso1210 5y ago
US gas stations are weird, at least last time I was driving there more frequently (about 5-10 years ago). In my country (UK), some have shops you can go into, but most of the time I for one fill up at an automated pump at the supermarket,
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by iso1210 5y ago
> This assumes the worker isn't doing something valuable during the day. I worked some night shifts to pay for college. Well yes, people need to sleep. You can sleep during the day, or at night, but you still need to sleep at some p
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by iso1210 5y ago
Perhaps they should be paying more for the convenience then
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by iso1210 5y ago
Two parents work 5 days a week because family houses cost so much they're unaffordable unless you have two parents working. If the norm was instead working 2/3 days a week for less pay, there would be less money to spend on houses
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by iso1210 5y ago
Ironically with currys the only option that seemed possible was to cancel.
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by iso1210 5y ago
Only the most pedantic arsehole would assume that money given to someone doesn't count as 'salary'
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by iso1210 5y ago
A dingy bedsit with a shower in one corner, a sink in one corner, a bed in one corner and a door in one corner, with a shared toilet down the hall. That cost me £520 a month in 2003 (similar places are £800 today) A Japanese micro apartment
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by iso1210 5y ago
Before you can decide if you're failed -- even temporarily, you need to decide if you've succeeded. What does success really look like to you?
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by iso1210 5y ago
The number of apartments per square metre is limited by political reasons (ban on high buildings, minimum size etc) 20 years ago when I moved to London I'd have loved to find a tiny self contained Japanese style 10 square metre apartme
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by iso1210 5y ago
Tim Cook was paid $264m in 2020 [0] Apple has 4,291 employees in the entire state of New York [1] That's $61,500 per person. The average salary for an "Apple Genius" (one of the people who work at apple stores?) in New York C
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by iso1210 5y ago
I'm not sure why I would need to talk to a customer service person in real life at apple. If I did (and I don't think I ever had) need to communicate my preference would be via email, or perhaps real time text chat. There's n
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Or just have a simple X% per year no matter who owns it
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by iso1210 5y ago
Wireguard is fairly easy to add between two machines, which allows you to set up a client/server setup which all traffic routes through You can add a new machine, so to set up the third machine takes 10 minutes, the fourth takes 10, th
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Inflation
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by iso1210 5y ago
People have different expectations to computers nowadays. They aren't isolated curiosities any more, you can't capture the environment of the 1980s home computer revolution. If you do want a similar experience (at least superficia
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Apple at least is a major IT company, but Ford!
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Parliament != government. In theory it could pass a law to get rid of the royal charter. Tomorrow morning Congress could threaten ABC with confiscating its license unless they don't publish things they don't like. The German army
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Bank A $0 deposit Bank B $1m deposit Total deposits: $1m Fred borrows $900k from Bank B and gives to Geraldine who puts it in Bank A Bank A $900k deposit with no loan Bank B $1m deposit with 900k loan (90%) Total deposits $1.9m (90% above i
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> The money created doesn’t necessarily go back to the bank Very little will be kept in a matress or burnt. Almost all will go back to a bank. $1m in Bank A $1m in bank B Charlie borrows $900k from Bank B, gives to Dave, puts into Bank A
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by iso1210 5y ago
The problem is people used to watch Blue Peter, Tomorrows World and Reith lectures because there was limited choice. Now they on the whole don't. The article isn't advocating getting rid of the BBC, it's just reflecting on re
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1) the rights to show those programs outside the UK don't exist 2) If they do exist, this would cannibalise the income via global sales, and someone has (rightly or wrongly) crunched the numbers and determined that selling Top Gear to
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by iso1210 5y ago
> Four years? It sounds like you’re rather unfamiliar with the UK. I agree OP sounds like an uninformed american, but since 1979 there's been an general election every 4 years on average.
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Irish reunification in 2024 certainly plausible. Slightly plausible that in years to come brexit will be deemed to be an act of terrorism too. It was "The High Ground", not "The Hunted" though -- and due to that line the
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Because Will Smith has a dead alien in the back
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Rights issues, and of course the fact that BBC content is -- a fair whack of BBC funding comes from Worldwide (or whatever it's called this week), which sells BBC material internationally. Watch a BBC production on CBS or PBS or BBS o
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Netflix have a "watch something" button. I've never used it, but I assume it's there to match the serendipity aspect. Amazon I think have a "watch party" feature, but that's not the same as 10 million peop

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