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901.
by midasuni 4y ago
My company (5b a year annual revenue so not small) stops you from changing your password within 2 days of changing it previously to stop that. Even the head of information security tried changing this and failed to get the change through.
902.
by midasuni 4y ago
You can say a lot of things about Blair, but “Lost” isn’t one of them.
903.
by midasuni 4y ago
Just imagine the chaos we’d have had with Ed Miliband. It’s been strong and stable ever since then.
904.
by midasuni 4y ago
He did superbly in granting a massive majority to Johnson. If that was his goal (“win the argument” but not the election) then you can’t really fault him.
905.
by midasuni 4y ago
Home battery to story a day’s worth of power, $15k, job done.
906.
by midasuni 4y ago
You could just pay for premium
907.
by midasuni 4y ago
My company has a warehouse in west london, we looked at putting solar on the roof, but it’s not strong enough. You can’t simply put solar on a roof
908.
by midasuni 4y ago
That means that size would happen on land about once every 100,000 years, and about 1/3 of those wouod land in a desert (mainly Antarctic, Arctic tundra, or Sahara)
909.
by midasuni 4y ago
I do remember Paris being destroyed in one film - armageddon perhaps. O’Neill comments on it in an SG1 episode.
910.
by midasuni 4y ago
Imagine you we’re an insane billionaire with the ability to launch objects into say a lunar distance orbit. It wouldn’t require a lot of cold gas to drop some rods onto any spot on earth, and it would be undetectable until the explosion hap
911.
by midasuni 4y ago
If X agency uses the wrench attack then you know you’ve been breached
912.
by midasuni 4y ago
I live in a relatively cheap part of the U.K. on the outskirts of a country village. My house I about 10 times that price per square foot. It never ceases to amaze me how cheap land is in the US
913.
by midasuni 4y ago
If you don’t get a Tesco (Major U.K. corporation) ID card scanned at the till you get charged a lot more for your food. This is normal customers, not employees.
914.
by midasuni 4y ago
The price will be increased until people stop buying (either because they do without, go elsewhere, or shoplift) The cost of shrinkage doesn’t factor into the price a business can charge. You don’t decide “I will buy X for $1 and sell it fo
915.
by midasuni 4y ago
Usually because you avoid tax legitimate business pay (import tarrifs, vat) Tax evasion may be profitable, so is shoplifting.
916.
by midasuni 4y ago
In the U.K. you have to pay a premium not to use your corporate ID card. Tesco for example will charge a 20% markup on lunch for privacy.
917.
by midasuni 4y ago
But they instead get a tax rise to pay for the pensions.
918.
by midasuni 4y ago
Workers have to pay rent. Retirees don’t. To have the same post housing income as a pensioner with a 20k pension a workers needs to be earning nearer 60k. This could be solved by large amounts of house building, but wealthy retirees don’t w
919.
by midasuni 4y ago
I’ve seen it recently, like so much stuff it’s u.s cultural imperialism taking over the Anglosphere. See also “Black Friday”, some random time in the middle of November.
920.
by midasuni 4y ago
Housing shortage. Driven mainly by a wealthy class of nimby home owners.
921.
by midasuni 4y ago
The boomers are the rich. They are the wealthiest generation ever in the U.K, the generation who typically retired with final salary pensions and a couple of BTLs, and they lay far less tax on their income than workers
922.
by midasuni 4y ago
Workers have been told we can’t have pay rises matching inflation because that would fuel inflation. But pensioners get a 10% pay rise.
923.
by midasuni 4y ago
While there an element of truth in that workers are subsidising pensioners - mainly though paying their entire economic output in rent, your rant about welfare is somewhat off. The lack of housing is the single biggest drain on U.K. economi
924.
by midasuni 4y ago
Sunak is keeping the van on wind power. Every agreed that fracking wouldn’t help with the energy crisis.
925.
by midasuni 4y ago
I pay hardly anything in vat other than a few luxuries. Food Rent Public transport No vat on those Electricity is only 5% A few quid a year on vat on toothpaste hardly makes a difference.
926.
by midasuni 4y ago
Not to mention income from retirees. A pensioner on £35k income pays far less in tax than a worker on £35k income.
927.
by midasuni 4y ago
Becaus of the “high income child tax” and student loan repayments marginal tax rates at just 50k hit 70%. They drop again at 60k, but it’s tricky to justify working extra hard for a £5k pay rise when you only keep £2k of it. Doesn’t help th
928.
by midasuni 4y ago
Global birth rate per persn has been dropping for decades. Absolute global birthdate has been pretty stable for 30 years.
929.
by midasuni 4y ago
If you are a billionaire you can choose to become a boring old millionaire with $5m net worth, and not have those problems, so the additional benefits must be worthwhile.
930.
by midasuni 4y ago
Why are England and Wales in once circular but Scotland isn’t?

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