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by mmarq 4y ago
That’s why I wrote that the planning horizon is 5 weeks.
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Pensions have increased substantially since 2010 due to the triple lock, which was momentarily suspended in 2022 because this year it would have been unsustainable: wages have increased significantly in 2021 due to temporary changes of the
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The most important constituency of the UK government is old people, that want their pension to increase and the price of their house to go up and foreigners to go away (or at least to be pestered beyond reason), at all cost and with a 5 wee
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If you are found in breach, the regulator would approach you in good faith and assuming you are in good faith. You will be given time to fix your systems and the regulator would allow some back and forth to get to the right result. In order
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by mmarq 4y ago
We should get to a point where tracking requires users to install an app or a browser extension, I’m thinking of something similar to the ads toolbars of the 90s. I shouldn’t have to tell people I don’t want to be spied, nor I should have t
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If you can completely fix a hernia with 99% success at the first try without a hospital stay, you are significantly more productive than somebody that has a 50% success rate and that requires patients to stay in hospital for a week, even if
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It wouldn’t generally, but productivity increases are not even across the entire population/workforce and, furthe, some of the productivity gains may be captured by organized groups. Let’s say you have a population of software develope
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If outcomes have improved, productivity has increased by definition. You don’t measure the productivity of people working in intellectual professions only by measuring units produced per day.
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Because their productivity hasn’t increased as much as that of people with higher incomes. The productivity of surgeons and software developers increased significantly, and so their incomes, while cleaners and factory workers are not much m
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by mmarq 4y ago
> Think of it this way - if renting was more expensive than the total cost of ownership, then an investor would borrow the capital needed for buying, and then rent it out and arbitrage the difference risk free. It is this mechanism that
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The Russian government has demonstrated beyond any reasonable doubt that it is not a good faith interlocutor. Nobody should take anything they say seriously.
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by mmarq 4y ago
London is insanely expensive and you need a household income of ~140-150K£ to live like a normal person in continental Europe (80sqm flat with 2.6mt ceilings and insulated windows and working kitchen, I'm not asking for a toilet with a
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by mmarq 4y ago
> I don't want to work with languages that attract this kind of person I haven't used Rust professionally, but I find the community extremely inclusive and helpful. I joined the Discord server and asked all sorts of stupid ques
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You may hear old people saying things like “ti restituisco le 10 euro che mi hai prestato”. Maybe it’s a thing of the south?
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In Italian “euro” is both singular and plural
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I earn in excess of 200K£ (So 300K$) in London and in no way I live like a prince. I managed to buy an average flat (at least for continental European standards) in a semi-decent area (Battersea) and that took 10 years of savings plus 3K£pm
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In Italian “euro” is masculine while “lira” is feminine, but some people still occasionally use the feminine when referring to euros.
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It’s funny that he wanted to say something everybody knows about bitcoins, but, writing for the Spectator, he had to say something stupid about Macron and about Brexit.
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I wonder how has the English speaker developed the weird idea that immigration brought Sweden and Germany on the brink of civil war.
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> Technology robbed workers’ of what had been highly valued physical knowledge about a job: the precise way to jimmy a stuck gear, the sound a machine makes when something’s about to break. Quite the opposite, people used to be way more
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by mmarq 4y ago
> The true problem is that following mechanization in agriculture many people emigrated from rural areas That happened at the latest 40 years ago (in fact it happened more than a century ago), while house prices went crazy roughly after
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> IMO that means that people have more money, or the prices wouldn't go up in places once reserved to the poor. Whatever, on an average salary you can’t afford to live in a council flat that 30 years ago was meant for the poor. It m
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Whatever, but the result is that in London you don’t have a safety net. You lose your job, you get a section 21 notice the day after you miss a rent payment and you are in the streets with a child to feed.
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by mmarq 4y ago
> my question is: are they actually? Yes, they are. At least in the UK, an average salary is often not enough to rent an ex-council flat, a place where the poor used to reside. To afford a flat comparable to the one where I used to live
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by mmarq 4y ago
Not necessarily, in Germany you get a higher unemployment benefit if you used to earn more (because you paid more taxes and contributions). If I remember correctly, you get 60-70% of your salary capped at ~2-3K€ per month (plus some money f
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> There's also a whole lot more to the UK safety net than Jobseeker's Allowance. Fine, but given what I pay in income tax and NI (~80K£ last year), I’d expect a lot more than 4-500£ per month plus (maybe?) 500£ of housing benef
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If I get stabbed in Italy the newspaper would title “A 34 year old boy has been stabbed in the park”, if a 18 year old get stabbed in the UK the newspaper would title “A 18 year old man has been…”
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It’s not a typo, they either join a communist party or a fascist party.
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> However, as a resident of the UK, I have to ask - how does it have a non-existent safety net? Jobseeker’s Allowance is one forth of the average rent in London and I’m not sure you are entitled to it if you have any savings. If you lose
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by mmarq 4y ago
> What saved him? > He could only look at himself and his own life, if it somewhat improved he could notice, if it somewhat got worse, he could hope things could change for the better, as they did so many times before. Yes, but not on

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