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by mmarq 4y ago
It happens in all languages, I’ve never heard people talking about eating “al fresco” before moving to the UK. In theory “smart working” doesn’t mean just working remotely, but it implies flexible working patterns as well. Also, it has been
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by mmarq 4y ago
No, its probably broader than that, but it’s not written very clearly. And it doesn’t matter because every year some new idiot emerges to propose laws like this, that are never approved and often not even discussed in Parliament.
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https://documenti.camera.it/leg19/pdl/pdf/leg.19.pdl.camera....
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by mmarq 4y ago
> Me: does black racism exist? > ChatGPT: The term "racism" refers to prejudice, discrimination, or antagonism directed against someone based on their race or ethnicity. Racism can manifest in various ways, including systemi
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by mmarq 4y ago
3 years ago both the paediatrician and the allergologist advised me to give some peanut butter or nut spread to my child for this very reason. What’s new?
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by mmarq 4y ago
It isn’t incorrect, he likely forgot to provide the correct tax code, so the calculator used the whole income tax allowance.
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by mmarq 4y ago
If one wants to be precise, depending on your circumstances, earning an additional £ when you are making 99’999£ per annum has disastrous consequences. As we said your marginal income tax rate goes to 60% until you start making £125K, when
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by mmarq 4y ago
Between 100K and 125K, you progressively lose the tax allowance, bringing your marginal income tax rate to 60%.
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by mmarq 4y ago
> We are overpaid for incredible working conditions and devs basically became capricious divas, despite the fact 90% of them are plumbers, and many not very good ones. Maybe in the US, but in the UK a highly paid software developer can b
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by mmarq 4y ago
It is true that they are a mouth piece for the Tory party, particularly for Boris Johnson. It is also true that they are not a respectable source since at least 2014, when they started publishing idiocies such as: - https://www.t
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by mmarq 4y ago
Criticising the Telegraph has nothing to do with dismissing the opposition to the Labour party. If anybody’s IQ dropped significantly after 2012, it is the target readership of this paper, that went from being a respectable newspaper to a n
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by mmarq 4y ago
History hasn’t really shown anything.
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by mmarq 4y ago
What is intelligent about mocking a disable employee publicly and putting yourself at risk of a massive lawsuit?
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You can’t increase salaries de jure and even if it were possible, it’s not clear how the governor of the ECB would be able to pass laws.
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by mmarq 4y ago
But the company that uses Java quite often is writing the umpteenth line-of-business application, where dynamic dispatch is not going to cause a massive overhead
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His classes are doing a single multiplication, of course dynamic dispatch would have a significant cost in this scenario.
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by mmarq 4y ago
The UK: the place where it is never the fault of Brexit but there is always an obscure and self-contradictory justification for crazy things that started happening the day after Brexit and that never happened before. Today is the turn of co
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by mmarq 4y ago
https://www.nber.org/system/files/chapters/c2387/c2387.pdf https://www.nber.org/system/files/chapters/c2963/c2963.pdf
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by mmarq 4y ago
> Also you just know that schools are going to start serving crap. The infamous American "pizza is a vegetable" debacle. No, it won’t necessarily. You can involve the healthcare system and have dieticians designing meals, like
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Daily Mirror publisher explores using ChatGPT to help write local news(ft.com)
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Not many Bezos either
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I think for the same weird reason why people tend to be OK with top athletes making billions while they are upset at Gates and Bezos. Don’t ask me what it is.
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https://archive.ph/pEz2h
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by mmarq 4y ago
Scottish independence is a stupid idea because it makes no sense and it is, from inception, a fantasy issue to attract the monomaniacal voter. Scotland, like the entirety of the UK, lives on fiscal transfers from London. Once you cut that l
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by mmarq 4y ago
She said in 2017: > If the NHS implodes or the country sinks into a Brexit-induced quagmire – poorer, more fractured and less influential – we now have the option of moving sooner than that. This is a precise description of what happened
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by mmarq 4y ago
Are you really trying to convince me that 10 years of wage growth in Germany are bad and 10 years of stagnation in the UK are good by listing random factoids on German trains (that work way better than the British) and mentioning the Wireca
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by mmarq 4y ago
I’m fine with German taxation and the German welfare state, I’m also fine with a minimal state where I have to pay for healthcare. What I don’t like is the current situation in the UK, where I pay more income tax than I would pay in Germany
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by mmarq 4y ago
Fact is poverty among the elderly is at the lowest since records began. If somebody is left behind, we can think of ad-hoc measures. It is insane to increase pensions by 11% and offer a 4% pay rise to nurses. The young professional worked h
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by mmarq 4y ago
And that’s my point, she had to be removed from the ministry of defence because of her incompetence. Still she didn’t even get close to the damage caused by the Eat Out to Help Out thing.
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A junior doctor makes as low as 25-28K, that is not enough to rent a room in London, and tend to have massive a student debt

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