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by nerdawson 3y ago
How can you stop it? If company A refuses to build it on moral grounds, company B will. It is reshaping society in much the same way the industrial revolution did. Luddites resisted change, for precisely the same reason people aren't h
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by nerdawson 3y ago
Correct. It’s an insurance product. Whether you take it is all about your risk tolerance and in no way impacts the usefulness of the machine. I believe 14% is worth it.
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by nerdawson 3y ago
AppleCare+ on the $2k 14" MBP is $279 or +14% for 3 years of coverage. That seems pretty reasonable to me.
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by nerdawson 3y ago
I don't believe that's true. If the company earns £100k/yr, what matters is what you, the individual, actually end up with. Corporation tax will take you down to ~£80ish but you still need to draw the money out of the company
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by nerdawson 3y ago
> The horror stories are from contractors who have attempted to cheat the tax system Some are, certainly. Many are not. The example I gave is people who setup a limited company in order to take on work as a contractor. They've gone
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by nerdawson 3y ago
There’s far more work inside IR35 than outside. If you’re going to work inside, just use an umbrella. The margin they take is minimal and they make life so much easier. If you’re going to run a limited company, you have to actually run a li
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by nerdawson 3y ago
Should we stop playing video games altogether then? If you stick to PC instead, you’re still at the mercy of platforms like Steam. They can, and will, remove games over time. GTA being a great example.
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by nerdawson 3y ago
> To combat this, grocery retailers in Europe, such as Aldi, Tesco and Lidl, have coin locks on their carts. Thankfully I haven’t been to a Tesco in as long as I can remember where the trolleys have been coin locked. Coin locks were made
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by nerdawson 3y ago
The heavy handed way it was introduced was so poorly thought out. Had they made the announcement and shown how it was better than GH Copilot, I'd have been curious to try it out. I want to use the most effective tool for the job. Inste
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by nerdawson 3y ago
Perhaps the >35% increase in the cost of a Big Mac (UK) over the last 3 years has started to show up in sales metrics.
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by nerdawson 3y ago
I use ChatGPT all the time at work. I find it particularly useful when I'm responding to a client with something technical. ChatGPT can sharpen up the message, clarify points in a client-friendly way, and hit the right tone. Great for
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by nerdawson 3y ago
Multiple references to R&D at the end suggests to me they’re pointing to 174 as a factor.
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by nerdawson 3y ago
Labour are on course to win a landslide of their own in the election expected to be held this year. Expect more of the same regardless of which party are in power.
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by nerdawson 3y ago
Like any other salary, it’s the cost of doing business.
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by nerdawson 3y ago
They want a 27% commission on sales made from those links and the right to audit companies' accounts for compliance. https://twitter.com/dhh/status/1747406430054097099 It's beyond a joke. Between that an
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by nerdawson 3y ago
A big part of the problem with how the similar rule is implemented in the UK is that determining status falls to the company hiring the contractor. The employer is legally liable for lost tax revenue if they fail to determine status correct
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by nerdawson 3y ago
I worked through Remote.com for quite a while, including after this rule came into effect. I'd be amazed if that's how it worked for them in practice. I can't see how it could be a viable business for them if they had to amor
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by nerdawson 3y ago
This sounds similar to how IR35 operates in the UK. It’s a total pain and has made contracting far less attractive for both parties. I had to explain the purpose of an umbrella company to a client in the US recently. Perhaps that structure
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by nerdawson 3y ago
I'm used to hiring ICE cars with a full-to-full policy so being expected to bring an EV back with at least 80% charge didn't seem unusual. Enterprise's policy sounds more convenient but Hertz were the only company offering a
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by nerdawson 3y ago
That's a shame. I hired a Tesla from them for 3 days in the UK and I was pretty happy overall. They were clear with me that I needed to return it with at least 80% charge or pay an extra fee for them to recharge it on my behalf.
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by nerdawson 3y ago
Maybe they were measuring programmer output in KLOCs.
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by nerdawson 3y ago
Potatoes are a reference to the quote the article is based upon. Not her suggestion of the best value diet.
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by nerdawson 3y ago
> How well do you know Ruby On Rails? There is a kind of Zen to Ruby. Some people get it and some people don't. Let's plan at some point some practice sessions to make sure you are up to speed. If you plan major architectural a
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by nerdawson 3y ago
> They are factual, direct, and speak their mind from their perspective with no regards to your feelings. Passive-aggressiveness is the opposite of being direct. I'm fully in support of being factual, direct, and speaking one's
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by nerdawson 3y ago
The BBC got this right when they shut down their online store a few years back. Every customer was offered a full refund.
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by nerdawson 3y ago
The reference to roles left me with the impression that these users had limited permissions but I know nothing about OpenCart so I may be mistaken.
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by nerdawson 3y ago
The researcher correctly pointed out that you don't have to be an admin in order to exploit this vulnerability. The example given was "Sales" role users who should only ever have limited access to the admin panel. > You ar
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by nerdawson 3y ago
That trend was happening long before COVID vaccines.
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by nerdawson 3y ago
Agreed. If Tesla create new jobs and they pay below average wages, they won't attract workers from other companies. It'll also be harder to retain staff. Surely they'd move towards the average in order to operate normally rat
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by nerdawson 3y ago
You're describing extortion. It's one thing to discourage people from engaging with a business because of their labour practices, it's another thing entirely to actively prevent them from doing so.

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