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by rcarr 3y ago
Going to repost his from a couple of days ago: Back in the feudalism days the ruling classes typically took between a third and a half of what the serfs produced[2] which is what is happening now as rents are taking over 30% of take home pa
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by rcarr 3y ago
This (original comment, not parent) is what happens when you conflate London and the Home Counties with the UK as a whole.
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by rcarr 3y ago
Well, we could start with billionaires not buying houses to to use as investment vehicles. Being able to own their own home would be the single biggest way you could raise living standards for the poorest in society.
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by rcarr 3y ago
You need to take a trip up north and/or to coastal UK towns if you think this is the reality. 60k a year would be a well paying job up here. At my previous job, 60k is what the Technical Development Manager was on, who was in charge of
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by rcarr 3y ago
I agree with you that everyone is different and there's more than one path up the mountain so if you find this useful then keep using it. I would say that it's a well explored mountain and that the main routes tend to have emerged
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by rcarr 3y ago
Glad it helped. I think it's generally better to admit and take responsibility for your mistakes rather than trying to pretend they never happened otherwise we struggle to grow.
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by rcarr 3y ago
On second thought can we leave it up, as then anyone who sees the thread has a good example of an inflammatory comment and how to rewrite it to be more in keeping with the spirit of the site? If not then I will go back and change it.
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by rcarr 3y ago
What, more so than holding yourself hostage by holding your breath? The aim of 4-4-4-4 is to get into the habit of calming the mind down so that the desire passes with the subsequent realisation that all desires pass. This seems like it&#x2
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by rcarr 3y ago
Can I have edit permissions restored so I can rewrite it to be less inflammatory? I was harsh because I've wasted a lot of my time on this stuff which I'd rather help others avoid - I went into this in a reply to the author in the
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by rcarr 3y ago
> that you’re scared, stressed or overactive and distracted, I believe that would come under overactive and distracted considering the author states "Maybe you're doomscrolling a social feed instead of working on that important
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by rcarr 3y ago
The only downside is wasted time, and possibly wasted money if people get hooked into the productivity rabbit hole and end up spending ridiculous amounts of money on apps, books, gadgets and whatever else trying to be more productive. I say
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by rcarr 3y ago
For anyone interested, I first came across it in Unbeatable Mind by Mark Divine. If I remember right it also goes into the OODA loop and other mental models, tips and tricks plus some info on physical fitness and flexibility. Good book.
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by rcarr 3y ago
It was referring to hours of practice so 10,000 hours made you a master but what the fuck constitutes 10,000 learning cycles of self discipline? Has he spent 10,000 hours sat in meditation like a monk? I highly doubt it. It’s nonsense the a
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by rcarr 3y ago
Don’t work in the field but I believe fast fourier transforms are commonplace so at least enough to have a solid grasp of that?
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by rcarr 3y ago
What an overcomplicated load of baloney. If you become aware that you’re scared, stressed or overactive and distracted, do some 4-4-4-4 box method breathing until your mind calms down. The end. Just saved you having to remember this stupid
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by rcarr 3y ago
Not only do words have multiple meanings, the intention of how they are used is also important. I didn't use the word as a noun or an insult, I used it as an adjective to describe the sound to a fellow english speaker. The fact that yo
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by rcarr 3y ago
So the entire English speaking world should study the linguistics of Spanish in order to accommodate your specific annoyances, annoyances you have with bullies from Spanish speaking countries and not English ones? That's like getting
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by rcarr 3y ago
> that they help a few people with a mouse problem is tangential at best to the topic at hand No, they help the people who are putting food on your plate. Good luck living your life if the farmers can’t do their job.
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by rcarr 3y ago
> The sad reality in the UK is real inflation adjusted earnings have been flat for decades. At least in the public sector, inflation adjusted earnings since the recession are down, often by over 20%, not flat.[1] This is why so many UK p
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by rcarr 3y ago
Firefighter salaries in most countries are an absolute joke. It's a job that doubles your cancer risk and requires you to do shift work which is known to be damaging to your health, not to mention you're putting your life on the l
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by rcarr 3y ago
Because I don't need to? I honestly think it would be easier to follow along with a tutorial for whatever language I'm using in any of those editors you've mentioned than one for Vim or Emacs.
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by rcarr 3y ago
I'm glad you have informed me of what this term is but that being said, anyone who doesn't know that term (which is probably 99.9% of English speakers) is not going to have any idea what I'm talking about. If I say "the
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by rcarr 3y ago
This. As someone now in their 30s who didn't learn to code until their 20s, I've tried several times with vim/emacs but it just isn't worth the hassle because I just don't have the free time anymore to endlessly fuc
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by rcarr 3y ago
I’m currently nearing the end of section 5 of the the Spanish duolingo course which is lower B1 level and I watched a Spanish film with only Spanish subtitles on for the first time a few weeks ago. I could definitely hear a lot of the words
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by rcarr 3y ago
I would say this depends on the country. You can obviously survive without learning the language but you are definitely better off learning it, particularly if you want to integrate with locals. It’s also country dependent. Somewhere like t
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by rcarr 3y ago
> Switzerland is impossibly expensive, and immensely bureaucratic. Expensive yes but their system of government is absolutely superb. > Switzerland's voting system is unique among modern democratic nations in that Switzerland pra
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by rcarr 3y ago
Well as far as political systems go, Switzerland seems the gold standard from what I've read. And if you can deal with the cold then the Nordic nations seem pretty good, particularly Iceland. As for general day to day, I quite like the
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by rcarr 3y ago
lol you should try living here, it tests your sanity
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by rcarr 3y ago
> If that was the case, we wouldn't need lawyers or court hearings. Er no. The law existed long before computers did. > Laws are phrased vaguely on purpose because real life is far too complicated to write down every eventuality

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