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by robk 6y ago
I find it hard to take any critique of socialism seriously when it's from The Guardian.
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by robk 6y ago
His denials of the evils of eastern block communism are unforgivable imo. He lionized Stalin until the day he died.
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by robk 6y ago
In the UK you have no debt but salaries for the first ten years generally don't go over 50k per year which makes living in a major city and having children unsustainable
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by robk 6y ago
Doctors in the UK are vastly underpaid compared to most other occupations with similar levels of intellectual rigor required
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by robk 6y ago
You had me until you got to the president paranoia.
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by robk 6y ago
I appreciate your enthusiasm but without any credentials this feels like a mania induced posting that's hard to filter through for quality
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by robk 7y ago
I'm terrified that the average person doesn't seem to realize what a catastrophe this is and what coming in terms of economic damage that's hard to unwind :
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by robk 7y ago
Is that porn?
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by robk 7y ago
Unnecessary
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by robk 7y ago
Surely outsourced and offshored isn't something to praise them for
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by robk 7y ago
I like omni focus. It's got a good web app which has a sharing extension in ios so I can easily share links to it and tag them. Search is great and the Mac app seems nice. Web client fine for pc.
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by robk 7y ago
This is better than the messy Google Sheets that get shared around after every layoff batch at the big cos. Nice if it's well curated and doesn't get spammed by recruiters and other crap, as I've hired some people off the Ube
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by robk 7y ago
From the founder: Exactly 1 year ago, my startup was on the edge of bankruptcy and I had to let 30 people go... That was one of the most difficult decisions I had to take in my life Back then, we made a Google Sheet of these 30 names and sh
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by robk 7y ago
As a former pm I can't think of a single colleague who loved open plan. We at best tolerated but I think every one of us would have been a happy recipient of an office!
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by robk 7y ago
Jacobin is nothing more than Fox News for the Left with a prettier skin. Really wish it were excluded here as Fox would be for the same reasons. Super politicized opinion pieces.
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by robk 7y ago
Come on now reddit wallstreetbets is up there with Vegas now for gamblers looking for a fix
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by robk 7y ago
I'm with you. I'm optimistic that if the market can set a fair price there's plenty of work. As someone from maybe a generation after you I'd have been happy to work in the manual labor sector if it paid better than my j
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by robk 7y ago
Why aren't they just raising wages? There are many people who can work and need jobs simply a matter of finding the clearing price and passing it on to us consumers which I'm very happy to bear.
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by robk 7y ago
Sure if it means people are being paid a fair wage. I should pay more for things where I'm exploiting labor tbh.
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by robk 7y ago
No one wants to clean toilets
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by robk 7y ago
People can't separate this out
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by robk 7y ago
Social problems are linked to immigration no?
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by robk 7y ago
Trying to add an asset and it throws an error page up
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by robk 7y ago
Loss of smell from allergies is entirely different than the total binary switch off people are talking about here. It's not a stuffy nose issue.
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by robk 7y ago
Google Trends shows a massive spike as well https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=today%203-m&q=...
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by robk 7y ago
As many people are taking zinc supplements it's worth noting zinc in high doses causes this effect too so hard to say the effect being driven by covid or zinc popping or both.
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by robk 7y ago
Purely anecdotal but my wife is a doctor and plugged into a lot of other uk doctor moms and it feels like new children are doing relatively well thankfully. A friend had her 6 week old contract it and she's already back home and out of
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by robk 7y ago
That's not the answer
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by robk 7y ago
What have you found? (Omitting any details that would be confidential of course)
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by robk 7y ago
Irish folk music works wonderfully for this purpose too

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