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by rowanajmarshall 3y ago
90%+ of all email traffic in encrypted, and I'd bet that goes up with consumer-facing providers like Gmail: https://transparencyreport.google.com/safer-email/overview?h...
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Haworth Tompkins unveils "UK's first multi-storey light-industrial scheme"(dezeen.com)
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Viewing the US presidential electoral map through the lens of public health(journals.plos.org)
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Welsh language: New law to help all students speak confidently by 2050(bbc.co.uk)
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IT depts struggle with skills shortages despite Big Tech layoffs(theregister.com)
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SeedList: A look at 2022’s biggest investment success stories(seedlegals.com)
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by rowanajmarshall 4y ago
A suit and tie wouldn't be blinked at in almost any other office job interview, especially if it's not on the West Coast. Tech has it's uniform like any other industry, and people care _deeply_ about sticking to it. It just h
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by rowanajmarshall 4y ago
Say that again after interviewing for a developer job wearing a suit and tie.
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by rowanajmarshall 4y ago
Same, but the fail-state of a car of plane is a block of steel with an indoors, markedly less useful than a heavy-but-functioning bike.
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by rowanajmarshall 4y ago
I don't think that's true, it's hard finding comparative figures that aren't out of date (one below is mostly ~2004), but it indicates European countries generally have more SMEs per 1000 people than the US, and a couple
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by rowanajmarshall 4y ago
The UK isn't doing that on purpose, it's a natural evolution of not having super-firms like Google and Amazon that have the capital and size to acquire and grow domestic companies. Which itself is an evolution of not having a dome
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by rowanajmarshall 4y ago
> I guess we might still have some big game studios? We've got Creative Assembly (owned by Japan-based Sega), Rockstar North (previously DMA Design and founded the GTA series, now owned by US-based Rockstar ofc), Jagex (owned by a U
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by rowanajmarshall 4y ago
It's even worse with London, where £1 is worth about $1.22 _before_ adjusting for PPP.
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by rowanajmarshall 4y ago
I love mine too, but what really transformed everything was converting it to an electric bike (via the expensive-but-effective Swytch pack). Now I can easily go to-and-from work, or up a bigass hill, with zero sweat. It's wonderful.
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by rowanajmarshall 4y ago
And even then, Toronto gets about 2000 hours of annual sunshine, while London (a D swathes of Northern Europe) get about 1600 hours :(
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Is London losing its European tech lead?(sifted.eu)
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Venture fundraising hits nine-year low(wsj.com)
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London to offer free school meals to all primary pupils for a year(theguardian.com)
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by rowanajmarshall 4y ago
The world's third largest tech sector is in a European country (the UK), and the two country's bigger than it are literally continent-scale superstates with around 10x the GDP.
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by rowanajmarshall 4y ago
Nearly a decade ago but this: https://www.lexology.com/library/detail.aspx?g=54cf4b4f-ccb4... Nestle has around 276,000 employees today, while Dualit seems to have around 100-200 (hard to tell since Dualit is private).
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by rowanajmarshall 4y ago
If you've become friends, you stay in touch. It's that simple. I've worked in three places since graduating , and I keep in touch with probably a dozen people from those jobs. I've been to their house parties, met their
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by rowanajmarshall 4y ago
A UK Tier 2 Skilled Worker visa takes 3-8 weeks to go through; the US EB-3 visa wait time is typically measured in years (more than 10 for some countries it seems). That alone is a big reason people move to countries other than the US for t
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by rowanajmarshall 4y ago
Although remote-heavy hybrid expands your reasonable commute distance quite a bit. a An hour-a-way commute is is pretty bad doing it every day, if you're only doing it once a week, or once a fortnight, it becomes a lot more bearable.
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Oxford-Cambridge Arc revived via new British regional partnership(ft.com)
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by rowanajmarshall 4y ago
> Not really, Mexico made three times as many cars as the UK in 2021. I completely agree the UK focuses more on low-volume, high-value automotive, bit looking at that table UK car production has more than halved since the Brexit referend
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by rowanajmarshall 4y ago
Equally, I've got friends from Auckland who moved here to London because 1) the salaries are significantly better, and 2) the houses are often _more affordable_.
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by rowanajmarshall 4y ago
For the immediate area it looks great, the counties surrounding London are generally the wealthier parts of the country. It's the regions further away that can't link-in to a megacity that suffer, they get the same brain-drain wit
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by rowanajmarshall 4y ago
Traditionally, sure, but even while places like the Midlands and the North West have more manufacturing than the Southeast, the Southeast kept the more valuable stuff. The reshoring we're seeing as globalisation retreats is an opportun
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by rowanajmarshall 4y ago
The UK's value-add economy is overwhelmingly based in capital-intensive, highly skilled industries, think stuff like finance, tech, high-end engineering and manufacturing. These all strongly favour places like London and the South East
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by rowanajmarshall 4y ago
Canada is pretty much in the middle of Europe and the US in terms of overall tax burden, but still taxes less than pretty much any developed European country besides Switzerland (and Ireland, but Irish GDP is a warped figure). Mexico taxes

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