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721.
by ta1243 2y ago
Do you have kids in double digits? Our senior schools (from age 11, "6th grade" in US term) literally mandate a phone (not a computer, an actual phone) for school, both to use in class and to receive homework assignments.
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by ta1243 2y ago
How far along this path are your kids?
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by ta1243 2y ago
According to that link, income tax in NYC at $200k is even higher ($69,160 tax rather than $68,504 in San Francisco)
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by ta1243 2y ago
The assertion was there are high taxes. There aren't, even for those on $500k a year.
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by ta1243 2y ago
NI is poorly paid. the UK as a whole is poorly paid outside of London and maybe Oxford/Cambridge and a couple of other industry specific areas. I suspect Ireland also has the same problem, with the higher salaries being Dublin only.
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by ta1243 2y ago
https://salaryaftertax.com/de/salary-calculator says you'd keep £57,705, £10k less.
727.
by ta1243 2y ago
"The median salary for full-time workers in California is $66,986" -- https://www.incomebyzipcode.com/california Salary difference isn't because of tax (employer NI contributions in the UK are high - £12,500
728.
by ta1243 2y ago
According to https://smartasset.com/taxes/california-tax-calculator# and https://listentotaxman.com/?ingr=100000 Someone on £100k a year in the UK will keep £68,561 Someone on £100k a year in Californi
729.
by ta1243 2y ago
RRT2 leaned heavily into the financial aspects, it was quite different to the original railroad tycoon. Personally I preferred railroad tycoon 1 to transport tycoon, but either way railroad tycoon 2 was different. I miss A-Train.
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by ta1243 2y ago
That's more to do with increasing prices than decreasing demand
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by ta1243 2y ago
One problem of ipv6 is proponents saying there are 2^128 addresses. It's really hard to comprehend how many unusable ipv6 addresses are. Having more than 2^16 hosts on a subnet is pretty much impossible. Sticking with "grain of sa
732.
by ta1243 2y ago
You put the <img src="file://c:/con/con"> in right? Or had that been fixed by the DHTML era
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by ta1243 2y ago
Not really with a mortgage, as you're not looking at the fact $1 today is more valuable than $1 tomorrow.
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by ta1243 2y ago
Or just buy the non advert infected one.
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by ta1243 2y ago
ProTip: If you cancel prime then you don't see any prime adverts. I love paying for content. I'm not going to support double-dipping.
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by ta1243 2y ago
I have so many things lodged in my brain from TV adverts in the 1990s, I'm confident that I make purchasing decisions skewed by those. Ultimately in a fight between a trillion dollar brainwasher and me, I'm going to lose.
737.
by ta1243 2y ago
in the UK people used to rent TVs, a company called "Radio Rentals", and in the days when TVs were unreliable it made sense - you paid a fixed amount per month and got a working TV in return. A service like any other. That was mor
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by ta1243 2y ago
Very very different, and something which lets the advertising industry of the hook
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by ta1243 2y ago
Don't kids know how to tell the time before they go to school?
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by ta1243 2y ago
Sadly my first major site (with a four-letter dot-com and everything) went down before internet archive got to it. The first, and indeed only, site I did for cash, dating back to early 1997, was still hosted by claranet until 2009 - well af
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by ta1243 2y ago
Work vs leisure. I rarely send emails for leisure, but I send and receive dozens a day for work, both internal and external.
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by ta1243 2y ago
HN has a surprisingly low level of network knowledge compared to sites a generation ago (slashdot etc)
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by ta1243 2y ago
I don't know what my computer's password is, it's muscle memory
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by ta1243 2y ago
Knees probably better -- break my fingers and I can't give you my password
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by ta1243 2y ago
Coal mining certainly can a hell of a lot of non-workers all at once https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aberfan_disaster
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by ta1243 2y ago
Region locking was more that US videos were 60hz ntsc and most of the rest of world was 50hz pal, and multi-region hardware was fairly rare Throw in the difficulties in buying non-local things in the first place and it simply wasn't a
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by ta1243 2y ago
Features I don't want on DVD and much prefer streaming * Adverts (especially the anti piracy "you wouldn't steel a car" ones) * Logos * Menus It can take nearly a minute to go from the disk going in to the film starting.
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by ta1243 2y ago
If it stays valid that's a security nightmare People are very good as securing physical items. They are awful at securing files. A dvd or maybe an SD card or USB stick is a much better approach.
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by ta1243 2y ago
But people aren't actually pissed at the cause of the problem. They will go out and march against a new housing development in their local area before turning around and sending a letter to the paper complaining about a lack of housing
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by ta1243 2y ago
> It's crazy how so many people don't get this basic economic fact and think public welfare in EU just rains from the sky for free. No, EU welfare state is not some magical hack nobody else thought of, it's just paid from

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