throwawaythrow1

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by throwawaythrow1 4y ago
IR35 is a ridiculous law. "If it walks like a duck, and quacks like a duck, then we treat it like a duck." I can walk and quack rather convincingly like a duck, but I'm not a duck and any casual observer would agree. The meta
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by throwawaythrow1 4y ago
As someone who lives in the UK, this is news to me. Can you substantiate this please?
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by throwawaythrow1 4y ago
Long time UK contractor/freelancer here, I've also done a lot of hiring in the UK. The problem over the past few years has been IR35 which has effectively gutted/killed the UK contractor market (including lorry drivers and te
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by throwawaythrow1 4y ago
List your salary/renumeration/offer, or at least the range. I have issues with some of the steps listed but by far my biggest issue is that companies don't list their offer. Which for potential candidates makes them wonder if
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by throwawaythrow1 5y ago
This is simply not true. One could naïvely say the same for ANY country where it has not been explored. It can't be all rollercoasters and silicon geography everywhere all the time. Anyway, the UK has some of the most dense proportion
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by throwawaythrow1 5y ago
When people say that monopolies stifle innovation, this should surely be held up as the poster-child of that mantra. Will this be a flash in the pan? Yes Was this wasted money? Yes Could, basically, any human have predicted this is a waste
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by throwawaythrow1 5y ago
And replace it with? Perhaps we can create a system whereby one exchanges skills for products and services? But then how do we scale such a system... money might work, unless you're advocating for communism
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by throwawaythrow1 5y ago
There is no quick and easy solution to this. You just have to remember that the interruption is not aware of your state of mind, and also that a bad response (from you) will probably cause a greater degree of interruption. So be kind, handl
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by throwawaythrow1 5y ago
Hi, I'm a real English person, from England (not from London) . I totally agree about all of this, and all of the sentiments expressed by Salvatore. We say that "English is easy to learn, but hard to master" and I often wonde
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by throwawaythrow1 8y ago
Amongst others, there's fine work being done at DVLA, DVSA, MOJ, DWP and Home Office Digital are in good shape too
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by throwawaythrow1 8y ago
That's the DWP, and they know about it and will eventually get to fixing it but it'll take a while
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by throwawaythrow1 9y ago
I think this is likely due to some kind of skewed market internally and probably that many countries hold US assets and debts that are being engineered in to a position of a new normal (or baseline). Real growth in the US is falling over ti
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by throwawaythrow1 9y ago
Oh boy, I used to work at GDS and I met some people from HMRC about their Childcare voucher system thingy. And it used similar techniques to this, I raised it directly with them but they didn't think it was an issue, and my comments we
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by throwawaythrow1 9y ago
It's interesting that no one here has yet mentioned the UK government system "Verify". Fundamentally there are different authentication mechanisms and idealogies at work, but it's the same UK CESG GPG implementation as V
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by throwawaythrow1 10y ago
I'm really surprised this hasn't hit the UK news, but the government department that regulates welfare (the DWP) just discovered a £350 Million deficit that is proactively not being acknowledged by the leadership team. Despite may