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by ukoki 9y ago
Price: £4 — great! Shipping: £12 — nope!
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The phrase "dark kitchen" seems like an attempt to make this sound more illicit or unhygienic than it actually is. It's just a restaurant without the sitting part — I think "delivery-only restaurant" would be a fair
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by ukoki 9y ago
So? If they want independence who are we to deny it? If your spouse wants a divorce, if your children wish to disown you — you can't deny them just because it's an inconvenience — it is their right.
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I don't think indeed is representative. https://www.cwjobs.co.uk/salary-checker/average-tech-salary Lists average salary for central London as £77k vs £58k for Manchester — still not 2-3x though. However these fig
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I think it's already happening — the bad commutes are incentive enough. I've been at startup-like tech companies in Shoreditch where it's acceptable to swan into work any time before 11. Another anecdata is the large bank I w
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by ukoki 9y ago
Can't speak for American English but "black comedy" is standard in British English https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_comedy
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by ukoki 10y ago
It might not be everywhere, I find I have different level of success at different airports in the UK. The machines at Gatwick never have a problem with my passport so maybe they have 'human help'. At Stansted however my passport h
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by ukoki 10y ago
90% bonds 10% stocks is ridiculously conservative. The person in the question is only 34 and planning to retire at 50-55. With a 20 year investment horizon you can have 80% stocks 20% bonds, and have an extremely low chance historically of
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by ukoki 10y ago
Spaced repetition flashcard apps are the "Smoke on the Water" of developer side-projects. Here's my attempt: http://cardflashapp.com
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You buy food in BRL yes, but when the BRL has a massive swing up or down food prices can swing the opposite way to compensate. If BRL drops 30% and food prices rise 30% you're going to be in a bad situation — dollars are likely to be f
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by ukoki 10y ago
12% sounds great but that's about how much the BRL has decreased against the dollar over the last five years. Just holding USD cash would have gotten you about the same returns. https://www.bloomberg.com/quote/USDB
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by ukoki 10y ago
If you don't trust UK markets and gilts, it's easy to buy the same ETFs the Americans are buying (though you may pay a little more due to currency conversion). Vanguard also has non-UK ETFs denominated in GBP eg: https:/&#x2
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Well they certainly shouldn't break the law as they did in the case you linked to. But if law is insufficient to ensure people that have a minimum standard of living — it's the law that should be updated rather than trying to sham
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Because it's the government's responsibility to ensure people have a minimum quality of life. It's naive to expect corporations to act charitably — a company is an organisation mandated to make as much money as possible. Even
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This is hardly Amazon's problem: If the minimum wage is not liveable, MSPs such as the one criticising Amazon in the article should work to increase it.
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- Realtime DBaaS/BaaS using GraphQL - ie, like Parse or Firebase but where you don't have to use a vendor-specific client, just GraphQL. Sane configuration of permissions/access rules. - Functions-as-a-service with a better U
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Reference to the Khmer Rouge https://redditblog.com/2015/10/14/cambodia-khmer-rouge-murde...
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You should check out the "digital nomad" communities in SE Asia. The only thing anyone is selling is marketing courses/seminars/ebooks
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BOSH has a famously steep learning curve: http://i.imgur.com/4UpbgJm.png
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One reason I do strength training is that I'm terrified of getting old. I want to hit my 50s/60s (currently 29) with plenty of strength because: 1) I never want to be unable to get out of a chair 2) If I do get cancer (and as medi
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"No 404 Factory of China National Nuclear Corp" AKA factory not found.
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by ukoki 10y ago
digits method just saved code-golfers 20 characters. `num.to_s.split(//).map(&:to_i)` => `num.digits`
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by ukoki 11y ago
As an added data point, 1) has worked for me so far. Early last year I left the UK and set up a company in HK. I had to go to HK to set up a company bank account, but incorporation could be done remotely. As I was already in SE Asia, total
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by ukoki 11y ago
> In my mind, this means it can only ever get worse: the price of living keeps increasing which means salaries will keep having to rise to match There is the opposite effect too: As salaries rise in an area to match living costs, other a
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I really don't know. My accountant recommended Cater Allen, and they seemed pretty on top of things when I phoned them up. Unfortunately I couldn't satisfy their paperwork requirements though, which is why I went with Lloyds in th
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I recently set up an HK corporation and bank account with HSBC and had no requirement for a minimum balance. I think there is a monthly fee if your balance is below some low amount, but that's it.
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As a third data point: I (UK national) set up a company (also IT consulting) in HK just a few months ago without any problems. I still had to fly to HK for the bank account, but they set it up the same day. Lloyds has terrible, terrible cus
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Putting your money in someone else's hands was probably a lot riskier in those days, and that is priced into the interest rate. If there's a real chance a passing army or crooked king might walk in and take your money, you need t
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Sounds like http://elysiumspace.com/ I think they only send up a small sample of the ashes rather than the whole urn though. They charge $2k so there's probably some good margins if you can do the same with SpaceX.
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by ukoki 11y ago
On the off-chance anyone wants to do this with Victorian erotic fiction, I made a similar game a couple of weeks ago: http://gentletouch.peterellisjones.com/

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