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Yes, much like how they've regulated delivery drivers. The person listed on the app is definitely the one that delivers, very effective. I detest the concept that we need yet anoth…

(London perspective), I've intervened from tourists getting scammed before from these guys, and they get violent very quickly. Especially fun because they have their gang all aroun…

Well, at least something good came out of this incident. Perfect.

As well as the childcare benefit removal others have mentioned, you also begin losing your "tax free allowance". The marginal tax rate for 100k -> 125k is 60% (due to losing the ~£…

3 people is insanely lean for something that looks this polished. Try and maintain that for as long as you can.

Bit of a facetious response and not in the spirit on HN, but you absolutely nailed the choice of noun with MRI machine, lol. Perfect.

https://www.ons.gov.uk/economy/inflationandpriceindices/time... ONS says RPI is 11% this month, peaked at 14% YoY end of last year. Highest it's been since 1980

Hitler is currently rank 1, so, that's an interesting application of Godwin's Law

> Quick Google searches reveal that Reddit has something between 0.5 and 1.5 billion monthly users Not disagree-ing with your points, but do you have a source for this? It doesn't …

This is misinformation. Maybe you've had this situation/contract, but that is very much not the norm.

> I would love to just have some nice, high resolution glasses, that would emulate my monitor setup back home with minimal drawbacks. Boy do I have the product for you! https://www…

Heaping on the praise, use this tool every day, for years, on every mac I've had. Best 15 quid spent

If you have the physical hardware, there will be people able to produce their own firmware that disables built in filtering, or at least, disables the internet connecting that repo…

> The WallStreet Bets, NFT and Crypto ecosystem is very niche /r/wallstreetbets has 13.5 million subscribers.

I've never disagreed with something more. > On the other hand, something that's cute will be far more memorable and much easier to say. Citation needed? How is easier to associate …

You are correct, obviously. > I still want to participate in the collective modern culture ... so somethings got to give. Same comment applies to this forum. I want to participate …

Peep Show, 30 Rock, Community. Modern classics, editing out "offensive" material, that was actually making a point about how offensive it is.

The incentives are misaligned. Netflix, Amazon, Disney et al, aren't interested in showing me what I want to watch for a purchase price, they are after my attention, and to divert …

Is it hard?

We had this, for an employee that wanted to move back home to Poland. We used remote.com, they charge a sizable fee (like 600 quid a month), but the net costs come out about even a…

First thing I thought of, gonna have to rewatch that whole talk now.

Given that his producer was arrested by what amounts to Australia's secret police, at the request of the then deputy premier, I'm not certain that it's easy to dismiss. There's bee…

> who is charged 5bp a year (i.e. 5 cents for every $100 dollars) Am I crazy or would 5 basis points be 0.05 cents (1/100th of a percent)

Not a sound guy, and have struggled for a while w/ this for my plex setup @ home, so grain of salt. If there's not a separate track for e.g 2.0, then the mixing down from 5.1 -> 2.…

> Well, golang is a tough language. This _could_ be true for some, but it directly conflicts with the stated goals of the language. Most people (that I've spoken to) would consider…