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It is a stupid hidden tax thing. They don't tax the first 12.5K of income, if it is below 100K. They start reducing that 12.5K limit as your income goes up, for every £2, it reduce…

> You know, the US spends most of our government money on old people too (social security, medicare, etc.). My whole point was how these issues are less of an issue for US, again c…

Most countries in Western Europe have the social net curse blogging them down. The high tax, high social care system only works if the country is on a good growth track. As more pe…

I agree, also converted 19th century warehouse has a nice ring to it. No one will probably pay the premium for a converted 5 year old building

I have seen few buildings in London itself which were warehouses and now have these weird shaped apartments with high ceiling height and a separate floor bedroom arrangement. A lot…

If companies are letting go of real estate as some employees want to go remote, why would the said employees who are remote want to stick in the center of city where these offices …

Eh, there are quite a few apartment buildings in every major city which used to be something else like warehouses

That is wildly inaccurate. If anything among the Middle East countries India is aligned more with UAE, which till recently Qatar was more at odds with

I think the problem is not that they won't criticise them, it shows that they lack editorial freedom, which means any coverage even if global matters coming from them should be loo…

Wow, you are trying to build up a ethno-religious conspiracy, seems uncalled for

> They are pretty much the equivalent to the BBC I am sorry, but they aren't. This is just false equivalence, you can just go read BBC's coverage of UK politics and you will see cr…

Well, I did write state sponsored propaganda outlet, not state sponsored media outlet as I think the journalistic freedom an organisation like BBC gets is different. They can criti…

Not that it justifies the deletion, I wonder how a state sponsored propaganda outlet came to be regarded well among global audiences. It would be interesting to read up on what the…

Russia has a wonderful space program with ability to reliably go to space and are one of the biggest contributors to ISS. Setbacks happen, but I am sure that doesn't change how the…

I believe Chandrayaan 1 has detected water, but not sure if it was the first one to do so

More people are interested in sports than space landings, who would have thought

Congratulations to ISRO! Hopefully some interesting data and findings come from it and then Gaganyaan next!

He does say he went to the meeting room and ensures that there is nothing classified there. I am guessing the language is being brought in the discussion because the coworker in no…

This is such a naive and for lack of a better word stupid take > YouTube - streaming content. Probably gets sold to Netflix or AT&T or Comcast. Make Netflix more powerful? In what …

> Air India has always had a YOLO attitude to air traffic control. What do you mean by this? Do you have some examples in mind. Also, the airline is a different entity now from a f…

I think these are data backed decisions. Most big tech hasn'r given the actual data but Meta was at least open that they saw a difference in performance scores of people who work i…

Footage coming out in the last two days showed heavy Ukraine armour losses, so I am not sure whether this is necessarily because Russians were on backfoot. The overflow would be hi…

I know it is a delivery issue not supply, but it is amazing to see how much freshwater US has. US has 5 times the renewable freshwater per person as China and almost 8 times as Ind…

Unnecessary to be healthy. If someone doesn't want a kid, there are other forms of birth protection available which can be relied on and they are quite effective if used as advised…