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whatsapp.com as in the web-based client, which is down.

Have fun staying poor.

Lol!

Bear in mind the majority of that comp is equity. My first software engineering job in London in 2011 was arguably $1m/year, if I'd hung on to the equity until now!

£40,000 of salaried income is currently £30,287 net, after £5,880 income tax and £3,832 national insurance.

Real estate is the biggest struggle. A 3.5-bed family home in Clapham is around £1m , a 4% payment on which would consume their entire net income! source - http://www.londonpropert…

Don't forget those expensive plans typically bundle say a 700Eur+ iPhone into the plan on credit...

I fail to see the difference between "real life" and "the Internet". Surely they're the same thing these days?

> one armed nuclear sub could be wiped out fairly easily if we're talking about a power like this, right? The one that's in dock for service and repair, yes. But the others could b…

> "RIPE, the organization in charge of delegating IP addresses in Europe, ended the distribution of new IPv4 blocks about a year ago." This is not true. All new LIRs can still rece…

Steve Jobs.

Care to give an example? I am not aware of a single programme outside of the US that offers this.

But what are the alternatives? 1. True segregation where the rich go to a separate school all-together / have separate planes, etc. 2. Everyone wears the same lowest-common denomin…

s/complementary/complimentary This is a fairly edge case, that only really occurs on US domestic flights. The majority of the world's frequent-flyer programmes do not give space-av…

He was not seriously advocating such a system, merely saying that such a scenario would be the only way to get the richer parents to pay more, ala the airline model. Otherwise it's…

As a programmer, double negatives make me reel with horror. I cannot parse an English sentence with a double negative as being a single negative; it's utterly illogical. At best, t…

I'd agree, apart from that the "end result is binary". When you aim to do something big, it's very hard to fail completely.