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National Insurance is a tax, additionally after 100k you start losing your personal allowance. The net effect is an effective tax rate much higher than the nominal rate. You lose o…

What's the difference in pay between a "full doctor" as you put it consultant (UK) or attending (US)? UK a consultant earns £100k pretax and pays approximately 30% net tax rate and…

Given in the UK doctors have taken a real terms paycut circa of over 25% [0] the UK is not currently fit to fund anything. [0] https://www.bma.org.uk/media/6882/bma-ia-juniors-fact…

Sounds like you want to hire them? Or not pay them, and tell them what they can work on?

How long before versions are distributed ready to play?

By definition the gamers are adults, and playing at murder. Some as terrorists. Can't they just mute or block people they don't like? Cheating is the only real problem.

But surely they realise that's the entire player base?

This does seem nice and even simpler than TI's Ez430-chronos [0]. That said, 3 years on a single battery doesn't seem great of course I suppose it depends what apps you use and loa…

> The word for that is "trolling". Oh that is fascinating, so highlighting a verbatim quote, in context can be trolling? What that makes me think of is that people are in denial ab…

I'm actually quite enjoying how divisive a simple quote can be. I wonder how often I've made a comment and gotten no engagement. This quote seems to have gotten more engagement tha…

I think it's too valuable to Meta and Alphabet to retain the option to exit a market than comply with these restrictions. Similar attitude to the UK Online Safety Bill. Giving in w…

I doubt if either will have any interest in paying any amount since it'd open the door to every country wanting some payment. Better to continue blocking Canada and ignore.

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The article suggests control of fire is what lead to recovery of the population. So indeed quite a different time.

The estimate is the estimate (1280 with SEM of 131). It's be foolish of them to mask it intentionally. Once independent estimates are made then you might synthesize an reasonable e…

Yuzu also has an android build although I believe it runs only on snapdragon devices. https://yuzu-emu.org/entry/yuzu-android/ On desktop at least it has an early access programme …

This must depend on your jurisdiction. But if you own the game, does it matter how you got the ROM?

Yeah feature creep is a crime in open source projects. It's killed more useful projects than it's ever benefitted.

The ACLU are pretty useless these days

It feels like it's pretty much gameover for free speech in any context. Too much of the population of the world wants rid and it doesn't matter much that they disagree on precisely…

Indeed there are dramatic differences between ascending and descending colon cancers. They are also dissimilar in their chances of presenting early with symptoms making screening l…

This is not an unexpected result. Last I checked breast self examination also does not reduce deaths from breast cancer, nor testicular self examination. If anyone's interested the…

Suspiciously in time for the even more addictive vaping boom. But this is all beside the point.