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So to be against loopholes you must support the 30% tax rule on incomes over USD 1m? I feel this conflates tax avoidance with having a very high income. Mr Buffett for one might be upset at the implication.

I think the medium, that you're supposed to be using video by default rather than text by default, would encourage a team or company to start recording more and tapping at the keyboard less.

I'd compare it to the premise in The Expanse books where there's almost always a light delay for communication so people record video messages by default. When they are on a ship together then they default to audio only. Text is possible in both cases but its bandwidth saving feature isn't required. Now we don't need to save bandwidth anymore perhaps video makes more sense.

Also, if you are a remote worker then playing videos isn't going to annoy an open office full of collegues.

We've just upgraded our London to Scotland sleeper service recently. It's not cheap but's it's fun!

If you want to get into the Highlands it's a lot more convenient, too: Fort William is hours from a major airport.

Going from Edinburgh to London it's really useful as you end up right in the heart of the London.

https://www.sleeper.scot/

I'm an early 2011 MBP that's been upgraded and had various repairs so it's good but now out of support so no mojave and it can't run many modern external monitors that I like.

I got an X220 with Hackintosh as a backup. What a lovely keyboard!

Let's add to the anecdata: all those who've now moved away from Macs after being burnt by the keyboards and all those who are waiting to replace their Macs when this butterfly nonsense goes away.

Thanks, that helped me find another reason why PayPal and Stripe can't send money to a TransferWise account: the sender account must include the account name and it must match [https://transferwise.com/help/article/2200390/creating-a-tra...].

The account name will be required in future UK banking regulations, at last, so this issue may get resolved by Stripe, PayPal, etc., just not soon.

Looks like TransferWise are interested in fixing the debitable account issue.

I'm a fan of Transferwise and recently opened a business account with them. It was a very easy process, even compared to other UK challengers like Starling (who aren't that great, really). They give you a SortCode and AccountNumber. I'm very interested: what is missing for Stripe/PayPal integration?

If you only offered one do you think you'd see a drop off in sales? If you have the volume, would you risk an A/B test to confirm the loss in sales versus the loss in fees? I'm guessing, from other comments, that many customers prefer PayPal when it's available.

Round here, Glasgow, Scotland, areas that are practically walking distance apart can have the same disparity in life expectancy as your futurology may suggest. [https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/scottish-news/men-in-glas...]

That's an extreme example, and the figures have moved since that article was published, but currently a wealthy citizen of Scotland can expect an extra 25% life expectancy compared to a citizen raised in relative poverty.

So, engadget is yet another website that hasn't read the GDPR guidelines properly. I cannot be bothered to click through all of their nonsense to read their clickbait content.

So, a bit like now, then?

> Now we have three people working on the site full time, thousands of paying users, and tens of thousands of repositories.

Three! Love it. That was a massive hire of course, a 50% increase above the two founders.

Should people who can't afford housing be automatically labelled "poor"? It's certainly one indicator.

Not segrating people improves the world. Segragating them introduces division, self-evidentially. Something to be avoided, then, and worked against.

Planners will try to mix properties in a new development, if the local politics is to provide for everyone fairly.

I don't think too many trust the market to make their decisions for them. The purpose of politics is to represent the people and, ideally, do what is best for them. That's definitely not what the market is for!

Get involved in politics if you want to bring about change in the world because companies whose job it is to sell more cars certainly aren't going to be helping improve the environment.

Whatever it is I can't see it because TechCrunch are yet another GDPR failure.

Make it easy to say no to tracking because if you don't I'm off.

Monthly Recurring Revenue. It's the simplest metric for a subscription based service or SaaS.

> already dealt with problems much bigger than the average temperature going up by a couple of degrees and sea level rising a couple of feet

With respect, I think you may be underselling the effects! The chaotic knock-on of species loss; water pressures causing human migration; a loss of half of the ice on the third pole (the Himalayas) that provides water to over a billion people; acidification of the oceans. We could go on but the point I'd like to hammer home is this isn't anything at all like the previous crises in our brief 60k year sojourn: the anthropocene is an apocalyptic event that will wipe out half of the species on earth (probably).

Oh yes, they really do, you only have to look at what the majority of British newspapers are reporting to see what most British people believe.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_newspapers_in_the_Unit...

> Look for businesses that accept anonymous payment options and don’t force everyone to share personal information with a third-party payment provider.

What anonymous payment options are there (other than many cryptocurrencies)? I do remember the days of sending cash through the post but I don't think that's what the author is suggesting.

What were the bad habits in code review that you were thinking about? I'm stuck with TFVC and the code review in TFS is very poor but I used ReviewBoard about 8 years ago and thought it was the best F/OSS available at the time.

Don't look now as they're having trouble with dropping offline ...

That is a really interesting article, thanks. Through asking good questions about the relationships between the relative and absolute numbers it casts an uncomfortable spotlight onto our current responses to inequality.

The data in the graphic was misleading. Given the data corrected for China from 1981 it shows a flat line. I'm sure that is a useful takeaway, even if the politics isn't to your tastes.

> the perspective that i think is missing from the article is that a lot of the drop in extreme poverty isn't the result of organized work by the world to curb misery

He did indeed make that point by calling out the flatlining in poverty reduction if you removed China from the data.

I think the article posited that the graphic was based on incomplete data and failed to show the effect of China's policies. He wasn't trying to make a case for it being all roses before 1981, he was trying to demonstrate that the Davos neo-liberals couldn't claim to be right.

Perhaps it's suitable for HN because it raises the question of good data analysis versus making up numbers that amount to false news.

10 years from now the richest man in the world could die from a simple infection because there will be no such thing as antibiotics. A possible future with some basis in our current situation.

As the financial world has it, past performance is no guarantee of future returns. It would be foolish to take for granted anything we have now which is why we should keep watching where things are possibly going, evaluate the risks, and take action to correct where we may be going wrong.

The opinion piece was pointing out the flaws in the infographic's depiction of poverty, not any other metric. The poverty graph was clearly flawed as it made assumptions about most of the timeline. Recasting the data from 1981 failed to account for China, another point clearly made in the article.

Bothies? Sheer luxury. Now have a look at a howff:

http://scottishmountaineer.com/the-dossers-guide-slugain-how...

https://kasmansbonniescotland.blogspot.com/2015/11/the-secre...

A but and ben isn't a bothie, though. But and ben means a two-roomed cottage. A bothie is basic shelter for anyone to use. A bothie would be free but a but and ben is most likely a private residence.

Playing the didjeridu, particularly with circular breathing, is great fun for learning some good breath control. I'm sure other wind instruments may have similar benefits (caveat: IANAM - I am not a musician).

Scotland is a nation state, in a union with other nations. I'm sure you are aware of that so I'm not sure of what point you were trying to make.