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"Inside IR35" would mean you're controlled like an employee, and taxed so.

"Outside" could mean one of two things, the company you're contracting for doesn't qualify to determine your status (and the tax burden if investigated is on you, if you deem yourself "outside") or they have provided a statement outlining why the role is truly considered outside IR35 (https://www.gov.uk/guidance/check-employment-status-for-tax). For the latter, any incorrect determination is on them.

Just a correction; it's the British Empire, not "English" - the Scottish for instance were over represented in terms of colonization, and don't forget Ireland in its entirety was "British" at the time.

Could you link a source regarding inflation decreasing in Germany? Only days ago German central bank chief Joachim Nagel said it will soon breach 10%.

The ECB has its hands tied behind its back, perfect storms like this highlight one of the benefits of a country having its own currency and fiscal policy - the ECB cannot move like UK/US as reconciling Greece/Italy and Germany/Northern Europe can't be done without massive pain for the south.

Isn't your envy/entitlement misplaced, by your own argument "you can always choose to live in a cheaper home".

Correcting a false statement. There are risks with property and being a landlord.

In the UK deposits are protected, disputes favour the tenant.

If something goes wrong with a property, the landlord foots the bill, right now construction costs are out pacing inflation.

The Chinese economic model is very much capitalist, so yes, capitalism is very much a working model.

During the Cultural Revolution, China tried to become "more communist" economically, with predictably bad outcomes.

Upper ceiling on the Common frog found in the UK is 2000 eggs. So that's 700 females spawning at max capacity.

Having lived in areas where these frogs are common, I don't believe the numbers for a second.

> Domesticated ferrets are to known to die fairly quickly if they escape to the wild.

Citation needed.

Seems like feral ferrets exist in Ireland: https://invasivespeciesireland.com/species-accounts/establis...

If ecological history has shown anything, it's that things shouldn't be "tried out" to see if they do indeed become an issue.

EU currency isn't necessarily good, especially the attached ECB which now has no power to increase interest rates due to a disparity of member states with economies that are impossible to reconcile in a single currency.

This isn't true for transfers within the UK using Faster payments - upto £250K, near instantaneous.

"Nearly every case" is very wishy washy, I assume you have some specifics, what about trashing a property, who absorbs that cost?

Living where one has historically lived is interesting, take London - you're implying it should be a birth right for natives - what about the immigrant flow into such cities, how would you reconcile the "right of natives" with human capital?

I think (at least from my perspective) the issue here is that sum types are not first class citizens supported by the compiler, for example non-exhaustive matching in Rust would result in a compile time error. Implementations like this are a mere approximation - and takes a while to grep exactly what is going on (at least for me).

These takes are interesting, as invariably I think they don't give much thought into the context of the person in question. I'm not excusing the execution of the cat, it is indeed distasteful, however you're applying moral restrictions on his actions as an equal, i.e. from the context of our safe, armchair observer position. Would I randomly execute a cat in my position? Hell no. Can I guarantee under life or death survival situations my morality might malfunction? I'm quite sure of it.

Have you considered contracting / consultancy engagements?

I find things like 1:1's infantile / patronising / condescending, I'm sure some employees are convinced about their benefit, however I'm unable to come to that conclusion myself when thinking about it.

For me contracting is a more honest exchange of my time and expertise, for money.

> The adaptations come from the cardiac system. Basically, the body can use more oxygen more efficiently.

I'm quite sure HIIT is near optimal for improving VO2max - and if you look at it through the less of time vs. benefit then it's unrivalled in terms of cardiovascular health.

I just wonder if it would lead to further cementing the Chrome-first approach to web dev - in the context of browser sniffing in JS libs and even backend code. I guess this doesn't drop support for JavaScript navigator properties so maybe JS is fine.

Regarding the dropping of the user agent string, are folk not concerned that it would lead to future web development coalescing towards a Chrome "world view"?

Personally, I think it's merely increased individualism, exasperated by globalism.

You can still exercise your democratic right in the UK, Brexit being a good example, which was both unsupported by any meanstream party and a totally unexpected outcome. The Tories are in power because the previous iteration of the Labour party was simply a joke.

If you mean to say we're going backwards because you don't like such events, then personally I think that's something else.

You can do this in Rust, the imports in Rust being synonymous with your aliasing of a module path.

I guess it depends on the depth of your paths, but I'm unsure what it solves, it just moves the verbosity to call sites.

Isn't the logical conclusion of this that the Darwin's, Newton's and Einstein's of this world weren't genetically predisposed, merely consequences of fate?

You don't believe success is a combination of nature and nurture?

Agree there, I've yet to achieve async enlightenment where Box/Pin isn't a case of trial and error.

Let's not hijack the thread with politics. I will say this, there was no motive for it to be "purposefully created" - that is nonsense, try and think about it objectively for a second. It's far more nuanced than that. The issue here is the motivation for your post, do you interject any mention of Gandhi with critiques of his character / behaviour?

In my experience, for the basics, Rust async is great, it gets messier around more complex things, e.g. async database transaction retries or async-at-depth type flows - also, async traits are not available yet as standard (there is a crate available).

I don't think the Bengal famine is that simple, certainly not to say "purposefully creating"...

"The Patriot" is a good one, there's a scene where Mel Gibson (colonial plantation owner) / his workers proudly declare his plantation workers as "freemen" when told by the British red coat they will be free if they fight on the side of the King. Mel Gibson has a bit of a track record though, so unlikely dark CIA involvement.

Assuming the story is real, why forgo sympathy for the other employees?

For my personal data point, 1 of 7 cards is Visa, the rest are Mastercard.