vegancap

Jesus christ, I don't know whether to be excited or terrified by some of these new AI releases...

"Chance to die: 1 in 952 within a year, 1.5% (1 in 66.1) within 10 years" good grief... I think it's worth me keeping those figures in mind more often. I might be less frivolous with my time, being more actively aware of those stats...

It's going to be even more infuriating when they try to pull some big ideas out of the bag just before the election, because they've had so long to make meaningful change, but only decide to when their grip on power loosens...

I don't actually live in London (there's no way I could afford to), I remote work in the midlands and get the train in to London every couple of weeks. But I do agree that everyone living in London and San Fran for decent wages is part of the problem. It essentially makes those places unaffordable to people who've lived their all their lives, and actually doesn't even make that much sense for tech workers for example, who could work remotely and live anywhere anyway

I'll give this a read, thanks! I'm slightly desperate to be proven wrong on that statement I made, gives me some hope

True, but inheritance tax pales in comparison to some of the other loopholes, especially around capital gains and corporation tax. I'll keep an eye on Labours policies, but every time I try to go and read about their actual concrete policies, there don't seem to be any. I'm guessing it will all become clear when all the manifestos are released. So, hopefully I'm proved completely wrong here. I want to be proved wrong because then there's a hope someone will do something about it.

Absolutely correct. We just can't have a situation where multi-millionaires are paying less taxes than people working their arses off from the ground up. It seems like the most glaringly obvious problem in our society and economy. And it's clear that avoiding fixing this problem is just blatant protecting their own. I used to think the notion that the Tories were here just to protect their rich mates was slightly unfair and conspiratorial. But they've had 14 years, and the've let everyone but the super rich fall into decline, what else can I take from that?

Nope, but I'll check it out, thanks!

I have a partner that's not willing to compromise over 20 miles in where we choose to live, unfortunately. And I have a terminally ill father to think about, so can't really up sticks. Plus, I lament the situation in Britain, but it doesn't seem meaningfully better in most other European countries at the minute either. If I was 23 again and single, I'd be on the plane to Norway right now. Yes their taxes are even higher, but at least you get functioning public services in return. Which can't be said about the UK. As for Ireland, their income taxes aren't much lower I don't think, although I love Ireland and have Irish blood.

I'm not trying to spread the responsibility evenly, I'll say outright the responsibility almost entirely lies with the current party. But my criticism of the opposition is, it's been so unconvincing and has often lacked any real opposition that I don't hold any hope for them being able to make any significant change either. I include Jeremy Corbyn in saying the opposition has been unconvincing, his proposals on the economy were often naive at best. But I agree that the media in this country seems entirely designed to maintain the status quo at this point, rather than challenge it.

Yep. I'm on decent senior engineer London wages, living with my partners parents to save up for a house deposit, and even on good money and almost no expenses, it feels futile at times. So much of what I earn's gone on tax, then what's left quickly gets eaten away by bills, contributing to food shopping and the odd meal out. Just crazy. I don't know how most the population are surviving if London tech wages are getting squeezed this much. Really feels completely broken at the minute.

If you're hard-working and a skilled worker, it barely pays off these days. I pay more taxes as a percentage than people with vast amounts of inherited wealth living off the interest. It really feels like hard work is actually punished in this country at the minute. I don't really see an end in sight, either. The two main parties are virtually identical at this point, bar some minor differences in rhetoric on none issues like 'woke stuff'.

There doesn't seem to be any competent leadership in our politics anymore, no big ideas, no big plans. It all seems to boil down to making half-arsed memes about how bad the other party is, or completely meaningless slogans. Just maintaining the current status quo with a few tweaks here and there to little effect. Sorry for the rant, but this article resonates so much and I'm really angry at how things are here at the moment.

Tone of this is just awful, reads like he's saying they've laid off a bunch of people who were slowing us down, and sort of ends it by saying how excited he is about the business now they've been let go...

Yeah that's what I got

I saw the start button and got spooked, I'm glad it immediately didn't put me in a chat as soon as I opened the page though...

I honestly have no idea what I'd talk to someone who burnt more money than I'd ever have in my life about

If the thought of voice chats with randomly selected strangers didn't terrify me slightly, I think this would be an awesome idea. For the more out-going among us, can imagine some cool conversations and ideas coming out of this

Well, I wish you and your company the very best of luck and hope you succeed! It's going to change the game completely once that problem's addressed

Was lying in bed last night listening to the wind, thinking 'I wonder how much energy that's generating', checked this morning and wasn't disappointed. If we could sort renewable energy storage out, we'd be laughing energy prices wise. We're a windy little island, after all.

As the post suggested, this was very much a start of this process, but truth be told I had no idea where or how to start. So thank you for this, this looks really powerful and I can't wait to try it out!

I'm so glad this game still exists in some way or another. And this is a really authentic reproduction. I spent hours playing this as a kid, and rediscovered this in my 30's, and, well... have spent hours more playing it. Thank you for your efforts maintaining this classic

I see someone's already created a topless girlfriend on there... might want to moderate the content, can see this appealing to the depths of male desperation otherwise

It's a nice idea, but I suspect I'll use it once and completely forget it exists. Herein lies the problem with systems and products for ADHD, it relies on someone like me, with ADHD to actually remember to use it in the first place. That being said, I will play around with this and see what I think, but I'm coming from a place of scepticism with regards to apps and processes, because in my experience, I've tried probably hundreds of things, and they all went out of the window after a few days. I'm speaking from my own experience though, so maybe some folks with ADHD will get more out of this kind of thing

I got laid off, started working for an unfunded start-up, they ran out of cash. Had to look for other jobs, it took something like two months to find one. I applied to probably the most jobs I've ever applied for whilst on a job hunt. Previous job hunts have taken like... a couple of weeks and I've had multiple offers to choose from. It really came down to one solid offer this time around. Most of my applications were just rejected immediately, without even speaking to anyone. It's easily the worst I've ever seen it. I suspect a lot of jobs are waiting to see if folks laid off by Google/Meta/Twitter would apply, hence why I was getting rejected immediately, having not worked for one of them. Just a theory though... but either way, it's really really tough at the minute. Hang in there, mate. You will get something, it's just going to take a bit more digging this time around.

Unfortunately fighting back in the UK could go either way, it's not like the American school bully in films, kids over here are getting increasingly groomed into criminal gangs and carrying knives etc. Depends where abouts the OP lives, but in some inner city schools especially, it could just escalate massively, sadly

I hate that this happened to you, I'm so sorry. As a fellow Brit, I know how brutal kids here can be, I've been attacked (broken nose, kicked in the head and face), and I was so fortunate not to have any lasting damage (that I know of...). I share your pain in terms of the justice system, out of the four times I was attacked, only once was it properly investigated and went to court. And that was only because the guy was dumb enough to do it in front of a CCTV camera and didn't even bother to flee. That was the least serious attack as well.

Hopefully your condition will improve, your brain's still developing and still very malleable still, so, hopefully it can repair over time and you'll start to feel sharper again.

What I will say, it sounded like you were exceptional to begin with, so I'll hazard a guess that you'll still have a more than competent set of skills, in spite of what happened to you. So, you'll probably still have a fantastic career even with this setback. You're still so young, and most people you age aren't even thinking of their careers, or even have employable skills (I didn't start programming until I left uni at 21, for example). So you have time on your side, big time.

So, just make sure you look after yourself, focus on healing as much as you can. Don't push yourself too hard, be patient, make sure you have the support you need from friends and family. Do things you enjoy, life's not all about careers and jobs, especially when you're young. It's great you're so motivated and thinking about these things at your age. But, don't make this the be all end all, enjoy your younger years.

Also, reframe the way you see setbacks like this. You might not go to Oxbridge, and that might suck, but you don't know what you'll do instead. Often, when I miss out on something, I find a way to turn it into a positive, I find a way to make the most of negatives and turn them into positives. Who knows, you might skip uni altogether, start a business and have more success than if you were to get into GCHQ or Oxbridge or whatever. You might have hated those two options once you got there, you just never know.

Focus on your recovery, I wish you all the very best of luck with everything. Genuinely.

Go engineer here, I'm not seeing the Sr Software Engineer on your site, is this still open?

Continually stating that they aren't 'at odds' with the Rust project. But, surely they are if they're creating an entirely separate fork? I have no skin in the Rust game, so have no opinion, but that strikes me as odd

Yeah that's the same here, not sure if it's the case for parking fines though. It differs county by county, and private parking providers each have their own sets of rules I guess

On the fence on this one, because it seems unfair to punish someone more just because they're doing well, for essentially the same crime. But... there was a drug dealer in our block of flats once who had so much cash he'd park his BMW outside the door on double-yellows, and he'd just pay the £50 fine several times a week, just to save him a 3 minute walk to the car park... so, perhaps a system of increasingly punishing repeat offenders maybe?

There's two in the family luckily! And thank you!