rlamacraft @rlamacraft@qoto.org
Software engineer by trade. Programmer by hobby too (in addition to basketry and spoon carving). Personal website: https://rlamacraft.uk/. Gemini capsule: gemini://gemini.rlamacraft.uk
Joined Jan 2020
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Something which has significantly improved everyone's lives, but is completely taken for granted or even reviled for some reason is the humble LED. Cheap, a fraction of the energy and heat, lasts for years and years. Marvellous.
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Which one of you Fedi weirdos* was at the Edinburgh trans rights demo holding the sign saying:
private String gender
notpublic const bool gender
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In the UK, why is there not a national campaign to convert larger properties in maisonettes? Household sizes are shrinking as families are having fewer kids, or none at all. We need more housing stock but nobody wants to build more and we don't have enough skilled tradespeople. Surely adding a staircase, a kitchen, and a bathroom is easier than building a whole new building?
Why are corporation taxes, business rates, and employer NI contributions not defined by progressive bands like income tax, capital gains tax, and employee NI contributions are? Larger, wealthier businesses should pay more just as wealthier individuals do.
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Maths class should have fun stuff like English has creative writing and science has experiments. Show some practical side to it and quit boring the kids.
@anon_opin Here's my proposal: if I put it in a colander and come back in 10 minutes, and it's still in the colander then it's a dough.
The energy consumption of using AI tools in my day job seems to be around the same order of magnitude as having a commute and yet I don't see people advocating for remote jobs for the climate, and yet I for sure know which has a bigger impact on my productivity!
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Being ultra rich is an illness. A deep, terrifying sickness. Once personal wealth surpasses a point at which you could lead a very comfortable life, the drive to amass and hoard more is an unnatural perversion. You aren't curing hunger. Or saving humanity. You're just unwell.
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It would be great if you could spend time banking certain jobs. Free half hour on the weekend? Shave five times, so you can redeem that time during the week. Put the bins out 52 times in a day and don't do it for a whole year. Spare time often comes at the wrong time.
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has anyone told Trump that the "great" in "great depression" didn't mean "good"
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"Universal Basic Income would remove the incentive to work", say people with enough money to never have to work again but who mysteriously carry on.
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@scottearle @anon_opin there’s a tax credit Americans can claim to avoid double taxation. As for why someone living abroad should still pay taxes in their home country: people of working age are net contributors to the tax coffers, supporting the education of children and the welfare of the elderly. Allowing working age people to work in tax havens without consequences forces those who are less mobile to pay more. Put it this way: if you move abroad whose paying for your parents state pension or paying back the money the state spent on your education
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American's have one thing right, they tax their citizens according to US tax laws no matter where they live. We should do the same. None of this buggering off to Dubai or Monaco as soon as you've earned a few quid to be a tax exile.
Software engineer by trade. Programmer by hobby too (in addition to basketry and spoon carving). Personal website: https://rlamacraft.uk/. Gemini capsule: gemini://gemini.rlamacraft.uk
Joined Jan 2020
