anothermouse

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by anothermouse 7y ago
The NHS makes a huge difference. As a single entity it can pivot in a way that I wonder if other countries can come close to. My daughters dentist commented yesterday that all her surgeries (and her team usually do 50 a week) had been cance
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by anothermouse 7y ago
I'm married to a US citizen. My children have inherited US citizenship via this route. We have to spend thousands preparing tax returns reporting no income each year for three people (the children have bank accounts). If you buy a
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by anothermouse 7y ago
Mostly because the majority of people living there wish to be remain part of the United Kingdom.
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by anothermouse 7y ago
There is huge variation in Dairy! French Milk (was) terrible, only UHT widely available, though fresh is now quite common. US milk is nothing like as good as British milk for freshness/flavour (though the latter is subjective). US eggs
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How a Bitcoin Evangelist Made Himself Vanish, in 15 Not So Easy Steps(nytimes.com)
176 points by anothermouse 8y ago|92 comments
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by anothermouse 8y ago
You've never tried Hershey's then.
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by anothermouse 8y ago
If you buy a house, things are going to be complicated. If you have a workplace pension from your job, you're probably screwed. State pensions have screwed people too. If you invest in stocks, or mutual funds, you'll pay
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by anothermouse 8y ago
Xfce calls it shade window. I believe it is still there, and can be configured to be double click, or whatever you'd like.
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by anothermouse 9y ago
I bailed on KDE overnight at KDE 4.1. You couldn't have an NFS mounted home dir, as they had made mysql a requirement for Akonadi, without which kmail and everything else failed to work. Suddenly KDE was no longer 'enterprise&#x27
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by anothermouse 10y ago
20K bankers to shortly find themselves working in a regional office and wishing they could relocate back. Passporting doesn't require moving your employees wholesale, you just setup a subsidiary within Europe and trade with that legal
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by anothermouse 10y ago
I've been watching this happen like a scheduled car crash for years. Every 2 years, another open source project succumbs to the problem. As far as I can tell, when software is open source, the barrier to people contributing is lower. A
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by anothermouse 10y ago
Surely Sim City be classed as being based around a crafting mechanic?
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by anothermouse 10y ago
> So your argument is basically this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rUTnNKhF-EU s/your/ their /. It is not my argument, I'm a Tory voting, skilled, financial sector worker, who voted remain.
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by anothermouse 10y ago
Historically labour voting workers have been displaced from their jobs by low skilled immigrants. Don't just take my words for it: https://medium.com/mosquito-ridge/brexit-wins-an-illusion-di... "Britain has
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by anothermouse 10y ago
Please elaborate, as in the Northeast this is exactly what happened. Do you agree or disagree, or are you just saying "wow" as youngtaff has opened your eyes to how many members of the tradition labour vote outside London view Eur
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by anothermouse 10y ago
For those of you outside the UK, please realise that this was not a xenophobic vote. Just because there were racist scum in the crowd voting brexit, doesn't mean all brexit supporters are likewise. There are many reasons why people vot
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by anothermouse 10y ago
You are mistaken. Immigration from the EU cannot be regulated as the EU guarantees the right to free movement for all citizen. Therefore anyone in 28 member states can immigrate, and the UK government may not impede that. You appear to be c
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by anothermouse 10y ago
A CPAN author, former tech journalist, hugo award winner. His works are so on the intersection of economics and scifi that apparenly even Paul Krugman has reads him. http://crookedtimber.org/2009/01/27/stross-
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by anothermouse 11y ago
You're wrong, and while it might seem harsh, I'm going to have to say you just don't know what you're talking about. My non working US wife has completely jeopardised my family's financial well being, purely through
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by anothermouse 11y ago
Expat: one of ours over there. Migrant: someone not from here, living not where they were born. I think you're over thinking it. To Somalians they're just somali expats.
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by anothermouse 11y ago
My other comment (in reply to another comment) shows how I, a brit, have gotten myself into a problem with far more that 100K, without having any idea. The best option would be same country exemption for FBAR and FACTA. Or stop taxing non
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by anothermouse 11y ago
The problem is not that I made a profit in selling my house, it is that my wife had money in a bank account at all. As she didn't file, she didn't know that you need to file an FBAR annually for each foreign account . And the pena
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by anothermouse 11y ago
You are, seemingly deliberately, failing to understand that this isn't a 1% problem. The 1% have tax advisors and CPAs paid to take care of this for them. This is affecting expats and accidental americans in their daily lives, even if
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by anothermouse 11y ago
I am British, and am married to an american. My wife moved to the UK and has never worked since. I had no idea about her obligation to file anything. She's been here for over a decade. Like a lot of people we use a joint bank account.
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by anothermouse 13y ago
Very nicely done, and you seem to be selling almost everything - and strangely you're mirroring our plans. We're planning to move to the bay area in March, also from N1! How did you create the page? I'm sure I'll be nee
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by anothermouse 13y ago
I don't know why so many people are saying that it needs to be made clear that this is in China, and that it doesn't apply elsewhere. I'm a programmer in Finance in London, and a good day rate for a Senior contractor is 600GB
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by anothermouse 13y ago
My go to solution to this problem, back when I needed one, was as soon as the girl in question asked "what do you do?" I'd reply directly with "I'm a computer programmer - what do you do?" and should they say
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by anothermouse 13y ago
That will be what you earn at your first job. Don't tell the people hiring you of course, but if you leave after 12-24 months with some good experience, you'll get a big bump. If you skillset pays 60K with experience, you'll
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by anothermouse 13y ago
Experience of finance is required, or you had better be cheap. Experience of a product or a platform is better, but you can't understand those with out the financial knowledge . They will teach you both if you go permanent. Typically, you n
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by anothermouse 13y ago
"Inside London, those devs who are working in finance are getting paid £45k+, big bonus..." As someone working in finance in London, this seems way too low. I'm on 97K and bonus has been 50% for the last 4 years. Contracted before and made

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