joefife

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by joefife 1y ago
Seems surprising to me. I've not swiped a UK card in many years. Honestly can't remember the last time. It's curious you're seeing so many stripe fallback incidents. Is this a USA issue?
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by joefife 3y ago
Yup - and this is where we're at with car safety too. Car marque CEOs are free to say "Yeah, it'll cost hundreds of millions to fix, it's cheaper to pay out per death for a rare event". We're all worn down by t
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by joefife 3y ago
Because people who you want to come and work in the UK won't bother coming if it's hostile. The quality immigrants will simply not bother turning up. There are not the British bodies to fill these roles. Instead, you'll be
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by joefife 3y ago
You can get residential interest only mortgages - at least here in the UK. I used to have one, but remortgaged to repayment ten years ago. It's quite common to see "buy to let" mortgages as interest only rather than repayment
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by joefife 3y ago
Unsure if it's law in the UK - but every UK supermarket I've visited has price per 100g / kg / litre / 100ml on every product. Rather amusingly (to me!), lavatory paper has a price per sheet, which is abbreviated &q
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by joefife 3y ago
The author talks about many aspects of traveling in London as though they are novel. Signs to hold on to the handrail, or to report antisocial behaviour are not new in London - and many famous styles of public information poster originate f
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by joefife 3y ago
Oi. Fife isn't ENTIRELY about bowling clubs and dogging.
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by joefife 3y ago
Are you having a stroke?
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by joefife 3y ago
NHS practices are private businesses, which are contracted to provide NHS services. That's why there's the complex business of 'partners', which buy into the "business".
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by joefife 3y ago
The rest of the civilised world manages just fine.
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by joefife 3y ago
At a tangent - I'm quite worried about software licencing costs due the divergence in fortunes of the USA and the UK. As a UK small business, we've seen software licencing rises between 10 and 40% this year, on software purchased
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by joefife 4y ago
Ah got you. I live in the Scottish countryside where property is cheap. Forgot about insane city prices.
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by joefife 4y ago
While I'm inclined to agree - I wonder why you are still in a basement if you're renting? Surely the benefit of renting is the ability to quickly change living environment as you want, rather than stay somewhere you're unhapp
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by joefife 5y ago
You don't need to be an immigrant. Vegetables are cheap in UK supermarkets. 1kg carrots - 39p https://groceries.morrisons.com/products/morrisons-carrots-2... 2.5kg potatoes - £1 https://groceries.morri
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by joefife 5y ago
Even within BBC News, there is notably different content between the World Service and home stations.
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by joefife 5y ago
Only if they're aware that the information was manipulated.
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by joefife 5y ago
Counting spots? Not the biggest challenge for a robot. I wonder if there are any disability legal concerns with this?
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by joefife 5y ago
Agreed - although remember the MOT only starts once the car is there years old. There is no MOT for the first few years. Also, and more of an edge case, there are some vehicles that don't require an MOT, such as vintage vehicles (which
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by joefife 5y ago
That's insane. I'm in Scotland and this sort of maintenance is just part of my council tax bill. Shared with everyone else in my county.
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by joefife 5y ago
The Spanish manage?
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by joefife 5y ago
Indeed. It's a very strange argument - sidewalks require significantly less to sustain. For a start, the build quality can be a lot lower - a sidewalk doesn't need to support lorries with 13t loads. As for maintenance, the damage
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by joefife 5y ago
They also have a good podcast on this. https://www.private-eye.co.uk/podcast/49
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by joefife 5y ago
Contemplate suicide? Four post masters actually did it - https://www.standard.co.uk/news/uk/post-office-scandal-worke...
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by joefife 5y ago
It does sound insane, but sometimes these things are founded. Just a few months ago, a local government body finally awards as millions to someone their formed chief executive had been persecuting for two decades. During that time, the rand
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by joefife 5y ago
I'm afraid my experience is with local companies, so unless you're in the central belt if Scotland, it won't be much use. The two companies I'm thinking of recruit only for IT. If you have a local IT recruiting company,
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by joefife 5y ago
Yup. I simply exit the process if I'm confronted with this nonsense. I know they're popular to hate, but I really rate IT recruiters for removing the pain out of job hunting. Perhaps I've just been lucky, but my involvement w
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by joefife 5y ago
"This isn't some fringe crackpot theory - and it shouldn't ever have been treated as such." A big concern was the bloodlust against China - and that by humouring this theory, there could be fatal consequences for Chinese
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by joefife 5y ago
I've seen intelligent people, who are experts in their domain, fall from grace through age or illness. Once critical thinkers, now vulnerable and gullible. I wouldn't be so harsh.
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by joefife 5y ago
I've found the complete opposite effect. Allowing people to work undisturbed has, for my team at least, allowed faster delivery of goals.
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by joefife 5y ago
People for in from all over the world. That is literally burning oil.

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