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Yeah it is horrendously complicated for different nationalities! I've only ever had to provide a scan of my passport to employers in order to prove I have a right to work. Never had to do that when renting. I bought a house recently, so proper ID checks were part and parcel of that (but that was the same for my British wife).

I'm an immigrant living in the UK, I have no such ID card. I have a driving licence and that's about it from stuff issued to me by the British government :)

> but only immigrants are made to have ID card

Errm, that's not true.

Yes I understand that.

1 - Can the same not be achieved via VPN usage?

2 - Can TOR browsers not already access the BBC in the "clearnet"?

3 - Why do I, as a UK resident, have to provide money so that someone in Vietnam can access our state news?

Don't really see the point of this and am tbh slightly irked at a wastage of my licence fee.

> (Of course, the only people that take EU pay and deliberately do a bad job or fail to turn up are ... UKIP MEPs)

Well that's blatantly not true. And their "job" is to represent their voters, which they are doing. "We shouldn't be here," was their cry in the Euro election.

Absenteeism/disruption by representative politicians is perfectly fine in my book, as long as that's what they campaign on.

> smuggling

Ah here, that's more alive than ever right now!

Did you pay? How much?

My friends think I'm nuts for not having my tv connected to the network (I use my PS4 for all the offerings). It's just a default that people nowadays because it's convenient.

Who said anything about friends?

Just switch after 10 years?

Any front-end stuff, I just have no interest in them.

Related to this, I am sad to see Swift (seemingly) taking over from Obj-C. I really liked it years ago and it has a special place in my heart.

Yes but people have been (rightly) saying this for years. And you'd have been mad to get out of it back then. I'm a passive investor guy. I can't call it and will continue my drip feed.

I picked up a hitchiker about three weeks ago? It's not the norm for me (my wife hates it) but not that unusual. These aren't for mega journeys though. I live in a commuter town near a city so it's usually along that route.

Aye, I've a friend who in recent months has moved most of their investments from the stock market to cash. Why? Because of the massive increase in people doing cocaine. I knows it's cliche about the correlation between that and an impending crash but still, seems extreme to actually put your life savings on it!

My wife knows that there's a book in our fire box which has account numbers of bank, pension, life insurance etc and contact details for same. That's about it.

Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.

The shocking obesity epidemic?

When we release a new version, we always have a big pizza delivery. I'm struggling to think what food you could replace that with, that could satisfy the broad mix of people in our place.

It's a good question though!

> Additionally: when you're up for buying a house and all the lender bank has to look is the credit score, you will be paying more interest than if you apply for a credit at the bank that has handled your business over decades.

Which country are you in? This has most definitely not been the case for me anywhere I've lived. It's irrelevant if you were a customer with the bank before the mortgage application or not.

I live in a country which put a tax on sugary drinks. Personally I think it's been great. All the main vendors came out with sugar free offerings (if they already hadn't one) and I think it will make a big difference to the every expanding kids on the street. Next step is to make it illegal to sell such kids the big cans of Monster and the likes.

> Well the thing about foreign election interference which is left unsaid in sound bytes is the "how" matters hell of a lot.

Indeed. I guess we can't know. But it is funny to imagine.

> was the "Guardian Effect" to blame for the pro-Bush swing in one Ohio county?

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/3981823.stm

> 1. It makes readers of The Guardian feel superior?

I think they achieved peak superiority when they organised their readers to send postcards to voters certain counties of Ohio in an attempt to influence the then 2004 Presidential election against Bush. But that was the good type of foreign interference in politics.

> If we had a PR voting system and the PM resigned. What would happen?

Ireland has a form of PR (single transferable vote), they've had plenty of instances of the Taoiseach (PM) being replaced and not going to a general election straight away.

London is not the only city in the UK. That's what I'm calling bollocks on.

As long as the City of London is independent of that!

Tbh I think the "easiest" single thing which would improve the UK immensely would be to ditch FPTP and bring in some type of PR voting.

> This basically amounts to advising them not to live in a city (which is fine). But some people do like living in cities, and London is really the only option in the UK if you want to do that.

I'm gonna call bollocks on that :)

I agree with the rest to an extent. You're going to be paid higher (well not everybody, but most HN readers would be) and have all the other advantages of London. Fine. But you need to take the downsides with that and stop moaning.

When I was emigrating to the UK I considered everywhere. London was one of the first places I crossed off my list.

> if people would actually would start moving somewhere else instead the same things would happens there.

Not really. Unless everyone moves to the same place. We need to diversify from London. Having everything centred there is madness.

My advice to "millenials" (well I think technically I'm one, so let's say younger ones) is to stay the hell away from London. I read these articles on the housing crisis and staggering rent amounts and wonder am I even living in the same country as these people.