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Ya'll only have 25% corporate tax rate in England? America is jealous.

Oh yeah. That'll do it. Jesus. That sounds really bad.

Can anyone explain why??

Ironically by doing things that you have fun with, you are more likely to make an impact on the world then someone who is focused on making an impact.

US tax dollars spent training these mercenaries!

Modern PHP is actually really sophisticated. It's just the users that are terrible. KIDDING!

I work at LinkedIn and everybody jerks themselves off by calling themselves engineers.

Silicon Valley likes the ego wank of being called engineers.

I have two phones, one for my personal shit and one for privacy intrusive shit like my work wants to install or this.

Seems to be the best solution.

I have no idea.

HA I didn't even look but should have known it would exist!

Or a gun site called Gathub.com.

Who do you propose things to? The boss? What if you've proposed numerous things but they've been turned down?

Do PC zealots understand statistics?

That's hilarious and sad at the same time.

I knew a guy who had leveled poisoning to max level and would walk around poisoning fishcakes and leaving them innocently around town for people to pick up and eat no suspecting anything wrong. They would then die and he would loot their bodies. Worked surprisingly well.

I would like one of these that blinks out whenever I pass near a traffic camera.

This is not accurate.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_basic_income_pilots

Imagine spending 1500 on a device that can be permanently disabled just by saying something Facebook censors don't agree with.

1500 bucks down the drain.

Ive tried both. I hate a big city but also hate a small town. I've found a good middle ground of a town of 50k or so gets you good food and things to do but also you're still in, or close to nature.

I wish you would edit your comment to indicate that the country of Pakistan is not a s-hole but the current government is and possibly also the fanatical religious culture is.

Their leader MBS completely got away with murdering Kashoggi in cold blood and having absolutely no repurcussions not even politically. The USA treats them as a first class political ally.

Most of 9/11 hijackers were from Saudi Arabia.

Between murdering reporters, hosting terrorist groups, and horrible human rights abuses....There's literally nothing Saudi Arabia can do to get any repercussions for anything.

I disagree. There isn't a single PC manufacturer that comes close to the hardware of a Mac. I mean in touchpad technology ALONE you can't find anything even close.

Cost to performance for a Mac is better amortized over time. Sure you can get some bargain basement i7 computer for half the price of a Mac but you will need to buy a new one in half the time of a Mac.

Not to mention the unpleasant experience of fighting half ass designed interface peripherals which just reduces your quality of life if you're on a computer all day. And the unpleasant experience that is Windows with literal Ad's in the OS and a required registration with windows cloud for your OS to work....

Thrown Linux on it and keep it rolling.

People aren't stupid.

If a PC company came out and charged premium prices but gave you the best quality PC's with a well engineered interfaces and hardware, it would do just fine.

But almost all PC vendors produce bottom of the barrel half ass crap consumer grade computers with terrible QC, that will start falling apart in a few years.

Even the big name brands like Dell and HP who could do better.... prefer shipping a crap product to reduce the bottom line.

And word gets around.

Every single dell xps I had failed via hardware after a couple years. I have Mac's that are still going after a decade.

We should be thankful that Mac exists to show us what's possible with a computer...or we would be at the mercy of these terrible computer manufacturer monopolies and thier crap consumer machines.

Side note, is anyone using one of these as a daily driver computer for development?

The specs look decent enough and the price is cheaper than a laptop.

Cool, thx for the info. Best of luck with your venture! I'm sure being a technical person will come in extremely handy over and over again.

You have to make it interactive and use multiple sources.. Just recently I was reading about prevailing winds in the Atlantic and I searched global maps to visually recognize them, sailors accounts, yachting world magazine articles on them, etc. And after a bunch of this I learned the subject pretty well. Alternatively, If you're learning a tech subject you can build a mini project or look at both code and the text or look at other articles.

Just reading paragraph after paragraph is dry as shit and no way to learn.

This is cool. In construction? Do you plan on doing residential, industrial, or commercial? Do you have previous experience?I would love to build physical things for a living.

Requiring diversity doesn't really solve the problem. Now instead of a small group of rich white people living in the same neighborhoods and going to the same parties and keeping the funding and opportunities away from the rest of the unwashed masses it will be a small group of mixed races of people doing the same.

The ultimate issue is the cronyism of Science.

This reminds me of the fact that 80% of new hire professorships already come from only 20% of schools.

https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2022/09/23/new-study-fin...

Anything that is regulated by the government tends towards cronyism instead of competence over time because they have an endless flow of taxpayer money so no competence is needed to keep the money flowing.

Just wanted to say I think VLC is awesome! One of the first things I install on a new computer. Thanks for all the teams hard work and good luck with this situation.