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I’m going to sell up my city house and get a little land in the country so we can be more self sufficient while shit increasingly hits the fan.

We in the first world need to radically reduce our consumption and reassess our relationship with this planet, and we need to do it now.

For me it's that whenever the media report on a subject I have expertise in, I can immediately see how much of what's reported is total bs.

The UK really shat the bed since the 2008 financial crisis, huh.

Seems the real story here is climate change significantly increasing the price of a staple food.

“Pasta is cheap anyway” is such a privileged point of view.

Sorry for your loss, nobody should have to go through that.

How do people in the US who don’t have insurance get treatment for themselves or their family members in situations like this? It seems inconceivable to me that they or their kids are just expected to die?

Interestingly the site is completely ad free within the UK as it’s funded by the public.

Good to see. Rails is still a fantastic framework for building web apps in 2020.

It’s about power dynamics. Generally speaking, one bad employee isn’t going to tank a company, whereas this makes it possible for one bad tweet to tank a person’s employment prospects.

Name and shame these companies until this stops.

This article is utterly fucked on my phone. Content disappearing right off the edge of the viewport that you can’t scroll to.

Yes, it’s extremely viable if you’re good at it.

Banking in the states must be pretty awful, because as someone living in the UK, I don't think there's anything here I don't already get with my existing bank accounts.

I can pay with my phone or a tap of my card pretty much everywhere, most banks have pretty advanced apps and APIs now, I don't think credit cards (or credit card debt) is as much of a "thing" here either.

I'm not saying it's bad, it looks nice and convenient, but it's not really a world changing banking disruption either. It just looks like an Apple branded version of what I've already had for years.

Good?

Can't upvote this enough. People seem to think having an electric or induction hob is somehow superior to gas.

Nah. Gas is by far the best thing to cook on.

While I think this is probably a net good, at what point does my computer stop being my computer?

What if I want to keep something Apple dislikes on my machine?

99%+ of my usage of the touchbar is pressing escape, adjusting screen brightness, speaker volume, or accessing music controls.

All of these worked flawlessly when I had physical keys, but now it's hard to know what I'm pressing without looking, and sometimes the controls become unresponsive to touches or drags.

I'm a programmer/business owner, so perhaps it's useful for other sorts of creative professionals, but it feels like a total gimmick to me.

I applaud Apple's innovative spirit, but the touchbar wasn't useful at launch, it isn't useful now, and they don't seem to have put any effort into making it better. I hope they kill it with the next Macbook pro release and just go the touchscreen route like everyone else.

I don’t know why you’re getting downvoted.

It’s slow to adopt new standards and a pain to develop for, but as a bit of consumer software it’s the best browser out there IMO.

The irony of being prevented from reading this article because the site “sees you’re using an ad blocker”....

I know there’s not a mass market for it, but I think a lot of privacy conscious folks would pay extra not to have apps on their TV.

Is there a market out there for a modern dumb TV? A good panel, decent speakers and a load of I/O in a slick enclosure?

I think I’d buy this.

I quit caffeine altogether a while ago, and it's made a huge difference to my quality of life and work.

When I wake up, I'm actually awake. When I go to bed, I'm actually sleepy. I don't wake up several times during the night anymore, and I'm not falling sleep mid-afternoon ever day.

I wish these newspaper paywalls would take into account whether you actually read any of the articles you previously clicked into as part of your “free limit”.

O2

Coverage is an issue underground, but plans are cheap now, at least in the UK.

I think my phone plan costs me something like £12 per month and I get more data than I ever use from my phone (30GB), and unlimited minutes/texts.

Some people completely blank when they’re under examination like conditions. It doesn’t make them bad programmers.

> Sorry, but most vegans have serious nutrient deficiencies, like proteins, vitamin B12 or K2. Humans are meant to be omnivores, we do not have the digestive tract of herbivores to synthesize proteins or the ability to synthesize vitamin C like carnivores for that matter.

Do some research.

This kind of thing is very frustrating for creators.

It’d be cool if comments could be sorted based on their relevance to the article, post, project, or idea as a default, rather than just by time or popularity.

I’ve nominated myself for work stuff I really didn’t agree with in the past, it was because I thought I could help said stuff not be a total disaster.

Leading a country through brexit is a hell of a sword to fall on though. :/

Most people would not vote for this kind of politician.

Yeah, but she did nominate herself for the job after the vote.

Still, better than Cameron.