throwawayfire

I would much prefer music notation where time - the duration of notes and rests - was indicated by space, rather than symbols.

That would be one less thing to decipher.

(This website does not appear to cover that option, considering this undesirable)

As such, we should also admit that this benefit is potentially worth $0 to a healthy person.

I didn't do that calculation on a "for me" basis: I looked at the generally advertised cost. Paying in advance is cheaper for anyone taking out a policy.

Did you reduce your employee wages each by $7800, at that time, or have you declined to give pay increases of $7800?

That's your choice, but it might be useful for you to know:

I checked some private healthcare insurance where I live, and the difference in cost between these plans was in fact only $800.

Counting [public] healthcare as "income" from labor seems extremely... Republican.

Should we also count caring for relatives as 'income' to the people being cared for? (We don't.)

>If you didn't get a padron (local residency certificate for your municipality)

Worth noting that local registration (padrón) is a requirement in Spain for all residents, including EU resident citizens, and also that there was 11+ months notice before this agreement came into force (if you don't want to count the 4.5 years notice since the referendum).

Meaning, people who were present in Spain but not legally resident could have chosen to "move" from the UK to Spain at any point until Dec 31, 2020, just by registering at the town hall like they were supposed to all along.

Your description of heavy paperwork seems to be a highly exceptional case which allows people who didn't register (but can prove they were resident) to now appeal.

It seems to me most likely that the speaker had continued to be "resident" in the UK for tax purposes, and effectively had a second home in Spain.

As such, they were claiming welfare benefits in the UK, meanwhile working in Spain, and not declaring their income for tax in either country.

The EU-UK Withdrawal Agreement allows for existing residency to continue on the same terms as EU residency, i.e. no language testing.

The group of people in the article either: have chosen not to apply for residency in Spain (noting that the technical deadline to apply is not until July 2021); were not resident in Spain before February 2020; and/or were not meeting EU rules for residency in Spain anyway.

> If the globe reached herd immunity as fast as possible then there wouldn't be enough time for any variant to become established.

That's obviously false, given that we are observing many meaningful variants without anything close to herd immunity.

Each person infected is an additional chance of a variant with antigenic escape, let alone vaccine escape.

My point was to observe that:

- first, government spending is highly scrutinised, by the convention that people expect every tax dollar to be spent in a way that they deem worthy;

- whereas, most private businesses are not scrutinised in any sort of comparable way (often not even when they are spending tax dollars - which they can, directly and indirectly).

I'm not sure this is true, except that you are comparing the worst of government projects with the best of corporate projects.

Most businesses fail. Hell, most Google products have failed. As such, overall private spending is woefully inefficient (despite a few big successes), and government spending is relatively very efficient.