TheHalc

Because it’s toxic for the type of brexiteers who objected to the EU because it meant there were more foreigners in the country. Even “worse”, these people will mostly be visible minorities.

This is a crucial constituency for the Conservative party.

You don’t get rich by turning down easy money.

To what extent is the issue of using screens before sleep a question of mental overstimulation as opposed to specific frequencies of light?

Genuine question.

Sure, but there’s not much they can do about it if things are properly encrypted, for example using DKE on M365.

I’m sure they’ll have a great time when there’s no one to pay their pensions.

Sounds like your issue is a shitty workplace and shitty managers more than it is not not working from home.

This is what I was thinking. I’m very lucky to live somewhere where I can live without a car - even here in Helsinki, that’s not always possible.

It’d be the equivalent to spending an extra 2-3 hours a day working (because that’s what the total commute would be), plus money on vehicle upkeep

Maybe this is one of the reasons I actually prefer going to the office. For me, it’s only 15 minutes by metro.

No additional cost, very little wasted/lost time, and I actually enjoy being able to draw a line between work and life by putting them in different physical spaces.

Perhaps it also helps that my managers encourage people to work from wherever they feel they’re the most productive. It’s nice to know that I have the option to work from home without having to explain myself.

Amazon is shitting money. They’re not exactly a typical company.

Maybe for a small number of companies in a small number of industries, but most companies rent their office premises, even large companies.

I’ve worked at several multinational companies that sold their HQ buildings when they recognised that building management was not a core competence for them and tying up capital in real estate has a significant opportunity cost for them.

It’s no skin off their noses if commercial real estate plummets in value - if anything, it would be in their favour as their rent would decrease.

I wouldn’t put it past this government to develop torpedoes that would be triggered by small boats - nominally for “modern assymetric threats”, but actually for killing refugees.

They’d be torpedoing those boats if they thought they could get away with it.

If this works at all, every material scientist in the world will be working on similar materials and manufacturing processes for them to improve the effect and make them more manufacturable.

I believe I have read that it’s literally impossible to copy an object’s quantum state without destroying it, so in a real sense a transporter that’s indistinguishable at a quantum level would be moving you rather than creating a copy and killing the original.

The good thing is that if you can detect an effect from a medication and determine its mechanism, there’s the possibility you may be able to synthesise something with a stronger effect and more manageable side effects.

Yeah, I don’t think that really works unless you’ve got a strong wedge issue that can be used to threaten the main party.

I think you’re absolutely right, we need electoral reform precisely so that more diverse views can be represented in government.

For now, though, the priority has to be ejecting the Tories.

Let’s get electoral reform first, yeah?

Nope. There’s a reason they go after video games that use the red cross symbol for health packs, that dilutes the meaning of what the red cross stands for.

I think Apple users typically fall into one of a few different categories:

1. “I’m a creative/visionary”
2. “I don’t really understand computers”
3. “I need a native Unix command line”

Thanks for the link, but I already provided links to all three patents (confusingly, with the same names) that they were making claims on in my reply.

The thing about patents is that they are regularly granted for blindingly obvious processes that should never be patentable. It’s not just companies like Google that get screwed by this, it’s individual developers, FOSS projects… All sorts.

The patent system is fundamentally broken.