I don't see anything here that I have not read elsewhere in the last year or so. And the language reminded me of the guys from Wankernomics.
Readit Newsharvey9 commented on "McKinsey in a Box": The End of Strategic Consulting? knowledge.insead.edu/stra... · Posted by u/gfortaine
don't worry it will be 45 billion but we won't build it anyway. But you know, between expropriations, bribes, friends of friends, projects, etc. some money will have to be spent.
UK has already spent 1.2 billion GBP on a bridge over the Thames estuary and construction hasn't even started yet.
Why would someone go to college and then abandon their degree to learn a trade?
The whole point of college is to get a desk job and to avoid manual labor.
Plumbers have to literally scoop poop out with their hands once in a while.
So do surgeons once in a while
harvey9 commented on The EU could be scanning your chats by October 2025 techradar.com/computing/c... · Posted by u/saubeidl
Wow I didn't know the UK cared so much about inline functions /s
Do you know what's even funnier with the UK? Parliament has most of the power
No, that law was about inline roller skates safety. Knee pads and crash helmets.
harvey9 commented on VPN use surges in UK as new online safety rules kick in ft.com/content/356674b0-9... · Posted by u/mmarian
Yes they are but they are indeed service providers as you mention.
That's quite different from a private practice (like a solicitor here) that you pay directly and/or that seeks payment from health insurance.
There are a great many things that the NHS pays practices for on a unit basis which is very much like them seeking payment from an insurer. The system has a far lower administrative cost than the USA model but the contract management process still looks more like a plate of spaghetti and not a circuit diagram.
harvey9 commented on VPN use surges in UK as new online safety rules kick in ft.com/content/356674b0-9... · Posted by u/mmarian
No, I am talking about everyone.
> because if you're employed there is additionnal and mandatory healthcare
Yes, if you are employed in the private sector there is now mandatory additional private health insurance to cover what public healthcare does not.
Healthcare isn't free at the point of use in any case. Things may be automatically paid/reimbursed as the case may be. Private sector is much more involved than in the UK, too, starting from GPs who are all private practices.
The point is that it's not because you have to pay at point of use or because things are more private that you end up like in the US. This is an FUD argument against change.
All the GP practices in England are private businesses working under contract to the NHS. Most people don't notice since the majority of services are covered under that contract.
https://www.kingsfund.org.uk/insight-and-analysis/long-reads...
harvey9 commented on VPN use surges in UK as new online safety rules kick in ft.com/content/356674b0-9... · Posted by u/mmarian
The UK is becoming increasingly authoritarian in ways that feel increasingly antagonistic to the majority of the population, regardless of political party. Taxes are rising (with tax take falling), crimes are going unchecked, just mentioning increased immigration gets a lot of people's backs up, but as GDP per capita continues to stall and even fall, the pressure it puts on services is a factor for many. And we're seeing those with a few quid to rub together leave, but as long as those people leaving are straight, white males, or their families, they're being told "good riddance" regardless of the brain drain and loss of tax income.
On the NHS, I tried for years to push for improvements to switch to digital cancer screening invitations after they missed my mother (offering to build the software for free), which is now happening, but suggesting the NHS isn't perfect is against the religion here. My sister who works in NHS DEI hasn't spoken to me since publishing a book on it.
Every time someone with the finances, vision and ability leaves I think the situation gets a little bit worse, it increases the proportion of people remaining willing to put up with all of it. Anecdotally, many of my friends have already left, some of the older generation want to leave but feel tied in. My flight out is in 6 weeks. Good riddance, no doubt.
The resistance to innovation in the screening invitations is more down to empire building by low-talent management than to the NHS 'religion'. Dr Ben Goldacre wrote a memorable X thread on a closely related topic some years ago.
harvey9 commented on EU age verification app to ban any Android system not licensed by Google reddit.com/r/degoogle/s/Y... · Posted by u/cft
harvey9 commented on EU age verification app to ban any Android system not licensed by Google reddit.com/r/degoogle/s/Y... · Posted by u/cft
>This registry was centralized, continuously updated, and included religion, addresses, family connections, and occupations.
Sorry, but why would the Dutch government need to know all those details in the first place? Did Dutch citizens never ask that question back then? Nazis or no Nazis, that was an issue waiting to happen. I guess it wouldn't have mattered if they did, since the Netherlands was a kingdom and people didn't have much say into how the monarchy ran things.
Your post highlights how shocked people who don't live in a database state can be when they encounter one.
In the UK you can expect to be asked your ethnicity, sexuality, sex, gender, religion and a few other things every time you apply for a job or interact with the state.