No he is not. The people who vote for him couldn’t give a shit, they just want “brown people out of the country” and head to the sunlit uplands where The Empire still rules and we were a superpower, instead of a failing state with a economy in tatters.

Everyone who isn’t in yet backs electoral reform. Then they get elected and they’re all like “this leads to strong governments”. It’ll never change. It’s the UK after all.

This is legit the biggest lol. Yes I’m aware this is the PS/2 path only and today it’s actually polling on USB or Bluetooth keyboards but this really tickled me. The face of that CPU bird!

Ah there’s definitely attention on this, through the attention on screen time.

It’s great that M4/M5 is booting but M3 support is still sporadic and incomplete.

Unfortunately I don’t think people pay enough attention to council politics to put the blame for poor local solutions at the door of Reform. Local elections tends to be “with the heart”, national elections with the head. Let’s see. I do agree with the point that reform is most likely to shift voters towards an “against reform” vote; it certainly would mine.

I’m sorry for your loss.

I would feel the same way if I lost my wife.

Just our election system. Honestly FPTP is the cause of so much crap in our country.

No, not from a startup. It might be worth mentioning that I’m in the U.K. so the terms and lingo may differ from yours.

I’ve had RSUs from series D scale ups. I’ve had options from start ups. Typically in the UK they’re wrapped as an investment you make on entry (using a loan the company offers you) to only pay capital gains tax (25% in the UK). And I’ve had RSUs from big, established enterprises.

What’s common to them all, for me, is that they’ve broadly not paid out what they were advertised to, either because the stock falls (Unity springs to mind), you leave before anything material vests (and the hiring company matches your RSUs) or there’s no liquidity event.

I trust cash, paid into my bank account. The rest, IMHO, is just trumps (US: farts) in the wind.

Well it depends on how the RSU is set up of course. All the equity I’ve apparently received in my time is still waiting on “defined liquidity event” before I can do anything at all.

Yes, there’s nothing like an imaginary number that keeps growing and never materialises.

My first computer was an Amstrad 664, with a green screen. I’m old. And I’ve been around Vim and EMacs from time to time and I love the console but for the love of god, since GUIs became the normal way to interact with computers, I just install micro now and have the same hotkeys across all the modes of interaction.

Speed of typing really isn’t the defining productivity measure for code.

Now I use VS Code in a GUI and micro on the console and that provides a reasonably consistent way of interacting with text.

Extending US reach. Tripwiring Russian aggression. Creating leverage and secure bases from which to gather intel on the Europeans. Creating a foothold for the US weapons industry.

Only one of these directly benefit Europe.

Have you seen what happens in country where there is no channels with enforced impartiality channels?

You get the US media picture. It’s clear that the BBC has problems. But you can’t remove those problems and then have no problems. Instead you get a different set of problems.

But look, if our democracy, which you have a vote in, has decided that the BBC is funded by universal subscription, then the BBC does obviously have to make sure this is enforced. I feel like you’re complaining about speed checks on a 30 road, IMHO.

Fantastic, thank you for the update. And yes I did mean beyond meat. I happen to think it’s super tasty.

What’s the carbon footprint of BM? I remember being told it was very high, but hard to find numbers.

Sir, I tip my hat towards your general direction.

Yes I get the point but I guess it depends on you considering a car a luxury or a requirement. Where I live, it’s definitely a luxury - we’ve got great public transport.

They are definitely proof that alternatives exist. Whether they can scale to governing a state of disperate cultures and peoples is a different question.

But you did answer with some real alternatives, which I’ll look into more. Thank you.