There was nothing technical about abandoning the switch. It was Microsoft pouring huge amounts of money into lobbying to prevent the switch.

Not exactly true. The US only entered WWII after the tide had turned and the allied forces were winning. It looks like they were waiting for a clear winner before committing.

FairEmail is pretty good, lots of advanced options and customisations.

Every time they try this (it's usually the tory scumbags) there is a huge public backlash. I'm surprised the Palantir contract is still going ahead. No one in this country wants tech companies or foreign military contractors having access to their most personal and private information.

Didn't the US lobby hard for the copyright laws and treaties in the rest of the world?

How much does the "prestige" and connections even matter beyond a certain point? After your first few jobs (UK here) when you're younger, no one gives a shit where you studied or even if you went to university at all once you've racked up some good years' experience.

It's quite common here for hiring managers to (internally usually) roll their eyes at an Oxford or Cambridge graduate! It tends to be a stronger indicator of entitlement & attitude problems rather than suitability for a job; this is a big-ish generalisation though, there are certainly a few good and well-grounded folks that come from the famous schools.

I dunno, there's probably less than 1,000 people (mostly CEO/CxOs, bankers, politicians and military leaders) that we could program a robot to kill and the world would be a substantially better place

and UBI should replace a lot of existing benefit schemes. So it's not a net 82.5t, you have to factor in removing a shitload of waste and bureaucracy also. Reduced homelessness, increased education rates, lower crime levels are all expected to factor in. What's the value on all of that?

In the UK we have Jobseeker's Allowance--the system has a lot of problems (created by the torys, shocker) but it does give you weekly cash to help tide you over until you find a job.

It can also cover your rent and basic essentials if you lose your job. Do you not have anything like that where you live?

https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.gov.uk%2Fjobseekers-...

So if somewhere where child brides are legal (I think some parts of the US, many other countries) makes it illegal, all the previously sold children must stay married to some gross old man? The law shouldn't be able to be retroactive?

Whoever is paying for it decides what's useful, that's obvious. If there's a national shortage of good medical clinicians and particly physicists, pay for those. If people want to do water polo, let them pay for it.

Or just make university affordable by normal people, I recall paying £6,000 a year in England--tuition fees are capped, and student loans to cover these only earn interest equivalent to inflation.

If you haven't paid it off in X years (30 I think?) it's wiped off. You are only required to being paying towards it once you're earning more than a certain annual salary. If you earn minimum wage for 30 years, you'll never pay a penny towards it and it'll be discharged.

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In reality, most of the western countries are fed up with China's shenanigans and looking for an off-ramp to cooperation.

This is mostly true, so is this:

"In reality, most of the western countries are fed up with the USA's shenanigans and looking for an off-ramp to cooperation."

I live in the UK and it's a huge problem here too. It's not boi racers installing custom lights here either--it's the factory LED bulbs and are insanely bright.

I cycle and walk around the city, and at night these headlights can dazzle you and slow your reaction times down noticeably... so unsafe.

I always see these types of places called "elite"--they don't appear to be, they're just famous. There's nothing especially better about them than many other universities, from an educational perspective.