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How old are you? You mention that you have flatmates, but not everybody wants to live in a shared apartment far into their thirties, especially if you would like to find a place for you and your partner. The problem is that housing in London looks like a commodity that big sharks trade like many other long-term investment commodities. Problem is, that's the places where people would actually like to live that you're trading like it was crude oil barrels. How is that even barely sustainable for a city in the long term? Not limiting that by rules of law is a big mistake, but no politicians would be ever called into account for that.
I am an exception as I rent a room for 500 CHF (the norm is 750-1000 CHF). Also, I pay 200 CHF for the cheapest insurance. Then, I budget about 300 CHF to buy food.

If you insist on renting a nice 2bd aparment, you can do so for 2500 CHF in Zurich-city. If you move just slightly out of town, prices drop. I live on the southern end of town and my company is in the north. It takes me only 35 min to go through the whole city (Zurich is rather small).

In my opinion, cost-of-living averages give a misleading idea because people mentally give "cost of living" equal weight as to net-salary.

Although my life in Zurich costs more than my life in Munich, the ridiculous-high salaries and excellent working-conditions (I pay only 16% as taxes) make me feel that I win the lottery each and every month on pay-day. However, in case of sickness I would probably take a day off work and go to Germany (45 min trip) to go to the doctor there as doctors in Zurich also earn double as much.
Most of the planning policy that affects the current housing shortage (along with most things in the UK, really) is decided nationally, so I'm going to have to go with "yes".

But ask yourself this: Given where you live now, how do you feel about people who don't live where you do deciding what should happen where you live, because it would suit them (not you) better?
Not rights but interests. The brits are getting the shaft, while the rich foreigners pour their money.
This somehow reminds me of x86 SMM:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/System_Management_Mode

In almost all cases, bootstrap code stored in the ROM switches to non-secure mode prior starting the boot loader, possibly to prevent access to certain parts of the SoC that are not intended for public use.

One has to wonder why most SoCs do that, as it would be the perfect place to hide a very deep backdoor of the government kind... one that is unremovable and nearly impossible to inspect. At least with SMM, the code can still be extracted from a BIOS dump; not so with a ROM internal to a SoC.
On the other hand... the existing financial industry - even just the bits around creating and storing currency, and handling transactions - is rather a massive waste too. If it's possible to replace that with something that (a) gives more power to the people and (b) requires fewer people to run, that's probably a good thing - no comment on whether Bitcoin is that something.
Churn. Generally the people leaving are older and whiter than the people moving in.
1. You're confusing theoretical math vs. applied math. Google doesn't benefit from algebraic topology.

2. Startups would exist -- just not as many. The cost would be slightly higher; they'd have to pay employees either fair salaries, or give fair levels of equity. The current situation -- long hours, low salary, crooked options -- would not persist.
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And rightly so, IMO. At some point you have to accept that you aren't in London any more, and the green belt is as good a point as any to do this.

Much better than an interminable urban sprawl.
For an array (which are value types in go) you have the obvious element-wise equality.

For slices? Also element-wise? Even with different capacities? If the refer to the same window in the underlying array? Is there a need to copy the slice for inserting it to the map? Probably yes, because otherwise you could mutate the key from outside. But then it would be inconsistent to assignment (slices are reference types).

I have no idea how this could be done concisely.
It's completely possible to live in London. But imagine trying to stay here, like, for life. Starting family, raising kids, buying your own place. Not possible, on any income. You need wealth, and in London there's no way to build it for salaried professional.

It's a good place to spend one's youth though.
Interesting strategy. Except of course that it adds an unduly amount of CO2 to the atmosphere.
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Relevant BBC documentary: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t2BiuW93bos

What would it take to create a a public transparency database mapping real estate investments to tax evasion tactics?
>five hop circuit, permanent guard nodes, and routes through countries unlikely to cooperate with one another

Won't that make your circuits more predictible as a consequence?
>You're meant to get older, and move out of the city.

This is the perspective of someone who moves into the city from their suburban and small town homes and families. They plan to make a lot of money, meet a partner and drink a lot, get married, get a dog, have a child, then move back to the suburbs in a senior position at a remote BigCo to a house that looks just like the one they grew up in.

Most people in the city were born there, live there all of their lives (or maybe switch cities), then die there. Those people are being displaced by what are ultimately temporary residents who can always go back home.

Are you surprised when you see older people who live in the city?
I think it's just the extra word. "Gallium Valley" sounds pretty cool, and "Arsenide Valley" sounds like a Bob Dylan song.
I think you had it coming .. as many may have pointed out already, the first response from the CSR was "to the point" - i.e. you asked a specific question - and you got an exact answer.

Maybe you didn't like the answer.

So, you resorted to using uppercase words (TERRIBLE).

And you were not given a NO for a service request - you had a question for which the answer was, rightly, NO!.. What else do you expect - a No with an apology attached?

Ideally, you should have responded to the CSR's first reply with a "Thanks for your response ... I would suggest you to strongly consider .. <blah> as it is already a norm and most competitors offer this ... " etc.

Instead, it appears that you took offense ... and well.. it was just downhill for you from there wasn't it :)

I also think the CSR didn't step out of bounds any time ... if this thread is reviewed by his supervisor, he/she would probably get a certificate of appreciation for handling an irate customer.
Few ordinary people live in 'inner London'. That's like the West End, the City. I imagine most people are moaning about Greater London - Shoreditch (where the "Silicon Roundabout" is based), Stratford (where the Olympics were, is part of the wider Tech City initiative), and other trendy neighbourhoods like Kensington, Camden, Fulham, etc. However, even Outer London (typically anywhere that's Zone 3-6 on the tube) is starting to become ridiculously expensive.
Or, ya know, do what everyone else does and commute in?
> Check out the size of the dogs being walked near Central Park. Where do these people live?!

True, it's NYC is an expensive place to try and mix in all of the creature comforts of suburban life. The big dog, the fancy car, lots of square footage of living space. And to young kids, just out of college, who've never known anything other than suburban living before moving to NYC, these may seem like "baseline necessities" that you have to sacrifice in order to live here.

Once you accept that the baselines of city living are different from the baselines of suburban life, things get a lot simpler (and cheaper).

If there are developers unable to "enjoy" living in NYC at a $125-$140k base salary, then that's on them. Plenty of single people love life here on salaries of $45-60k, and are even able to save money.

> Finance has distorted the baseline of what it means to be successful in NYC.

This is obviously only if you try to keep up with them and the other Joneses. There are too many people here. Nobody notices if you don't have a dog, or a car, or a big apartment.

I own a place in a nice neighborhood in Brooklyn, don't want for much, and provide for my family all on a way less than Google/Finance salary. I think that's a perfectly fine definition of success.
My mistake, I just looked at wikipedia

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Income_in_the_United_Kingdom#In...

It's 2007 and income distribution is probably per capita rather than average salary. In that case it's not as extreme as I've implied.

EDIT: A newspaper article from last year claims the UK average is 26k, so London is probably significantly higher. http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/uk-average-salary-26500...
Nobody claims democracy is perfect, but on the other hand, deciding that democracy is broken because it doesn't return the result you like is a special kind of arrogant.

When you require a large number of people to adjust their behaviour to suit your interest, significant measures of patience and modesty are admirable traits.
>you still don't seem to see the irony of bearded new media workers being priced out of the same market they were busy pricing others out of a decade ago.

Because there is no irony. I bitched about that too. I don't want ANYBODY priced out.

>I'm also curious about just how many Arab Oil Barons and Russian Oligarchs you think there are, as a percentage of an 8m person city?

One unoccupied oil baron's mansion in Central London could be demolished and replaced by affordable housing for hundreds of people.

Rich people occupy more valuable space.

>Because right now, blaming a handful of immigrants who are buying multimillion pound properties that almost no-one else can afford smacks of racism.

I think you're confusing an understanding basic physics with racism.
I'm on the same boat. When people know my salary they think I'm rich, but the truth is that I can't save much more than I did when I was living in Holland making ~40% less.

Now I have a baby and the wife can't really have a career because a nursery would cost more than she can reasonably expect to make as a designer at this stage.
The reason for the 10x difference is that paper currency is used at least thousands of times more than bitcoin. Thus it's several orders of magnitude more efficient. Heck quite likely it's something like million times more efficient.

Moore's law doesn't help bitcoin. Because if we produce a miner that has 10x the power efficiency of a current mining hardware it just results into everyone using that miner. Total hashrate would be 10x but the electricity consumption would remain the same. The difficulty adjustment in bitcoin guarantees that regardless of the HW the profit from mining goes close to the electricity cost of it. Thus we can simply ignore Moore's law and focus on the fundamental point of bitcoin mining: Producing waste heat.

Having to continuously produce waste heat to secure the network is a fundamental flaw in bitcoin. An attack against the network (51% attack, using waste heat) must be sufficiently expensive compared to the gains of such an attack. The benefits of an attack scale with the amount of value transferred in bitcoin network. Thus the amount of waste heat constantly produced by honest people also must scale in order to keep it secure.

All of this because one person got the bright idea to solve Byzantine generals problem via unforgeable votes. What kind of vote is that? Waste heat. The guy just figured out how to verify that some other person has produced waste heat. And the whole network rests on the assumption that honest people buy more votes than the dishonest ones.
That is £50k for two, so £25k each ? That's about UK mean gross income and below London (2007:£27,868)

Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Income_in_the_United_Kingdom
Nope. If you're rich and British, you'll do just as well in the housing market as a rich foreigner.
I'm in the ~£4k* a year bracket. The train takes about ~40 minutes to get to London, which is pretty good. You won't get a seat though, so that's 40 minute standing packed in like cattle on a train service that's often
late.

Of course, network rail, the line operator, kicks back money for lateness but the strange rules of your franchise like paying out only on overall lateness and not considering a train that's too full for you to get on as late means they keep 90% of that back for themselves.

For most folks that's only part one of your commute, because few of us actually work where we get into the city. Typically this means getting on the underground for another 30 minutes, this time cattle is being a bit polite.

* Actually, the £4000 is what I would pay if I paid for a yearly ticket. Since I don't always work in London, I get month tickets. These cost £400 a month.
Yep. I keep thinking back to the term "trusted computing".

It comes out of the military, and it is not about the soldier trusting the computer they are using. It is about the generals, politicians and spooks trusting it to not reveal how deep in the shit hole the war has gone if the soldier (or someone else) press the "wrong" button.
Ironically, modern JS frameworks are getting more and more enterprise-y.
Occam's Razor isn't a way to measure the complexity of a given theory, taken in isolation. Occam's Razor shaves off unnecessary causes, and says that given two theories of equal explanation power, we should choose the simplest one.

But in this case, there is no single simple theory; a crash is a simple theory but is very unlikely, given the available data and the searches that were performed.

The OP's theory of Putin stealing the plane and hiding it in Kazakhstan sure seems far-fetched, extremely complex and, well, crazy, but he acknowledges that fact, and it's still an interesting theory.
Moved to Edinburgh from Cambridge. It's brilliant; all the advantages of a large city - working public transport, lots of culture - in the space of a small compact city with a walkable core.
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I had the same error, updating my sass (3.4.12), and running ruby 2.2 did nothing to resolve this issue.
I understand your point but I think that they can go to cheaper localities and start life there. New places will develop consequently. Many times that's how new cities form.
>What? London is full of new housing under construction.

It's full of empty housing too. This happens when people try to use housing as a means to store their unimaginable wealth.
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The point is that the old reCAPTCHA (as I understand it) did not set & grab global Google cookies, and thus did not track you across your web browsing. Whereas the new one does, and the privacy policy is vague enough to allow Google pretty much any use of the data that they generate from this.
A more charitable interpretation of what I wrote would take it in the context we're discussing here.

A + B become increasingly more likely if you contrive circumstances for them to occur together. But even then the overall probability is increasingly small if you consider the number of events that have to have occurred over the previous 13 or billin years.
A very substantial proportion of porn viewers don't restrict their browsing to "reputable sites", and a very insubstantial portion of porn viewers have the will and inclination to retrace their browsing history trying to work out which ad network or tracker beacon is responsible for the disclosure in order to report them to site owners which may or may not be part of the scam. It's not as if nobody is selling clicks to websites making amateurish attempts to persuade you to pay up or face investigation.
Yet Java servers often come out on top in benchmarks, even beating C implementations.
Is that the mean or the median average? From what I know, there are a large number of people earning more than £250K, but a massive group that earns around £20-25K - supermarket workers, nurses, primary school teachers, etc. It's that latter group that simply can't afford to live in London in safe, comfortable environment.
I don't know. I know a few people who live in green belt areas and commute every day to work in central London. Clearly, in some sense, London doesn't end there; and it drives up costs for them and many others. At the same time, I agree that it would be terrible to lose all the countryside vaguely near London.

Perhaps your top-level comment was right: London has just reached capacity. But I'm not convinced of that, either; there are plenty of bigger megacities.
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Great. How do I 'easily' block this on my iphone, please?
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7288085
Exactly. Too much work, risk and investment for a very limited gain. I'd still bet my money on an unknown technical fault, everything else is just speculations with no proof whatsoever.
Zone 4, two hours a day commuting already.
Given all the other costs in California, having a car is pretty cheap; you could easily support one on minimum wage.
How does your picture get stolen along with credit card data? And isn't your phone quasi public information anyway? Nowadays, unless you have a very common name, it's not that hard to find someone's details (picture, phone, ...)

I've had my credit card "scammed" several times and I just fill in a piece of paper and the bank refunds me the money and each time it's cost me exactly zero euros.

I've used Bitcoin a few times and love how it works, but my lack of understanding of the security precautions required to handle hot & cold wallets + the volatility of it makes me just averse to it. I prefer my credit card getting scammed anytime to the uncertainty of what will happen if I convert a large amount of euro to btc.
and that's still barely enough to live comfortably.

Many people live comfortably in London for far less than 90k gbp, it all depends on your expectations and requirements.
> In fact Russians make up an increasing number of tourists in south east asia

True, but not in Malaysia. It is a muslim country with high alcohol tax which could be two reasons that Russians, like many other Westerners, holiday in Thailand and not Malaysia.
Well, both of us are in our late thirties, earn above average and used up almost all of our combined savings of the last 10 years to finance the deposit, taxes and fees to be able to get this mortgage.
> Most people in the city were born there

40% of people in London were born outside the UK

You can't get figures for how many were born outside of London very easily, but glancing at my Facebook feed for the first ten people I know who live in London, only one was born there (and he's from Enfield, which might as well be Scotland). This percentage feels about what I'd expect.
Sure. I used to commute from Zone 2 to Zone 2, and it took over an hour. Had I instead moved out of the city, and commuted in from Reading, it would have been 45 minutes. Don't assume that commuting in from outside of London will take longer than commuting across London.
I'd say it might be a Freudian slip (but there's no sex involved) ... a subconscious thought?
Thanks for pointing that out. Not good enough with the language to appreciate the pun.
Thanks for the link, I built this site :)
We don't need patents to justify everything. Think of space exploration. No patents are necessary for the government to invest billions of dollars into that industry.

Furthermore, pharmaceutical companies have no incentive to find a real cure for anything if they can make more money fighting symptoms.
> hijacks a plane with 152 Chinese nationals, unless they want a war with China

Well they were mostly middle-class normal tourists. Probably not important enough for the Chinese leaders to care about.
As far as I understand, you can use open-source code for the monitor mode and also for the secure world of the TrustZone, so you're not required to use non-free software.
Value and price are different things in lots of economic theories, e.g. Maxisim
Archimedes! Run through by a sword by an impatient soldier while he was trying to finish up a math problem instead of heeding a summons to some bureaucrat or general or something.
How about Chiang Mai or other city with large digital nomad community?
Decisions based on average (a/k/a "mean") salaries, however, are only relying on a small part of the picture. Personally I'd like to see standard deviations accounted for in here. I have the feeling that it is easier to make 1.5x to 2x these "averages" in some cities than in others, especially for people with experience.
Ah, he is on there. The list is neither sorted alphabetically nor chronologically.
Oh, good, because my belief in meritocracy was getting shaky, but if HN has debunked the well-documented decline in women participation in software (one of the only professions where this happens) over the past one or two decades, then I guess we're all good.
I totally agree. Existing financial industry is a huge waste too (sadly, not many seem to see it that way). But Bitcoin, from what I read about it, seems to have an exponential hunger for power which doesn't lead me to believe that if it replaces current system, we'll be better off.
> if people were used to be watched by an omnipotent god, how is that different from being watched by omnipotent cloud?

That's an interesting meta point which is much wider than this discussion (it also encompasses PRISM etc)

But plenty of us don't believe in the omnipotent God, and most of those that do don't expect Him to adversely affect their every day life by forwarding on their browsing history to their spouse, the local newspaper or the police.
I cringe at the "I wrote a web scraping program to go through the Brickset database". Brickset and Rebrickable both have awesome APIs that can provide all this data in an easily digestible format.
They should've added Washington DC and Boston to this list.
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Oxford Knight looks like some sort of recruitment agency. Any link to the actual institution offering that?
I said the article was debunked, not the whole phenomenon. There are better sources documenting it.
Saw this in Singapore as well. I expect most countries will end up like this (except maybe Norway). Including "welfare" (HAH!) states like Sweden.

I see old people begging because lack of jobs - that's native Swedes, not just EU-migrants these days. Didn't see that 10 years ago.
I would say Berlin would look good, cost of living there is decent mainly due to the reasonable rental costs and good transport, and the demand and job mobility that has improved a lot there. Dublin also wouldn't rate too badly. London would probably look more like New York.
I think there should be no distinction between software or hardware or even mathematics. What counts is the amount of research effort that went into an invention. It would be unfair if a mechanical engineer could make millions, while an equivalently capable software engineer could not. Therefore, I think the EU has it all wrong.

And this is regardless of whether or not the patent system as a whole should be abolished.