That’s right if the quote is net of income tax, but that wasn’t clear. While we’re on the subject we should include the 20% VAT (delta 5-10% sales tax in the states) which is the most regressive tax on the poor there is.
Roughly the same with sales tax, it's just 1/3rd of that number.
> But buy a £50k Rolex and yes there is vat.
This is wildly ignorant of how less fortunate people live. They are hit with VAT on many daily expenses. Ignoring that fact and "tsk tsk"ing them for being frivolous is the [British] way.
I'd say it's very close to even odds that the other poster is correct to say "No vat on the majority of spending".
I'd also say that VAT should be reduced to encourage domestic spending and local growth, but I did leave the country for various reasons that can be simplified as "I do not expect the UK government to do the right thing".
Yes, but you're not contradicting anything here. £5/week in VAT is what I'd expect roughly bottom 5% by income to pay, because of limited disposable income.
If you eat in a restaurant, IIRC that's VAT-rated. A meal for two coming to £20? That's £3.33 of VAT you just paid. Poorest 5% can't afford to eat out basically at all, but it quickly adds up the moment you can start affording that.
For purposes of this discussion, I believe VAT is roughly uniform across the EU + UK and some other European jurisdictions. Correct me if I'm wrong, but I did update the comment to limit the critique to the UK.
Am I the only one that remembers a HUUUGE public media push in the US framing "injecting [any] drug is bad"? with a complete lack of reguard for diabetics, people with fatal allergies, and a host of other people who need to carry, or use needles w/ meds regularly?
fyi: the impact is an intentional decision. if your nerve endings are signaling something else(hot, cold, movement, etc), a needle prick can get blurred with the rest or ignored altogether. I suspect the bang/clag CGM applicators produce are much the same.
and, for me, its always been the needle moving around thats been mentally disturbing. digging around vecause they missed for the blood draw, trying to hold a large vaccination dose steady as it needs to be injected over 20seconds. So, I suspect the speed itself reduces discomfort.
I've made it a habit to make single-take videos of any transaction/interaction worth more than I'm willing to eat the cost of. Along with buying a roll of tamper evident tape. Mailing in a warranty claim? Document it's condition and problems on video and seal it up in my car then hand it over to FedEx in a single take. Amazon orders? Start the video with the box still sealed and showing the shipping label, then open and document condition and serials.
It's super low effort these days, and the single take is (IMHO) more important than perfect framing or audio as long as identifying details are legible at some point.
"While recording an unboxing can help document the condition of a product, such evidence is not guaranteed to resolve disputes with retailers or payment providers."
Which is why I mentioned the framing doesn't have to be perfect. It'd help- But, perfection isn't required. Given how little effort it takes, and how much trouble it'll cause the other parties...
Illumos had a really nice stack for running containers inside jails and zones... I wonder if any of that ever made it into the linux world. If you broke out of the container you'd just be inside a jail which is even more hardened.
SmartOS constructed a container-like environment using LX-branded zones, they didn't create an in-kernel equivalent to Linux's namespaces which it then nested in a zone. You're probably thinking of the KVM port to Solaris/illumos, which does run in a zone internally to provide additional protection.
While LX-branded zones were a really cool tech demo, maintaining compatibility with Linux long-term would be incredibly painful and you're bound to find all sorts of horrific bugs in production. I believe that Oxide uses KVM to run their Linux guests.
Linux has always supported nested namespaces and you can run Docker containers inside LXC (or Incus) fairly easily. Note that while it does add some additional protection (in particular, it transparently adds user namespaces which is a critical security feature most people still do not enable in Docker) it is still the same technology as containers and so kernel bugs still pose a similar risk.
It'll be interesting to see if they leverage any new hardware features I've heard of in the past 3 years. One is AMD got the feature that allows PCIe to be DMA'd directly to L2|L3 working. Another is something about PCIe devices being able to talk "directly" to each other. Pretty sure it's actually mediated by the PCIe controller though.
Alas, this is beyond any level I expect to ever see 1st hand, so I didn't retain more detail than I've given.
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