Young people in England feel they must move for better opportunities
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The closest competitor is, what, Unreal Engine? That's more costly.
Tony Blair says junk food should be made too expensive for the poor to afford through new sugar and salt taxes to tackle obesity
You're on an island surrounded by salt water, Tony. If people want salt, they're gonna get salt.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PinkPistols
The Pink Pistols are an LGBTQ gun rights organization in the United States and Canada. Their motto is "Pick on someone your own caliber".[1]
Pink Pistols enrollment up.
It looks like that's what they're doing. The bugfixes are out now, and they're saying that they're providing post-release updates for the FoV slider, HDR calibration menu, and DLSS.
Honestly, this was something that Fallout 4 and Fallout 76 could have benefited from. There were people who used Nuka-Cola for healing instead of stimpaks, especially with Fallout 76's Cola Nut perk, but one significant benefit of using stimpaks instead was that you had a binding for them when using a controller instead of a keyboard.
https://old.reddit.com/r/fo76/comments/x5la14/dilutedstimpakshouldnothavethehighest/
Console players don’t have hot keys so I’d like to be able to choose what’s on the right d-pad button Since it’s the only instant use button I have available. I’d actually prefer if you could bing any item to that button. It would make using the cola nut perk way easier.
Mole said: “The emerging gap between UK and EU pesticide standards is incredibly concerning for our human health and environmental protections, but also for the future of UK agriculture as our standards fall further and further behind those of our largest trading partner. UK food exports containing pesticides that EU growers aren’t allowed to use, are likely to be rejected. Given that the EU still accounts for around 60% of UK agricultural exports, the impact on farmers could be devastating.”
I'd think that the same issue is going to come up for wherever a farmer exports to. Some countries are going to not want given pesticides used, some don't like genetically-engineered foods, some approve specific genetically-engineered foods, some don't allow certain foods from certain sources only (e.g. I know in the US we had many years of a ban on importing British beef after the mad cow disease outbreak). Unless the UK and that other country have exactly the same set of requirements, a farmer is always going to have to have the food conform to those standards.
Yeah, it's simpler for British farmers if the UK also has the same restrictions, countrywide, as a given export market, but I don't think that it's a fundamental issue for exports. It does mean that they need to ensure that they avoid violating standards for that export market in addition to domestic requirements.
Here's a graph of US exports:
https://www.ers.usda.gov/data-products/chart-gallery/gallery/chart-detail/?chartId=58374
The top five markets for US agricultural exports are China, Mexico, Canada, Japan, and the EU-27. While, under the USMCA FTA, Canada and Mexico do have mutual recognition of standards, so that the onus of proof in disallowing a comparable standard from another USMCA member is on the rejecting country, normally things acceptable in one country are also acceptable in the others, and that doesn't require that their standards are identical. Japan and China and the EU-27 definitely don't have the same standards. Just means that stuff that is exported to a given destination needs to conform to whatever requirements are placed in that export destination, even if stuff that isn't going there doesn't have that requirement.
If you merge CLIPBOARD and PRIMARY, every time you select text, you'll wipe out the contents of CLIPBOARD. You won't be able to copy text, then do any work that involves selecting text, then paste.
“We get approached by the US frequently. Whether it’s Arizona, whether it’s Indiana, whether it’s North Carolina, we’re constantly being approached and they’re putting things on the table: ‘We can offer you this, we can offer you that,”’ he explained.
My impression is that the EU -- dunno about post-Brexit UK -- has more-extensive restrictions on state aid, whereas US states have a pretty free hand in competing with tax breaks and the like on a per-company basis.
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State aid law prohibits EU member states from granting aid in a manner that distorts competition and the European internal market. The application of state aid control to tax issues represents a unique intersection between competition law and tax law and is likely new for many U.S. tax practitioners. There appears to be no direct parallel in domestic U.S. law.
EDIT: I believe that I recall a lot of concern during Brexit negotiations from the EU that the UK would permit state aid, and that this wouldn't permit a level playing field, so I think that constraints on that were one thing that the EU sought in the TCA.
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Yeah:
https://www.politico.eu/article/10-key-details-uk-eu-brexit-trade-deal/
State aid
State aid proved very contentious during the negotiations, with the EU keen to ensure the U.K. couldn't use subsides to allow British business to undercut the bloc and the U.K. determined to set its own rules.
The resulting compromise is just one area where this isn't the end of the story — rapid work now needs to be done in order to make the agreement operational. Specifically, the U.K. needs to create a body to oversee its own subsidy control regime.
“David Frost has done well to negotiate broad overarching commitments on state aid, which give the U.K. discretion on how it wants to set up its own subsidy control regime,” said Alexander Rose, lawyer and director at law firm DWF. “However, the government urgently needs to publish details of this new U.K. regime, because it has already legislated to remove EU state aid law with effect from 11 p.m., 31 December 2020.”
There’s also a carve-out within the deal that allows for exceptions to state aid rules, Rose noted, provided the U.K. parliament or the Council of the European Union approves the money. It’s rarely been used as an existing power for the Council, but it’s important that the U.K. has a power that mirrors it.
This kind of arrangement is new and one where historical examples won't prove very insightful. The outcomes of the first few fights will set the direction, a person familiar with the legal advice the U.K. government received during the trade talks said.
That appears to tally with the view of the U.K. negotiating team: "The state aid provisions are quite specific. They enable two completely different systems to operate but designed to accomplish rather similar things in the sense that there's a set of broad principles that are agreed between us,” they said. “Some bits of the subsidy policy arrangements are subject to arbitration in a particular way others are not. It's one of the tailored bits given the sensitivity of it."
I dunno what the present situation is, though, or if the courts have even settled things.
EDIT2: More details on post-Brexit state aid changes:
Note that payscale.com just measures salary; it doesn't include other forms of compensation, taxation, cost of living, public services provided with that taxation, etc. So there are some additional modifiers.
UK general practitioner:
https://www.payscale.com/research/UK/Job=GeneralPractitioner/Salary
£64,922 / year
($81,152.5)
Australia general practitioner:
https://www.payscale.com/research/AU/Job=GeneralPractitioner/Salary
AU$134,272 / year
($85,934.08)
Canada general practitioner:
https://www.payscale.com/research/CA/Job=GeneralPractitioner/Salary
C$147,395 / year
($109,072.3)
US general practitioner:
https://www.payscale.com/research/US/Job=GeneralPractitioner/Salary
$127,451 / year
UK surgeon:
https://www.payscale.com/research/UK/Job=Surgeon/Salary
£72,465 / year
($90,581.25)
Australia Surgeon:
https://www.payscale.com/research/AU/Job=Surgeon/Salary
AU$220,000 / year
($140,800)
Canada surgeon:
https://www.payscale.com/research/CA/Job=Surgeon/Salary
C$184,000 / year
($136,160)
US surgeon:
https://www.payscale.com/research/US/Job=Surgeon/Salary
$308,047 / year
It's apparently coming out shortly (like, this month or next). But, more to the point, the delay apparently wasn't because a platform vendor purchased it to be an exclusive, but because the dev team hit some kind of technical problems with the port. That is, it's not in the group of "Mario and Sonic" exclusives used to sell a platform, and Microsoft's acquisition was to make Starfield one of these.
EDIT: Split-screen on the XBox Series S is apparently where the problem is:
Larian has been struggling to get Baldur's Gate 3's split-screen co-op feature running smoothly on the Xbox Series S. Despite the feature working as intended on Xbox Series X, Microsoft policy demands that Xbox Series X versions of their games cannot have any features that Xbox Series S editions lack. This means that canning the feature on Series S simply isn't an option for Larian.
What’s a mongrel?
It's a non-purebred dog. Which, amusingly, tend to have fewer health problems than purebreds.
Huh. I was just watching a review for No Man's Sky that made virtually the same point about that game, down to the 50 hours. The review said that the first couple hours were very boring, but once the intro and early game was out of the way, it got way more interesting. His pinned comment reads "I have now sunk in 50+ hours into this game. It keeps showing new stuff. Please help me. My family hasn't seen me in days. "
Maybe open-world game developers need to see if they can streamline the intros somehow. Even if the intro isn't a large percentage of the time you play the game, it does make the first impression.
I don't disagree that the mods for Bethesda games are cool, but problem is that the barrier to getting a massive mod list set up and working after years of mods have come out is considerable.
I feel like, given the sheer size of the mod library, mod managers need something like a list of base, curated set of mods to start with, kind of what Wabbajack does, but then have the ability to add mods to it. That way, to get you most of the way to a heavily-modded game, you just pick from among a few popular modlists.
Choosing that curated set to start with would let you avoid spending hours poring over reviews of different mods and culling obsolete information to determine what you think the current-best, say, lighting mod is.
And have the ability to update to the latest version of the modlist, or roll back to an earlier.
Once that's up and going, then if you want to go tweak it or add or remove a particular mod, you can.
I would rank Fallout: New Vegas more-highly than Fallout 3 too, but it wasn't developed by Bethesda. They just published it. Obsidian developed it.
I would guess that any platform-exclusive game is going to have some level of that, just because you've got fans of Platform A and fans of Platform B. And Starfield was purchased by Microsoft specifically to have an X-Box (well, and PC) exclusive, so...
Go back to the 1980s, and it was "Mario sucks" or "Sonic sucks".
I play games almost entirely on the PC, so the Starfield acquisition (as well as the other recent acquisitions by Microsoft or Sony or whoever that have been driving the antitrust concerns) haven't really been on my radar, but if I had a popular game coming out on my platform and then someone paid to ensure that I didn't get it, I'd be kind of irked.
I did use a Mac, many years back, and I remember being annoyed when Bungie -- then a major game developer for the Macintosh, in an era when the Mac wasn't getting a lot of games -- was purchased by Microsoft in 2000. Halo did come out for the Mac, but Halo 2 didn't, and I imagine that a lot of people who were on the Mac then were probably pretty unhappy about that.
Same here in the US -- I can't recall anyone people being picked on for clothes, though I'm sure it must have happened.
People sure did get picked on for other things, though.
I think that if kids voted on whether to have a uniform, you'd find that very few schools would have one.
I think that the reason that the state doesn't mandate uniforms in general life for adults on the same grounds is because the adults have a say in the matter and wouldn't tolerate it.
The two people concerned in the article both study computer science.
I'm not saying that there aren't benefits to being local, but generally-speaking, software development is one of the fields easiest to do remotely.
I'm not saying that companies are always open to that, but it can be made to work.
There are a lot of jobs for which that isn't a realistic option, true enough. You can't be a plumber remotely. But of all the examples that they could have chosen, this seems like an odd one.