Yes I should have said “employed full-time” probably. This also doesn’t account for the self-employed who have to manage it themselves too rather than having their employer do it.
Yes I should have said “employed full-time” probably. This also doesn’t account for the self-employed who have to manage it themselves too rather than having their employer do it.
If you’re British and employed your employer is legally required to provide a private pension I believe. You also get a state pension if you’ve been paying national insurance (most people will get this taken out of pay cheques before you ever see the money, same as income tax). Some employers offer “matching contributions” up to a certain amount. For example if you decide you want to send £100 per month into your private pension, your employer will also do the same, so your pension gets £200. These contributions are tax free so it’s a tax-efficient way to save money when compared to privately investing where you’d have to invest from your income, which has already been taxed and then potentially have to pay capital gains tax on profits.
That works until all* games come with root level anti cheat. It was the same with micro transactions which people still defend despite being utter shit.
Helldivers 2 does the same thing. If this continues it will be extremely advisable to move any non-gaming use-cases to a different computer as you have no idea what the “anti-cheat” is doing with that level of authority over your computer.
I would be curious how this actually works in practice. What counts as “in progress”? Encounters? Plot points? Knowledge that a goblin has? If all of those things are “in progress” and you can only have so many things in the “in progress” column, I feel like you’d very quickly have to break that rule and then everything becomes “in progress”.
Coming from a country that doesn’t have this sort of thing it’s really weird as an outside observer. Students have to swear allegiance to the flag every morning too which is the sort of thing I would imagine happens in north Korea or dictator states.
Kind of surprised this is getting so much criticism. It’s a thought experiment, not a call for a fundamental change to all PC UX. My only real argument against the idea is that it’s framed as being “for efficiency”. If you want efficiency above all else you would just go full command line.
I think there’s a bit of “whoosh” happening…
“It was the left that ruined Truss’s budget!” Was the genuine reaction of someone I talked to about this a while ago. Could not believe it nor understand it. Still can’t.
I’ve not built anything beyond simple scripts in rust but I’m looking at some of the cosmic codebase to see what I can do.