And the difference is even bigger when you factor in the average total tax burden (combining all taxes, income tax, VAT, council tax, fuel tax, etc). For the UK it is ~40% for the US (specifically California) it is ~20%.
Posts by Spazturtle
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Brit space sector struggles to compete with £90K graduate banking salaries
Firefox is dead to me – and I'm not the only one who is fed up
Tug reaches flaming ship carrying electric cars off Alaska coast

Re: 'Noticing' smoke
An electron moves from the anode to the cathode, that is a redox reaction.
The Wikipedia article even calls it a redox reaction:
"Cathode
Transition metal oxides (TMOs) are widely used as cathode materials in lithium-ion batteries as the variable oxidation state of transition metal cations allows oxides of these metals to reversibly host lithium ions (Li⁺) and undergo efficient redox (reduction-oxidation) reactions."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lithium-ion_battery#Cathode
Blocking stolen phones from the cloud can be done, should be done, won't be done
Elon Musk pukes over pork-filled budget bill with Tesla subsidies on the line
Ex-NASA Admin pick blames Musk ties for pulled nomination
FAA gives SpaceX the nod for Starship Flight 9 but doubles the danger zone

Re: Compensation?
Airlines fly through the hazard zone at their own risk, that is the point of the zone. The FAA is saying that this area of airspace might need to be closed with no notice on a given date, and that airlines take the risk of needing to divert if they fly though it and it gets activated.
The alternative is for the FAA to just close the airspace.
Grandpa-conning crook jailed over sugar-coated drug scam
'Close to impossible' for Europe to escape clutches of US hyperscalers
Apple to add fresh accessibility features for 2025
Backblaze denies 'sham accounting' claims as short sellers circle
Trump’s 145% tariffs could KO tabletop game makers, other small biz, lawsuit claims
Trump thinks we can make iPhones in the US just like China. Yeah, right
SpaceX scores $5.9B lion's share of Space Force launch contracts
Appeals court revives lawsuit alleging IBM bilked pensioners
Americans set to pay more on all imports: Trump activates blanket tariffs
AI datacenters want to go nuclear. Too bad they needed it yesterday

Re: "The fuel is long since spent."
Oh yeah the fuel will have a lot of spice left in it, submarine reactors also don't burn as cleanly due to the reactor poisons in them so there is a lot more byproduct than with normal reactors.
The basic design in a long tube filled with a mix of fuel and a burnable neutron poison, then at one end you put pure fuel which can go critical, it burns away the neuron poison in the fuel next to it and allows that fuel to go critical. The reactor then burns from one end to the other over a 10-20 year period.
Top cybersecurity boffin, wife vanish as FBI raids homes
Cashless society could be why fewer kids are eating coins and sticking things up their noses

Re: Yikes
Yeah the paediatric SLTs at the hospital I work at become incredibly stressed out whenever they see me changing button cell batteries in medical devices and insist on watching to make sure the old batteries are put in the battery bin.
At least with non-removable batteries in phones the number of burns is down since kids can't chew on them anymore.
UK's first permanent facial recognition cameras installed in South London

Re: I oppose this
"On principle, under the valid and absolute decree that an individual is innocent until he/she/it/etc is PROVED guilty."
This was revoked in the UK in 2014.
You only count as being wrongly convicted if:
"For the purposes of subsection (1), there has been a miscarriage of justice in relation to a person convicted of a criminal offence in England and Wales or, in a case where subsection (6H) applies, Northern Ireland, if and only if the new or newly discovered fact shows beyond reasonable doubt that the person was innocent of the offence"
https://publications.parliament.uk/pa/bills/lbill/2013-2014/0066/14066.pdf
Part 13, section 161
The onus is on you to prove that you are innocent.
Newport Wafer Fab rebooted with £250M silicon carbide investment
Palantir suggests 'common operating system' for UK govt data
India ditches its 'Google Tax', perhaps to tickle Trump and dodge tariffs
Infosec pro Troy Hunt HasBeenPwned in Mailchimp phish
AWS sued by product manager who says she was laid off for being an older woman
Boeing's Starliner future uncertain as NASA weighs next steps
France offers US scientists a safe haven from Trump's war on woke

The UK makes and services it own warheads, only the missiles are serviced by the yanks.
The next gen Dreadnaught subs don't have integrated launch tubes, instead they have a big cutout where you insert a module which contains the tubes. So theoretically the UK could develop a module for launching French missiles
More Voyager instruments shut down to eke out power supplies

Re: I could only wish my work lasted that long
"Deep respect to the guys who made them and those still keeping them going."
Those groups are mostly the same people, here is the team after fixing the software last year:
https://d2pn8kiwq2w21t.cloudfront.net/original_images/e1-PIA26275-voyager-copy-16.jpg
UK must give more to ESA to get benefits of space industry boom, says Brian Cox
Run DeepSeek R1 on an Apple M3 Ultra Mac Studio? Sure, it'll just cost you $9,499-plus
US stocks slip as Trump pulls trigger on Canada, Mexico, China tariffs
Mozilla flamed by Firefox fans after promises to not sell their data go up in smoke

Re: "selling data" as most people think about it
"So they do admit they want to share our data with their "partners" for commercial reasons but somehow that is not what most people think about "selling data"?"
Google pay them to be default search, so Google is a partner. When you type a search into the top bar they send that to Google and take you to the results page, so they are sharing data with a partner.
Under Trump 2.0, Europe's dependence on US clouds back under the spotlight

Re: Wake up call!
The UK needs to work more closely with the French on defence, our SSBNs should be able to launch French missiles for example. We should have had a joint carrier program, France can't afford more than 1 and no ship builder is willing to build only a single ship, we had to make design cuts to afford 2.
Odds of city-killer asteroid 2024 YR4 hitting Earth creep upward
Time to make C the COBOL of this century
BT fiber rollout passes 17 million homes, altnet challenge grows
Microsoft admits January's Windows Update broke USB Digital to Audio Convertor
User said he did nothing that explained his dead PC – does a new motherboard count?
AI datacenters putting zero emissions promises out of reach

We should not be aiming to reduce energy consumption, we should be aiming to reduce the CO2 produced during energy production. Building nuclear power plants is the clear solution.
It is far easier to replace the 50 ~0.5MW gas power stations in the UK with 8 3.2MW nuclear power stations that it is to insulate, install heat recovery ventilation, damp proof and install new heating in ~20 millions houses.