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New comment by incone123 in "Britain to introduce compulsory digital ID for workers"

incone123 — Fri, 26 Sep 2025 07:13:40 +0000

Tax numbers have no bearing at all on your right to work. If you work legally in the UK for a while then you get a national insurance number but if you then leave and your work visa expires, your national insurance number remains as an identifier.

New comment by incone123 in "Britain to introduce compulsory digital ID for workers"

incone123 — Fri, 26 Sep 2025 07:07:43 +0000

Can't say until the implementation is revealed, but the person you replied to pointed out that fraud at the application stage is a problem.

New comment by incone123 in "Britain to introduce compulsory digital ID for workers"

incone123 — Fri, 26 Sep 2025 07:06:00 +0000

Checking for right to work has been legally required for over a decade. Checks in the formal economy are now routine. Can sometimes be a nuisance, like for my friend who doesn't have a passport and his driving license was issued before those went photographic.

New comment by incone123 in "Britain to introduce compulsory digital ID for workers"

incone123 — Fri, 26 Sep 2025 06:59:10 +0000

I have never seen a report of a business ending because of a fine. I have seen reports of hospitality business having to close because they lost their alcohol licence, where the licencee employing illegal immigrants was deemed not to be a fit and proper person.

New comment by incone123 in "Britain to introduce compulsory digital ID for workers"

incone123 — Fri, 26 Sep 2025 06:54:58 +0000

Recently the prime minister delivered a speech and then later walked the entire thing back saying that he hadn't read it before delivering it. A man who has declared that he is nothing more than a text to speech engine probably doesn't have a plan.

New comment by incone123 in "Demand for human radiologists is at an all-time high"

incone123 — Fri, 26 Sep 2025 06:27:46 +0000

Calling the edge cases correctly, I would think.

I hurt my arm a while back and the ER guy didn't spot the radial head fracture, but the specialist did. No big deal since the treatment was the same either way.

New comment by incone123 in "Demand for human radiologists is at an all-time high"

incone123 — Fri, 26 Sep 2025 06:20:55 +0000

Need to work on the comedic delivery in written form because you just came off as leaning on a stereotype

New comment by incone123 in "Nintendo Alerted After DHS Uses Pokémon to Promote ICE Raids"

incone123 — Tue, 23 Sep 2025 17:24:37 +0000

When I was growing up, it was extremely common for left wing artists to rework and subvert corporate art. It is sad to see activists now so limited in their imagination that their strategy is to run to tell the corporate lawyers. If you wish for more corporate control of intellectual property, well I'm sure the Republicans and the Democrats will both be happy to oblige.

New comment by incone123 in "After 50 years, The Magic Circle finally inducts Penn and Teller"

incone123 — Tue, 23 Sep 2025 10:15:08 +0000

" The best magicians make it look like magic even when you know how the trick is done. "

Agree with this. I remember being the 'skeptic kid' at a birthday party long ago. The magician involved me in a trick everyone could figure out but it was done with charm and I was completely delighted.

New comment by incone123 in "Delete FROM users WHERE location = 'Iran';"

incone123 — Tue, 23 Sep 2025 10:04:43 +0000

Do you think North Korean leaders would be nicer to their people if there were no sanctions?

New comment by incone123 in "The dawn of the post-literate society – and the end of civilisation"

incone123 — Sat, 20 Sep 2025 20:17:29 +0000

I'm not debating. I made a statement.

New comment by incone123 in "The dawn of the post-literate society – and the end of civilisation"

incone123 — Sat, 20 Sep 2025 16:10:37 +0000

Having to question "do you mean x or y" because the sender is not clear is not iterating.

New comment by incone123 in "Show HN: FocusStream – Focused, distraction-free YouTube for learners"

incone123 — Sat, 20 Sep 2025 10:39:54 +0000

The third party tooling is constantly at risk of being broken by YouTube. Not sure regulation is the answer either. Any alternative still needs to at least attract creators and cover it's own costs.

New comment by incone123 in "Trump to impose $100k fee for H-1B worker visas, White House says"

incone123 — Sat, 20 Sep 2025 07:24:27 +0000

Much the same as in a strike when workers get mad at scabs. The person right there in front of you is looking out for their own best interests and in those circumstances that is to your detriment. Capital uses immigrant labor partly for simple price reasons and partly because those workers interests really are different from the locals and their lack of local connection makes them a viable slow motion scab workforce.

New comment by incone123 in "Trump to impose $100k fee for H-1B worker visas, White House says"

incone123 — Sat, 20 Sep 2025 07:16:12 +0000

Britain tried to impose wage controls after the black death. Results were mixed. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Statute_of_Labourers_1351

New comment by incone123 in "Trump to impose $100k fee for H-1B worker visas, White House says"

incone123 — Sat, 20 Sep 2025 07:07:02 +0000

Plenty of old photos of people running drying lines between them and the opposite tenement building. Not saying people should do that today, just that it's what people did when they had neither space nor means to buy a dryer (or before dryers were invented)

New comment by incone123 in "This map is not upside down"

incone123 — Fri, 19 Sep 2025 10:46:19 +0000

I prefer maps where the arctic ice is shown in white. I know it isn't a landmass but you can go for a walk on it, unlike all the other blue areas.

New comment by incone123 in "Want to piss off your IT department? Are the links not malicious looking enough?"

incone123 — Fri, 19 Sep 2025 06:06:12 +0000

The CSR shouldn't see the whole string but not all systems follow that approach.

New comment by incone123 in "Meta Ray-Ban Display"

incone123 — Thu, 18 Sep 2025 11:53:36 +0000

I see what you mean now. But all Luxottica brand name glasses have a big mark-up on a quite cheaply made product. They are better made than what you find on the rack at the supermarket but the perception of luxury comes from marketing.

New comment by incone123 in "Meta Ray-Ban Display"

incone123 — Thu, 18 Sep 2025 09:37:48 +0000

You would avoid ray ban conventional glasses in protest at their association with meta? Don't forget to avoid the rest of Luxottica Group's products. I would bet (on Polymarket) against such a boycott gaining traction.