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The Portuguese alternative "MB Way" has small NFC tags that can be tied to your account and used instead of the phone. You still need to register it in the phone. But it's a small step in the right direction.

You just described a camera from hell (minus the connectivity part). Muscle memory is very important in photography, half presses, AEL/AFL lock buttons, exposure compensation. There's so many things that have to have physical buttons, you will not be looking at the screen to do these things.

This is exactly the same problem Tesla created with the touch buttons for turn signals, not everyone is a BMW driver, we use turn signals.

Isn't all about proving that the candidate "took the time to study all our questions"? It's about showing that your company is better because people take 6 months studying to apply there!

I thought this was a well known.

Because lobbying is illegal, right?

> Is prison labor bad in all cases?

Yes, all prison labor is bad in all cases.

Why? It's very simple, you're creating a market that incentivizes incarceration. Prison should be about recovery of a human being and trying to create negative incentives so people think about making a crime (this is a bit debatable).

When you create a market for incarceration, what you're saying is "we don't want to lower crime". So yes, it's bad in all cases because we should be creating incentives to lower crime instead of how to make it profitable.

I wonder how much improvement does cowboy will get from the JIT

> Q: Do "minimum wage" rules apply 1) in theory, 2) in practice to postgraduate students?

If you have to find a part-time to pay some of your expenses yes. In that case a part-time in Lisbon will pay you slightly more than half of your room and in "your case" it would pay the whole room. It's a BIG difference if you have to go down that road.

> Yet more [ancient] data: UK science research council funding for PhD students in the late 1990s was nothing to get excited about; I have an old bank statement here, BBSRC paid me the princely sum of £1377 on 1 July 1998, and by the way, that was for that quarter not for a month.

I do agree that post-grads are very badly paid. But that's another issue.

> Q: Do we really think postgraduate students should expect their parents to still be funding them?

Not really, but if there's an emergency I think parents will not let their kids starve.

And this hackernews rhetoric of 'if I suffered everyone has to suffer as well' needs to end. That's not how you move forward.

225 GBP wasn't 75% of the 700-800GBP minimum wage at that time. And ignoring completely inflation to help your point.

Students are broke, but parents can help, and if your "room" costs half of one your parents wage, that help is less likely to happen. Or make the poorer even poorer.

That situation is totally different if your room costs a quarter of one of your parents wage.

afaik Portugal is on par with the EU average on income tax and slightly above corporate tax. Of course because of the low average wage it the high bands of taxing start much earlier than the rest of the countries. But lowering taxes does not increase wages, companies will always adapt to pay the least possible and if the wages are lower they will just pay less.

And in all the countries the middle class pays for the rich and poor... unfortunately.

"with a very late full lockdown in place". It actually proves that locking down early works and things get out of control extremely fast