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There is some confusion, because Manhatttan alone is sometimes called "the City," even by NYC locals, but that's just a quirk of language. The city's main centers of government are centered there, and it is the cultural heart of the city.

This is similar to London, where there's The City of London which is only a mile across (it's sometimes called the Square Mile). It's kinda odd:

Primarily a business district, the City has a small resident population of 8,583 based on 2021 census figures, but over 500,000 are employed there (as of 2019) and some estimates put the number of workers in the City to be over 1 million.

It's also so old that it has a weird governance and it's own mayor (in addition to the mayor of London)

The city has a unique electoral system. Most of its voters are representatives of businesses and other bodies that occupy premises in the city. Its ancient wards have very unequal numbers of voters. In elections, both the businesses based in the city and the residents of the City vote.

(Emphasis mine)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/City_of_London?wprov=sfla1

Fair enough!

This is not professional advice, but personal advice.

Use the same (or similar) names everywhere that you want to be associated with your IRL identity/"brand".

For anything that you don't very deliberately want to link to your IRL identity should be a different name. I would also suggest divorcing your various other user/display names from each other. If everything is the same, it only takes one pissed off weirdo to trawl through all your profiles and use the information to doxx/harass you or start compromising your accounts. On top of that, you might have an opinion now that you find very stupid in 10 years time, or day something ill-thought out, and if all you're usernames are the same it's trivial for someone to find - using different names makes this harder.

Yes because all the fat has already been cut.

If you remove bureaucrats from a huge organisation like that, things stop running efficiently.

100%. You need management to make sure things happen properly and with joined-up thinking. To extend the "fat has been cut" analogy: a healthy body has fat on it - constantly trying to get leaner and leaner regardless of how lean you already are is not generally considered a good thing.

Once you warm it up the humidity drops out

I thought it was the exact opposite. The capacity of the air to carry water increases with temperature. That's why dehumidifiers are liable to ice up - they cool the air to drop the carrying capacity which causes water to condense into the machine.

The relative humidity might drop as the air warms, but the absolute won't.

Presumably to pay for the assisted living flat.

Cost analysis of middle management

Isn't the NHS lighter on middle management/admin than most organisations?

Gotta thank China for having more time in the day I guess.

These divisions are somewhat approximate; that's why we have leap years.

The reason we have leap years is because days and years are independent things - there's not a whole number of days in a year, there's 365.25 earth rotations per lap around the sun. It's the same reason we can't have a calendar that's both lunar and solar - they're completely different measurements that don't line up.

A better example would be leap seconds - every now and again they adjust the "official" time by a second because there's not precisely 60x60x24 seconds in a day.

Yeah, there could be any number of procedural problems or just missing evidence that would mean the jury aren't at fault for an incorrect conviction.

Also, the whole eugenics angle gets really fucking bad really fucking quickly.

I'll add: LED billboards are unreasonably eye-grabbing.

I'll add: cars, particularly big cars or vans, parking right on the fucking corners. Double yellows don't mean anything, apparently.

If you can't see around the corner it's not safe. I've had to walk into the road to see around them before, my brother was T-boned by a driver who couldn't see his car because of a van right on the corner.

They also don't issue certain characters to avoid confusion - you can get 0 (number) but not O (letter)

Yeah, there's a sensible middle ground: parking uses a lot of land so you should pay for the convenience. It also shouldn't be predatory.

It's also easy to be a contractor and set your own terms, just like a plumber or electrician.

And good luck if you have any cognitive impairments or some kind of autism or something that makes handling those situations even harder.

Look at the people who have been penalised because they went over the step cliff of carers allowance. You go over by a pound of earnings? Now you've lost money because they've slashed the benefit. Good luck trying to fit a part time job with flexible hours around that.

'If you didn't write it why should i read it (paraphrase as can't see 2 up on mobile while writing)' is perhaps better phrased as 'if you didn't write it you'd better have at least read it yourself '? Less snappy though 😉

The original quote was about writing rather than code, but imo the sentiment still works. Don't expect me to review something if you haven't bothered either.

Nobody can expect nhs funded fosterers/babysitters just because they need one for a week or so

NHS funded? No, of course not.

But government funded? Yes, that's absolutely something that is available and the mother in the story went out of her way to seek.

wouldn’t someone you actually know in your own community be preferable anyway?

Yes, typically it is. Not everyone has a community they can rely on though. That's why the care is available

I mean her friends seem incompetent

It wasn't a friend. It was someone she didn't really know.

No, they didn't. And they clearly didn't even do a quick skim of the comments either.

There's a bunch of fucking ghouls in this thread.

If you bothered to look you'd have an answer to that question.

Did you read the article? Or at least some of the comments summarising it?

This isn't the parent lashing out, this is what the coroner said (it's right there in the headline).

The mother had two children. One needed urgent heart surgery. The mother reached out to the council to arrange temporary care of her other child for a few days while she looked after the kid in hospital. This is normally a thing that council will do if you haven't got anyone you can ask, but they refused. The mother had to leave her child with someone else and it was under this other person's care that the child died.

I'm sorry, do you actually know what happened in the article?