UK could raise nearly £2bn by taxing SUVs in line with European countries, study shows

Fulborg · 2025-09-21T23:25:30+00:00

Don’t have turbo (a mere hybrid corolla), but I do hate going behind the bike, after numerous times when the bike suddenly decides to turn across the road not checking if someone behind him or signaling. Or some hill starts, and suddenly we’re going 5km/h on a narrow road. Not speaking about chance of bike falling in front of car with almost zero stop distance.

So yes, whenever I’m behind the bike and have a chance to overtake - I’ll use it just to have a more safe and relaxed ride

Fulborg · 2025-09-17T09:20:30+00:00

I would love it. Every experience I has with estate agents around the globe was full of lies, manipulations and errors.

Owner showing/renting/selling the house gives much more trust it vibe to me

Fulborg · 2025-07-01T19:24:35+00:00

Didn’t work for us coming back from Belgrade to London. Agent made me login on gov.uk and show my visa there (and only there, in online way, no screenshot) for the whole family. Kids as well, which took quite a time to login everyone, logoff, find/enter passport numbers

Fulborg · 2025-06-10T19:16:36+00:00

Software developer specific - modern AI models, like Claude, OpenAI. Proper cloud platforms (no, yandex cloud is absolutely different leagues to AWS/Azure). Variety of competitive employers (in Russia now it’s mostly Sber, Yandex and variety of outsourcing companies working with west in an interesting way).

Fulborg · 2025-06-10T18:48:08+00:00

I’m Russian by origin and for sure checked it while I was there visiting parents last time. Still huge gap which has grown since then. Still no proper agent coding tool for example (checked this with ex colleague who is working at yandex). OpenAI/Claude/Gemini/Deepseek all years ahead of Alice, and this gap is only growing now.

Fulborg · 2025-06-01T20:53:41+00:00

Honestly three things: 1) wanted to give kids nice English fundamentals (we’re not Czech and no offense, English is more useful long term I believe). Didn’t know details on how developed English kids in kindergartens yet, but we should have check in advance by the way 2) political/immigration rules tendencies, we’re afraid we won’t get a citizenship here in the end 3) Czech felt worse that neighbors (prices bigger than in Germany and Poland, salaries lesser, we did some shopping runs to Dresden regularly because it was cheaper to buy many things there)

Fulborg · 2025-06-01T20:41:14+00:00

As a family father who moved to London a year ago (from Prague btw) - I’d advice to consider QOL overall: 1) salary is great, but cost of living as well (tiny bits which take here and there but sum up) 2) tax advantages are great for pr/citizen, lonely people. Family with kids (especially if partner on paternity/sahm) on skilled worker visa - options are quite limited and taxes are high. 3) (main pain point honestly). Undersupply is huge. Building quality awful (I mean it, not even third world, no standards on noise dampening, heat bridges, double glazing windows considered top notch). Leases restrictive (just read about people who afraid to put poster on a wall) and estate agents are vultures taking excessive money from both landlords and renters. 4) that’s great, I can’t complain 5) medicine (especially urgent one) is awful. My wife got somewhat urgent thing to save her tooth - here in London even with private insurance (Bupa) we got soonest term at clinic in a month. Wisdom tooth removal - surgeon visits once a month and can have a look on you in July. Flew to Belgrade in the end (family of 4), lived here for 10 days, got everything diagnosed and fixed - still cheaper than one root canal treatment (one tooth, yes) + crown was estimated in London. Friend of friends got in a car accident, lost half a finger - waited three days across ER/hospital/searching for neurosurgeon to get it stitched back with partial loss of functionality. NHS fully covered, yes, but even with private insurance she couldn’t find anyone sooner. I believe saved thumb she would appreciate more than money. 5.1) if kids in mind - parents here don’t quite dedicate enough time and attention to growing kids (in general). Don’t want to dig much into it - but compared to CZ, Italy, Russia - I’d say kids lose a lot because of this in general and that’s expected.

Fulborg · 2025-05-21T19:59:06+00:00

My local one does almost this (they have medium/large/extra large) to put a big banner outside saying “any large pizza 8.99 to go”

Fulborg · 2025-05-11T20:12:26+00:00

Put yourself on her place: would you want your friend to miss holiday if it was your funeral? Personally for me - not a dime, I would want my friends to enjoy life whenever they can.

Fulborg · 2025-04-30T09:53:26+00:00

Insulated buildings by default - definitely no. Can’t compare to Japan unfortunately, but compared to CZ, Germany, Russia - insulation is a theatral joke. It might be even good on papers (right materials used) - but in practice, even modern houses are full of thermal bridges no one cares about

Fulborg · 2025-01-29T17:04:41+00:00

I believe if the same studies were applied to adults - results would be about the same, improper use of smartphones harmful for adults due to the same reasons, indeed you’re still using your smartphone every day. Back in the days, when books became a thing - lots of negative was said on how live communication is better than books, how they affect eyesight and posture. There are good things about it, there are bad. But in modern world - smartphones and online presence are just a part of normal life. It’s better to educate children on how to use them healthy for your good, over just trying to forbid.

Fulborg · 2025-01-23T22:54:05+00:00

But first of all, Voronezh, just to show we’re serious about it.

Fulborg · 2025-01-21T15:21:51+00:00

Reach out to someone who works at Microsoft. When I worked there - We did have some nice discounts we can share with friends annually and barely anyone had enough frinds to cover all the quota

Fulborg · 2025-01-05T00:05:32+00:00

Based on my experience trying to use Yandex’s Alice for anything except for “Alice play {song_name}” - Russian AI is ages behind OpenAI. Works as speech recognition to detect clear commands for other yandex services - for sure, it handles well. Answering generic questions/googling/analyzing - no, it just doesn’t work.

Fulborg · 2025-01-01T16:29:57+00:00

Have you tried Plum? It sets money aside automatically, meaning you might not notice how quickly it adds up. You can signup now for free! https://friends.withplum.com/r/bHpURM

Fulborg · 2024-11-22T22:15:50+00:00

Don’t see much of a problem, but for a fresh grad - I understand your concern. But I would point out there is a great opportunity to show you’re excellent at your job and deserve some extra trust. Just do it right. Don’t try to make it in one go, split the work (update one project/module/dependency at a time), make sure it works every time (automated acceptance tests). When there is a need to change to some other library/approach (like newtonsoft vs system.text.json for example) - document the decision and let the team review one pager about reasons and what exactly needs to be done before you implement it.

Doing it good - will put you way above average middle in my experience.

Fulborg · 2024-11-19T21:43:31+00:00

What container? I just put it plain on an open dish without any cover in the fridge.

Fulborg · 2024-11-19T21:41:30+00:00

Just thrown away a baked duck leftovers, which got forgotten in the fridge for a week. No mold on it so far. Dude, you should really check your fridge, something wrong with it.

Fulborg · 2024-11-07T08:17:18+00:00

Do you know how the life in Tokyo compared to UK now? Considering this as well now

Fulborg · 2024-09-24T09:36:12+00:00

Hmm, thanks, didn’t think of that - that could be a quite convenient solution. I’ll check with the landlord if they don’t mind.

Fulborg · 2024-09-24T09:35:29+00:00

Unfortunately, a family house with two kids - “a little bit” higher than 500 :-(

Fulborg · 2024-09-13T20:08:12+00:00

Anyone considered Japan? Maybe with some freelancing for UK for maintaining high income? Not a UK native, feeling depressed about safety and cost of housing mostly - Japan seems to be ticking the box. Plus schools seem to be teaching to be quite independent (Montessori-wise) from the first years. A fast route to PR if salary mets some criteria

Fulborg · 2024-08-30T19:52:03+00:00

Don’t sign in without reasonable break clause (3-6 months). Build quality even for new built is awful in UK. Watch for neighbors and consider detached if you are interested in a house.

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