Decompensating: the final functional collapse of a declining bodily system that has previous been kept running by compensatory actions or medications. E.g. You can compensate for the effects of aging… (View Post)

The M4 is a touch faster, but not so much so that you’ll notice it out of the box I suspect. One thing to watch is memory - 8Gb was the standard / lowest available for the M2 era Airs & that’s re… (View Post)

Cue Martin Gardner’s graph of the Laffer Curve: Yes, this is a joke but it’s perfectly possible for the Laffer Curve to be path dependent & therefore what happens when you raise or lower taxes no… (View Post)

The Landlord will not agree to this as they have no way to enforce it: Once you’ve both signed the (legal) rental contract they have to give you the keys whether you pay the year in advance or not. (View Post)

I think the government is hoping that the new rules around identifying the people running ltd companies at Companies House will put the brakes on this kind of thing. (View Post)