> Even in WW2 that was not the case, there were huge swats of land where people were living as if there was nothing going on.

Isn't that overstating it? I'm aware of swathes without fighting, but wasn't trade pretty disrupted? Wasn't it pretty apparent in port towns if not elsewhere?

Usage varies, there are a few notations for specifying whether the set of natural numbers/positive integers includes zero when it matters.

'Always round up' sounds more like the ceiling function (or ceil•abs) - usually rounding means to the nearest integer, or whatever we're rounding to.

They tend to be printed on the device itself, along with serial number and default SSID etc.

I think that's just poor phrasing in the article - seems like unique passwords that can be reset to are ok, just not a common default of <manufacturer>1234 for example.

I think they've mostly improved, but you used to be able to just search '<manufacturer/ISP> router default password' and get admin access assuming it hadn't been changed (and who here knows someone that doesn't read HN and would change a router password...)

I have no idea, I don't have to do anything like that thankfully.

But then you still have to draw a line somewhere for what's trusted outside of it - browser & password manager for your bank example, and for SSH keys probably at least some project related tooling that you have to decide to trust or audit or whatever.

If you use both host & VM I think my point stands, the host may as well be another VM (or the VM another physical machine) it's not that it's virtual that's adding anything, it's the separation, which was my point.

Because it was a rhetorical question, I wasn't actually asking what people consider to be a 'global standard English', I was asserting that that's nonsense. There are many dialects of English across the globe, the Indian dialect as valid as the American; the fact that there's enough common ground between them that we can understand each other doesn't change that (it's surely prerequisite for calling it a dialect and not a different language).

I certainly don't switch to 'global standard English' or AmE when I'm talking to someone who isn't British, and I doubt anybody thinks I'm speaking incorrect 'global standard English' as a result.

Ah yes I can just about hear that - probably regional variation, I wouldn't use it that way myself.

That's common in the UK too. Rear warning lights that is, can't imagine when headlights would be in the right place for it; they're more often used by the other person in that scenario - 'after you'.

> [in England ...] For me, the horn is a warning sign - "get out of my way" or "watch out!" - only to be used in emergencies.

That is not the correct use in England, especially not 'get out of my way' (emergency services' vehicles aside) - and it needn't be an emergency (uh, again!).

It's only supposed to be used to alert other drivers to your (non-stationary) presence, when it appears they haven't seen you or may not be afforded the opportunity - on a winding country road for example, less than two cars wide, it's common to sound it before a blind corner so that if you get one back you can both negotiate a careful passing, or the other car can pull over for you if they have the chance.

Which is pretty similar to what you describe in India really, just quite a different bar for when you need to warn of your presence!

Ha, interesting. (From comments I gather you're in the UK, but for the benefit of others 'just now' here would be a very short time ago; in the past: phillc commented just now.)

I've struggled to explain the nuanced variations in meaning of 'quite' in BrE to a Canadian, depending on tone and other words that really have no right to make any difference. (Think 'quite nice' vs. 'really quite nice'; 'a bit' vs. 'quite a bit'. "That makes no sense", she said. Well quite.)

As a native BrE speaker learning Hindi, what I notice most (if not entirely) is phrases/styles/devices borrowed from Hindi (and probably other Indo-Aryan languages), translated and applied in English.

For example: 'I myself have noticed this' (likely translating ही emphatic particle - a BrE speaker would almost certainly not say 'myself' at all, unless responding to someone saying they had noticed something perhaps, and then it would be at the end of the sentence) similarly 'I/me only' & 'even I'.

Or 'slowly-slowly' (धीरे-धीरे) and other adverbs - while BrE does use repetition for emphasis I'd say it's not nearly as common, and typically not adverbs.

What is 'global standard English'? If you're American, consider that I (British) can find plenty that's 'wrong' with your English, judged by mine.

Indian English has as much right to its own standard of correct as American English. (It's possibly a more widely spoken dialect! Depending probably on whether we say e.g. Europeans learning with heavy US film/tv influence are AmE speakers.)

Yeah, the article seems to painfully ignore it, but the common theme in all its theories (and the way it's painted in its photos) seems to be that 'OK' should be parsed separately, whatever its meaning.

> And aren't US taxes quite low compared to much of Europe?

Maybe if you go through the pain of having 'do taxes' be something you have to do, maximise your 'deductions', and look only at income/sales tax, neglecting tax-advantaged savings vehicles & home ownership.

It's an idea, I didn't think it sounded like the commenter I replied to's idea.

Unless you use a different VM for everything, you've just moved the problem from 'secure your workstation' to 'secure your VM'.

At first I was going to say (a) only works if everyone does that, or you refuse to use anything that doesn't (which I suppose is slightly easier than auditing everything you use...)

But after reading (b) & (c) I think you're answering from a business perspective about this risk on employee machines? I read OP's question to be more about employee's own risk, or if the answer's 'work machine is for work only' then what about the personal machine?

According to Wikipedia, Jim Cramer who coined FANG and later FAANG has suggested MAMAA which makes that replacement, along with Google->Alphabet.

3x income is nice, but what about expenses? Groceries, utilities, and taxes all seem to cost a lot more in North America, not to mention health insurance in the USA.