Adam Hill

Data Scientist and recovering high-energy astrophysicist. I also enjoy running, if somewhat slowly. All views are my own.

[Adam Hill @AstroAdamH]

The 2017 Total Solar Eclipse as seen from Swan Valley, Idaho from first to last contact. #cottonwoodeclipse #eclipse2017 #astrophotography

[Adam Hill @AstroAdamH]

@Baron_Douro @moving_charlie What does that job advert even look like then because as you say the skills and experience that a £50k candidate brings are very different from a £200k candidate. Are just advertising, "We have open roles"?

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@Baron_Douro @moving_charlie Surely, as a business that has to "meet payroll" you've already established a budget for any given role you are going to recruit to? And that's not to say that the internal banding for a position doesn't exceed the starting range that you are planning to advertise.

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@KingBill @itsdbtalks Funny by my checks £10 in 2023 would buy me 2.63kg of chicken and today £12.21 would buy me 2.81kg of chicken - so from that perspective I'm doing better

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@rachelnabors Congratulations

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@DeuceSparky @hmv666 @jeremyct So you’re using government tax incentives to invest in your retirement so you won't burden the state, while switching to an electric vehicle to cut emissions. Those are great outcomes and literally what those reliefs are designed to achieve. Thank you for contributing to society.

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@StephanieSadie2 @Jenny_1884 @bloggerfpl Wait did you not go to schools, or use roads, hospitals, parks, and other facilities BEFORE you started contributing to the system? That must have been a very challenging childhood.

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@KSB83377803 @Jenny_1884 @bloggerfpl How did you pay for it for us? Internet access isn't a paid-off public gift; it's an ongoing commercial service. Young people pay their own monthly broadband bills, phone contracts, and equipment, just like you did."

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@NorthDevonRoyal Question, when you were told yo cold retire at 65, how much were they promising to pay per week?

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@MikeHimer @Jenny_1884 My point is that the implied social contract is established when you START contributing to the system; if it subsequently improves that is then a bonus to your expectation. So unless you only started paying into the system recently it was reasonable to use the past tense

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@MikeHimer @Jenny_1884 I never assumed you were receiving the state pension yet. I was trying to establish what you were expecting your eventual state pension to be based upon when you started paying into the system. The rise to 67 was passed into law 19 years ago, nothing to do with this government

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@JulieSm62732149 @Fr12ee44Spewxh @sharrond62 I said it's higher now RELATIVE to the median wage i.e. the state pension as a percentage of the median wage

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@ds31828 @Fr12ee44Spewxh @JulieSm62732149 @sharrond62 Ok, so your response is to say that the UK state pension is 38% of all employees median earnings. Can you tell me when in the history of the state pension that percentage was higher?

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@Fr12ee44Spewxh @JulieSm62732149 @sharrond62 It isn't being cut and it's higher now relative to the median wage than it has ever been.

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@siwmaebutt @Jenny_1884 Yes and you are getting out more than should have expected at the time. Were you campaigning for higher NI payments and therefore higher pensions while you were a worker?

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@MikeHimer @Jenny_1884 And yet it's the best UK pension that's ever been offered so more than you ever could have expected from the state when you started your working life. What were you expecting from the UK state pension when you were paying in your NI contributions over those years?

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@NickNackKno @Skidwyn @fynnvestor It's a relatively new thing that you could put it all on cash anyway. In 2013/2014 you could only put half your annual allowance into a cash ISA and your total allowance was only £11,520.

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@LexiBeaChorlton So you took 12 years of free state education, a subsidised university degree, and free NHS cover, but now you refuse to work to help fund state pensions or other people's care?

You aren't 'fighting socialism'; it's adopting the exact work-shy entitlement Reform complains about!

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@Roy82648023 @Adam00872774 @SandyofSuffolk How has your life personally got worse under this Labour government? What policies/laws that Labour brought in have caused it to get worse?

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@curbdooog @Jenny_1884 Bit of a half truth there; more the case that she sold off the council house AND actively prevented local councils from replacing the homes that were sold. Nobody objects to helping people getting on the housing ladder they object to the depletion of social housing stock

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@SamuelProctvdd @Louise681145 @Hollybarrgirl @2p6fxtmhh9 @EssexPR Would you take the same approach to anyone entering the country? Should the fact that an American citizen caused the death of British teenager mean that we should not allow any American/foreigners into the country? After all, "Why should we take the risk with any of them...?