Balero

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The finance curse: how the outsized power of the City of London makes UK poorer(theguardian.com)
2 points by Balero 8y ago|0 comments
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by Balero 8y ago
I think in this case it means "died".
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by Balero 8y ago
The very definition of second and third world were created and based off of the cold war. 1st world = USA/Western Europe + allies 2nd world = USSR/China + allies 3rd world = Everyone else. By definition Russia started as a 2nd wor
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by Balero 8y ago
I mean yeah of course. I was talking about small hobby drones. Taking it to the absurd, if you get hit by one of those Reapers[0] you might get really seriously injured! [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Atomics
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by Balero 8y ago
I don't like drones flying over public places from a privacy perspective. I've been hit by an admittedly, fairly small drone. I't didn't hurt much at all, and the rotors didn't break the skin. I don't think the
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by Balero 8y ago
I think r/wallstreetbest is supposed to be garbage, but with lots of in jokes.
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by Balero 8y ago
To take advantage of this you need an accumulation of capital in the right hands. This is what finance provided. The industrial revolution would have happened, but slower and later. We'd be waiting for some landowner who had an interes
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by Balero 8y ago
It works quite well with none of these issues. The 6-8am window is for large deliveries. There is normally a retractable barrier for emergency usage (police/ambulance etc) and for minimal day access (I don't know how this is manag
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by Balero 8y ago
How many paper's are published? Would it be economical to have them translated? Could we have a few people translating papers as a full time job?
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by Balero 8y ago
Trains and buses do have their flaws. Both have a defined start and end time, and place that they pick up and drop off. Additionally both don't have the best coverage, especially outside of large cities, and then not all of them either
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by Balero 8y ago
I don't know if you are purely talking about mental health. But I would add in some resistance training, for bone health amongst other things. "enough sleep, cardio and some resistance exercise"
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by Balero 8y ago
I largely agree with her. An individual animal doesn't matter to me (not from a "hey, lets go kill things and make them suffer" perspective, but "hey, life has a bunch of bad bits, things are gonna die and suffer, thats
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by Balero 8y ago
Yeah that's fair. That is pretty rough. I was thinking about the actual death of the animal. I think a quick slit of the throat and bleed out is probably better than starving to death or being literally ripped to pieces. " (not &#
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by Balero 8y ago
It's better to have as wide a diversity of animals and plants as possible. It doesn't matter what the animals care about, which is probably food a sex, though I think if they had the capacity they would prefer to not die out. When
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by Balero 8y ago
Pigs, Chicken, Cows. Basically every animal domesticated for food is a separate species from it's wild counterpart. In some cases (aurochs) the wild predecessor is deceased. These species survival 'strategy' is to be useful t
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by Balero 8y ago
Who ever you're quoting wasn't me, please look at the author name. It seems you are arguing another person with another opinion.
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by Balero 8y ago
So if he was to benefit from it, his opinion would change? Its' obvious it is likely it would.
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by Balero 8y ago
Would "time away" be better do you think. I mean they are "off of work" as in not at their job. If you took some time off to do something else equally taxing I would normally refer to it as time off, probably with a cave
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by Balero 8y ago
"Yes, although some of the theories about Neanderthal extinction involve climate change, not intelligence." My point was that they were less adaptable. For example, the climate changed and they were unable to adapt. I stated that
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by Balero 8y ago
Homo-sapiens were weaker and had a smaller brain, and less advanced culture and technology then Neanderthals. But we're here and they are not (except in like 4% of European DNA). What matters is how adaptable we are. And we certainly a
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by Balero 8y ago
Personally the idea of being tame revolts me. Maybe even more so than our violent and gruesome past. I also don't think they are linked. There is a definite difference to being civilised and being tame. MLK and Gandhi were civilised, a
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by Balero 8y ago
You can just do "time Dublin/London/city of choice" and it'll give you the right one.
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by Balero 8y ago
"One of the thoughts I keep returning to is how little we know about the history of the peoples who were living more than 400 or so years ago." I'm assuming you're talking about in America pre European colonisation. In t
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by Balero 8y ago
It's the expectation that I dislike. Feels like people are resigned to poor systems. "Hey most public stuff is crap, this is bad" - Fine by me. "Don't make that public, it'll be bad because public stuff is bad
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by Balero 8y ago
In the UK, voters are a fair bit closer to MPs than people in the US (where I currently live) are to their congress representatives. Though much much further from Members of the House of Lords than from Senators. However there is a complete
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by Balero 8y ago
The meme that (all) government is terrible at technology is getting tired. It is not necessarily true that a publicly run system will inevitably be crap/inefficient/archaic. A good example is the British gov.uk group, who have mad
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by Balero 8y ago
I think the entire point of this is to drop what you perceive to be your obligations and to focus on yourself. You first have to identify what you see as your obligations, and to query them. This can be the keeping up with the Joneses, buyi
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by Balero 8y ago
In fairness its a different coloured bit with a giant bike on it. All behind a solid white line.
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In the UK there is no strip club culture like there is in the US. The only people who go in them in the UK are slimy old men. It is not something even remotely acceptable, and I would think less of anyone going to one here. "What do yo
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by Balero 8y ago
You have to approach it with the knowledge and motivation of those people. First off, you don't know where you're going, at all. You have never been more than 20-30 miles from your home base, and neither has anyone out of the 30-4

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