Jochim

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by Jochim 4y ago
Frankly speaking, this is a load of shit. It's an embarrassingly transparent attempt at pushing an anti-renewable agenda onto a situation that has absolutely nothing to do with renewables.
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by Jochim 4y ago
The free market excuses work for luxury goods but they don't work for necessities. Prices have already reached the point where a large percentage of the population will not be able to afford any form of heating whatsoever over the wint
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by Jochim 4y ago
I think it'd be more accurate to say the will of some people given the effects of the current voting system. That's without going into the effectiveness of tabloid newspapers in inventing public opinion. While people bear at least
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by Jochim 4y ago
Also in the UK. Personally I'm sick of seeing our government cosy up to authoritarian regimes because they have something we happen to want. In the UK we're particularly unlucky in that the people currently in charge don't re
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by Jochim 4y ago
Personally I'm a fan of using relative paths for anything in the same directory or a sub-directory of the current file and absolute paths for everything else. I feel like it keeps things clean while also providing a way to distinguish
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by Jochim 4y ago
I could've written down the correct numbers for the lottery but I didn't, therefore I don't get to claim any winnings. I think it's kind of ironic that - speaking generally - the "patriots" don't seem to c
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by Jochim 4y ago
How exactly was retroactive 'invented' here? If they were already declassified then there wouldn't have been a raid.
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by Jochim 4y ago
> Yes there is. In the UK, as per the latest changes to the highway code, slower traffic should let faster traffic pass, when possible to do so in a safe manner. I haven't been able to find this change sorry, where did you see it? I
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by Jochim 4y ago
I find it kind of funny that your stance is basically "It's never my fault". Try to self reflect at least a little when you're attempting to make a point. > let's not pretend that the majority of cyclists are Tou
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by Jochim 4y ago
I think the prevalence of this behaviour can be explained by the fact that in car centric infrastructure only people willing to take a fairly significant risk will be cycling in the first place. As a result you've selected for people w
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by Jochim 4y ago
Like many things in society it's not entirely objective. It depends on the situations of the parties involved. Take two hypothetical tenants. One is a young software developer earning $15k/mo, the other a retired widow on a fixed
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by Jochim 4y ago
This is a pretty poor argument to be honest. For a start you're misrepresenting the claim. Cyclists are very aware of how car-centric the infrastructure of their country is and the vast majority of them are arguing for resident focused
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by Jochim 4y ago
I mean this depends on the context. In our current market that's how a lot of people operate but it isn't a requirement. See any kind of pro bono work, To be honest it feels like a really convenient excuse that people use when the
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by Jochim 4y ago
I mean the simplest solution would be to tax the holding company as well.
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by Jochim 4y ago
Yeah, that's fair enough. Sadly the natural gas shortage affects more than just winter heating, in the UK at least it's one of the main factors of the price of electricity. All of this has had a knock on effect that goes way beyon
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by Jochim 4y ago
Petroleum prices also spiked, probably related to the war in Ukraine but I'm not 100% sure.
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by Jochim 4y ago
> There are multiple studies and theories being put out on why inflation occur, both now and in the past. I don't really see a major consensus on a single explanation. I wasn't suggesting a general explanation for all cases of
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by Jochim 4y ago
The cause of the inflation matters in how the response plays out. The inflation we're seeing currently isn't being driven by the general population having too much money but the response by central banks has been to act like it is
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by Jochim 4y ago
> Do you feel at all represented by your elected officials? Did you vote for them? If not, why would you accept the burden of guilt for their actions? Personally it varies depending on the official. I think at some level we do bear some
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by Jochim 4y ago
It's not about giving up on them. It's about being willing to accept that you haven't lived up to those values and make the changes necessary to uphold them. While still in the wrong, how seriously should China or Russia take
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by Jochim 4y ago
I'm not really sure what communism has to do with regulation to prevent market failures within a capitalist economy but feel free to explain thanks.
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by Jochim 4y ago
You've entirely misunderstood the post. It's not charities that are struggling, it's individuals whose bills have tripled in the last year. The disconnect between energy bills being so high that a non-trivial number of people
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by Jochim 4y ago
Capitalism is just a tool. When local government and charities are setting up emergency heated spaces[0] because people can't afford to heat their homes at time when profits have tripled for some energy companies then that tool needs
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by Jochim 4y ago
I worked somewhere with a private cloud. It was permanently over-subscribed and the VMs were nearly unusable because of it. Not saying it can't be done well but there's less incentive for a company whose main business isn't p
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by Jochim 4y ago
I don't see what the discussion has to do with communism unless you consider anything but the laissez-faire approach to be so. I felt that the main point of my comment was that we need to engage in "Creative destruction" earl
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by Jochim 4y ago
That the de facto monopolies tend to collapse doesn't preclude the damage they incur on society/competitors whilst they're at their peak/stagnating.
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by Jochim 4y ago
Yeah, it's really weird that when you: - Take a bunch of Russian money - Hang out with a bunch of Russians - Ignore the recommendations of your national security apparatus to appoint Russians to permanent positions in your upper house
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by Jochim 4y ago
They're also the Tory party of criminalising dissent, corruption, Russian influence, and offshoring refugees. The fact that homosexuality isn't as controversial as it once was doesn't preclude their authoritarian nature.
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by Jochim 4y ago
> I understand that they might want to polish it but I'm not sure if polishing is actually worth. The original game has been continuously getting updates IIUC, so it might be totally OK to release sooner and then use the same model
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by Jochim 4y ago
> It's an example that wealth doesn't automatically lead to power. I don't see how that's the case. Their wealth lead to a degree of power that necessitated a specialised task force in order to keep it in check. That

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