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by bb123 4y ago
It is hard to put an exact date on it - but 1414 is the first time the King acquiesced that parliament had to give approval for new laws.
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by bb123 4y ago
Influence is not the same as authority. I'm sure he has influence - but then so do lots of people. And at least as public figure he has a degree of visibility. Governments don't exist in a vacuum.
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by bb123 4y ago
He doesn't have any authority, in practice. It has been that way since 1414. The second the monarchy tried to exert control over politics would be the second it was abolished.
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by bb123 4y ago
I seriously doubt that interfering in politics would do the monarchy any favours whatsoever. Constitutional issues aside the intersection of conservative and royalist is famously large. Why would he piss off the people most likely to suppor
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by bb123 4y ago
What happens when we want to move on from USBC? Do we need a stamp of approval from the EU to do it? No thanks.
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by bb123 4y ago
This blogger is acting like traditional network television has never mentally tortured people for our viewing pleasure. Have they never seen an episode of Hell's Kitchen, Dr Phil, I'm a Celebrity Get Me Out of Here or Big Brother?
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by bb123 4y ago
For me it's a question of incentives. Apple makes the vast majority of its income selling hardware to people. That makes me the customer. Google makes the vast majority of its income selling user data to advertisers. That makes me the
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by bb123 4y ago
I'm not sure why you jumped to the conclusion that my observation was pro-Brexit. There's literally nothing in what I said that suggests that. I was only pointing out that it seems like its mostly factors outside of Brexit that ha
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by bb123 4y ago
I presume you're referring to Brexit, but this seems to be mostly a strong US dollar and energy crisis story. Europe is in a similar situation so I'm not sure what difference staying/leaving would have made.
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by bb123 4y ago
I think the idea is to use that money to stop higher energy prices driving inflation
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by bb123 4y ago
Why panic if you’re in the UK? They’re less exposed to Russian gas than continental Europe.
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by bb123 4y ago
Surely that’s only true if the poster is already at the high end of normal? If he weighs 160lbs adding 20lbs isn’t going to do any harm.
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by bb123 4y ago
I was on a Princess cruise last week that had broadband quality internet provided by SES Networks: https://www.ses.com
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by bb123 4y ago
Cambridge UK shows John Maynard Keynes. I think Charles Darwin, Stephen Hawking and Isaac Newton might dispute that!
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by bb123 4y ago
I know, I asked to try and understand the rationale behind it.
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by bb123 4y ago
Why would most people in the UK not eat pig?
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by bb123 4y ago
This is a London ISP
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by bb123 4y ago
Scales with income
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by bb123 4y ago
Exactly! That’s 400 calories a day for the average person. Combine that with less physical activity and you’ve just found the source of your problem. We can even work it out: 1lb of human fat has ~4000 calories in it. If we assume that only
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by bb123 4y ago
I don’t think it’s unexplained at all. People just don’t like the explanation. People simply eat too much and don’t move enough. The secondary reasons behind that are many but again pretty easy to see (more desk jobs, cheap high calorie foo
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by bb123 4y ago
One idea is that there is some difference in the x-rays themselves that could potentially be explained by racial disparities in access to (and quality of) healthcare. Maybe white people tend to visit hospitals with newer, better equipment o
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by bb123 4y ago
Perhaps there is some quality of the x rays themselves that is different? Maybe white people tend to visit hospitals with newer, better equipment or better trained radiographers and the model is picking up on differences in the exposures fr
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by bb123 4y ago
False equivalence. 0 marginal cost of replication doesn’t mean that the item is valueless. The creators have a right to be paid for their work. Just as you’d be working your rights to charge people to look at your apple picture.
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by bb123 4y ago
There are also tons of benefits to just walking out of the grocery store without paying. No queues, no small talk with the checkout person and you save cash too.
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by bb123 4y ago
Thank god this didn’t go ahead. It would have made london into a car centric hellhole, and I suspect traffic would still be terrible. I’ve never been to any large city where the traffic flows freely, regardless of how much road infrastructu
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by bb123 4y ago
> people don't own the land their houses are built on, they just lease them like medieval serfs would have, since land reform never happened in England. I’m curious about this - are you referring to leaseholds? Because that seems to
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by bb123 4y ago
Not if you're like me who's hovering at the low end of normal BMI anyway. Gaining weight isn't easy for everyone.
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by bb123 4y ago
Surely if you're looking for someone to complain to about this, it would be your government? It is their job to legislate exactly this kind of thing.
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by bb123 5y ago
I don't think you understand the impact that negative Google reviews can have on a small business. You are totally beholden to them.
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by bb123 5y ago
France sticks out like a sore thumb in a sea of natural gas burning neighbours. We could all be running on nuclear like them. Nuclear is safer, better for the environment and has the nice side effect that it frees us from relying on despots

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