benj111

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by benj111 5d ago
Surely we'd have had the same issue during the Spanish flu? Any examples?
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BBC removes 11 Mitchell and Webb comedy sketches from iPlayer(bbc.co.uk)
4 points by benj111 5d ago|0 comments
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by benj111 9d ago
Meanwhile Bessent is buying long dated bonds and selling short dated, betting the yields will go down. Dear US, try not to take the rest of the world with you when. You implode.
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by benj111 10d ago
No it's a bug. Numberwang returns NaN and this obviously hasn't been handled correctly.
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by benj111 11d ago
The question is about energy payback. Generating the energy required to create it. Your comment, if I'm looking at the correct one refers to electricity prices.
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by benj111 12d ago
No? I'm a Brit, it's a British newspapers. It's equivalent to saying it's "disgustingly cheap"
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by benj111 12d ago
iPhones are made in china...
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by benj111 12d ago
Do you think they haven't always needed to predict a cold snap? Here in the UK they needed to watch the TV because a break or end of a large football match would cause a spike in demand.
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by benj111 12d ago
How is buying energy from a probably unsavoury regime 'participating' in the economy? Not sending that money to said regime allows you to spend it locally.
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by benj111 12d ago
1 to 3 years payback for energy.
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by benj111 12d ago
>That and the subsidy, rare earth, power output decrease, and China manufacturing problems (them undermining the market with intentionally low prices to kill US solar But solar panels last a long time. If china starts turning the screws
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by benj111 12d ago
You could use the metaphor of sealed units in modern cars that can't be repaired. And houses are expected to last longer than cars. I'm not saying you're wrong person se, but I disagree with the analogy
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by benj111 12d ago
They did this a bit in Britain post war. It wasn't and isn't particularly popular. I don't know the precise reasons, but I suppose the fact it was tried, and didn't work says something.
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by benj111 13d ago
I've heard stories of USians waiting months for their insurer to agree to pay...
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by benj111 13d ago
>actually it's better than most rich countries after controlling for race/ethnicity Can an American explain what this is supposed to be saying? Sounds like a right wing sound byte. Are black people supposed to be inherently les
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by benj111 13d ago
Well this is the problem with farming and politics. You have a long tail of poor farmers, and a few very large powerful farmers. Thus you have the politics of the small family farm barely making a living, and large industrial monocultures a
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by benj111 16d ago
If I buy a Billy book case from IKEA, is it not the same as your Billy book case? Hashing said book case is left as an exercise for the reader.
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by benj111 24d ago
You could make the argument that leaving gold there also leaves them ammunition for later. The threat of removing the rest is also a useful tool. Personally I'd be getting out of all US bond holdings and investments and making sure the
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by benj111 24d ago
The jewellery market stems from the 'inherent' value thing though. I think the OPs point is that gold is an arbitrary metal that has been infused with value, just like fiat currency is some paper that has been infused with value.
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by benj111 24d ago
There's a good film about Norway getting their gold out ahead of the Nazis. Gold Run I think it's called.
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by benj111 24d ago
NI? Not Northern Ireland...
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by benj111 26d ago
Well Derry/Londonderry is officially called Londonderry, but Irish republicans didn't like the London link so call(ed) it Derry. So during the troubles it was a thing to refer to is as Derry/Londonderry.
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by benj111 27d ago
I doubt a billy book case is anywhere near air tight.
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by benj111 1mo ago
Bugger that. David Attenborough!
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by benj111 1mo ago
But as a Brit. America, our supposed ally is slapping tarriffs on us, and threatening our actual allies. China not so much. So which are our adversaries?
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by benj111 1mo ago
Welcome to the modern world. I seem to recall a time when you could ring up, get through to a human that could actually solve your problem. Now humans are just front ends for software, and there's noone to take responsibility. I would
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by benj111 1mo ago
Personally I would say copyright should last somewhere less than 10 years. On the basis that business decisions about whether to fund a book/film/whatever today isn't based on earnings 10 years from now. So I would say it is
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by benj111 1mo ago
Well you can have the tagline for free.
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by benj111 1mo ago
>"By day we consist of fixing generally washing machines and dryers and dishwashers" But what does he do by night???
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by benj111 1mo ago
Except a better comparison is you can replace your cylinders, but then the engine won't work because the ECU detects none registered cylinders.

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