caoilte

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by caoilte 4y ago
That sort of fantastical thinking is quite rare outside of fringe parties (left and right). The UK Labour party's spending plans in 2019 were fully costed exactly in order not to spook the markets. (Naturally that's not how the me
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by caoilte 4y ago
You forget the voterbase for choosing the Conservative Party leader. Conservative Party members skew older, whiter and more racist than the general public. Although in this case being the man who defenestrated Johnson didn't help his c
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by caoilte 4y ago
un-costed tax cuts and an open ended promise to pay for the spike in energy prices spooked investors and caused a run on the pound and (worse) a collapse in the value of UK debt. This threatened to cause a run similar to the 2008 US mortgag
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by caoilte 4y ago
This is a better argument to cut CEO pay by 90% than anything else. The problem for teachers (and lots of other people in the care sector who struggle to take effective industrial action) isn't that the pay doesn't attract good pe
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by caoilte 4y ago
They're two different roles, but universities have traditionally done both and it has been effective. It's no use teaching Scientists how to think if they don't learn how to collaborate effectively and communicate their ideas
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by caoilte 4y ago
You're basically saying that college is completely pointless except as a way to rank a meritocratic society. Except college/testing doesn't rank meritocratically. It reproduces our existing structural hierarchies in the next
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by caoilte 4y ago
the movie industry has some good unions. It ain't perfect but it's something.
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by caoilte 4y ago
People in the countryside are also primary users of the energy. And they're lifestyle is only made possible by people living in cities. Maybe we could compromise and put them on golf courses?
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by caoilte 4y ago
We are researching SMRs, but they're not ready and they may never be. Just this week some research came out showing they make the nuclear waste worse than large scale reactors which would have serious cost implications. https:/&#
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by caoilte 4y ago
Academically universities are to teach you how to think and do self-directed learning. They also socialise you for the knowledge workforce by widening your horizons. Testing is a distraction from their core values. And a crutch for handling
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by caoilte 4y ago
$1billion is a lot just to sell some TSLA stock.
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by caoilte 4y ago
This was his second failed algorithmic stable coin and he hid his involvement in the previous one ("Basis Cash").
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by caoilte 4y ago
Each year in prison shortens your life expectancy by two years. So he'd be out soon, but very very unhealthy. Better to be in Russia. It's not the worst.
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by caoilte 4y ago
The other side of this coin (as the maxim goes) is that the margin on drinks in bars is close to zero and that the only way they make any money is by selling food.
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by caoilte 4y ago
These are areas they'd been trying to get civilians to leave for weeks. Humanitarian corridors kept collapsing. We don't know why, but is it at least plausible that Azov forces (who have a record of massacring civilians in Mariupo
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by caoilte 4y ago
What Russia is doing is evil. But if you call it genocide you do a cruel dis-service to the millions killed in Rwanda, the holocaust and even Ukraine during the holodomor.
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by caoilte 4y ago
Fallujah sounds like terror tactics to me. It was defended by a poorly armed militia far smaller than the western trained and armed forces in Ukraine and America still had to destroy 20% of the city. Years later 200,000 of the 350,000 resid
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by caoilte 4y ago
If you start from the assumption that the war wasn't necessary then you are correct to point out that leveling residential areas also wasn't necessary. However, we wouldn't have re-occupied cities in Iraq that resisted withou
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by caoilte 4y ago
We don't even know that. All we know is that a large number of people in Mariupol were evacuated to Russia instead of through the frontlines to Ukraine. I can think of a lot of quite reasonable explanations for that.
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by caoilte 4y ago
The result was the same. Maybe we used less arty and more airstrikes I guess.
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by caoilte 4y ago
Why would Russia/DNR voluntarily level a city they want to incorporate into their breakaway republic? That's just falling into the "they're all orcs" propaganda trap. The use of artillery etc ramped up as the Russia
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by caoilte 4y ago
It's the only way to beat an enemy entrenched in a city. See Fallujah or Raqqa for similar battles.
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by caoilte 4y ago
UK bilateral trade with Russia was ~$17 billion in 2021 (i assume that's imports plus exports right?). Russia was a very close friend twenty years ago, Iraq was a very close ally in the 1980s. I'm sure Israel realises how quickly
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by caoilte 5y ago
haha. fair. That's more detail than I want to know.
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by caoilte 5y ago
Think of it like a "voter" in elections on any decision about the network. Once you control the majority of these validators you can do absolutely anything you want with the money the network controls.
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by caoilte 5y ago
I can't recommend "web3 is going great" highly enough for creating digestible explanations. There's good commentary on Axie Infinity (the Sky Mavis game which got hacked) and links to more detailed explanations here. ht
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by caoilte 5y ago
been using debian derived OSes 22 years and never had any problems. Dual boot Windows has permanently BSODed multiple times and required a reinstall. You can do stupid things in Linux, but if you stay on the rails (I only upgraded to Ubuntu
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by caoilte 5y ago
You don't need to stack rank to ease people out who aren't happy doing their job.
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by caoilte 5y ago
The thinking is, Good people leave anyway. Everybody is replaceable.
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by caoilte 5y ago
errr what? Im struggling to figure out what you might mean here. Are you talking about floppy disk shared worms?

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