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by cbeach 9mo ago
Would you choose a 5.5% tracker mortgage, or a mortgage fixed at 9.1% for 20 years?
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We’ve struck an incredible 71 trade deals since Brexit. And there are more in the pipeline. We genuinely have a better global position now than we did in the customs union. You think the NHS is “keeping us sane”. Two of my family members ha
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The government is literally comparing a raw price with a price+tax … and what makes this even more disingenuous is that the government themselves applied this tax. AND the tax is absurdly high!
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by cbeach 9mo ago
This is poor reporting by Elektrek. The article compares wind and gas costs but completely fails to explain: * the gas price in the article includes the government’s self-imposed carbon tax. The actual cost of gas (£55) is FAR lower than th
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by cbeach 9mo ago
They set themselves up for a fall when they named themselves "Impeccable Style" The mix of sans and serif fonts on their website is a mess. There's too much negative space, and it's inconsistent. Too many font sizes, and
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by cbeach 9mo ago
https://chrisbeach.co.uk/ - personal landing page with links to my projects
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Disagree on being subsumed into the stagnating EU (far better to align with dynamic English-speaking economies with strong growth, like the US). The EU customs union prevented the UK striking bilateral global free trade deals, and the legac
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Thank you.
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Once again, Eurocrats gaslight the public into accepting dystopian surveillance and control mechanisms. They love to make Trump a boogieman, too.
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> No, it is not a democracy. Israel is a parliamentary democracy with a multi-party system, independent judiciary, elections and civil liberty. If you believe otherwise, you must be knee-deep in Hamas propaganda, as many Western leftists
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by cbeach 9mo ago
You claim Israel needs to “become democratic” and is an “apartheid” state despite the fact Israel is a functioning pluralist democracy that comprises both Jews and Arabs (unlike Gaza, which expelled Jews and is led by terrorists). By the “Z
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by cbeach 9mo ago
What’s the source for that quote? The article you posted is from a news source I’ve never heard of and doesn’t cite its sources
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I’m in the UK. There is strong anti-ILLEGAL-immigrant sentiment, because hundreds of thousands of undocumented men originating in Africa and the Middle East have illegally crossed the English Channel from France and then made asylum claims,
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In the 2017 Charter, Hamas states its claims, such as making Jerusalem its capital. However, nowhere in the charter does Hamas state that it will recognise Israel. In fact the document explicitly rejects recognition of Israel and aims for “
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> you have a part who is calling for the annihilation of palestinians No you don't. You have a democratically elected government aiming for the dismantling of Hamas. Hamas is the proscribed terror organisation that is currently lead
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by cbeach 9mo ago
That is a territorial/sovereignty claim (i.e., rejecting Palestinian sovereignty/statehood in that space). It is not an explicit call to kill, expel, or physically destroy Palestinians, nor does it literally say “for Jews only.” U
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by cbeach 9mo ago
Someone donate to this guy so he can upgrade his 20 y/o Thinkpad!
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by cbeach 9mo ago
Scala is a fantastic language and in fact I'd say it's the language that proves the article wrong. Java was the language where "write libraries instead" happened, and it became an absolute burden. So many ugly libraries,
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Thanks for including the context in the title. RIP, Joe
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> Much better solution is to help you junior dev solve the problem Meanwhile there are five other subordinates and all the overhead that you're neglecting while you fiddle with your dev environment trying to get started on the task,
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by cbeach 9mo ago
The simulator is an excellent reminder that engineering managers sign up for an eternity in the Kobayashi Maru scenario, and there's no way to Captain Kirk it, either. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kobayashi_Maru
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> Punishing in public The junior dev is watching, and got the benefit of seeing that you value his time > managing via Slack Far preferable to arranging a face to face meeting over this low impact, simple procedural issue > being a
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by cbeach 9mo ago
Whatever innuendo you'd like to apply to Trump's action, Maduro is objectively a nasty despot.
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The US casually eliminating a nasty despot is likely to have a chilling effect on the other nasty despots. Putin and Kim will -not- be emboldened by this act - quite the opposite.
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Maduro was a monstrous dictator who was guaranteed to kill more people than this US strike did. And there is an opposition party which has been suppressed by Maduro, but is otherwise ready to go. There is much hope to be had for this beauti
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by cbeach 9mo ago
The Good Law Project is a left wing activist organisation, and Palantir is a conservative-aligned company. It really is as simple as that. If you’re wondering why these HN commenters are so passionately against Palantir, just take a cursory
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When, in 2029, we have our first decent government in decades, let’s have this conversation again. Both the Tories and Labour have squandered the opportunities afforded by Brexit. Both parties are weak globalist shills. Current polling sugg
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In the UK we told the EU bully bureaucrats to go f*ck themselves in 2016. The same thing is possible in all EU nations - never give up hope. The EU bureaucracy stunts growth on the continent. It's undemocratic (only the executive can o
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If you've ever read Thierry Breton's personal (and public) threats towards Elon Musk you'd understand who the real "bully and borderline sociopath" was. Breton once threatened Musk simply for hosting an interview wi
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As a European I’m pleased to see consequences for these arrogant unelected bureaucrats. Breton, in particular, seemed to delight in attacking free speech. Breton once threatened Musk simply for hosting an interview with the democratically-e

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