clarada

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by clarada 2y ago
When I started working in financial services in 2000, what shocked me was just how diverse the traders were. There were some people from rich families, some working class (I particularly remember one who had previously been running a marke
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by clarada 2y ago
Gotta love the EU and how well it sticks up for workers' rights and economic stability.
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by clarada 3y ago
And I bet H2O was found in 100% of colon cancers.
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by clarada 3y ago
That's what happens. Almost all transactions are Straight Through Processed. It's only when things go wrong (or very exceptional cases) that a human gets involved. The banks can't afford for humans to be involved in too man
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by clarada 3y ago
Because with transactions things have to match and sometimes data errors happen. Take something really simple like a bank cash transfer. Do you really think that no one ever accidentally puts in a typo in an account number or an amount?
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by clarada 3y ago
I once lived and worked in the US. To my surprise (as a Brit), each year we had a public holiday from work but where my kids still went to school and many other places were still open.
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by clarada 3y ago
Interesting that you immediately just assumed it's Raichik lying rather than Anthony, who is a politician after all.
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by clarada 3y ago
Your ignorance is clear from near the start of your rant. "Ever since the first referendum to join the EU in 1975" The referendum in 1975 asked "Do you think that the United Kingdom should stay in the European Community (the
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by clarada 3y ago
As is common with EU rules, this rule had serious side effects. All that happened is that total pay stayed about the same, just that a greater fraction was salary. Before, if times were tough, then the banks could significantly cut overall
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by clarada 3y ago
It's called "ever closer union" and a founding principle of the EU. Whether you voted for it or not - or in many cases never even asked - you will have your rights taken by the EU.
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by clarada 3y ago
The European Commission has veto power over the European Parliament, so I'm afraid it can just force it through. Doesn't normally come to that - there's enough corruption and alternative ways to pressurise the MEPs.
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by clarada 3y ago
Northern Ireland is recognised as being part of the UK as per the Good Friday agreement. There is no agreement at all that there would be no border between NI and the ROI. Even when we were part of the EU, the UK (including NI) and the ROI
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by clarada 3y ago
A lot of the comments here ignore the fact that Horizon membership was agreed as part of the original Brexit negotiations. The EU have been reneging on this agreement based on the rather dubious pretext that the UK wouldn't allow them
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by clarada 3y ago
Came across a similar idea a few years ago: emotions are our perceptions of our bodies internal state. Our subconscious responds to external events, releasing hormones and making other internal changes to our bodies. Whilst we can directly
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by clarada 3y ago
Germany is in recession and so is the Netherlands. Yet the UK hasn't even had one quarter of negative GDP growth recently. France is in political turmoil. Across the EU, far-right political parties are gaining real power. Yet in the
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by clarada 3y ago
This applies to the real world as well. I've had a couple of times when I've been closely involved in an event that was covered in the national newspapers. Both times the stories were presented with major factual inaccuracies a