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by derriz 8y ago
This seems to be the "magic" solution for all the logical inconsistencies of the brexit position - ignore the problem and pretend it will magically solve itself. Know of any other land borders between different customs regimes wh
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by derriz 8y ago
It a misrepresentation of what is referred to the "backstop" aspect of the Withdrawal Agreement (incorrectly called the "Brexit Deal" in the header above). The "backstop" stipulates that any future trading rela
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by derriz 8y ago
Do you object to the Good Friday Agreement? Because its fundamental principle is that the constitional status of Northern Ireland was a matter for the people of Northern Ireland alone. If the vast majority of people in NI are happy to be p
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by derriz 8y ago
No it does not. It simply requires that the UK ensure that no hard (customs) border is required in Ireland. A key component of the Good Friday Agreement which ended 3 decades of bloodshed on the island of Ireland was that physical border c
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by derriz 8y ago
Brexit has been sabotaged by a conspiracy by May? You seriously believe she is devious enough? This is tin-foil hat nonsense. Brexit is and will be a failure by definition - simply because it was never specified exactly what it involved.
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by derriz 8y ago
That piqued my interest and I found this delightful video from 1969 on youtube: https://youtu.be/MkxBmviMy_E covering the launch of the B6500. It has some surprisingly interesting technical details.
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by derriz 8y ago
I wrote an SQL formatter as part of a larger source-to-source compiler for a re-engineering tool many years ago and ended up with initial caps for SQL keywords. E.g. Select * From sometable Where SomeColumn > 3 It doesn't
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by derriz 8y ago
That statement is misleading or reflects a misunderstanding on the part of the author. "Credit" is an accounting concept. Balance sheets are accounting artifacts. The way the bank records it's transactions is a model, not r
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by derriz 8y ago
The increase occurs because of the different definitions of money. If you define money as the sum of amounts available in demand account at banks (with is roughly what M2 is), then lending from a bank increases this number as the borrowed
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by derriz 8y ago
Again banks' role in the creation of M2 money does not reflect how individual retail banks operate. Just because you have a model that seems to describes the behavior of flock of birds doesn't mean that the model is useful when di
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by derriz 8y ago
I'm not sure what you mean by "modern bank" - when is the cut off date for you? I can assure you that banks can and do end up in a position where they are unable to provide loans. Admittedly the process isn't "if d
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by derriz 8y ago
What exactly isn't true in my statement? - banks take in cash in from depositors (and other creditors) - banks lend out cash to borrowers - banks do not lend out all the cash that they've borrowed - they keep some in reserve Do yo
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by derriz 8y ago
The document you linked does not contradict my claim. Your document describes the role of banks in the M2 money supply NOT how individual banks work. I can assure you that what I describe IS how real world banks work. You can look at the
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by derriz 8y ago
When someone puts $10 in a bank, it most certainly gives the bank something they can do something with. In this case they can lend $9 out - assuming 10% reserve. On the balance sheet the bank then has $10 on the liability side - the depos
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by derriz 8y ago
Of course they do. That's what fractional reserve banking is all about. Banks borrow money (e.g. from depositors, on the money markets, from other banks) and lend out the money they raise while keeping a "reserve". A typica
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by derriz 8y ago
Not directly related to the thread, but I'm surpised by the extreme anti-short seller sentiment? Why is it important that they suffer? Short-selling is what makes almost zero expense mutual/index funds available to mom n' po
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by derriz 8y ago
I really don't understand how you could describe it as "abuse" to raise questions about the DUP case; are you challenging any of the facts raised in the article - https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-northern-irel
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by derriz 8y ago
To answer your second question, of course it has. I don’t understand your first question? Those anti-EU stories were lies pure and simple - all the references are provided on the linked site. Are you in favour of the media publishing lies
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by derriz 8y ago
“Yet, those crossing the border would have some rights to enter and work in Britain, right?” Absolutely wrong. Where did you get that idea?
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by derriz 8y ago
Except that didn't actually happen. The German government (not Angela Merkel) contributed money for an environmental project running in Kenya and Ethiopia which the Clinton Foundation was also involved in.
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by derriz 8y ago
Really? I suspect you have very little knowledge of the EU or how it works or its history. Here for example is an EU treaty, which took years to prepare and agree by the governments of all the countries but was abandoned after failing nar
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by derriz 8y ago
This isn't the only shenanigans surrounding the leave campaign. Here's another example of dodgy Leave Campaign funding - https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-northern-ireland-44624299 - where the DUP, a Northern Iris
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by derriz 8y ago
I don't see that inequality is the primary problem when 45% of the population survive on less than $1.90 a day. If you doubled everyones income the equality/inequality metrics wouldn't change but the level of human misery an
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by derriz 8y ago
I read the first example of Lily on the site. I found nothing offensive in the language at all - in fact there's a lot to like particularly the readability. Side rant. Unfortunate I can't get past the decision to use exception h
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by derriz 8y ago
My understanding was that the blind tests were not as naive as that and the comparisons were with full 16/44 recordings and playback. Funny enough I have read that article on xiph.org - which is a good read - and was completely convinc
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by derriz 8y ago
This is a bit of an interesting side discussion (I use sox indeed to down sample) but I've recently changed my stance on this after reading the results of some blind testing of MQA (24-bit at 192KHz or something like that) recordings.
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by derriz 8y ago
I agree that for shells, some scripting languages and the like, file names with punctuation and other special characters can be challenging. But Sonos doesn't have to do any "handling" here - the user never gets to interact w
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by derriz 8y ago
Yes - this is what seems to be the recommended solution. But as you say, it's insanely expensive particularly as my main use-case which was to allow my partner to listen to youtube videos from her iphone. And as well as the expense - I
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by derriz 8y ago
This is not directly relevant to the article - more a critique of the Sonos product which I've wanted to get off my chest. I was a Sonos skeptic then a convert before becoming skeptical again. I stopped buying after the third Sonos 3

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