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devnull791101
8y ago
i seem to remember HP having made these a number of years ago
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8y ago
they aren't socialist. they have large welfare systems but little government ownership of private enterprise. they are generally also high in democracy, 60% of taxes are raised and spent at local level rather than national, which is th
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8y ago
lol #notrealsocialism. the basic course of all socialist systems is 1 : praise as it does well at first 2 : accusations of external influences when it starts failing 3 : #notrealsocialism every time
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8y ago
Literally for decades people have been predicting average IQ scores would drop due to social/genetic factors. It's evidence of a successful theory. Society should stop pandering to the lowest common denominator and allow gifted st
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8y ago
there are good arguments against central banks (optimum currency areas, central planning limitations etc) but this is not one of them
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8y ago
free market efficiency is an evolutionary concept not accounting one. there's no intelligent design.
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8y ago
He was captured by a rival tribe, smuggled into the country illegally, freed by the victorious force and the first thing he can think of is compensation. not from his owners, or original tribe, but the now government that fought for his fre
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9y ago
"There however seems to be a group of people concerned with inclusivity" this is how we ended up with a problem in the first place.
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9y ago
Policies of equality of outcomes are inherently discriminatory. If black people are positively discriminated for then asians are being negatively discriminated against. Since spaces in college are limited when you give one space to someone
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9y ago
the doctrine of equality of outcomes is evil which is what article is trying to achieve. being successful is not a crime or morally wrong as much as the likes of sanders/corbyn like to fantasise that it is. the fact that one person can
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9y ago
It's unethical to study extreme fasting as you have to ask someone to put themselves into a dangerous situation. Someone doing so voluntarily (against advise) and being monitored is fine.
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9y ago
Just from this excerpt I'm going to take a guess that Mr Brooks conflates his opinion with facts quite often
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9y ago
even though the dams are almost depleted the city's lack of water is more due to political issues than water management. the government is insisting that the local desalination plant manufacturer (which supplies australia and other cou
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9y ago
except in UK, where the poor and uneducated are stereotypically labour/democrat supporters, wealthy educated types are tory/conservative.
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10y ago
definitely making card payments online is currently blocked. a text message ive received says SO and debit orders will continue as normal
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10y ago
i can say for sure the few times ive had issues transferring money overseas tesco customer services claim to be checking the status on an hsbc system
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10y ago
i believe tesco is a customer services front end to hsbc, so i doubt that its a bank end/ accounting problem. since its only online payments that have been stopped it suggests a card details leak, including the security code. i imagine
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10y ago
hopefully they hold a general election and Mrs May can continue doing her good work unimpeded for the foreseeable future. You may haggle on the terms of a "clear majority" on the referendum but there is no mistaking the majority t
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10y ago
a good place for NoSql is where you don't know what data you are going to receive. e.g. i get weather data from a number of different sources in a number of different formats. the sources and formats change fairly regularly. i am able
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10y ago
personal experience, a person my wife hardly knew begged us to let him come stay in england for a short while so he could establish himself here. where he was staying in rotterdam had been overrun with migrants, he was regularly getting mug
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10y ago
cameron far-right? you're joking surely? if you truly believe this it just shows how shockingly far left we have gone that cameron is considered right wing at all.
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10y ago
i would be surprised if we didnt get visa-less travel to shengen and visa-versa. visa requirements for study are generally pretty easy (can you afford it) and for work are a good thing. most eu countries already require some form of work pe
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10y ago
Our membership of the ECHR is a condition of being part of the EU. Without the latter the former becomes optional and we can apply or overrule their findings as necessary. Ultimately the British courts should have final ruling in Britain no
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10y ago
its also the generation with the lowest cost of travel and highest disposable income. their ability to travel won't be affected by leaving the eu.
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11y ago
FTT's are bad. There are no models which show that they generate any revenue having been extensively researched in both the EU and UK. The basic rule is that the more you tax something the less of it occurs. FTT's are not only ext