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541.
by drumhead 5y ago
We all know why no one's doing those jobs, its because they were low paid. Shouldnt farmers have been paying more or was low paid labour from Eastern Europe a good thing?
542.
by drumhead 5y ago
It wasnt Germans, French or Spanish though was it, it was Romanians, Polish and Bulgarians.
543.
by drumhead 5y ago
To quote Thomas Jefferson, "eternal vigilance is the price we pay for liberty".
544.
by drumhead 5y ago
No it really was about immigration. A lot of people, and that includes British Black and Asian people,ironically, didnt like the feeling that they were being swamped by people who spoke a different langauge, that were crowding their schools
545.
by drumhead 5y ago
To be honest the biggest problems have been labour shortages caused by the end of free movement. Certain sectors such as farming and hospitality have been hardest hit because of their reliance on cheap european labour. But really they'
546.
by drumhead 5y ago
The overwhelming sentiment from the opinions on this thread is that the author is wrong. Is that a sell signal?
547.
by drumhead 5y ago
So its different this time?
548.
by drumhead 5y ago
When inflation rises interest rates normally follow to try and curb it, right now this hasnt happened, which implies that this increase in prices is not going to last too long. I dont think its a particularly good idea to follow the advice
549.
by drumhead 5y ago
The opinion of the UK competition regulator is well respected in the EU, so they'll use the analysis as the basis of any decision they might make in terms of this situation. As for Facebook pulling out of the UK, they're free to d
550.
by drumhead 5y ago
> skeptics who knew that vaccines aren't going to change anything But they have, they've cut the death rate from Covid enourmously. Unless you have alternative figures that you can point me towards?
551.
by drumhead 5y ago
Its basically the death rate you'd expect from an outbreak of the flu. Essentially the vaccine and the boosters have turned Covid into the flu.
552.
by drumhead 5y ago
Argentina did the same thing with their local currency tied to the dollar, it initially lowered inflation and a flow of capital came into their country and bringing higher growth. But then the capital kept flowing in because it was felt tha
553.
by drumhead 5y ago
I dont understand, does he want the technical staff to sell because he doesnt have a sales team or is it that the staff were not creating a commercial project? If thats was the case then why didnt he or other management step in and do somet
554.
by drumhead 5y ago
uBlock Origin and NoScript are my essentials, those two can take care of most things.
555.
by drumhead 5y ago
I dont think the parliament by itself can set laws, it would need to be agreed to by the Councilof Ministers as well. So unless they're happy with it it wont happen. As for sanctions for not applying the law, fines, holding back of fun
556.
by drumhead 5y ago
They've shut their borders to virtually everyone since the Olypics ended, they've got one of the highest rates of vaccination in the G20, they also follow the masks, distancing and hygiene rules quite carefully, so that could expl
557.
by drumhead 5y ago
I dont get that impression at all. It was a clear easy to read article, setting the context doesnt or explaining the general environment doesnt reduce the credibility of whats said in the article at.. I couldnt see anything that sounds cons
558.
by drumhead 5y ago
Is it different this time?
559.
by drumhead 5y ago
Yes, that is not going to be pretty
560.
by drumhead 5y ago
Time for China to learn all about financial restructuring. I'm thinking a Debt for equity swap, a haircut for investors and jail time for the directors. Property is a religion in Asia, there's an unshakeable belief in its robustne
561.
by drumhead 5y ago
Whats the flagship application thats written in Go? Or the application that we're most likely to have used?
562.
by drumhead 5y ago
This level of negligence merits custodial sentences, not just a financial settlement.
563.
by drumhead 5y ago
I think the high valuation is indicative of a bubble. When companies that haven't delivered a product in an ultra competitive market can be valued at such an absurdly high level the alarm bells are ringing. We've seen this before
564.
by drumhead 5y ago
I used Emacs, its a lot more than just a simple text editor, its more powerful than a text editor or even many IDEs. But the learning curve is too steep for most people. With VScode I can just install it and start working straight away, I c
565.
by drumhead 5y ago
Its a bubble inflated by some of the loosest monetary policy in history. Caveat emptor etc, etc.
566.
by drumhead 5y ago
Why didnt Apple just strip the camera out entirely and just let users connect one with a thunderbolt cable or a dongle. After all Apple users seemed happy enough with dongles when they had fewer ports on laptops.
567.
by drumhead 5y ago
It looks like a pretzel or the bag end of male genitalia.
568.
by drumhead 5y ago
I've started the slow move across. Im using a debian installation on an old laptop to start learning how to use it. How do deal with any of the problems that people usually encouter when using Linux, such at internet, printing, sound.
569.
by drumhead 5y ago
The problem was that we grew up in a time when the dreams died and we were having to deal with the tailwind of the post war growth boom. The protest movements of the 60's and 70's delivered nothing, the state-ist, interventionist
570.
by drumhead 5y ago
Boomers are 1945 to 1965, X is 1965 - 1980.

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