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by dubeye 4y ago
Is greater London exactly the same as Cornwall? Scotland has sufficient tax base and legal structures to go it alone, whilst Wales arguably doesn't. In your list, you exclude politics.
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by dubeye 4y ago
The integration is part of the problem. Scotland ends up paying for things like HS2 and other London centric. English regions have same issue arguably, but Scotland alone has some hope to rectify.
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by dubeye 4y ago
I very much doubt many scottish voters will pay too much attention to the economics. Are constitutional referendums ever really about economics? Brexit certainly wasn't
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by dubeye 4y ago
As an English guy living in Scotland, I've followed the debate closely - there is not support to hold a referendum within the current term, despite election pledges. Everyone I know votes SNP but doesn't really want to deal with a
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by dubeye 5y ago
It's true that kids remove a great deal of existential angst. The answer to whether that is due to the kids being rewarding, or just not having time or energy to think like that anymore, doesn't seem too important.
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by dubeye 5y ago
Weed is great for enhancing consumption, but pretty terrible at any kind of production . A play a few games of online chess most days, and you can tell if I'm smoking by my chess rating. There is obviously a big hit when stoned, but mo
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by dubeye 5y ago
It's really great, (especially as someone else said, a companion to creative writing) but your body has finite defences against it, and much of the real damage is silent, so it's particularly dangerous in the stealth damage it cau
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by dubeye 5y ago
According to a half remembered article , average retention is about 10 months, so when I saw the headline I assumed this was the topic. Amazon turn over more than their total workforce, every year. This includes all staff yes, but still sho
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by dubeye 5y ago
It's subjective. The arrows and circles on lichess really bug me. I much prefer chess arrows.
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by dubeye 5y ago
This comes up so often it’s a bit lady doth protest too much. they have strengths and weaknesses. As a 1200 elo. I prefer the analysis and game review on chess.com. I like the auto playback of alternative lines. Game review is more useful b
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by dubeye 5y ago
Do you use both? I regularly use both and there is definitely some aspects that li is not better.
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by dubeye 5y ago
I find it fun to learn language on Duolingo as a kind of game. But unless I have a need to regularly use the learning, I know for sure it won't stick. And I'm afraid that last 0.1% of aquisition is pretty much impossible to obtai
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by dubeye 5y ago
Tesla have rolled back on a few things, eg passanger monitoring, so hopefully we will get standard cruise control soon too. Sometimes I want to take responsibility for observing side traffic and let the car just handle front and back only
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by dubeye 5y ago
"highest in a decade". Was it out of control 10 years ago too? When prices were presumably higher than now.
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by dubeye 5y ago
I'm a 40 year old hobbyiest, with very basic skills that I've successfully monetised in my distant past, and never considered applying for jobs before covid as didn't want to feel weird in a room full of kids. But with homewo
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by dubeye 6y ago
Probably worth some context... the author very often writes about plan B Scottish independence, which calls for swift escalation of the independence process, including the economics. For example establishing a new currency in months, rather
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by dubeye 6y ago
When I was a fresh 19 year old backpacker, pre mobile internet, browsing the departures board at Bangkok airport, I hopped on a flight to Hong Kong, because I thought it was in Japan. Took me a day to work it out!
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by dubeye 6y ago
This where Tesla is underestimated I think. There is a huge difference between a high volume, sellable product, and a highly priced concept designed for PR. You could argue Tesla has both, but at least they are attempting to place this tech
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by dubeye 8y ago
Suicide is more unusual? Mods didn't notice?
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by dubeye 9y ago
There are multiple ways to read the book. You can go deep, geek out on the references and annotations. Or you can read more casually and recreationally, and just let the words flow over you, treat it almost like music. Know there is underly
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by dubeye 10y ago
Stripe in the UK is 1.4% + 20p which is less than half price. So I was surprised and intrigued to read these comments. Is this an intro offer I wonder?
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by dubeye 11y ago
Love eating alone, me. In the UK I always feel a bit weird, but I love sitting on the bar of a American brunch place, drinking limitless coffee till i'm buzzed out of my tree, and eating on the counter. Also the US coffee shops are f
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by dubeye 11y ago
This is a joke right? Positive population growth = broken?Millions of people live in London despite these negative factors, so only parts of it are broken, other parts are so attractive as to draw in vast numbers in spite of the problems yo
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by dubeye 11y ago
Depends on the job of course. If instant communication is useful for the job, remote working is often inferior, as there is friction. For example training up a new employee is a great deal harder to do remotely, it's much easier to sha
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by dubeye 12y ago
Why will human corrected transcripts be 10x cheaper soon? Because of increasing ASR? What about poorly-recorded people?
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Transcript of a Conversation about Conversation with Steven Pinker and Ian McEwan(uktranscription.com)
2 points by dubeye 12y ago|0 comments
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by dubeye 12y ago
What about invoicing clients? If I move an established UK registered business to Panama or Estonia, can I use the same UK bank account? What changes for the client?
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by dubeye 12y ago
that's a great place to start. Thanks very much
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Trust your customer. Cafe style vs. Vending machine(crowds.co.uk)
1 points by dubeye 12y ago|0 comments
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Ask HN: What are some biz-friendly US cities similar to Brighton or Bristol, UK?
1 points by dubeye 12y ago|2 comments

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