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by gghhzzgghhzz 3y ago
It's very nice visualisation. The only comment I have is that concentric circles are not the most intuitive way of showing a percentage of a whole. 50% doesn't 'look' like 50%, and looks similar to 30%. but I'm not
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by gghhzzgghhzz 3y ago
Indeed. People do individual things. Governments implement policy (or at least should) to make sure these individual things are within the overall goals and policy objectives they have been elected on, and for the good of the whole of the
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by gghhzzgghhzz 3y ago
> NHS and schooling are among the top problems in the UK right now. Add social care for the elderly and agriculture but free trade / free movement just papered over the actual issue. You can temporarily use a form of economic imper
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by gghhzzgghhzz 3y ago
That the economic and political system didn't deliver for a large segment of people. They felt increasingly poorer and less secure. They were offered a big button by they government with a large '** you!' written on it, and
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by gghhzzgghhzz 3y ago
Well that is the story that those who don't want to see Scottish Independence will push. It's a colonial argument. It's a very narrow view of wealth flows, looking at the bigger picture then more flows back the other way. e.g
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by gghhzzgghhzz 3y ago
Yes, before the massive government programme of rearmament leading up to the war, then there were millions unemployed. Employment contracts and workers rights were nothing like they are today, so if an employee got sick then you could simp
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by gghhzzgghhzz 3y ago
I'm not convinced about that. This worship of free trade we had was completely unrestricted. A lot of trade was completely decoupled from any real benefit or political or social project or any environmental concerns. If KPIs from tra
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by gghhzzgghhzz 3y ago
People are happy to ignore the reasons why the Brexit vote happened in the first place, or why similar anti-establishment votes keep happening throughout the western world. There are systemic issues that no main stream political project see
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by gghhzzgghhzz 3y ago
It's not expensive. It's expensive if you don't spend on good quality public services. Without the NHS then there would be no economy. Without social care then people are taken out of the economy to care for relatives. Witho
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by gghhzzgghhzz 3y ago
The issue isn't about Brexit making the country materially poorer, the conditions existed long before Brexit, it's the main reason for the Brexit vote in the first place. Sure we can trade a bit more, but when the whole economy is
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by gghhzzgghhzz 3y ago
Indeed. that wasn't the issue. Issue was that the coverage of the launch was dominated by it. I love watching launches, find it relaxing, exciting and extremely thought provoking about our place in the cosmos. I also love watching li
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by gghhzzgghhzz 3y ago
the cheering throughout the whole thing was extremely annoying and completely unnecessary
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by gghhzzgghhzz 4y ago
CTE was a game changer for regular business people I work with being able to express what they want in SQL. SQL is still dreadful, apart from all the alternatives.
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by gghhzzgghhzz 4y ago
It won't solve your problems, correct. But it will make responsibility clear. Out of the EU, no domestic government can claim plausible deniability on a directive like this, claiming not to support it yet there being nothing they can
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by gghhzzgghhzz 4y ago
don't they normally run on highly enriched fuel? I'm not sure there we currently have the supply chain, security and ability to deal with geopolitical fallout of using the same fuel for mass domestic use.
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by gghhzzgghhzz 4y ago
Indeed. I don't see many downsides to increasing solar and wind. Every turn of the blade is a volume of gas that is not burned for electricity. Only issue is ownership.
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by gghhzzgghhzz 4y ago
This - no wind and no sun - happens in the UK for a few days a month every month during the winter. During this time then more electricity is imported, a lot of gas is burned, and coal stations are put on standby. To my knowledge, then no i
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by gghhzzgghhzz 4y ago
> Within a few weeks, it's something that should be achievable in sub-20/25 minutes. I wish it was that easy. I trained hard for a year and barely made it under 24. I guess it depends on age and if you are carrying around a bit
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by gghhzzgghhzz 4y ago
parkrun is another useful way to get up to running for 30 mins. It's very inclusive of all abilities from walking up to club runners. Plus the weekly routine and encouragement of participating in a unfussy group activity. https:&#x2
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by gghhzzgghhzz 4y ago
it's dishonest, because it doesn't take account of the massive amounts of wealth going in the opposite direction. People's daily lives have been financialised to an extent that there is always a transfer of wealth in the op
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by gghhzzgghhzz 4y ago
I don't know anything about US states, but we have the same arguments here in the UK. Living outside London, there's nothing I can do in my daily life that doesn't result in a net transfer of wealth from my self, or from the
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by gghhzzgghhzz 4y ago
Under the highly financialised system we have, then it's not really about what Mississippi contributes to the other states, but more about what the other states extract from Mississippi. From their natural resource and from their resi
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by gghhzzgghhzz 4y ago
it wasn't necessarily meant as criticism of US, but more trying to point to issues that are relevant in the EU as it is now, or as it will be. it is true that 'does / doesn't work' is subjective.
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by gghhzzgghhzz 4y ago
What was in the public realm is the only thing that matters. The votes in the 70s / 80s, which were the basis of what we have now were about trade, not peace via trade. you are referring to 'they' without qualifying 'the
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by gghhzzgghhzz 4y ago
but the US doesn't work. It has massive regional inequality, in addition to racial and generational. There is massive household debt. It can't function without massive amounts of undocumented labour. Nearly all economic activity i
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by gghhzzgghhzz 4y ago
There are mixed views. I think that is healthy and normal. And as ever, hearing dissenting views helps one strengthen their own position. I'm not sure what the key is here, but maybe it is this. > Are the countries supposed to spli
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by gghhzzgghhzz 4y ago
both points can be right. the original impetus being to use trade to solve a political problem, but the original impetus was not federalism, although I imagine there were federalists around at the time. at some point it became about free tr
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by gghhzzgghhzz 4y ago
I would suggest that NATO was the main reason for relative peace in Europe from 1945 up to 1991. After that things went very wrong, culminating in what we have today. Russia could have been part of the EU, as was certainly possible especia
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by gghhzzgghhzz 4y ago
> The biggest differences besides the different banknotes is that exchange rate risk has been eliminated, interest rates have gone down and Croatia's credit rating has gone up. I'm not suggesting for one minute that Croatia now
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by gghhzzgghhzz 4y ago
20 waisted years in my humble opinion. When EU countries could have been forging ahead, building on the natural base of social democracy and technological advancement, e.g. to become world leaders in future energy . Instead they have spend

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