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by gghhzzgghhzz 4y ago
It's not really the quantity of data that is important in migrations like this. It's what is and isn't in the data - often a lot of junk in my experience if the source system is a legacy system that has evolved what meaning t
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by gghhzzgghhzz 4y ago
The manifesto in 1983 included unilateral nuclear disarmament, leaving the EEC. The 2017 / 2019 Corbyn manifesto were more aligned with the SDP-Liberal alliance manifestos of 1983. Don't take my word for it, here is one of the mem
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by gghhzzgghhzz 4y ago
I think you are conflating socialism with statism. Personally I don't believe Marxism to imply state control, or public ownership to mean state ownership. I'd also see ownership models to include workers and customers. e.g. as a s
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by gghhzzgghhzz 4y ago
The NHS has been in continuous reform. Thatcher / Blair / Brown / Lansley / Hunt. Most of these reforms have included injecting private sector and internal markets into the system. You may agree or disagree with these re
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by gghhzzgghhzz 4y ago
You are missing a few things here. Firstly that involving workers in the ownership and running of a company is a successful model that is working in German for example. Focus on short term shareholder value is not good for employees or the
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by gghhzzgghhzz 4y ago
> What do you call nationalising companies and handing control to the workers? (It's in the manifesto) There is a confusion here between the situation we have and how we address it. My water supply - water being that thing that fall
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by gghhzzgghhzz 4y ago
he wrote Seventy Two Virgins (the book having a character who loved money, had a hocked nose and jewish name) in 2004. he continuously wrote racist, sexist and homophobic comments in his articles since. His relationship with Jennifer Arcur
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by gghhzzgghhzz 4y ago
you should always ask the question. what was it that made it so difficult to elect someone like Corbyn, yet so easy to elect someone like Johnson? That's the actual interesting question here.
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by gghhzzgghhzz 4y ago
The 2017 Corbyn manifesto was praised by Polly Toynbee of all people for goodness sake! https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/may/11/leaked...
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by gghhzzgghhzz 4y ago
The policies were popular. 2017 saw the reversal of decline in Labour votes that started under Blair. Labour got more votes than any Blair election other than 1997. There is a large constituency against the status quo in the UK. We have
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by gghhzzgghhzz 4y ago
no it wasn't worse. There are massive systemic issues in the country. Lack of housing, regional inequality, geographical inequality, falling real terms wages, chronic underfunding of R&D. Basically everything is falling apart. 4
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by gghhzzgghhzz 4y ago
I use it mostly for reverse engineering a model on top of a legacy database when working on projects to clean and migrate that data. I seen some very legacy database 'designs' and have never failed to model them with a combination
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by gghhzzgghhzz 4y ago
How can you trade p2p? How do I find someone to sell me bitcoin without an exchange? If I do find someone and I send them some money, then who guarantees that they send the bitcoin? How will day traders deal with the on-chain transaction co
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by gghhzzgghhzz 4y ago
if we are heading into a recession, then a public sector spending spree is exactly what we do need. Households won't spend, private sector won't invest as households are not spending, so if the public sector also stops spending th
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by gghhzzgghhzz 4y ago
There's graph. QE went from 445bn before Covid to 895bn at end of 2020 https://www.bankofengland.co.uk/monetary-policy/quantitative... EDIT: also https://neweconomics.org/2021/10/99-5-of-
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by gghhzzgghhzz 4y ago
Tories did end up supporting May's compromise, even some members of the ERG. It was blocked by Labour and other parties. It would have been the most practical way forward at the time. It would have been softer and better planned and
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by gghhzzgghhzz 4y ago
Debt being an issue is mostly a self imposed limitation / political tactic. Parties were saying exactly the same thing about debt in 2010 when debt / GDP ratio was lower in order to win an election and implement austerity. Covid D
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by gghhzzgghhzz 4y ago
I'm not trying to defend them, but if 20% of the customer assets are in SHIB then that should be the pct they are holding in reserve?
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by gghhzzgghhzz 4y ago
not sure that there was 700 billion spend during covid. but there's nothing wrong with pumping money into an economy that you have forcibly restricted (or that is in a recession for that matter) the issue is that you need to be in cont
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by gghhzzgghhzz 4y ago
Biggest ever investigation by the Information Commission. No CA were not involved. If you understood the political situation at the time, then it was all but obvious there would be a massive anti-establishment vote, facebook ads or not. h
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by gghhzzgghhzz 4y ago
"They are completely unable to sell bonds now. At this point, they are being forced to buy their bonds in order to keep the market for their bonds from total collapse." This isn't true though. there is still large over-subsc
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by gghhzzgghhzz 4y ago
"Remember when they were considering a Norway-like agreement? Or perhaps like Switzerland? " The self-interested groups who were trying to deny that the vote had happened were some of the loudest voices against any sort of soft Br
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by gghhzzgghhzz 4y ago
Establishment companies are always writing new systems or rewriting systems. They will be easy competition if they don't.
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by gghhzzgghhzz 4y ago
agree with this. If done well, then this has all sorts of secondary benefits. better engineered systems, more agility through implicit fire breaks, stronger devops processes, faster backups etc. I don't think GDPR should have been enf
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by gghhzzgghhzz 4y ago
Prices are not rising because people have too much money and are over purchasing food and energy just to show off to their neighbours. If that were the case then there are things that would work. Increase taxes on income, unearned income,
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by gghhzzgghhzz 4y ago
There's no power behind any of these ideas. Anything business related has the power of capital behind it, even the regulations and standards - some of the admittedly good - are the basic requirements of a taming a market to make it fu
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by gghhzzgghhzz 4y ago
US has some of the highest levels of comparative inequality in the world. There are also areas that have been depopulated and others where basic services cannot keep up with the population (housing for example). but that aside, the US has
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by gghhzzgghhzz 4y ago
I think we should all have a healthy scepticism for leaders and politicians. We do tend to have that for those in Westminster. The idea that politicians in Brussels don't have vested interests, are not the result of heavy lobbying, ar
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by gghhzzgghhzz 4y ago
As a Welsh secessionist, I can't for the life of me square the idea of wanting to leave union that for all its massive faults is at least something you can understand and engage with, to replace that by joining a union that is distant,
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by gghhzzgghhzz 4y ago
poor example compared to his lifetime of work, but this was a beautiful advert https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EsyyJaX0j3Y

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