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by graemep 4mo ago
Much the same in the UK. Usually some kind of fraud or failing to stop trading when it was obvious insolvency was unavoidable. No minimum capital requirements either.
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by graemep 4mo ago
There is even a precedent for its use with regard to AI (only disclosing information, but still). Biden used it, why does Trump not do so?
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by graemep 4mo ago
The current position seems to be no-one has access, not even Anthropic employees. What powers does the US government have to force them to provide access? If they have that power why did they not use it to force them to provide their produc
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by graemep 4mo ago
Proudly admitting it in public seems foolish on both grounds.
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by graemep 4mo ago
Does this level of copying not imply a copyright infringement?
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by graemep 4mo ago
The claim I replied to was that: "in most of the world a $100 note is only worth $100 if it's in basically mint condition" Somaliland is pretty extreme example and not representative of "most of the world". It is ex
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by graemep 4mo ago
it is bad because experts are narrow. Consider my example, The police will (correctly) tell you that giving them more powers will reduce crime. The problem is that reducing crime is not the only considering in what powers the police should
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by graemep 4mo ago
The politicians did defer to expert and business opinion over Brexit. The referendum was only called because they thought they would win it. I personally think it was a good thing, but the politicians definitely did not - the point was a re
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by graemep 4mo ago
They are aware of it, but there is so much US dependency that its very difficult to reverse course let along unto what has been done. The EU's age verification app will only work on Google or Apple controlled phones. A lot of payments
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by graemep 4mo ago
A lot of people in the UK use credit cards for the extra legal protections, and for cash back and reward schemes. The UK has pay by bank, which is very like digital cash, and can be used online, but its much less used than cards are.
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by graemep 4mo ago
In the UK there is a big element of sheer incompetence. Politicians who have not experience of life outside politics are really will-equipped to understand the consequences of what they do, and defer overly to expert opinion. Of course the
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by graemep 4mo ago
It does not stop far X candidates becoming president though, does it? Your current president is surely not moderate? The UK has winner takes all parliamentary elections but still has multiple parties represented in it. There seem to be a lo
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by graemep 4mo ago
I think not in this particular case, and downvoting more than flagging, but I see perfectly reasonable things downvoted. In fact I often upvote things I disagree with because I think the downvotes were unfair. I have been downvoted for reas
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by graemep 4mo ago
Rules? Membership of an organisation is nothing like being a subject of an empire. Its purely voluntary. It has less power over its members than employers do. It cannot tax, only ask for donations. Its not even Rome - its run by people from
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by graemep 4mo ago
They know even less with cash! Crypto is not as reliably anonymous as cash. Anything with a distributed ledger is pseudonymous so if one transaction can on your wallet can be linked to you, so can all other transactions, including historica
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by graemep 4mo ago
The governments cannot stop people holding physical notes either, and they still have the laws.
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by graemep 4mo ago
The US has no reason not to pay its debts. Its debts AFAIK are USD denominated. How often has a country defaulted on debt in its own currency? I can think of one example and I thought it was a stupid thing to do at the time (it was forced b
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by graemep 4mo ago
According to that article it has nothing to do with condition, but with the lack of anti-counterfeiting protection on older notes. I have lived in, and briefly worked in a bank in, in a country where people do use USD, GBP etc. notes as a s
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by graemep 4mo ago
What? I have never come across that. No problem with notes in many currencies with folds a creases, even small tears.. In my experience bank notes last for ever anyway. I have various notes from countries I have travelled to decades ago in
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by graemep 4mo ago
When people in a developing country cannot hold foreign currency it is a result of a deliberate decision by their government. That creates a number of issues. They may well be breaking the law holding stable coins. It means practical diffic
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by graemep 4mo ago
It did stop it from being used in a multiple markets though. Fine is some places, not in others is not good branding, especially when one of the places its not fine in is the biggest and most influential market.
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by graemep 4mo ago
Faster development with an interpreted dynamic language with performance boosts from the JIT and inline Go. You can do similar things in other languages but not AFAIK as a built in feature. You can have in line C innTCL
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by graemep 4mo ago
I know, but the people complaining about immigration do not. I partly blame the media and social media, and partly politicians focus on net migration numbers.
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by graemep 4mo ago
If people prefer unskilled EU immigration to skilled non-EU immigration its says something about them. People had a problem with EU immigration before Brexit so I do not think that is it. I think most of the problem people have is with is t
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by graemep 4mo ago
Another way of looking at it is that they have been mad over it for centuries.
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by graemep 4mo ago
Most immigrants in UK do assimilate. Seen the stories about the high proportion of births where at least one parent is foreign born? In most cases the other parent is British born.
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by graemep 4mo ago
Which government pushed for Brexit? The government at the time of Brexit campaigned to remain. People voted for Brexit for a lot of reasons. The leaders of both Vote Leave and Leave.EU said they wanted more skilled immigration. > raised
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by graemep 4mo ago
its a higher percentage than voted for the current government. Its also, obviously, a higher proportion than voted to remain. Its been at least a 100 years since a government was voted in by the majority of the electorate, and only once in
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by graemep 4mo ago
They never do, because what was said is offensive. I would like to know in many cases to form my own opinion of whether it was sufficiently offensive to justify the reaction and consequences so I also find it really annoying. You can deduce
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by graemep 4mo ago
I do not understand the low demand. It can be cheaper than beef and tastes good and is lean. Maybe it needs some promotion? The same arguments that have promoted vegetarianism (healthier and green) are applicable. British eating habits have

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