hanoz

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by hanoz 4y ago
I've always thought railway journeys would be a nice subject for a podcast, in the vein of an audio equivalent of the slow TV genre. Some ponderous commentary about the carriage and passing scenery, with the soothing train track sounds
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by hanoz 4y ago
The fact that you don't need ID to move between Northern Ireland and the rest of it, has precisely nothing to do with Brexit.
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by hanoz 4y ago
I'm not sure how anything beyond your opening accusation is supposed to contradict what I've said. The party that was unable to reconcile its position with respect to the new border and the Good Friday agreement was the EU, not th
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by hanoz 4y ago
You do not.
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by hanoz 4y ago
The UK was happy to honour the Good Friday agreement by not having border checks at its new land border with the EU, it was entirely the EU which had a problem with it.
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by hanoz 4y ago
You shouldn't have needed to show a passport at any point in that journey.
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by hanoz 4y ago
> imagine the energy savings if Firefox users switched to Chrome. Imagine the energy squandered on all the extra goods and services bought by users using a browser owned by an advertising company, instead of Firefox.
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Paris votes to ban rental e-scooters(bbc.co.uk)
1 points by hanoz 4y ago|0 comments
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by hanoz 4y ago
I don't understand the first three-arrowed diagram with the wall. Why two pushing arrows, at the front and the back of the crate but only one pushing from the wall to the crate, seemingly unbalanced?
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by hanoz 4y ago
Looking at that embargoed banner, I don't think these people are great at genie, bottle and hat management.
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by hanoz 4y ago
See also: the housing market. Just another of life's necessities the usurers have got in on so that they can leech of the productive members of society by introducing limitless competitive expenditure, for their own gain.
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by hanoz 4y ago
The numbers you link to completely fail to take into account the carbon footprint of producing energy in the form of food vs in the form of petrol.
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by hanoz 4y ago
The willing horse gets the whip.
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by hanoz 4y ago
> Sometimes you wonder, is all the ridiculousness of their protest because they're just afraid of needles and injections? Obviously not, because the vast majority were fully up to date with all the usual established jabs.
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by hanoz 4y ago
> [flagged] Fitting, I suppose, that this very discussion has now been censored.
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Principal resigns after Florida students shown Michelangelo statue(bbc.co.uk)
19 points by hanoz 4y ago|23 comments
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by hanoz 4y ago
The proportion of my local supermarket given over to toothpaste is mind blowing. It's like the beginnings of some sort of Brontitallian Shoe Event Horizon. For what is essentially just a mild abrasive plus fluoride, the baffling array
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by hanoz 4y ago
As a Briton, it's incomprehensible to me that American adults allow themselves to be told, like children, that they can't drink alcohol until they are an older adult! It's completely and utterly baffling. How do you guys put
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by hanoz 4y ago
Sounds great. So why is all this in past tense?
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Bank of England says it warned US regulators over SVB risks before its collapse(ft.com)
44 points by hanoz 4y ago|1 comments
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by hanoz 4y ago
You would want to know how many deaths which would otherwise have been recorded as alcohol related, were actually recorded as entirely covid related in this period.
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by hanoz 4y ago
Yes, because interest rates clearly need to go a lot higher to get inflation under control around the world, yet banks are already starting to fail from the stress of it at these low rates, and the central banks' bailout mechanism is i
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by hanoz 4y ago
I take you point, but even then it wouldn't be enough.
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by hanoz 4y ago
By the traditional definition of inflation, QE is inflation.
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by hanoz 4y ago
> Most people working full time could live perfectly well on a tenth their wage. Now that is patently untrue. For most people 10% wouldn't come close to paying the rent alone.
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by hanoz 4y ago
I'd be furious if I found out some professional I'd commissioned had taken a document based on my own personal data, and poured over it themselves looking for errors at the tune of hundreds of dollars per hour, instead of sumbitti
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by hanoz 4y ago
Of course it's a bet that interest rates will stay low, as subsequent events have amply demonstrated. Managing to hang on until maturity doesn't magically make it turn into a profit, when you consider the time value of money. The
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by hanoz 4y ago
Why have so many companies been been betting on 200 year low interest rates continuing indefinitely?
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by hanoz 4y ago
The fact that thier motivations were convoluted should not make the tax payer any more on the hook for the consequences. A disgraceful bailout, if entirely unsurprising. Shades of "The Times 03/Jan/2009 Chancellor on brink o
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by hanoz 4y ago
Any depositors expecting to receive their deposits in due course could take our commercial loans to cover themselves in the meantime. They are being bailed out by the taxpayer to the tune of what those costs would be.

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