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by krona 7y ago
Tying the currency to the price of Gold is the opposite of manipulation. That was the point.
872.
by krona 7y ago
Corporate debt is the driver of the next recession. From the debt fueled growth of Chinese business to the exploding pension funds of Europe. That's where the exuberance is.
873.
by krona 7y ago
> what am i missing? The impact of exporting deflation across the global economy right at the moment it needs it the least. I'm looking specifically at the euro area, and what it does next.
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by krona 7y ago
Except in reality, Brexit hasn't actually happened.
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by krona 7y ago
Given the exchange rate over the past 25 years, it's quite remarkable that the UK has any manufacturing base whatsoever.
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by krona 7y ago
If the wrights had taken Da Vinci's design and rebuilt the invention without understanding why it failed the first time, absolutely.
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by krona 7y ago
building the very idea of a community of nations in europe Like the League of Nations? And every other (defunt) supranational institution all the way back to Napoleon?
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by krona 7y ago
National telephone networks 'solved' redundancy, what, a century ago? A similar problem is happening in the UK; airports trying to centralize air-traffic control to off-site locations to save a few pennies.
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by krona 7y ago
False equivalence? Research about things which happened in the past are empirical, and it matters little who discovered them. Predictions about future events are not empirical, since they have not happened.
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by krona 7y ago
Isn't the only difference that you see what happens to the mouse? Spring traps are less effective, but that's only because we don't know how many of them die of infection after running around with half a leg missing for a few
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by krona 7y ago
> I wish the U.S. government had used their power to push for some form of a mandatory and transparent security audit to ensure data privacy. That's exactly what the UK did. It's called the Huawei Cyber Security Evaluation Cent
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by krona 8y ago
Indeed, in the US 12% of the population will find themselves in the top 1% of the income distribution for at least one year. ( https://www.nytimes.com/2014/04/20/opinion/sunday/from-rags-... )
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by krona 8y ago
Most MEPs claim the maximum office allowance, with only a handful reimbursing the parliament for unspent funds. There is no requirement to provide invoices, receipts or any details on how the funds are spent. The ECJ has even ruled that for
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by krona 8y ago
Unsurprisingly there are several possibilities not accounted for here. One being that the 3rd vote passes, the PM resigns (which she's already agreed to do), a new leader is elected and a general election is held soon after which wil
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by krona 8y ago
See also, The Field Guide to Understanding Human Error by Sidney Dekker.
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by krona 8y ago
Python type hints (since 3.5) also follow the same pattern. see: https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0483/
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by krona 8y ago
The default legal position is that Britain leaves the EU on the 29th. With or without a deal.
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by krona 8y ago
What about those of Norwegian descent? Since they've only been there half as long as the ones of Spanish descent, do you get to 'kick' those out too? Also, have you read The Terrorism Act 2006, lately?
889.
by krona 8y ago
The UK tax burden is set to reach a 40 year high by 2025. It's currently at ~37% of GDP, which hasn't been seen in the past 30 years.
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by krona 8y ago
Not really. The public reports detail the altogether deficient way the hardware and software is being developed and manufactured. Hauwei know what they are and have failed to improve (much) over the past few years.
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by krona 8y ago
Which policy, specifically? The only policy I know of was mobilizing the military to transport food and aid to the famine stricken regions during wartime. I suppose you're suggesting that more food and resources should have been divert
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by krona 8y ago
[The EU] see this as a "tax" as well Fines imposed by the EU go straight to the EU commission itself. Tax doesn't.
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by krona 8y ago
Laser melting is distinctive under a microscope.
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by krona 8y ago
Given that these companies have given up on competing with one another many years ago and have almost identical supply chains, wasn't this inevitable?
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by krona 8y ago
chlorinated chicken/steroid injected beef Such things would be clearly labelled and no worse than the US standard. If consumers want it, they will buy it. If they don't, they won't.
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by krona 8y ago
Is this a joke? Judicial activism by the ECJ even has its own wiki: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judicial_activism_in_the_Europ... A political court is essential to the european project. Absolutely essential.
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by krona 8y ago
The strategy is legal, political and economic harmonisation. It does this by passing vague legislation that requires its own court to interpret. Everything else, literally everything, is secondary. And so a nation state is born.
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by krona 8y ago
Seems more like classic divide and rule, to me.
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by krona 8y ago
The problem with their ML strategy is that it consistently over-promises and under-delivers. The marketing and messaging doesn't trail the research; the research is driven by the corporate messaging by half a decade or more. It's
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by krona 8y ago
Bazel, from the outset, wasn't designed for open source projects that tend to have dependencies with incompatible build systems. It isn't flexible enough.

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