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by krona 1y ago
You're arguing a kind of strawman of unbridled economic liberalism which hasn't existed in England since probably the late 19th century, if at all.
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by krona 1y ago
My point is the differences you're postulating are a rounding error in the scale of the problem in front of you.
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> I think the neglect and failure to invest in infrastructure is the worst Cumulative capital investment by water companies in England and Wales since privatisation: £250bn. The infrastructure they inherited was never designed for the th
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by krona 1y ago
Case in point, Thames Water has been trying to build a reservoir in Oxfordshire since 2006[1], but has only met resistance by the local planning authority and environmental campaigners (the two often working in concert when it comes to NIMB
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by krona 1y ago
how about: grep -r "_0x112fa8"
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by krona 1y ago
Yup, an ant also has a model of the world. You're arguing a strawman.
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by krona 1y ago
Cows don't walk in to lampposts either, but that's not telling us much. Roughly 4% of the population are said to have aphantasia (lacking a "mind's eye"). Around 10% (numbers vary) don't have an internal monolo
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by krona 1y ago
S.1748 - Kids Online Safety Act[1] is working its way through and as I understand it has fairly broad support. There may be significant differences between KOSA and OSA in their implementation but they are the same in essence. [1] https:&#
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by krona 1y ago
Taking rockstar players 'off the pitch' is the best way second-rate competitors can neutralize their opponents' advantage.
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by krona 1y ago
Thank you for writing a clear explanation of how false positive rates determine your minimum change threshold. I've found it surprisingly difficult to explain this to developers/QA's without a basic statistical background. Wh
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by krona 1y ago
> I think one day the Chinese will be saying "at least we're not living in the west" Conversations with highly educated Chinese nationals I've had on this topic at elite universities will often conspicuously include w
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by krona 1y ago
Yes the Sovereign adjudicates civil disputes. This is just how England has been Saxon times. There's nothing controversial about it in principal.
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by krona 1y ago
> badly implemented brexit policy and a negligent tory party rule over 13 years. How about: 2018 - Sandhurst Treaty 2022 - Interior Ministers’/ Home Secretaries’ joint declaration of November 14th 2023 - UK-France Joint Leaders&#x27
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by krona 1y ago
The UK was never part of the Schengen Area, so it's not relevant.
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by krona 1y ago
You've confused the concept of an absolute sovereign with this which is control over the private lives of the individual and the family.
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by krona 1y ago
Switzerland isn't in the EU either.
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by krona 1y ago
I think you mean economics isn't a physical science, since social science is still a branch of science.
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by krona 1y ago
Distal causes vs proximate causes. Sure, you need traders to move the markets, and if that's good enough for Scott Bessent, good for him.
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by krona 1y ago
An easier way to think about it might be if you timed how long it took each ticket in your backlog. You also recorded whether you were drunk or not when you worked on it, and the ticket was selected at random from your backlog. The assumpti
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by krona 1y ago
The drones Ukraine used in operation Spiderweb reportedly had "terminal guidance" software for the last mile of their mission. A drone video intercepted by the russians was released showing this in action: https://en.de
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by krona 1y ago
I, for one, think the French can keep their libelous and manipulative piece of Norman propaganda.
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by krona 1y ago
Up until 5 minutes ago, 'stable housing' meant living with your parents and then the neighbourhood where you grew up surrounded by an extensive support network of people you knew you could trust. No 'housing policy' or g
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by krona 1y ago
Collective action problem.
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by krona 1y ago
I find the 'rubber ducking' process of writing a hard problem down in to a concrete well articulated question is actually useful, even if the response is nonsense (which it is, maybe half the time.)
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by krona 1y ago
Perhaps it's time Britain improved its food supply which hasn't been self-sufficient since, probably, the Napoleonic Wars. That being said if the population continues to grow at the pace it is, there won't be enough water, ei
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by krona 1y ago
Unconvincing. Why did the authors select the face as the determinant of attractiveness? AFAIK the human female focuses on the upper body in general, with nothing in particular. Cultural variations exist, obviously. This (upper body strength
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by krona 1y ago
While your perspective bias undermines your point, this form of government (i.e. vague laws, the highly selective application of them, and the use of the justice system regardless of guilt as a weapon to suppress dissent by middle classes (
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by krona 1y ago
> Saddam also had WMDs, we just don't know where. Presumably if Saddam had built a large reinforced concrete bunker deep in the side of a mountain hours from the nearest city, that might be a place fairly high on your checklist?
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Illegal jammers used in Vermont bank robberies, DHS says(vermontdailychronicle.com)
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webassembly hosting freetype in a webworker. not too difficult.

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