lambertsimnel

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by lambertsimnel 10y ago
Switzerland could be an inspiration for the UK, especially considering its financial sector and its unique relationship with the EU. Direct democracy is talked about more and more here in the UK. We've had several referendums over the
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I wonder whether the Swiss system of proportional representation contributes to the relative sanity and/or to the Swiss people's confidence in the system. As a British person, I envy people who live in countries with proportional
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Something PM Trudeu could do to reduce inequality in Canada is to introduce proportional representation, as he promised to. PR correlates with lower economic inequality, presumably because all votes have equal value under PR, coalition gove
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Debt to GDP ratios can also be described in terms of how long it takes to produce GDP equal to the debt. Owing 100% of GDP is owing one year's product. Whether that's a significant dividing line depends on rates of interest and gr
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I like that the cross-breeds are called "beefalo" on the page you linked to.
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by lambertsimnel 10y ago
Some donor-funded news sources are quite good. https://theconversation.com/ has African, Australian, French, UK, US and global versions (but the African, US and global editions seem not to be donor-funded), Creative Commons
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The current voting system doesn't help. A national popular vote for president under IRV and proportional representation for Congress are necessary parts of the solution.
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Whether or not those three have a similar political viewpoint, they probably have different regional viewpoints, so there's still some value in combining them. Almost any combination will omit some political stance. I don't believ
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Actually, the Labour vote went up under Milliband. It was a quirk of the voting system that caused Labour to lose seats.
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Without wishing to take sides on the controversial issue of whether taxation is morally permissable, I would like to add that what I call "lawful taxation" is different from arbitrary confiscation. I call taxation "lawful&quo
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Is anybody advocating arbitrary confiscation of private wealth? It seems more likely to me that BI would involve lawful taxation.
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Much of the work we do is not paid employment, but rather parenting, caring, housework, slavery, unpaid volunteering, unpaid interning, etc. Even claiming welfare takes time and effort.
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What about works that are inspired or influenced by other works? Nearly all works are. In some homeopathic sense they might be derivative. I assume there's a grey area between that and clearly derivative works.
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Don't the rights of the writer depend on the similarity of the cover to the original? If the the alterations are sufficiently substantial, the author of the previous version shouldn't have rights over the new version.
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Why does grid electricity usage peak on hot summer afternoons? If it's because of air conditioning, it's probably not universal. I imagine hot summer afternoons are a time when factories operate below capacity (or not at all), and
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by lambertsimnel 11y ago
I think if you're a member of the public trading on an exchange, all you can do is ask an authorised entity to accept the "bid" or "ask" price (mentioned by brwnll above), which are set by other authorised entities.
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by lambertsimnel 11y ago
I wonder whether it would be viable GPLd with a proprietary licences available for a fee. I suppose that might still be costly and would be incompatible with the licences used by some FOSS projects.
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I realise I don't understand it as well as I thought I did. How about variable outputs of any commodity and countries taking any opportunity they can to increase consumption by replacing domestic production of a commodity with foreign
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The suggestion is that the more productive country would convert all of its production to one commodity, leaving an opportunity for other commodities to other countries. This is a bit simplistic, as it assumes that production can be convert
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RSS feeds for SoundCloud pages (or at least some of them) do exist. Here is an example http://feeds.soundcloud.com/users/soundcloud:users:214090286... They are difficult to find, though. I use many SoundCloud pages for
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by lambertsimnel 11y ago
I assume that this is far from unique to humans, but not quite universal. I wonder whether the "immortal jellyfish" turritopsis dohrnii has some telomere rebuilding mechanism for all cells that provide its age-defying abilities. I
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I attended a lecture by an Irish psephologist which covered the neglect of national issues in Irish politics. His view was that the cause of this "chronic localism" was a lack of effective local democracy. (I'd like to see th
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by lambertsimnel 11y ago
Bertolini is quoted as saying "up $500 a year". Assuming he meant "up to $500 a year", a run of fewer than twenty days would lead to a reward. Presumably only the longest run of the year counts.
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My last comment was sloppy and I agree with much of your reply. However, the governments that serve their populations well do so in virtue of their structures and office-holders, both of which change over time. My concern is that any increa
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What's to stop someone you don't trust getting into government or banking after those institutions gain extensive access to your information? (Maybe the safeguards are stronger where you live than where I live, but are they strong
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If all of the copyright holders agreed, I think they they could relicense under any licence. This would be especially straightforward for any revision for which Oracle is the sole copyright holder.