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by makomk 5y ago
Nah, the way they got that contract - along with a bunch of private sector funding - was by having previous experience running a ferry boat line to the UK until the Competition Commission forced it to shut down due to being owned by Eurosta
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by makomk 5y ago
All the professional futures traders were of course trying to do exactly this, with the result that all of the storage capacity that was available on the open market was full. What made this a good opportunity for the US government was that
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At this point, the slogan "black lives matter" seems to be more of a partisan talking point than any kind of indication that the person using it does, in fact, consider black lives to actually matter. Up to and including shooting
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That doesn't change the fact that shaming and bullying younger people into getting vaccinated cannot possibly stop hospitals getting overwhelmed with Covid patients, and that in countries with reasonably high vaccine uptake amongst the
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by makomk 5y ago
Most "24 bit" audio DACs have a lot less than 24 bits of real usable data due to the noise floor effectively burying the lowest bits in garbage, and I think the noise increases at less perceptually noticable frequencies too. 24 bi
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by makomk 5y ago
Given how ineffective vaccines or any other measure have been at stopping Covid-19 from spreading within prisons, jail time for this is effectively sentencing people to be infected with a deadly disease in the name of protecting them agains
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The current Covid-19 vaccines don't reduce people's risk of infecting themselves and others by nearly enough to control Covid outbreaks, and reality doesn't care about whatever sense of justice or political viewpoint is makin
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by makomk 5y ago
That's only for cross-border transactions between the EU and UK, and as the article says Mastercard is doing the same thing as well. I know there was a lot of speculation on social media that this was to blame but there's a lot of
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by makomk 5y ago
I think both Visa and Mastercard are increasing their fees like that, but only for payments between the UK and EU (and pretty much simultaneously too - aren't duopolies great?)
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Also, the big elephant in the room here is that the denser housing is, the more quality-of-life for people living there is affected by things outside the bounds of their individual property and the more important it becomes for them to have
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by makomk 5y ago
The problem with this is that no matter how much you tell people that they need to live in tiny concrete boxes and like it because it'll make more money for Bezos and co, they're not going to like it, which is why attempts to push
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by makomk 5y ago
Test and trace never worked nearly as effectively against Covid as the media claimed. I don't know about the Netherlands, but here in the UK the media coverage was pretty much outright lying about how well it worked in South Korea to c
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by makomk 5y ago
Other countries seem to have been pursuing broadly similar monetary policy to the US, at least in the Western world - even the EU and its member states have got in on it this time around.
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by makomk 5y ago
They're talking about two different things - one is about people leaving the labor force entirely, whilst the other is about people quitting their current jobs. Now, there might be some overlap but there doesn't necessarily have t
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by makomk 5y ago
Pretty much the entire US mainstream establishment said that, from what I can tell. There was a huge push to tell people that the pandemic could be over by now if not for the evil Trump-supporting antivaxers, along with pressure on any medi
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by makomk 5y ago
I assume there's other equipment still in use on the line that can only handle 200mm wafers, otherwise it'd make sense to upgrade to 300mm and take the extra capacity increase - the masks are stepped across the wafers anyway, ther
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by makomk 5y ago
Section 230 is extremely broad and powerful. The whole point of it is to allow websites full immunity from legal action over the content of their website regardless of how much editorial control they exercise over it, so long as they'r
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by makomk 5y ago
The trouble is that the new medications probably don't work by the time you're in the ICU with Covid. I'm not sure it was tested with this one specifically, but at least one of the recently-approved medications was previously
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by makomk 5y ago
It's not quite a binary yes-no question, but the vaccines not being effective enough for it to be possible to achieve herd immunity through vaccination alone makes a huge difference in how widely the virus ends up spreading.
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by makomk 5y ago
That's easy. They live in the world where Twitter feeds the careers of journalists but Facebook eats into the advertising income that funds them. Either by being one of the journalists who spend all their time on Twitter or by having t
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by makomk 5y ago
Pretty sure that only accounts for easy-to-measure headline specifications - for example, it takes into account that people are buying 55" TVs when a few years ago they might've bought 32" TVs, but ignores the fact that you n
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by makomk 5y ago
The trouble is that there is no secret pool of wealth that can somehow give people the living standards they expect if only it were prised from the hands of the super-wealthy, and populist politicians and activists have been taking advantag
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by makomk 5y ago
I'm not sure why this is downvoted. The quickest (perhaps only, if the timeline is short) way to comply with any US vaccination mandate is the single-shot J&J vaccine, which is basically totally ineffective at preventing Covid afte
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by makomk 5y ago
Hmmmm. The obvious question here is, did the previously-infected group catch Covid-19 more because we're selecting for people who're at higher risk of catching Covid-19, for example because of their job or some other similar exter
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by makomk 5y ago
It's a bit more complicated than that, at least if I'm understanding the write-up correctly. The underlying trick is that they reduced the amount of yUSDVault shares by redeeming most of them, then doubled the value of each by gif
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by makomk 5y ago
See, this is what I mean about there being a lot of misinformation out there. That £37 billion wasn't handed solely over to any one company - political opponents of the current government kept on falsely claiming that it was all given
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by makomk 5y ago
The British media has indeed very successfully spun this to our domestic audience as a problem unique to the UK that's caused primarily by Brexit. I think that says more about the British media than about reality though; the complaints
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by makomk 5y ago
The Guardian article is just as much propaganda - it twists the details of the case to fit their long-running narrative about big fossil fuel companies. For example, this part makes it look like the claims it mentions are just something tha
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The US courts also found that he had, in fact, done those things. Their main evidence for this was internal e-mails and memos by Donzinger and his colleagues where they talked about, planned, and carried out exactly those actions. (I read t
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by makomk 5y ago
If I'm remembering this case correctly, Donzinger's own expert paid by his side even concluded that the toxic waste they were trying to get Chevron to pay for had to have been dumped after Chevron's involvement had ended when

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