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by mvc 4y ago
> No price controls can account for the fact that energy prices are up a lot globally. Sure, but how would these energy companies fancy being under the thumb of Putin. If they want to benefit from the spoils of free markets with consumer
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by mvc 4y ago
If the "tech economy" is going to hoover up consumers from all over the world, it should expect to contribute it's fair share of the costs of maintaining civilisation in those societies. Maybe if they didn't restructure
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by mvc 4y ago
It's been a while since I read this rant but I suspect you have projected the " all of open source" into your paraphrasing of what he said and that in fact he never purported to speak for all open source.
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by mvc 4y ago
> If I was thinking of contributing to Clojure, this post is reason enough to stay away from it. Without wanting to sound flippant or rude, I think they'd be cool with that. They're talking about contributions to the core langu
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by mvc 4y ago
They are simply numbers in a database. http://bilbo.economicoutlook.net/blog/?p=14620
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by mvc 4y ago
Has there ever been a time when investors could expect to earn a high rate of interest on risk-free investments during a period of very low inflation?
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by mvc 4y ago
> 29 by my count. There's 5 "A" roads. Not sure how you got to 29 but my guess is there's going to be a lot of single-track lanes in that number. Hard to imagine huge trucks of counterfeit goods running up and down th
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by mvc 4y ago
I'm not particularly interested in debating what exactly independence means in the abstract. But to my untrained political eye, it seems that countries are free to choose political and economic unions and those unions tend to come with
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by mvc 4y ago
> Scotland exported 19Twh of electricity to England in 2021, which was about 30% of its generating capacity. True but the rate it gets for that electricity is lower than the rate recieved by power companies operating in the south. This i
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by mvc 4y ago
If all you have is a screw and a hammer, it doesn't really matter how hard you hit it.
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by mvc 4y ago
> Scotland will make shitloads exporting hydro electricity I doubt that. Hydro doesn't seem very exportable. hydro-tech should be though and Scotland could be well placed to attract investment in that (if only we weren't losing
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by mvc 4y ago
You ignored this part of parent's response. "The EU would have less of an influence than Westminster does" For example. Did the UK require permission from the EU in order to hold the Brexit referendum?
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by mvc 4y ago
> Having a huge land border which is an EU/non-EU border with customs controls would be massive economic disruption on both sides of the border. Is it really considered a huge border? There's only 5 roads that cross it.
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by mvc 4y ago
> Without independence, same as now. Given that even including north sea revenue Scotland is still subsidised by London Forgive me if I've misinterpreted, but you seem to think that's an argument for staying in the UK but I see
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by mvc 4y ago
> There's a reasonably strong argument for this reason that non-reversible decisions should require a greater than 50% majority Cool. I like the idea of that. Other things that seem non-reversible... - building nuclear plants&#x
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by mvc 4y ago
He is the current PM of the UK. The Tory party is dominant in the UK. Now and for the forseeable future. And even in the unforseeable future, more years than not. Independence is the only escape.
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by mvc 4y ago
I'm more worried about what happens when the oil runs out. Apparently it's the only thing of any value in Scotland and in 30 years, we're supposed to be net-zero. What happens when Scotland's geographical resources cease
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by mvc 4y ago
Sorry. I misread the "downward trend" part as pertaining to the economics of the country as a whole, not the oil and gas sector as you clearly stated.
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by mvc 4y ago
The oil revenue is a short-term concern. In 30 years, hopefully there's zero oil revenue. But what happens in the meantime is important. I have zero faith that a UK government will invest in alternatives that will generate wealth for p
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by mvc 4y ago
> the secular trend is clearly downwards Some might see this as an argument for ditching the folks who've overseen this downward trend.
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by mvc 4y ago
The fact that Westminster can if it chooses to "stick the boot in", together with the possibility that it might, is evidence enough IMO to support independence. The trust has gone. I want us ruling our own affairs.
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by mvc 4y ago
"past performance is no guarantee of future results"
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by mvc 4y ago
> Yes, you must forgive me for thinking that principles and promises are worth sticking to. I should be as cynical as politicians and simply go by what is convenient, right? So principled that you are happy to stick with a leader who whe
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by mvc 4y ago
> don't pretend like it's somehow going to make Scotland "better". Isn't that the essence of politics? You're basically trying to convince people that the system would be "better" if things were ru
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by mvc 4y ago
At least (unlike bitcoin), holders of this stock have received the odd dividend now and again.
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by mvc 4y ago
> I guess it depends what kinds of transactions you are making on the internet We're long past the time when that kind of excuse can be used by internet companies. They have taken enough market share now from "traditional"
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by mvc 4y ago
> Annoying but hardly rare in the business world Not really the "business world" is it though? Ebay markets itself as something any consumer can use to clear out their old stuff and make a bit of extra money. I appreciate that
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by mvc 4y ago
I was subject of an exceedingly well timed and executed email phishing attack which convinced me to use my online banking system to deposit 100k into the attackers account. Got the money back in full. God bless the fiat system.
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by mvc 4y ago
> fade away as a once good club Newcastle were good once? ;-)
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by mvc 4y ago
In my experience semantic versioning is more aspirational than something you can actually rely on. Many times bug fixes are not back-ported to prior lines of dev Other times, claims of backward compatibility on minor version releases are wr

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