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by mvc 4y ago
That's less of a concern if you've just liquidized your position though is it?
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by mvc 4y ago
As an independence supporting Scot, I'm not much of a fan of the UK "state media" but even I can recognize that the BBC is no Rossiya. So that's who I name. UK.
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by mvc 4y ago
> Sure, but you can also survive without sewer. It's just a lot harder to live a normal life. Not really but that sense of learned helplessness is certainly good for their bottom line. I imagine it increases your propensity to buy w
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by mvc 5y ago
> What does the team do? Do they wait until every team who depends on them is ready to work on updating? Do they try to work out how the depending team is using their code so they can update it themselves? versioned multi-repos may solve
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by mvc 5y ago
Always be griftin
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by mvc 5y ago
Never heard of Javascript?
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by mvc 5y ago
> While this may be true, it is entirely the fault of the dumb UK mortgage market How would raising interest rates affect spending in the short/medium term if loans are all fixed for 30 years? I guess maybe the property market is mo
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by mvc 5y ago
It was super annoying when I returned to the UK with my dual UK/US wife and we couldn't invest in the same passive funds (or rather, we could, but at punitive tax rates) because US seems to like their citizens wherever they live i
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by mvc 5y ago
If they needed the barman's help to hail an Uber, I don't fancy their chances of getting home on public transport.
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by mvc 5y ago
Drinking more of the stuff is generally good advice too.
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by mvc 5y ago
The point I was making was not about assigning or excusing blame to Russian or American citizens. That is as constructive as assigning blame for some IT outage. It was highlighting the differences in the systems of government that allows fo
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by mvc 5y ago
Early days yet. If you check my comment, I said he's replicating the run up. It remains to be seen whether he will be allowed to commit genocide but he's written about restoring old Soviet borders and he cannot do that without goi
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by mvc 5y ago
> Maybe people should be trained in snail mail phishing detection too. This attack would might be even more effective as snail mail actually because in my case, that's where the official notification of recipient account was suppose
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by mvc 5y ago
As opposed to the crypto pipe you've been smoking.
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by mvc 5y ago
Who do you think has the power at the moment? IMO, this war has demonstrated where power really lies. And that is in the hands of the people. Do you think any politician West of Poland really wanted this economic war with Russia? Clearly, t
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by mvc 5y ago
We're cancelling Russia. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/06/opinion/putin-ukraine-chi... Friedman is right that this is economic war. Which I think most people will agree is preferable to nuclear wa
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by mvc 5y ago
The USA at least subjects itself to elections, free press, democracy. That is the crucial difference. Democratic systems get it wrong sometimes. No doubt. I'm a UK citizen and disagreed with the war in Iraq waged in my name. But at lea
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by mvc 5y ago
That is not an exageration IMO. Many people are making comparisons between Putin's actions and those of Hitler in the run up to WW2. Russia is firmly in Nazi territory right now.
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by mvc 5y ago
Yep. Definitely lawyers (specifically those involved in high value transactions) are targeted. All you need to do is convince one of their customers that you are speaking on behalf of the lawyer and get them to send the money to you instead
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by mvc 5y ago
China is seeing that people who live in democratic countries have been given a timely reminder about how valuable that is. They will fight to protect that status. And over the medium to long term, they will reorient their economies so that
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by mvc 5y ago
Seeing a few accounts parotting lines like these in here, and on LinkedIn. Scary stuff.
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by mvc 5y ago
If you wanna play at autocracy, don't hold foreign reserves in countries that value democracy. Simples
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by mvc 5y ago
But "solidly middle" is still working class really. My sister has a degree, and is a nurse of a about 5-7 years. Her husband also has a degree (and even went to private school) and does local government procurement paying ~35k. I&
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by mvc 5y ago
> No one in this thread appears to be able to see the world from the Russian POV That's because the Russian POV is murderous genocide https://twitter.com/maxseddon/status/1499400893111832588
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by mvc 5y ago
We'll see. I myself was sceptical of anti-china propoganda I'd seen until a few days ago and understood why business might think they can work within that environment. But everyone is showing their hands now. And at the moment, it
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by mvc 5y ago
> People have been saying this for more than 10 years. double-digit growth is great until it ends in zero.
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by mvc 5y ago
I think the dollar has never looked better actually. Who from "the West" is going to consider major investments in China now? If by some miracle you manage to keep your IP secure, you risk losing your entire investment if/whe
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by mvc 5y ago
Ukraine will not exist if Putin wins this war.
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by mvc 5y ago
Ah fair point. I assumed UK. Sorry jpgvm
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by mvc 5y ago
No way is SkyNews as partisan as Fox. You'd never see someone like Sam Coates for example on Fox. And he's not the only one.

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