mytailorisrich

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by mytailorisrich 2mo ago
Well, I think you've proven my point... > because socialism has never required COMPLETE ownership by the state Sure, it's only complete ownership by the workers. > What makes it socialism is government ownership of the me
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by mytailorisrich 2mo ago
The point is that they became effective when they abandoned socialism as the economic doctrine. So there is no such thing as "their flavour of socialism". The 20th century showed that socialism does not work and fails dramatically
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by mytailorisrich 2mo ago
What I think is "absolutely insane" is how oblivious of recent history people are. Up until the 1980s half of Europe was socialist, and it is at that time that China started moving away from a socialist economy, too. It was abando
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by mytailorisrich 2mo ago
State ownership of all companies, yes, that's one implementation of socialism though not "literally the definition". But obviously this isn't how China is now and even state-owned companies in China generally operate
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by mytailorisrich 2mo ago
State ownership of many companies is not the same as socialism. China has state capitalism and private capitalist enterprises, and free enterprise with robust free markets overall. These are the main reforms that allowed it to thrive after
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by mytailorisrich 2mo ago
> People really need to give up the cold war, the failures of "end of history" thinking are directly related to all of the economic problems we have today. That's irrelevant to the point. The 1980s did settle the capital
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by mytailorisrich 2mo ago
The capitalism vs socialism debate was settled in the 1980s, and so was the value of free enterprise. It is odd that the debate should keep being brought up... However, the terms should also be clearly defined in such poll because indeed th
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by mytailorisrich 3mo ago
This follows a winter much wetter than average and overall the trend is that the UK is getting wetter. But rainfall seems to be becoming more seasonal. Overall the issue is lack of investment in infrastructure. That's good news in a se
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by mytailorisrich 3mo ago
> Sure but the hype has been about the 10x productivity increases and how less employees are needed Which will probably be true at some point when we have become good at using AI, and maybe when AI has improved further as well.
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by mytailorisrich 3mo ago
AI has the potential to be extremely powerful but it is also very new. People and organisations are just at the beginning of the learning process.
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by mytailorisrich 3mo ago
They mean the most equitemporal for people starting from different locations and meeting at that pub.
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by mytailorisrich 3mo ago
The BBC reports, with pictures, that nothing of the sort happened [1]. [1] https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cy4ker2y1mko
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by mytailorisrich 3mo ago
Which taxes go directly to the EU rather than member states?
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by mytailorisrich 3mo ago
Thanks for illustrating my point...
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by mytailorisrich 3mo ago
Depending on the area that has always been the case, indeed. In fact, in the most historically prone areas, the Mediterranean part of France, number of fires and surface area burnt have tended to decrease over time since the 1970s [1], whic
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by mytailorisrich 3mo ago
In the South of France, dry vegetation in summer is normal. Areas where this is most expected, the Mediterranean, have actually seen a decrease of fires over time as preventive measures and fire-fighting readiness have increased. [1] See gr
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by mytailorisrich 3mo ago
The elephant in the room is that many of those fires are criminal and that the French government has arbitrated budget restrictions against investing in fire-fighting equipment, especially planes. It so happens that the current fire near Bo
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by mytailorisrich 3mo ago
You still need to tread carefully as @ncruses said. So not Marie Curie but Maria Skłodowska-Curie.
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by mytailorisrich 3mo ago
Note that even for that, countries had to chose neutral things not to create problems.
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by mytailorisrich 3mo ago
That's exactly why they are a better choice, like the imaginary bridges on current Euro banknotes. The selection of people is also quite poor but that's because people are a poor choice: Most notable historical people are very lin
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by mytailorisrich 3mo ago
Cynically, this is another use of "think of the children" to make everyone identify themselves when signing up for anything classed as "social media", bearing in mind that everyone has an ID card in France, which can be
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by mytailorisrich 3mo ago
Cynically, this is another use of " think of the children " to make everyone identify themselves when signing up for anything classed as "social media", bearing in mind that everyone has an ID card in France, which can b
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by mytailorisrich 3mo ago
However you look at it they don't want fossil fuels to be cheap, as demonstrated by all the policies I mentioned. So the aim is indeed high prices (because this makes other energy sources more attractive) within the constraints of publ
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by mytailorisrich 3mo ago
It is policy to ban shale gas and more North Sea gas. In Germany it is also policy to exit nuclear, like it was policy to depend on Russia. VAT is policy. The Ukraine War is a convenient way to deflect from all the policy choices made over
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by mytailorisrich 3mo ago
Even the popular claim that "natural has is extremely expensive due to the Ukraine war" is misleading. In the UK and Europe high prices are by and large the result of policy and in fact high prices is exactly the aim.
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by mytailorisrich 3mo ago
I have several banana plants in my garden in Southern England. Musa Sikkimensis and Musa Basjoo, 3+m tall at the moment. Winters are too cold for them here. So either you heavily mulch them and they start from the roots every spring while t
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by mytailorisrich 3mo ago
Risc-v bexomomg a competitor is bemeficial for ARM's clients as it gives them leverage in price negotiations, which they don't have at the moment.
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by mytailorisrich 3mo ago
Interestingly this is from the party that has pledged to lower the voting age to 16.
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by mytailorisrich 3mo ago
Where is control in being mandated to implement and EU-wide, EU-defined system? This is a net loss. My previous comment should be taken in its entirety. The loss of sovereignty of individual countries is comprehensive across all domains and
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by mytailorisrich 3mo ago
IMHO banning organisations from making requests will have no effect. People will just make requests in their own names, instead, then what?

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