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by neffy 8y ago
Working all your life in physical labour, to provide ungrateful offspring with the chances you never had will do that to you.
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by neffy 8y ago
Do you just give lectures, or can you also do laboratories? I've found having one session a week dedicated to practical exercises - using pre-prepared virtual machines where appropriate has been a very good teaching method - and popula
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by neffy 8y ago
It doesn't matter if you need the data to provide the service, you still need to ask for consent for any personal data - and personal data is defined extremely broadly.
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by neffy 8y ago
Here it is: https://www.eugdpr.org/the-regulation.html Hands up. Who has actually read all of it? Speaking as somebody who actually has - was teaching computer security last term - I found it relatively easy to read (as leg
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by neffy 8y ago
The NHS stopped the entire tonsil removal thing decades ago.
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by neffy 8y ago
I've worked in the USA as a developer. I wouldn't do it again for any amount of money. Money is an imperfect measure of total value. The total value to me of my comfortable home, full medical insurance regardless of employment sta
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by neffy 8y ago
I can recommend it. The way it works in civilised countries is that you can still attempt to negotiate your terms, however the union negotiates annual across the board increases, and critically circulates reliable information on what the
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by neffy 8y ago
I agree - I´m in favour of adopting a scientific approach. There is no scientific evidence in favour of full reserve banking, which is based on even greater misconceptions of how banking actually works than the mainstream theories. Central
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by neffy 8y ago
Well sure. The history of economic experiments is that they do end up eventually getting reversed. After a period of death and destruction, revolution, economic collapse, starvation and dictatorship. If there´s one lesson we really need to
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by neffy 8y ago
I think it´s the german version of the 1932 Fisher Full Reserve proposal.
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by neffy 8y ago
However, effectively it would remove at least half the total loan supply, which would probably not be a good thing.
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by neffy 8y ago
There's a lot of hidden subsidies in things like teachers and doctors coming over from Denmark for a few years, and I suspect they don't include the cost of the naval support either.
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by neffy 8y ago
The strong form of the efficient market theory is fairly well discredited by now, and there are much easier way to disprove it in any case than this.
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by neffy 8y ago
That could though, also be said about the existing human based media, which isn't exactly robust against noise or false news either.
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by neffy 8y ago
Companies have had two years to get their act sorted out on this.
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by neffy 8y ago
Oh, you never ran into Hugo de Garis? iirc (it was back in 1997 when I heard him talk), he was promising human level "artilects" about 2015, and super-human intelligence by 2025. The problem that I have observed, is that the popul
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by neffy 8y ago
Look at who get's the favourable edits, and figure out their agenda? A stipend for the editor is small change to some of the financial types.
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by neffy 8y ago
Well, they have had that in the UK for sometime now. The system there was already far more efficient than the US one when this was introduced - which is not surprising, it´s mainly a technology issue. The only thing it really changed was t
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by neffy 8y ago
Yes, that's the root of the problem. A deceptively simple sounding result.
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by neffy 8y ago
To be quite frank about it, that's a fridge that's just going to have to experience a terrible accident to its loudspeaker.
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by neffy 8y ago
Very much so. In Churchill's war diaries there's this great begging letter to Roosevelt early on in the war, which basically says, for God's sake, send rifles now. After Dunkirk, the UK didn't have enough to even arm the
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by neffy 8y ago
To be completely fair about this, the US was ramping up a long time before Pearl Harbour. (This is part of the extended discussion around the attack itself, and whether it should have been anticipated.) British rearming began in 1936, the U
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by neffy 8y ago
Not a doctor... observed some interesting side effects with my parents on these, and would personally err on the side of caution with them. If you do come off though, do it gradually - also there are different types, so it may be worth look
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by neffy 9y ago
Alexander Flemming.
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by neffy 9y ago
There was a short period in the USA, known as the wildcat banking era in the 1840's, when it was indeed possible for anybody to setup a bank. There's quite an entertaining paper from the time that describes the resulting chaos: h
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by neffy 9y ago
You're right, I didn't get that far... but what he does is actually worse. He assumes a 2% increase in rent (no, just no) - rents track real estate increases quite well too, the common link is the cost of the landlord's mortg
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by neffy 9y ago
He's assuming that the rent stays constant. A lot of what he says is correct, but this is a critical point. Buy, with a standard compound rate mortgage, and you essentially freeze your rental payment. Yes, for the first few years of th
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by neffy 9y ago
This is a similar complaint to that which people like Goldman Sachs have with taxation on shares... Here comes the new financial system, same as the old one, with added bugs.
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by neffy 9y ago
("Yeah, I've made millions out of this web service, who cares that I store customer credit card details in plain text"). The European Union. If you have any of their residents in that database, then you have about 3 weeks to
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by neffy 9y ago
Oh something like no tax up to a certain level, 3 or 4 bands from then on, similar with inheritance tax, but a firm no dodging it policy for the very high value estates. Crack down on all the trusts etc. Toss it into a decent simulation and

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