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by pjc50 4mo ago
.. and the consumers get cheaper goods. This debate is as old as Adam Smith, or older. I think the examples he used were centered around textiles? Everyone was afraid of the new job-destroying looms. > This destroyed jobs by the millions
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In the ancient days of 2011, this was done: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Scheinberg
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gambling (intermittent dopamine hit)
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Social housing is the council budget - I was referring to Housing Benefit.
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"Lab leak" may or may not be true, but it's (a) going to be extremely hard to find evidence for given time and China, and (b) .. ultimately irrelevant? Are there people who think "COVID was a bioweapon and therefore we
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by pjc50 4mo ago
> What constitutes a "serious criminal offence" is not subjective based on one's personal opinion, it is what the law defines as such This was literally a decision Starmer personally made, to put Palestine Action on the pr
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There really isn't a lot of slack in the welfare system unless you're prepared to be very short sighted and go back to "tent city" levels of homelessness. Which is partly why all previous attempts to cut it have failed.
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Eh, for most people it's simpler to just use a cash ISA which can provide almost the same rates. Most people don't want or need to carry a huge cash float as opposed to other kinds of investment.
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EEA like Norway would be both a significant improvement, and does not require Euro. I do think we have to get to the point where we can say that actually Schengen was good and we should have been part of it before we get economically over
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by pjc50 4mo ago
True. The modern far right is both a social media and traditional media driven phenomenon, internationally, and I don't have great suggestions for dealing with it other than "maybe the government should boycott Twitter before th
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https://www.thelondoneconomic.com/politics/2016-leave-majori...
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His Home Secretary telling the voters to fuck off was another good one: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2026/04/21/shabana-mahm... (note that the mirror image of this, the Gordon Brown being secretl
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> insane ideologue Man doesn't have any ideas! Let alone insane ones. He's simply the dull thud of quiescent authoritarianism.
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Not just that: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/ce950111xk7o "Corner, a former student at the University of Oxford, was also convicted of causing grievous bodily harm after he fractured Sgt Kate Evans&#x27
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The attack on Brieze Norton was a serious criminal offence. The signs are not, no matter how much people want to pretend they are to conflate the two issues. The police always have a choice as to which crimes they investigate. This is why p
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I agree with you generally but the RAF are part of the state and not meaningfully "capital". If you attack the military then yes obviously you are going to get the book thrown at you. That does _not_ justify going after the people
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The gridlock is real whether it happens inside or outside the party. This is partly why we're here in the first place! Starmer is out because he couldn't do coalition management inside the Labour party.
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The collapse of the ancient Conservative party to behind not one but two crank astroturf right-wing parties is something to behold.
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The police swerved hard into deploying state capacity against exactly the wrong people: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/03/12/more-women-arres... Meanwhile ignoring the actually violent far right t
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People are desperate for change! It's just that due to a misinformation fuelled online (and traditional media!) environment, nobody can agree what that is.
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This wouldn't start a civil war. Many of the Brexit voters are already dead and most of the rest are retired.
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Most of the real power is in the budget, which is technically a bill, but I would 100% go for "change the voting system". Almost anything except D'Hondt is better than FPTP; for simplicity, we could just copy the Scottish Par
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.. conversely, all the cloud LLMs are being subsidized by their investors in addition to massive economies of scale.
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No, but you can hold them through the standard range of intermediaries and still get the tax advantage. NS&I offer a range of retail products - https://www.nsandi.com/guaranteed-returns is a good option but does NOT com
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This is almost formalized in UK trains under TUPE. Train companies like Avanti exist as shells; they don't own track, trains, or stations, and when the franchise shifts to a different company the vast majority of the staff are taken on
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by pjc50 4mo ago
Related to this, the massive advantage of AWS is that it allows staff to buy infrastructure without having to raise purchase orders. If you ask permission for spending, it's a very onerous and frustrating process. If you just deploy st
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> corrosive to the social contract What we see is iterated prisoner's dilemma. Enough people have had their landlords play "defect" against them (rent rises in excess of wage inflation, evictions, failure to do maintenance
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.. and the jobs? I mean, people moved out of Detroit precisely for that reason.
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Similar things in lots of countries. There are villages in Italy and Spain with near-zero housing prices. The qualifier that needs added is "housing in commute range of jobs ". Stoke on Trent was selling houses for £1 with improv
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"This solution won't work in <ludicrously overextended case>, therefore let's do nothing!" -- common software engineering requirements management technique

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