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by pjc50 2mo ago
Hm - are the linking requirements for PE and COFF similar enough for that to work?
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by pjc50 2mo ago
Using people as a scapegoat so you can parade their suffering for your fans is intentional cruelty.
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by pjc50 2mo ago
The immigrants have something very specific and real on the line.
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by pjc50 2mo ago
> That’s how it’s designed. On purpose. The cruelty is the point. (The UK system requires initial applications from overseas but I believe doesn't require you to leave for renewals)
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by pjc50 2mo ago
Finally a win for the German "impressum" requirement!
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by pjc50 2mo ago
It might "spur" through higher prices, since electricity is basically a private concern is (most? All?) of the US and many Western countries. Of course the general public hates this inflation and hence the cause. The only fair and
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by pjc50 2mo ago
The specific issue is that because it's a data center, from a company with unlimited money and therefore political power, it's being allowed to skip all the rules about clean generation. The ones in question are building on-side d
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by pjc50 2mo ago
People complain when you violate the rules and externalize harms, yes. They should be made to turn off the generators and pay enough for the electricity so as not to impact everyone else's prices.
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by pjc50 2mo ago
Healthcare and college are "Baumol cost disease": because they depend on skilled workers, much of that is the same as "American salaries are higher than in the rest of the world", and unlike manufacturing or software (+)
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by pjc50 2mo ago
Green washing variant of that: deposit for reusable plastic cups. You can reclaim it but they're banking on you not bothering. Edinburgh Fringe special variant: charging extra for plastic cups and then not accepting returns.
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by pjc50 2mo ago
IME they mostly only appear for large tables in the UK.
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by pjc50 2mo ago
"goomba fallacy", if you need a name for this phenomenon.
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by pjc50 2mo ago
Turning up in person. The way to deal with LLM spam will be to force people back to government offices, during the week, 9-5, with ID and bag checks and so on. This is hugely inefficient but the only way to keep out the avalanche of LLM spa
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by pjc50 2mo ago
The ability to ban people, and the choice of who is banned, is actually the defining feature of social networks.
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by pjc50 2mo ago
You're on hacker news.
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by pjc50 2mo ago
But part of the setup was that inflation was controlled centrally by the ECB? How are you declaring that national governments inflated it?
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by pjc50 2mo ago
This really needs to be hit with the GDPR hammer. Microsoft have not obtained consent for this.
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by pjc50 2mo ago
I don't think single use vapes were ever compliant with WEEE, it's just that it's not enforced.
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by pjc50 2mo ago
This got downvoted but is basically correct. We had a great "grey" market, but the tradeoff for that is having to stay small enough to not be visible.
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by pjc50 2mo ago
The Euro had a much better set of inflation controls than most of the previous European currencies. Especially the lire.
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by pjc50 2mo ago
> It's completely missed that small entrepreneurs may also want to take part This was traditionally something that the UK was better than the rest of Europe, having carve-outs for small businesses.
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by pjc50 2mo ago
Per downthread, this whole crisis arises because of Chinese companies shipping to Europe. The EU Directives are definitely visible in advance, none of this is dropped on people.
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by pjc50 2mo ago
The TV license is silly but the detector van situation is bogus, at least in the present day; really they just blanket mail demand letters to every address in the database on the assumption that everyone watches TV. > Europeans absolutel
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by pjc50 2mo ago
It's basically the Liz Truss situation, except the UK could actually remove her after just one budget because the Conservative party weren't fully on board with her level of brainworms. Whereas the US's two legislative houses
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by pjc50 2mo ago
And yet every single Fox talking head says the opposite, resulting in half the country thinking it's Democrats responsible for the deficit. Propaganda is magic.
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by pjc50 2mo ago
Absolutely not. The only thing saving us from these people and their senility is the knowledge that they will eventually die. (Obama is so far the only US president born after 1946)
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by pjc50 2mo ago
Such a deal is basically not possible. See the Argentina "pari passu" fiasco. Because US T-bills are everywhere . They are, to use a Claude-ism, load bearing for the world economy. There is no "adults outside the room"
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by pjc50 2mo ago
The reckoning will be put on Democrats. It's quite hard to do this while the Republicans hold all the power, but as soon as it flips the media will care again.
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by pjc50 2mo ago
The military threats include burning down other countries. Now, people accept the "no angel" defense for Iran and Venezuela. Just like a cop is allowed to execute someone in the street if they have a criminal record. But now we ha
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by pjc50 2mo ago
I would like to add to the list the excellent history of frauds "Lying for Money", by Dan Davies.

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