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by psd1 4y ago
I agree with your reasoning, but on this tiny rock we call Albion I'm not convinced that renewables will ever be viable for base load. I'm concerned about the tonnage requirement of strategic minerals for battery storage. Supplies
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by psd1 4y ago
Right, but non-monetary negative outcomes are swept under the rug. It costs nothing for fossil plant operators to pump carbon and sulphur into the atmosphere; that's why it takes regulation to make them install scrubbers. Scrubbers hel
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by psd1 4y ago
I assume they are just resellers, buying bulk data from a big carrier. Is that the case?
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by psd1 4y ago
Funny - I thought the Cameron government was extremely ideological. Osborne wasn't thick, he must have realised the damage that austerity would do in a recession. Debt was extremely manageable going into the 08 recession. Interest rate
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by psd1 4y ago
You're really giving it to that straw man. You must be tired now. > You've not attempted to answer the actual questions Lol no, this is a transparent plea for validation. No-one views tax as punitive. The real anger from the na
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by psd1 4y ago
The laffer curve is a reasonable hypothesis but your single data point does not prove it. You're cherry-picking. Your citation is the daily mail. You're scornful of experts, and self-satisfied. You're gammon, aren't you?
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by psd1 4y ago
"gilts". It is not an acronym.
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by psd1 4y ago
To be more precise, the market has realised that the economic illiteracy of our leaders is worse than previously feared. And I use "leaders" with scornful irony
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by psd1 4y ago
I bought the director's cut of _Home Plumbing_ and there were deleted scenes of leaks
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by psd1 4y ago
Anyone can lose weight without giving up any of the things they love! _Here's how:_ 1. Live a full life 2. Get in a wooden box 3. Slough away all your soft tissue - you might like to use it for a worm farm 4. Welcome to the new-look yo
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by psd1 4y ago
lolwut. If I cut open your £180k Aston Martin with an angle grinder to steal a pair of sunglasses that I sell in a pub for £10, should my fine be £11?
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by psd1 4y ago
Speak for yourself. I've been able to send money to my friends' phone numbers for years. America hasn't even discovered different colours for banknotes yet. It's parochialism, not regulation, holding you back. Apart from
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by psd1 4y ago
If you want a ball to bounce further off something, throw it harder.
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by psd1 4y ago
Excuse me, but mining cartels are in control of bitcoin.
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by psd1 4y ago
What country are you in? In the UK, women aren't taking CS degrees. That's why I mention pedagogy. There's something in my country's culture that is planting the idea that girls don't code. "Planting ideas&quot
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by psd1 4y ago
Thank you!
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by psd1 4y ago
AIUI, that's an unfair conclusion. I'm happy to be corrected, of course. tl;dr: unfair outcomes are more caused by local implementations than by the legal structure. IMO the unfairness in the American legal system comes from the e
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by psd1 4y ago
A high-karma Reddit account has monetary value, you can sell it to a bot operator. Does an HN account have any value, or do you think karma farmers are just in it for the ego boost?
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by psd1 4y ago
That's a good idea!
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by psd1 4y ago
My comment ITT is about our own ability to raise or lower the emotional stakes in a conversation. I don't have a naturally high EQ, I have to exercise it and constantly reflect. I'm middle-aged (I worked solo in my first career).
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by psd1 4y ago
Something that works for me. I care about technical issues. Too much probably. I tend to be _that guy_. So my emotional investment comes out in my tone. My team lead then gets invested himself. At that point, the technical issue is just a f
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by psd1 4y ago
Build a deployment server and a dev server. You can do this without the team knowing. Do a swot analysis with the team. Make them answer why it takes days to do simple changes. Make them answer how they'd recover prod if the disks died
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by psd1 4y ago
Yes, and... In the 50s, 25% of software engineers were female; now, it's, what, 3%. Why is that? The "meritocracy" position focuses on who can produce the best code _now_. What if we take a longer view? I would love it if we
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by psd1 4y ago
Without wanting to actually enter the well-trodden arena, at maximum zoom, the arguments can be categorised: - free-speech absolutism (this position exists) - ban all communication between all humans (this position is not advocated by anyon
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by psd1 4y ago
I'd add, someone can have a master's in math and be a phenomenal software engineer and still clueless vis-á-vis crypto. It's like Dunning-Kruger, except the bar for "doesn't know enough to know he doesn't know
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by psd1 4y ago
My capital is miserable, but the CGT on it comes out of my free cash. I had a tiny trust fund mature and had to borrow a third of my salary to pay the tax bill.
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by psd1 4y ago
I don't love the UK online return, but it's a solid app and it's free to use. Libertarianism is like communism; it may seem great in theory but devolves into oligarchy in practice.
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by psd1 4y ago
I'm probably very progressive by American standards. I think the state should exist to protect citizens from the worst of the slings and arrows. That's the purpose of the state. Society should provide a basic level of health insur
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by psd1 4y ago
> why the downvotes? That gets an instant downvote
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by psd1 4y ago
Old Pratchett joke.

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