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by qcnguy 1y ago
You missed his point. People have measured this. Basically all plastic waste in the oceans come from Asia. This was true before these EU regulations and is also true of America where such bans don't exist. It's a good example of w
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by qcnguy 1y ago
Yeah? Which bit do you think turns "we are baffled and surprised by reality" into these people being "boffins"?
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It invalidates the expertise of the people making those claims and predictions, meaning you should deeply interrogate the other things they told you. Or you can continue to believe everything told to you by people who predicted with 100% ce
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by qcnguy 1y ago
Meanwhile https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/aug/20/slowdown... Academics don't understand the climate and never did.
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by qcnguy 1y ago
She wasn't given any warnings about the LDI crisis, by universal consensus. She has also written about how the the first thing anyone told her about the risk buildup in the pension sector was the moment it happened. Same thing hasn&#x2
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by qcnguy 1y ago
I don't have a recommend read but a quick search showed this: https://www.pensions-expert.com/investment/ldi-and-the-liz-t...
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by qcnguy 1y ago
I was/am confused by this part then: "The people that non-profits are accountable to (the poor, minorities, etc)" . But as you say, they aren't accountable to the poor or minorities really. In a world with unlimited tim
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by qcnguy 1y ago
Where do you people get this stuff? The economy saw no impact from Brexit whatsoever. Remarkable but true. Go look for yourself. The huge deficits are structural and driven by unrestrained immigration and welfare spending combined with the
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by qcnguy 1y ago
And yet Labour have blown through all the spending and borrowing levels they proposed without "terrifying the market"? No, go read up on it. There was a chain reaction in the pensions market caused by over-leverage. Similar issue
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by qcnguy 1y ago
Candidates don't matter much. Labour routinely put forward absolute loons and they get elected anyway. The lack of seats in 2024 is because the election was called with three weeks notice and Reform didn't even exist at that point
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by qcnguy 1y ago
How are non-profits "accountable" to the poor? Are the poor going to threaten to stop giving them donations if they don't shape up? You seem to contradict yourself when you say that indeed if the soup kitchen upsets you then
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by qcnguy 1y ago
Eh no not really. Google's early success came from PhD dropouts (Larry Page & Sergey Brin), combined with people like Jeff Dean and Sanjay Ghemawat (formerly at DEC), and the lesser known but no less critical Eric Veach (formerly P
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by qcnguy 1y ago
You might be behind the times. Current polls show Reform gaining a huge majority and the Conservatives dropping to a few dozen seats if an election were held tomorrow. Labour would also be slaughtered.
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by qcnguy 1y ago
The Truss event was due to crap regulation and bad moves by the BoE. The UK bond yield is now higher than it was during the Truss spike which according to Labour "crashed the economy". Actual cause of the problem was a 2008-style
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by qcnguy 1y ago
The right didn't split. Reform hardly existed at that point because the Tories called a snap election with nearly no notice specifically to stop Farage organizing in time. What happened is simply that conservative voters stayed home. M
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by qcnguy 1y ago
There is both a lot of fat and also cutting it won't solve the problem. The fat is worth cutting for political reasons alone. It's still years away from the next election so it's hard to know what economic angle Reform will r
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by qcnguy 1y ago
Such an HN-tier comment. The UK's excessive borrowing has nothing to do with the EU, which also has its own borrowing problems. It's because it has a Labour government whose backbenchers refuse to countenance any cuts or optimizat
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by qcnguy 1y ago
Alexa was a huge money loser for Amazon even before LLMs. They can't afford it.
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by qcnguy 1y ago
Basic point seems sound, analysis slightly off. > Interestingly, Intel still reached new highs for a decade after missing mobile before it all collapsed That's because their problems weren't due to missing mobile but rather t
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Do they have such a flywheel? I remember I had to specifically opt-in to sharing my Claude Code sessions with them. I think by default they aren't training on people's sessions.
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by qcnguy 1y ago
There's lots of info about academic far leftism out there. This article is a decade old now (the problem is surely now far worse) but the trend in the graph is clear: https://heterodoxacademy.org/blog/professors-mo
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by qcnguy 1y ago
Hallucinations aren't surprising, that's why they're problematic. They tend to look like exactly what you'd expect to be true, they just aren't.
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by qcnguy 1y ago
Unfortunately what people say they believe doesn't really matter. These decisions are so subjective that nobody can ever prove good or bad intent. And having nice intentions isn't worth much, what matters is outcomes. The outcome
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by qcnguy 1y ago
But we must admit that Switzerland does not actually have high speed rail at all. So asking how it would build High Speed 2 is a bit of a misleading question. Swiss rail runs on time but slowly, this suits the Swiss culture which is much le
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by qcnguy 1y ago
This argument is undermined by the malign behavior of green activists and their academic allies, who have been caught in the past inventing non-existent new sub-species specifically so they can use the endangered species argument to block c
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by qcnguy 1y ago
The German train system isn't privatized in any meaningful way, I don't think any European rail system is. They all have harsh price controls imposed by the government and are unionized, which are classically problems affecting go
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by qcnguy 1y ago
Sure. Road and fuel taxes have historically generated a surplus after the costs of maintaining the roads are subtracted. EVs are changing that because they don't pay fuel tax. So, governments are now proposing to change how vehicles ar
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by qcnguy 1y ago
Sounds like you're Old Left? The left's positions have changed since 1900 you know. Labour is fully committed to mass immigration and "diversity", refuses to reduce welfare by even a penny despite imminent financial cris
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by qcnguy 1y ago
This is backwards. The public transit lobby is the Green/climate lobby which is absolutely massive and incredibly influential because it peddles to politicians a unifying moral story about the end of the world that justifies unlimited
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by qcnguy 1y ago
No, auto industry is dying in Germany and was more powerful in the past. German railway collapse is a recent phenomenon. It's the inverse: the Green push to make everyone use public transport is collapsing both the auto industry and pu

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