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by repolfx 8y ago
Yes, but the UK is outside the eurozone. It also has very low unemployment and although the deficit exploded under a left wing government and due to the financial crisis, it's been falling since 2010 and is now at its lowest level in a
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by repolfx 8y ago
Currency is a fine way to represent value, but a currency that's being inflated is certainly a worse way than a currency that isn't. If a government plans to inflate its way out of debt, the markets respond to that by trying to ch
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by repolfx 8y ago
I love emoji but they aren't needed for anything. You can always discuss periods using ordinary words. I have to admit that whilst emoji are fun the apparently endless growth in them combined with the way they break essentially every a
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by repolfx 8y ago
Printing money to pay a debt is defaulting in any sense that would be understood by a layman. The loan has technically been paid, but in a way that voided the point of requesting payment (transfer of value). Again, the fact that it's
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by repolfx 8y ago
Germany (and France!) violating the same budget rules it insists everyone else follows is indeed a damning indictment of what the EU truly is. But Germany isn't a winner from the Eurozone. I don't understand why everyone keeps thi
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by repolfx 8y ago
It's not that easy. The rules are byzantine. You have to determine location using multiple pieces of "evidence", IP geocoding is insufficient. There are specific rules for what to do if the user is on a plane or a cruise ship
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by repolfx 8y ago
Yeah, but using the word "cash" that way isn't a good idea. I understand why they do it but it's still asking for trouble. For one, sovereign bonds are very obviously not risk free. Governments have a long history of g
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by repolfx 8y ago
Well, the problem is web apps, or seen another way, lack of good distribution mechanisms for desktop apps. Write your frontend in Java 8 and you have access to a full blown date/time library that handles all the edge cases and has been
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by repolfx 8y ago
No, there are no such obligations at all. Every lawyer who has looked at this reached the same conclusion. The treaties are very clear. Two years after invoking Article 50 all rights and obligations terminate . Pensions are obligations of
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by repolfx 8y ago
How do you define or measure consensus? I think this debate goes round in circles because we rely on news organisations to do several things at once, and they should probably be unbundled. We rely on them to report immediate, factual events
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by repolfx 8y ago
The problem with that line of reasoning is that climate scientists have jobs too, and they get money for promoting their viewpoint just as the coal industry does. It's hard to argue coal workers have "vested interests" but sc
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by repolfx 8y ago
Why don't you go investigate the denial side? It will probably only take thirty minutes and might be interesting. I did this once. I had fully accepted the media's narrative that these people were all kooks and idiots, so I was cu
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by repolfx 8y ago
No, it wasn't. The EU is not insisting that parts of Canada obey EU law automatically and are effectively different countries as a result, which is what it's currently demanding of the UK. Nor did the EU demand tends of billions o
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by repolfx 8y ago
The economy grows if there are more people in it. GDP is just all economic activity summed, so adding more people inherently grows GDP, which is what is usually meant by "the economy". This obviously doesn't automatically mea
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by repolfx 8y ago
There isn't really much services market in the EU, the "common market" only ever really worked properly for goods. This is one reason the UK doesn't like it much - it's got a more services oriented economy than the
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by repolfx 8y ago
Arguably PhDs in those subjects aren't that useful either and they just seem respectable because they've been around a long time. Many things would seem ridiculous if they were brand new but become respectable and accepted through
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Hundreds of car models can be easily stolen by thieves using key relay attacks(which.co.uk)
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by repolfx 8y ago
If you read up on how he was caught, it was pretty incredible - another journalist at Der Spiegel had to go on a personal mission, on his own time and at his own cost, to prove the guy was lying, and then nearly lost his job because the man
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by repolfx 8y ago
I may be missing something fundamental here, but I'm not sure what that post has to do with Russia or propaganda. You say it's obvious they didn't die last week, but it wasn't obvious to me upon reading - perhaps because
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by repolfx 8y ago
Your first task is to prove there's a problem at all. Kodablah ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18980290 ) is not the only one with serious doubts that there's any such thing as a problem that needs to be comb
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by repolfx 8y ago
Which is a good example of the problem. So the Washington Examiner is publishing false stories about Wikileaks (as has CNN, the Guardian, etc). Which one gets the ticks and the crosses? The one the US government doesn't like gets marke
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by repolfx 8y ago
What "Russia propaganda angle"? Almost everything published about Russia in western media is wrong or outright fraudulent. Go read Glenn Greenwald's articles on the Intercept for many very clear examples. Maybe your mother is
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by repolfx 8y ago
The rules are clearly not simple. If they were, McDonalds' team of lawyers wouldn't have been tripped up by them, and in particular if the rules were simple and constant then it'd have been clear what sources would count as i
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by repolfx 8y ago
That seems problematic. It appears to be equivalent to financial punishment for appealing a ruling. And in the EU competition law is enforced via the rule of essentially one woman and her department - competition laws are so vague that she
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by repolfx 8y ago
Hardly - this case appears to revolve around the decision that Wikipedia isn't an "independent source". That can be argued both ways. Wikipedia isn't owned by McDonalds. They probably didn't write the pages on it. I
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by repolfx 8y ago
Well, I'm the same, I'm OK with seeing myself as a morally ambiguous person. But I might not be that way forever, and I do deeply understand the need for a moral framework. It's not vanity and narcissism. Really, seeing how t
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by repolfx 8y ago
Yeah, but those aren't subtle questions, they're subtle answers :)
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by repolfx 8y ago
Geometry, geography and geology are different things. There are no outstanding subtle questions about the Earth's geometry as far as I'm aware. It's not a perfect sphere but we have literally mapped the surface of the Earth w
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by repolfx 8y ago
Nobody wants to be a nobody who goes to work every day, makes PowerPoints that nobody cares about every day, goes home every day, watches TV every day, and in the end amounts to nothing special, nothing memorable, because there's nothi
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by repolfx 8y ago
No, OP is right. This isn't stability. By "stability" people mean government decisions are predictable and make sense, not that tiny EU companies can create big problems for major corporations by exploiting the bureaucracy. W

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