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The oil futures drunk-trading incident(en.wikipedia.org)
2 points by rowanajmarshall 4y ago|0 comments
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by rowanajmarshall 4y ago
> you can have your pension in savings investments without anyone's else financial contribution Those investments still need workers to work in the underlying companies, and that doesn't count products that don't usually g
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by rowanajmarshall 4y ago
You can't have a proper pension system if you don't have enough young and middle-aged workers to pay for it, and to work all the jobs necessary to keep a society running.
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by rowanajmarshall 4y ago
Something I'd like to see is if large, profitable, private tech companies are also doing layoffs. Like, it's reasonable for unprofitable companies to do layoffs. I can see investor pressure causing something similar in large publi
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Poll: How do you make your coffee at home?
4 points by rowanajmarshall 4y ago|4 comments
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by rowanajmarshall 4y ago
Automatic filter/drip machine
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by rowanajmarshall 4y ago
Manual filter (e.g. V60, Clever brewer)
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by rowanajmarshall 4y ago
Espresso machine
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Manual other (e.g. moka pot, aeropress)
by rowanajmarshall 4y ago
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by rowanajmarshall 4y ago
Instant
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by rowanajmarshall 4y ago
I don't drink coffee at home
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One in 58 Londoners revealed to be homeless, far higher than rest of UK(standard.co.uk)
3 points by rowanajmarshall 4y ago|0 comments
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by rowanajmarshall 4y ago
They have - agricultural co-ops are popular and common for exactly those reasons. They haven't moved into ag equipment yet though (at least in a big way), I'm guessing since modern equipment is complicated and advanced enough that
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“The spice level we turned up for the UK – the UK likes spicy food.”(telegraph.co.uk)
1 points by rowanajmarshall 4y ago|1 comments
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by rowanajmarshall 4y ago
> These days though, you don't need a couple musicians in each and every bar in town every night for drinking music... if you actually do hire a local musician to play the drinking music you are something of an anomaly. Maybe where
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by rowanajmarshall 4y ago
Equally, someone who moves straight to SV (or equivalent tech hub) is probably significantly more career-focused than someone who stays put, or moves to a city, so it's unsurprisingly SV is seeing more office work than other regions.
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by rowanajmarshall 4y ago
> mankind has demonstrated through thousands of years of history that tribes of men can't really cooperate in any grand sense I'd argue the fact that humans can live in reasonably stable polities of more than a billion people p
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by rowanajmarshall 4y ago
That's what it was for me. I grew up in a tiny farming town; if I wanted a job other than farmhand, retail, or local government, moving was the only option. And I did, 3 days after graduating.
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by rowanajmarshall 4y ago
Honestly, it isn't even the "AI is unaligned and wants to destroy us" I'm worried about here, it's "ChatGPT doesn't know how to use `rm` and just deleted my home directory".
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EU plans subsidy war chest as industry faces ‘existential’ threat from US(politico.eu)
5 points by rowanajmarshall 4y ago|0 comments
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To save democracy, Americans need to hang out more(newstatesman.com)
2 points by rowanajmarshall 4y ago|3 comments
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by rowanajmarshall 4y ago
I'm not talking about sitting tankers off the coast, I'm talking about the UK's ability to continually attract new LNG tankers thanks to major existing infrastructure, and being able to afford it. The UK is setup to be able t
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by rowanajmarshall 4y ago
Although the UK has an appreciable percentage of Europe's LNG re-gasification capacity, while Germany has none, and imports LNG via Belgium and the Netherlands instead. The UK has storage, it's just sitting in ships off the coast.
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Rishi Sunak will be next UK prime minister(bbc.co.uk)
65 points by rowanajmarshall 4y ago|140 comments
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by rowanajmarshall 4y ago
Maybe I don't know enough about recommendation systems, but surely not? If I buy a kitchen table, in my demographic (mid-20s in rented accommodation) it's because I moved into a new flat, or my existing table broke. In either case
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by rowanajmarshall 4y ago
> As long as few people drive, cars give drivers extreme advantages. I don't know about that. I'm living in London right now, and I'd hate to have a car. It would mean need a parking space all the time for it, for somethin
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by rowanajmarshall 4y ago
Article says: > On the other hand, they don't create the noise, or the constantly moving visual distraction of a regular, bladed turbine
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by rowanajmarshall 4y ago
Although the UK has some advantages e.g. an appreciable percentage of Europe's LNG capacity, pipeline infrastructure to Norway, and pre-existing contracts with suppliers from Kuwait and the US.
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by rowanajmarshall 4y ago
The problem Europe has isn't regulation, it's that it doesn't have the continent-scale easily-accessed shale oil the US has. Also that it shares a border with Russia. These problems are geographic, not something a government
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by rowanajmarshall 4y ago
The UK also has large percentage of Europe's LNG ports. The "storage" is in the form of LNG tankers constantly docking and unloading here.

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