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by skippyboxedhero 5mo ago
It is difficult to think of an economic region that is more opposed to free trade than Europe (that isn't a comedy country). Possibly some countries in South America? Trade within Europe has massive restrictions. I have no idea why, gi
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by skippyboxedhero 5mo ago
That is because of population aging. Despite the US importing effectively endless amounts of young people, per capita income growth for working age population since the 1990s has been identical between US and Japan. I am unable to say why e
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by skippyboxedhero 5mo ago
return on the average stock is -2% iirc, terrible idea
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by skippyboxedhero 5mo ago
The same mistake was made with Amazon, and a million other tech companies in the early 2010s. Amazon were losing money, they were losing money because were growing and spent all of their cash flow on growth. It wasn't merely regarded a
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by skippyboxedhero 5mo ago
I think the bigger issue is that management clearly have no idea how to tell which people are actually working. Output could be higher with less people but the situation that managers have crafted is the maximum number of people with minimu
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by skippyboxedhero 5mo ago
Almost none of what you are saying is accurate. The reason it "cost" so much is because it was never used. You have confused stack with a flow. Basic error. In addition, the expectation was that it would be a deterrent because peo
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by skippyboxedhero 5mo ago
No, the distinction with Rust is obvious from the comments on this post by people who have actually used Rust...but the features of the language are such that you need to have some deeper conceptual understanding to use those features effec
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by skippyboxedhero 5mo ago
I believe the total number of attendees was 150k. The same thing happened with student loans protest where the police go in very hard and manage to produce the arrests required. But the vast majority of people do not go to commit violence.
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by skippyboxedhero 5mo ago
...but it obviously wasn't. 150k people attended, and a lot of the issues with police are because the police come to this stuff tooled up. The same thing happened with the student loan protests 15 years ago. When almost all of the inci
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by skippyboxedhero 5mo ago
Palestine Action is also a proscribed terrorist group and the incident you linked is being treated as a terrorist attack now. There have been many other attacks like this both on places and individuals, as I said though the attacks on some
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by skippyboxedhero 5mo ago
There has been no violence at any of the previous marches iirc. I think people assume there must have been because Starmer and co are foaming for violence...but there weren't. Also, they have banned 11 people from getting visas because
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by skippyboxedhero 5mo ago
Yes, the fact that large number of criminal activities have effectively been decriminalized would tend to beg the question why this is being deployed at a political protest. The implication of police state is that they care about crime, but
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by skippyboxedhero 5mo ago
The boring reality is that you can bribe a civil servant with £5k in the UK. They are remarkably cheap. Whether the civil service is a shit place to work or not (it is), there should be a recognition of the fact that the government still co
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by skippyboxedhero 5mo ago
It is far bigger than this. I would look more closely into who is behind the article and who has been quoted for comment here/why. And you think it is just some expensive IT projects...UK media has been bought and sold, just not by who
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by skippyboxedhero 5mo ago
Bear in mind, there is far far worse corruption in Scotland (hub and spoke contracting for one, this system has private sector contractors advising the Scottish government on whether to accept their own bids). There is a reason why this spe
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by skippyboxedhero 5mo ago
This isn't the US. Public sector productivity output (in the UK) is measured, it isn't a speculation based upon the population.
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by skippyboxedhero 5mo ago
AI is not good at writing Rust. The ways in which it is bad vary from writing code that just looks off to actually not working. I do not use unsafe frequently so cannot comment on this particular scenario but I have seen similar stuff often
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by skippyboxedhero 5mo ago
It doesn't escape the economy. This is the kind of bizarre left-wing isolationism/nationalism that seems to be rife amongst people who don't understand free markets. If you pay money to Palantir, they are providing a service
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by skippyboxedhero 5mo ago
Correct, the main reason why private sector is used is nothing to do with salary. Productivity hasn't increased in the public sector since 1997 due to massive overhiring and bloat, salaries are probably 20-30% higher than they should b
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by skippyboxedhero 5mo ago
Right, but EOD also introduces credit risk on the clearing house/bilateral. Also, I would say that probabilistic finality is one of the main issues that tradfi has with crypto (which also exists in the case of margined exchanges, for t
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by skippyboxedhero 5mo ago
why do you think LMAX disruptor runs inside many big exchanges? have you read some blogs online? LMAX disruptor does not run at "many big exchanges". Disruptor is written in Java. LMAX itself is a tiny exchange that largely deals
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by skippyboxedhero 5mo ago
So when the iphone came out and no-one was using it, it wasn't useful? I cannot conceive a reality where I perceived the current state of things as the only things that could ever exist. I do not believe anyone could have that amount o
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by skippyboxedhero 5mo ago
Fastest ones are processing a block every 10ms. It depends what you mean by easy. Even if you are using a slow chain, you still have to compete for finite block space, you still have to work out how to risk/matching fast, etc. With cha
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by skippyboxedhero 5mo ago
How do you think on-chain exchanges do it? Hyperliquid has 16 employees, not engineers...total employees. It is possible, it isn't going to be possible for many of the legacy exchanges. I work with a major one and, being honest, from d
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by skippyboxedhero 5mo ago
There are non-profits in the UK. Some of these structures are over 100 years old at this point. Expectations are completely irrelevant. Charities steal, in the UK the largest charities are essentially run as private companies except the sha
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by skippyboxedhero 5mo ago
As a data point, I work at a US company that ended up in this place and the same thing is happening. In my BU there were directors with 2 direct reports. Even at the next level up, the number of non-IC directs is only high single digits. Th
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by skippyboxedhero 5mo ago
No, you don't understand, the government must do everything.
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by skippyboxedhero 5mo ago
Because aggregate statistics completely fail to recognise the massive philosophical differences in the system. It is like saying someone who buys Ferrari is getting ripped off because they aren't choosing to ride a bike. The US pays mo
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by skippyboxedhero 5mo ago
Life expectancy for a country of 300m compared with a subsection of Europe that is most wealthy...seems like a fairly disingenuous comparison. Are you one of those people that believes most American schools are shooting ranges too? All of t
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by skippyboxedhero 5mo ago
The point is that Europeans seem to believe that the US does not have a public healthcare system, it does. I am not sure what your point is about covering fewer people either. The point of public healthcare systems is that there are redistr

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