timellis-smith

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by timellis-smith 4y ago
May also be good to benchmark against attrs which also seems to be similar to what you want to do.
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by timellis-smith 4y ago
Is it? I think true free marketers are about fair competition, and few would argue that legislation is necessary. Allowing one company to benefit by illegal behaviour distorts the market and thus goes against the principles of free markets.
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by timellis-smith 4y ago
In addition it's worth pointing out that the UK has the second lowest debt / GDP ratio of the g7 https://countryeconomy.com/countries/groups/g7
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by timellis-smith 4y ago
Do you have any evidence for this or are you just sprouting tired old anti-government rhetoric. > Overall, there is no evidence of a significant increase in spending on private providers or widespread privatisation of services in recent
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by timellis-smith 4y ago
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/sep/14/swedish-pm-con... They voted for a very anti-immigration right wing party.
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by timellis-smith 4y ago
I have a Windows dual boot which I occasionally use. The last time was to stream some sports which requires silver light so no Linux. I booted in 5 minutes before the start of the game but it was unwatchable due to the fact that Windows upd
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by timellis-smith 4y ago
It does strike me as more than a little ironic that you are advocating to moving to a country with famously low historical corporate tax rates[1], and which has a similar tax rate to the UK without the (just removed) 45% tier[2]. on a threa
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by timellis-smith 4y ago
I won't go into arguing this point (I'm commenting on this thread in general), but I'd like to make one point. There is a lot of chat about how horrible and stupid and crazy anyone who voted for Brexit was. For me this has th
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by timellis-smith 4y ago
i wonder what percentage of shareholders vote and how many shares you need to practically influence a company direction.
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by timellis-smith 4y ago
I expect this trend to increase now that we've passed peak farmland https://ourworldindata.org/peak-agriculture-land
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by timellis-smith 4y ago
What I find quite amazing is that in Britain something close to 90%[1] of cars bought are on finance. Looking around me I think that the average age of cars is well under 10 years, and many cars are super expensive compared to the median sa
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by timellis-smith 4y ago
No, but by having even-handed and rational conversations we can find the best outcome and hopefully have small influence in making society incrementally better.
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by timellis-smith 4y ago
As a hypothetical experiment I would be interested to see how the numbers switch with changes in government. Presidents should be able to remove judges whose decisions go against the national interest polls 42% democrat and 29% republican.
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by timellis-smith 4y ago
They are pretty major producers of methane https://www.theguardian.com/sustainable-business/2016/nov/06...
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by timellis-smith 4y ago
True, but cultures persist unless there is an active effort to change it. Acknowledging the institution was wrong would be the first step to changing the culture.
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by timellis-smith 4y ago
As a former volunteer wildfire firefighter we definitely had instances of (former) volunteers engaging in arson for the thrill of putting out fires.
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by timellis-smith 4y ago
Agree. In the UK we saw a massive reduction of single use bags when we introduced a 10p charge on bags. https://www.edie.net/single-use-plastic-bags-down-97-in-supe...
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by timellis-smith 4y ago
As a data engineer I often describe my job as a glorified plumber.
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by timellis-smith 4y ago
We need this in the UK given how overloaded our sewerage systems are in bad weather.
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by timellis-smith 4y ago
As the old joke goes: I've been using vim for the past 20 years. Mainly because I haven't figured out how to exit it.
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by timellis-smith 4y ago
Just one kid. To be clear we do own another car which is an old Skoda Octavia Greenline also bought for cash. Its efficiency is pretty incredible even if it is a 'dirty diesel'.
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by timellis-smith 4y ago
As a programmer watching fantasy movies I often wonder at how easily spell casters cast intricate spells like healing people. I imagine myself trying to cast a spell like that and having to go through fifty iterations to even begin to start
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by timellis-smith 4y ago
>The NHS is a tragedy and I almost wish they'd just hurry up and privatise it so I don't have to pay with it with my taxes anymore, which means the Tories achieved their goal. I hear this bandied about a lot, but do you have an
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by timellis-smith 4y ago
A good estate car will provide much the same room, while providing greater safety to pedestrians and better fuel economy / battery range. There is little justification in the modern world for driving a SUV.
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by timellis-smith 4y ago
I live in the UK, and the last car I bought was a SEAT Ibiza with a 3 cylinder 1 litre engine. I get 4.5l/100km or 52 mpg on long trips. 98% of the time my engine does under 2500 rpm. I have absolutely no need of anything bigger and my
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by timellis-smith 4y ago
Glad to hear that you lived to tell the tale. Sounds like a horrendous collision.
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by timellis-smith 4y ago
Honestly, I'm an information addict. I'm online far too much mainly reading news etc. I think I've forgotten how I lived without a constant stream of information. I'm seriously tempted to get a dumb phone to remove tempt
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Britain will soon have a glut of cheap power(telegraph.co.uk)
3 points by timellis-smith 4y ago|2 comments
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by timellis-smith 4y ago
https://archive.md/bDpml
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by timellis-smith 4y ago
Yikes, sorry don't know how that happened will repost

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