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by tmnvix 4mo ago
I wouldn't be surprised. There are people who think it's a good idea to aircondition service station forecourts. I find the irony of the situation tragically absurd. There's a little of that in the comment you are responding
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by tmnvix 4mo ago
Not a non sequitur. I was responding to this specifically: > In the longer one, you need building and renting out shelter to be reasonably profitable, so that people do it.
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by tmnvix 4mo ago
We don't always have to consider the apparently very fragile and fickle motivations of investors. Social housing can and has worked very well in many cases.
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by tmnvix 5mo ago
> I would continue to bet on it going up in most markets since the conditions which made prices increase have not changed. I think they have. As mentioned above, the past 40 year trend of declining interest rates appears to be at an end.
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by tmnvix 5mo ago
Darwin was said to have a circular path in his garden that resembled a trench it was so well-worn.
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by tmnvix 5mo ago
The 96 million members of the CCP and the entrepreneurs incentivised to make decisions based on the policies they introduce? Who are the decision makers in western democracies? I'm being slightly facetious - there are many answers to t
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by tmnvix 5mo ago
And good for the people of China presumably.
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by tmnvix 5mo ago
If I remember correctly, US per capita CO2 footprint is around 14 tonnes (this includes industrial activity). Average US driver of an ICE vehicle produces around 4 tonnes of CO2 per year. Personal choices matter.
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by tmnvix 5mo ago
> If you care about the environment, BY FAR the most important thing you can do is reducing your carbon footprint. And by FAR the most effective way to do that for the average person is to drive less. Most people have no idea how far the
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by tmnvix 5mo ago
Ha! You would be right. My mistake.
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by tmnvix 5mo ago
Exactly. Which, when you think about it, shows that the 'Iran cannot have a nuclear bomb' argument for this war is not exactly the true motivation (not to say that the US and Israel really don't want them to have a bomb). Thi
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by tmnvix 5mo ago
It's worth remembering that the Iranians have as yet never claimed that the strait is mined. They have said that it may be. A lot of reporting misses this and assumes (perhaps deliberately) that the presence of mines is a fact. But of
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by tmnvix 5mo ago
Just to be clear, Iran has been accused of the attack.
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by tmnvix 5mo ago
No. But I would tell anyone involved in a genocide to. In my opinion that now includes the US and UK. Others will have different opinions, obviously, but this is mine.
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by tmnvix 5mo ago
Makes you wonder if less public debt and less focus on growing cash crops to service that debt might actually make for a more comfortable 'simple agrarian life' overall. Even if this meant lower GDP. I've often thought there&
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by tmnvix 5mo ago
We don't know all the reasons, but I can guess one. Debt. And yes, debt can be 'good'. But just as for people, if you are poverty stricken, debt will almost invariably not be. Who actually benefited from taking on the debt?
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by tmnvix 5mo ago
Plenty in NZ. The police use the wagon. They used to use GM/Holden vehicles but at some point they became the worse choice (reduced headroom in the rear seats amongst other reasons).
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by tmnvix 5mo ago
What is the equivalent of the ATTO 1 in the US? Does that choice even exist?
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Google UK staff vote to unionise in protest against Israeli military contract(telegraph.co.uk)
39 points by tmnvix 5mo ago|2 comments
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by tmnvix 6mo ago
Except for the example in the article where the warning failed and an exiting passenger doored a cyclist resulting in brain injury.
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by tmnvix 6mo ago
Don't forget the assassination of Iran's Supreme Leader - the man who issued a fatwa against Iran obtaining nuclear weapons. It makes you think that ultimately, this is not simply about nuclear weapons. It is really about ensuring
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by tmnvix 6mo ago
I agree that having other people smoking nearby can be unpleasant, but you might find some comfort in Sir Richard Doll's opinion on second hand smoke - that the risks were politically and publicly exaggerated beyond what the epidemiolo
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by tmnvix 6mo ago
> and then the 1847 economic crisis ... the world in the mid-1800s was much less financialized so the consequences in absolute terms were less pronounced than a similar bubble-collapse would be today. And yet 1848 was a very interesting
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by tmnvix 6mo ago
> Are home prices rising because people have fewer kids (and therefore more to spend on housing) or are people having fewer kids because house prices are rising (and therefore less to spend on kids)? Maybe a false dichotomy? My suspicion
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by tmnvix 6mo ago
Trump may be a violent moron, but this goes back further. US sanctions and intimidation of Iran and Venezuela has been supported by both parties when in power. It's a US regime thing, not a party/administration thing (that stuff i
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by tmnvix 6mo ago
I agree. But also, on a broader note, I have no desire to introduce node for the sole purpose of some css niceties. Coming back a couple of years later to a broken build system when you just want to change a colour is no fun.
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by tmnvix 6mo ago
One theory is that control over Venezuelan and Iranian oil is a means of constricting Chinese economic competition.
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by tmnvix 6mo ago
The best warm underlayer garments I've ever owned have been merino Icebreaker brand. They can be worn multiple times without needing a wash. Synthetics stink really, really quickly. I asked claude to remind me of what Sir Peter Blake h
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by tmnvix 6mo ago
Yes, seems a bit of a gap between US and Iranian opinions on the state of the strait. US says "open it", while Iran has for some time claimed it is open - only subject to conditions. Then, as you mention, the Israelis talk of an e
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Scientists identify 'neural fingerprint' of psychedelic drugs in the brain(theguardian.com)
4 points by tmnvix 6mo ago|0 comments

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