JetSetWilly

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by JetSetWilly 1mo ago
You can always find a line that passes between two points. Why would you even try to find a line that doesn’t pass between two points? What is the difficult part here.
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by JetSetWilly 8mo ago
The UK strongly backed Denmark over the greenland situation. I’d be a lot more worried about the EU’s “appeasement” of russia (slow acting germany, hungary etc) than the UK’s carefully navigated and level headed US relations. That’s what wi
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by JetSetWilly 8mo ago
In Scotland one issue is that the UK electricity market is national (unlike in eg norway). So even if local supply is very high and interconnects are not large enough to export to england - we must pay the higher national rate. As octopus c
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by JetSetWilly 8mo ago
The issue is that quite often the wind doesn’t blow - often for several weeks like last january - and the sun barely shines for much of the year. So renewables mean the country just has to pay for (and subsidise) a whole ton of extra infra
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by JetSetWilly 9mo ago
Restoring a democracy and getting rid of a dictator sounds pretty peace-prize worthy to me. If Kissinger can get it then he’s always got a chance.
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by JetSetWilly 9mo ago
Much like “intellectual property”, “international law” is a nonsense term that tells you only that the person who employs it lives in their own bubble, captured by powerful interests of others.
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by JetSetWilly 9mo ago
It would be great to run this on a collection of interesting threads over different periods and not just one snapshot. For example, the thread from the day Trump got elected in 2016, the thread from the day of brexit and so on. Those are th
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by JetSetWilly 9mo ago
DEI was mentioned in a footnote, it didn't seem to be the main thrust of the memo. I agree it would have been better to not mention it at all, the decision is perfectly defensible on the basis of all the previous non-footnoted points.
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by JetSetWilly 9mo ago
No, you're just falling into the sort of left wing "people who disagree with me can only do so because they are a bad person" trap. You can read the full text of the actual memo (and a reasonable interpretation of it) below,
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by JetSetWilly 10mo ago
Curiously you left out the broken spine. Of course the terrorist-excusers like to make out that it was just a bit of paint, what's the issue? It was 7 million pounds of damage (to be paid for out of our defence budget, so that's 7
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by JetSetWilly 10mo ago
I'm sure you'll also find that lawyers make statements in favour of hopelessly guilty murderers. That's what they are paid to do. Your "freedom of expression" does not include hitting people with sledgehammers and a
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by JetSetWilly 10mo ago
Yes. They are both groups that only exist to commit violence against people to further their political aims. They may differ in how extreme they are, but the core of it is they are violent and we should have absolute zero tolerance against
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by JetSetWilly 10mo ago
Raising taxes is only “necessary” because of their total lack of gumption when it comes to reducing spending. For example, 1 car in 3 on the roads in the UK is funded via PIP and that has been meteorically increasing as a proportion in the
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by JetSetWilly 11mo ago
Yes, as someone who regularly interviews candidates in the UK - if I see "foreign university I've never heard of + masters at a british university" then it is a huge negative signal, they are nearly always idiots. My favourit
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by JetSetWilly 11mo ago
Sounds a bit like the Adaptive Markets Hypothesis. In it there’s constant “evolution” between different trading strategies that become more or less efficient over time. So here, Phase 1 would be a market dominated by EMH believers who passi
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by JetSetWilly 1y ago
I have a feeling this migrant didn’t get off a dinghy with all the other engineers and scientists so probably isn’t raising a lot of concern for most. Conflating “immigration is too high” with “anyone who thinks immigration is too high is a
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by JetSetWilly 1y ago
And yet those kids from state schools then come out with more firsts than those from independent schools, showing they were not “dumber” at all - they were smarter. Really, oxford and cambridge as well as other top universities can have a s
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by JetSetWilly 1y ago
Your anecdote doesn’t contradict the story - the University of Edinburgh doesn’t appear in the top 20 so apparently their “rankings” don’t think highly of the University of Edinburgh either. (Also Edinburgh isn’t a redbrick, it was founded
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by JetSetWilly 1y ago
Fortunately in Britain we have moved far from the values of former labour MP and noted Europhile Sir Oswald Mosley. I would see reform as a fairly traditional conservative party, though I appreciate that there are many that are keen to shif
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by JetSetWilly 1y ago
I'd love to switch to helix from emacs - I really like the editing model when I have tried it. However I write a lot of clojure and the lack of a REPL in helix and reliance on using LSP for everything (which just isn't as good as
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by JetSetWilly 1y ago
It isn't free but it is less expensive. In fact in Scotland the annual water bill averages to £490 compared to £603 in England. This is despite a lower population density (which means more infra required per person comparatively). So d
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by JetSetWilly 1y ago
I think a national speed limit is a sensible system. In many countries, every random stretch of road has a different speed limit, as though driving speeds have been centrally planned - usually poorly. Expecting the driver to be an educated
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by JetSetWilly 1y ago
Really the article - despite the headline - spends a long time on the literary history of gaelic in scotland, with a short paragraph at the end on the current status. I doubt the author had time to expand to a review of minority language me
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by JetSetWilly 1y ago
Why? It’s not about ireland - it’s about scotland. Article makes complete sense in a scottish context.
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by JetSetWilly 1y ago
> Penicillin Invented and developed in the UK. > Microwave communication Lion's share of pre-war advances and development were in various European countries. > Synthetic Rubber Developed by Fritz hoffman at the Bayer Laborator
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by JetSetWilly 2y ago
“The British” did not genetically engineer the potato blight. Further, in the 19th century state capacity was small and massive modern style relief programmes were not possible. Despite this, Britain managed to spend a large degree of GDP o
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by JetSetWilly 2y ago
You have it the opposite way round. The UK (for example) never gave a chickenpox vaccine because it reasoned to do so increases the risk of shingles, and shingles is more serious than chickenpox. Also chickenpox is so mild that administer
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The Full Story of the FAA's Hiring Scandal(tracingwoodgrains.com)
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by JetSetWilly 2y ago
You must work in the BBC drama department if you believe that people in Britain, France, Germany etc are not historically and overwhelmingly white.
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by JetSetWilly 2y ago
It didn't. It came from the Industrial Revolution and a step change in the productivity of british society. Many economic studies have shown that the "Empire" and especially parts of it like India, the African colonies etc we

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