acta_non_verba

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by acta_non_verba 4y ago
Yes, the poor in England really will appreciate this additional kicking. I actually don't understand what has to happen to someone for them to be able to disassociate from normality like this.
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by acta_non_verba 4y ago
One of the unspoken benefits of paying OSS projects is that you then attract the money motivated rather than the ideologically or politically movement. That has value in and of itself.
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by acta_non_verba 4y ago
Fixing it here would mean acknowledging that you cannot run an entire continent of different peoples, languages and cultures (which affect priorities, such as climate be economy) using one central entity.
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by acta_non_verba 4y ago
This is a bad rebuttal. He’s not mentioned race. I’m actually not sure which race you think he’s insulted. Care to elaborate?
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by acta_non_verba 4y ago
Science is the system of questioning things through a repeatable methodology. Is that not exactly what is happening here? Science is always in a state of flux, as it should be until we know everything. Don’t get religious about it.
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by acta_non_verba 4y ago
The NHS has been unable to send an ambulance to me in two separate cases in which the operator confirmed I was high priority. 5 years apart. Once in York, once in Bedfordshire. But it doesn’t matter —- it’s anecdata. The NHS has a lot of da
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by acta_non_verba 4y ago
This is categorically not true. In fact, the level of effort required to estimate electricity uses for multiple franchises on one physical section of railway has resulted in nearly all British rolling stock having built-in electricity meter
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by acta_non_verba 5y ago
You genuinely think a carbon tax would cost more than all the other costs associated with flying an empty plane? Pilots, cabin crew, ground services, fuel, depreciation of the aircraft, landing fees, ATC service fees, etc? It wouldn’t be. T
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by acta_non_verba 5y ago
I don't know how helpful a deliberate misunderstanding of the current economic model is to this conversation. Capitalism doesn't forbid sensible regulation, it just hasn't happened as politicians don't really understand
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by acta_non_verba 5y ago
Not anecdotal, just plain wrong!
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by acta_non_verba 5y ago
Imperial college is just a part of the university of London. Like many words in the UK, sometimes “college” is used in a more historical meaning
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by acta_non_verba 5y ago
I don’t think this kind of response is good for hacker news. It’s just rudeness masked by being patronising.
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by acta_non_verba 5y ago
Bizarre comment. British isles is a geographic term, which is correct in this case. No one for a moment is suggesting that because of that you have to drink tea or invent the computer or anything else that is considered British.
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by acta_non_verba 5y ago
“Hassle” is relative. It’s just as easy or easier than the 220 countries outside the EU. Ya know, the ones with north of 20x the population of the EU.
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by acta_non_verba 5y ago
Yes, disenfranchising hundreds of millions of people on the European continent sure gets those Americans
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by acta_non_verba 5y ago
Side note: Please stop using EU and Europe interchangeably, they are not the same thing. 100s of millions of people live on the continent of Europe, but not in the EU.
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by acta_non_verba 5y ago
Grand Theft Auto is a British game.
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by acta_non_verba 6y ago
This is exactly the kind of situation Government is for. Protecting its people from a foe that can only be defeated at a national level. The European Union has categorically failed, and if it survives this, it will need huge amounts of chan
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by acta_non_verba 6y ago
India and China are both super powers with large populations of extremely impoverished people.
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by acta_non_verba 6y ago
China doesn’t have universal healthcare free at the point of use. The UK, a capitalist country, does.
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by acta_non_verba 6y ago
We're a cold country!
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by acta_non_verba 6y ago
The UK was not a founding member of the European community. Charles de Gaulle saw to that.
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by acta_non_verba 6y ago
This is the main advantage of western democracies, right? Institutions and the day to day running of the country are separate to the executive.
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by acta_non_verba 6y ago
You’ll be pleased to know we do now have this in the United Kingdom. It’s called Confirmation of Payee.
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by acta_non_verba 6y ago
But would also mean there was more energy to be converted to lift when the plane increased its attitude to take off again :)
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The Worst UX of any product I’ve used(dannybrown.blog)
2 points by acta_non_verba 6y ago|1 comments
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by acta_non_verba 7y ago
The groin is the sea defence you can see in the foreground. It stops long shore drift (but there is some debate about if they just shift the problem elsewhere)
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by acta_non_verba 7y ago
True. They’re protected up to £85,000 by the British Government instead.
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by acta_non_verba 7y ago
This was Cottam Coal Power Station burning its remaining coal at a loss (so you are correct, not profitable when renewables doing well) in time for its impending closure in September. Source: Final paragraph of https://limejump.c
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by acta_non_verba 10y ago
Startup, full time employee, called Senior but I only have one year of commercial experience, £47,500. ~10% annual bonus & Stock Options.

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