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by bahadden 14y ago
That seems to be how the EU works. They did exactly that when Ireland rejected the Lisbon treaty. Ignored the referendum results and basically told them to go back and vote again, until they came up with the right result. Also De Gucht was
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by bahadden 14y ago
Good point. I'm actually talking about inflation. I'd assume devaluation usually leads to inflation, especially if we buy a lot of imported goods (we do), but it ain't necessarily the case.
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by bahadden 14y ago
Devaluation is the easiest solution from a political point of view, but it is basically a transfer of value from those with savings/creditors to those in debt (including all of us with large credit card debts and mortgages). It punishes the
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by bahadden 14y ago
There is also a fair bit of javascript in there. Disable it, and the side navigation doesn't work.
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Reduce your income tax rate to 14.5% (UK)(forbes.com)
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by bahadden 14y ago
People like working from home. They don't have to commute, they can sit a watch telly, they can go into the garden. Lovely. Under those circumstances how many people are going to come back and say 'actually I was less productive, I don't th
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by bahadden 14y ago
A major difference between software and engineering (roads, bridges etc) is in the amount of redundancy. Bridges and such are usually made massively bigger and stronger than they need to be, just in case. Belt and braces. Of course, it's a
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by bahadden 15y ago
My experience is the opposite. Our department recently changed flexi-time start from 7am to 6:30am, leading to moaning in other departments where they want the same (mainly because the car park is full by 7am).
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by bahadden 15y ago
I just read this and came here to see if anyone else was confused by some of the answers they've given. From question 2: "They found that a large percentage of participants overestimated the likelihood that Jack was an engineer, even though
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by bahadden 15y ago
I'm a bit wary of any system that automatically supplies identity information to a website. Under a system like this, how would you decide 'I don't fully trust this site so give it a different email address and fake name'.
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by bahadden 15y ago
Completely off topic but "Wikipedia, brought to you by Orange"? What is that all about?
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by bahadden 15y ago
So they have a quarter-life of 7 years?
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by bahadden 16y ago
"considering one's yearly dose limit is 1 mSv total." In Ramsar, Iran the background radition is around 200 mSv/Y (compared to a worldwide average of 2.4 mSv/Y) and _according to wikipedia_ this "high level of radiation does not seem to hav