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by fidgewidge 4y ago
It's really common in any industry that isn't the tech industry, because as the article clearly states the root cause is that "business people" i.e. the non-programmers don't understand programming work and (more im
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by fidgewidge 4y ago
She was easily winning polls of the members. The idea that conservatives are racist is a left wing slur, not reality. She lost because she is too conservative for the Tory MPs, who are well to the left of the party membership. https:/
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by fidgewidge 4y ago
In the opinion of the ONS, who are the ones who were publishing the bad figures originally? They're the people being criticized for generating garbage statistics in the first place, of course they're going to claim there's no
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by fidgewidge 4y ago
Maybe, but I've never heard anyone I know in Europe ever refer to making a chargeback or even raising the possibility of doing one. It certainly isn't common. Perhaps it depends on what country you're in.
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by fidgewidge 4y ago
Note that chargebacks are mostly a US thing. In Europe you basically can't charge back and last time I enquired about even blocking a company from making new charges I was told that doing this required me to block the entire card and g
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by fidgewidge 4y ago
> I don't know what your last paragraph is supposed to imply. It's pointing out that the left hates libertarianism and Peter Thiel, leftism is literally the opposite of libertarianism, and so you would expect a left wing news o
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by fidgewidge 4y ago
> since you imply that a publication somehow automatically loses credibility on this topic by leaning left Funny how so many of the replies are shocked by this idea when virtually every single story posted to HN from a right leaning outl
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by fidgewidge 4y ago
Paint me ultra skeptical about all such claims. It might be true or it might not. The error bars on these metrics should be enormous but none are given. In reality the British government has absolutely no idea about even far more basic stat
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by fidgewidge 4y ago
Not exactly. The membership are only given a choice between two candidates. If the membership actually got to choose who ran the party then we'd most likely have had the first female black PM of the country (Kemi Badenoch), who would a
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by fidgewidge 4y ago
"Brexit means Brexit" was clearly meaningless. However "Get Brexit Done", "Take Back Control" and "Stop The Boats" are all pretty clear as far as three word political slogans are. They're certain
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by fidgewidge 4y ago
They aren't really getting their act together, they aren't doing much different to what they were doing before that poll lead. That lead is the result of the Conservatives having constant leadership turmoil and appointing unpopula
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by fidgewidge 4y ago
That's apples and oranges. With RAID the server is never retired and you don't need to set up auto-scaling and all the scale-out complexity that comes with it. It just keeps running. The replace/resilver cycle may degrade per
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by fidgewidge 4y ago
"While there may be differences between libertarianism and anarcho-capitalism, I've struggled to see them in practice" I don't think either are actually implemented in practice at the moment, although you can argue tha
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by fidgewidge 4y ago
The ToS forbids that sort of use case.
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by fidgewidge 4y ago
What will delay UBI adoption is that governments can't afford the current welfare systems, many of which are unsustainable, let alone a much bigger one. France can't even raise the retirement age by like one year due to massive pr
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by fidgewidge 4y ago
Yes it does. Why do you insist on stupid word games? The entire book claims to be about libertarians who moved to one specific place - that is literally in the title - and is using "freedom-loving citizens" to refer to them. It&#x
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by fidgewidge 4y ago
Smart + experienced != productive and valuable. It's possible to be good at your job and also dead weight. Motivation matters.
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by fidgewidge 4y ago
They're both entirely feasible. The usual canard is that without fractional reserve there is no lending or not "enough" lending, but with full reserve there is still lending of course because people would like a return on the
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by fidgewidge 4y ago
Fauci: “There’s no reason to be walking around with a mask. When you’re in the middle of an outbreak, wearing a mask might make people feel a little bit better and it might even block a droplet, but it’s not providing the perfect protection
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by fidgewidge 4y ago
it should appear clear that fear is very contagious This can be true, and the Fed's move can be the right one, and it can still be case that the system has been dishonestly socialized by the back door and that this will have terrible
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by fidgewidge 4y ago
Libertarianism isn't the same as anarcho-capitalism. If some people are claiming they're the same thing then, well, see above.
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by fidgewidge 4y ago
No it doesn't. When private healthcare is included the UK spends about the same.
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by fidgewidge 4y ago
That's the rate which causes people to argue it's being "defunded".
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by fidgewidge 4y ago
The care home vaccine mandates were far more impactful than Brexit. There were mass resignations when the government forced care home workers (and only them) to take the COVID shots.
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by fidgewidge 4y ago
Such banks would be highly popular if paired with the other half of the proposal which is to not bail out depositors at collapsed banks.
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by fidgewidge 4y ago
This book isn't about libertarians. It's about anarchists. "Once upon a time, a group of libertarians got together and hatched the Free Town Project, a plan to take over an American town and completely eliminate its governmen
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by fidgewidge 4y ago
Definitely not. Most libertarians I've encountered want hard money i.e. full reserve banking with no central bank money printing. In FRB you cannot have bank runs and with a restricted central bank which can't print more money you
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by fidgewidge 4y ago
Yes!
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by fidgewidge 4y ago
I'd say testing/CI is one of the best cases for renting dedicated metal because of the huge speed increase available, everyone hates slow CI, and CI workers are easy to setup so if hw fails (it probably won't) it's not a
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by fidgewidge 4y ago
Way fewer people hate you at the end, which is a meaningful disincentive otherwise.

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