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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 under…

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…

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…

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…

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 tha…

> 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 libertarian…

> 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 …

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 gove…

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 fema…

"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 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 c…

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 runnin…

"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 ToS forbids that sort of use case.

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…

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…

Smart + experienced != productive and valuable. It's possible to be good at your job and also dead weight. Motivation matters.

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 cou…

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 bl…

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 sociali…

Libertarianism isn't the same as anarcho-capitalism. If some people are claiming they're the same thing then, well, see above.

No it doesn't. When private healthcare is included the UK spends about the same.

That's the rate which causes people to argue it's being "defunded".

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 shot…

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.