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Well it's causing the UK to leave the EU which is a disaster by any measure, not including idiots wanting "control".
Not by this measure... https://translate.googleusercontent.com/translate_c?depth=1&...
This is somewhat OT, but I've noticed a trend -- although I can't say how recent -- of headlines of the form "British [X] do [Amazing Thing]", particularly (but not necessarily) from the BBC. I note that the HN headline has been changed to "UK researchers" (IIRC, it said "British Scientists" earlier) and this BBC article doesn't actually use this phrase in their headline, but it appears prominently in the tagline. Th…
Careful, your politics are showing. You're advocating a sort of leftist, post-national, globalised, post-structuralist agenda. Everyone is allowed a political opinion but it comes across as slightly disingenuous to couch it in factual / self evident terminology. > populist nationalism is causing all kinds of problems That is not a factual statement, it is a subjective political opinion. People on the other side of th…
> That is not a factual statement, it is a subjective political opinion.
I concede to this point. You are right: this perspective is completely subjective, when I was trying to make the objective point that science/progress doesn't care about nationality, etc. My argument's motivation was to highlight that the popular [British?] press not only dismisses this, but seemingly goes out of their way to push things in the other direction. Whether that's bad or not is very much ones opinion, but it is nonetheless objectively irrelevant modulo the scientific result and arguably "bad" in the sense that it is biased. It begs the question as to what is their (or their master's) end?
I didn't put it well. Thank you for pointing it out.
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When I went to compulsory school I was taught that competition between nations is what caused the arms race that preluded World War I. I was also told that it was the feeling (in Germany) of being humiliated by the Versaille treaty, as a nation, that laid the ground for World War II. I fail to see how nationalism is going to help solve terrorism, bad working conditions, tax evasion and dysfunctional democratic instit…
Terrorism has been fueled by two things: * Intervention in other countries affairs. * Mass immigration You can't see how nationalism would ease those? You can't see how nationalism would reduce exploitation of workers, multinationals not paying taxes etc? Nationalism isn't about exerting your dominance on other nations, it's about being self sufficient, about NOT interfering in other countries affairs. It's about not…
Can you please provide some references to peer-reviewed research that show terrorism is fueled by immigration? Also, what kind of interventions are you talking about? Please be more specific, and remember to cite your sources.
Your answer to people being oppressed and persecuted seems to be that it's not a problem, as long as it's not happening in your country. Or maybe just that it's not a problem to you, as long as it's not happening in your country. Is that correct? If I'm not correct, then please explain again how nationalism is going to solve these issues?
Reverse osmosis has been around for a long time and is used on boats everywhere for desalination. This sounds like a new membrane that requires less pressure and thus energy? I guess sieve sounded better?
I swear I've heard about this before... is this one of those stories that emerges about a technology that never seems to enter the market? That "super slick" coating for condiment container interiors is another that springs to mind.
You can buy that as Rust-Oleum® NeverWet®. It works great at first, but it wears out fast. It works by creating a surface with tiny spikes. Water has so much surface tension that it rolls across the spikes, rather than breaking up and getting down to the base layer. So the contact area is tiny and the adhesion is low. The surface is fragile, because it's composed of tiny spikes. Rubbing will destroy it. It's hard to…
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Not by this measure... https://translate.googleusercontent.com/translate_c?depth=1&...
Sorry, but that site is garbage. See, for example, https://netzpolitik.org/2014/medienkompetenz-fuer-einsteiger...
And in fact, Deutsche Banke actually made the reported announcements, as reported by Bloomberg.
Are the claims false when they're on a "bad" site, but simultaneously true when they're on a "good" site? Put differently, do you have a refutation of the DB recommendations that doesn't rely on a logical fallacy?
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Sorry, but that site is garbage. See, for example, https://netzpolitik.org/2014/medienkompetenz-fuer-einsteiger...
I'm aware DWN is disliked by many. But an ad hominem criticism doesn't itself refute the facts reported by the article. And in fact, Deutsche Banke actually made the reported announcements, as reported by Bloomberg. Are the claims false when they're on a "bad" site, but simultaneously true when they're on a "good" site? Put differently, do you have a refutation of the DB recommendations that doesn't rely on a logical…
The Bloomberg article upon which this is based, https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-03-23/deutsche-..., would have been the much better choice to link anyway since it's in English. What it says is that some DB analysts thinks German stocks are overvalued, and that British stocks could profit from the decline of the Pound's value. How does that imply that the UK is doing well? You just linked an article, claiming that it proves your point, but didn't say how.
This is somewhat OT, but I've noticed a trend -- although I can't say how recent -- of headlines of the form "British [X] do [Amazing Thing]", particularly (but not necessarily) from the BBC. I note that the HN headline has been changed to "UK researchers" (IIRC, it said "British Scientists" earlier) and this BBC article doesn't actually use this phrase in their headline, but it appears prominently in the tagline. Th…
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I'm aware DWN is disliked by many. But an ad hominem criticism doesn't itself refute the facts reported by the article. And in fact, Deutsche Banke actually made the reported announcements, as reported by Bloomberg. Are the claims false when they're on a "bad" site, but simultaneously true when they're on a "good" site? Put differently, do you have a refutation of the DB recommendations that doesn't rely on a logical…
That's not what "ad hominem" means. They frame things in misleading ways, which disqualifies them from serious discussion. Not to note that the article reports opinions , not facts. The Bloomberg article upon which this is based, https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-03-23/deutsche-... , would have been the much better choice to link anyway since it's in English. What it says is that some DB analysts thinks Ge…
The Bloomberg article makes the same basic point as DWN, which implies that the exact opposite of what "Remain" promoters predicted is happening. Many EU countries are tanking financially, with e.g. Italian banks requesting big bail outs to avoid collapse. Meanwhile capital is flowing into Britain. Focusing on the shades of spin in these various publications (which, yes, is there) sort of misses this main fact. I agree the Bloomberg article would have been a better choice on my part, sorry about that.
Apparently it's politically uncomfortable for you, but the evidence is mounting that letting the pound fall was what Britain needed to stimulate its economy. Deutche Bank has no political reason to recommend investors leave Germany, which was supposed to be the strongest country in Europe and invest in Britain, so a likely explanation for DB's recommendation is that it reflects the economic reality.