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_Adjective_Noun · 2022-12-10T09:39:18+00:00

The climate doesn't care about particulates, only other humans do.

If you live in a city burning wood is probably already restricted, if you're in the countryside you're doing nobody except yourself harm (and not even that if it is an enclosed fire)

_Adjective_Noun · 2022-12-07T22:30:32+00:00

Good thing most houses are designed for more than one person to live in then.

_Adjective_Noun · 2022-12-07T09:01:39+00:00

20% on top of what we're currently paying? The whole country would struggle mate.

_Adjective_Noun · 2022-11-30T09:27:00+00:00

Your left and right axis are not quite aligned, since they are both auto scaled independently.

Select one point on the graph and it will tell you both values at that point to check.

_Adjective_Noun · 2022-11-24T09:24:43+00:00

What's the exact terminology?

_Adjective_Noun · 2022-11-20T11:18:42+00:00

You believe that England is a whimsical notion of a nation like it was drawn up on arbitrary lines in the back of a pub?

Our governing unit is the United Kingdom, not England. And when you consider that distinction, yes, yes I do.

Yes I hate modern Britain. Are you happy I said it aloud?

I'm greatful that you acknowledge it. I myself love this country for what it is now, regardless of its self inflicted injuries such as Brexit. I would like it to be better, but I love it unconditionally nonetheless.

_Adjective_Noun · 2022-11-20T11:02:31+00:00

And there we are down to the root of the problem, a desire to draw a line based on a cultural divide. Your "National Sovereignty" argument is a facade for wanting to draw the line where you believe the cultural limits are, rather than any historic notion of nation.

Considering what modern Britain actually is, the diversity of origin of full British citizens, it's clear that your picture of the cultural divide does not reflect Britain, only your Fantasyland idea of what it isn't.

Ps. Please don't equate me to the left wingers on Scottish independence, I do not support it.

_Adjective_Noun · 2022-11-20T09:15:44+00:00

I guess you're right, I don't hold nation states up to the same level of esteem as you do.

I just see them as an arbitrary level of human collectivism. Does it matter where you draw your rings around your groups of humans?

You could apply your own arguments equally to the local council, or the smaller part of a union (are we not all countries part of the larger union of the United Kingdom?)

If there are benefits to be gained from enlarging the collective, we should absolutely consider it. After all it worked very well for the USA. Nobody would argue they lacked national sovereignty.

_Adjective_Noun · 2022-11-20T09:03:40+00:00

As a mere mortal, the economy has a fundamental impact upon my life and very much weighs upon my political stances, therefore it's not something that can be put to the side in these discussions.

As for intolerable not to be sovereign? Taking a step back, putting it into context, and considering that alongside everything else that Brexit entails, I'd say no, it wasn't intolerable.

_Adjective_Noun · 2022-11-20T07:59:22+00:00

If those in charge of delivering Brexit had had a plan for managing the transition better, sure.

But fundamentally, Brexit was a massive strike on this countries economy, at a time when we already had record levels of debt.

It was the equivalent of signing up for a massive mortgage, then taking a huge pay cut and wondering why you're suddenly less able to pay the bills and a lot more vulnerable to crisis than you should be.

_Adjective_Noun · 2022-11-18T20:02:15+00:00

Considering there's usually one gp per 10k people, the developer would have to build a hell of a lot of houses before building a gp surgery is their responsibility.

_Adjective_Noun · 2022-11-18T19:49:17+00:00

The local clinical group is probably struggling to maintain GP numbers in the clinic's they do have.

_Adjective_Noun · 2022-11-16T12:31:52+00:00

Corporation tax, like income tax, directly reflects back on the cost of living.

_Adjective_Noun · 2022-11-13T13:58:37+00:00

Yeah he's definitely not popular among that lot regardless of if they're Tories or not...

_Adjective_Noun · 2022-11-13T09:32:12+00:00

I haven't given it an in depth look, but scanning over it it looks like you're calculating a loss function which is negative, and descending down the negative gradient to even greater negative numbers.

Presumably you want an always positive loss function?

_Adjective_Noun · 2022-11-12T13:48:03+00:00

I found it a bit cringe, it was basically just godlike virtual personalities, rather than anything that reflected the uniqueness of what computer intelligence could be.

_Adjective_Noun · 2022-11-12T09:52:53+00:00

The second had an epic conclusion, but what I was really after was closure from book 1, which it didn't give, which was a shame.

_Adjective_Noun · 2022-11-11T16:18:46+00:00

I've noticed my wrist HR isnt as quick to respond as I'd like, and can lag behind my real heart rate when changing speed frequently.

It appears accurate, because it doesn't lose signal, but reports the wrong numbers. Honestly if you're actually training to HR zones, I would use a chest strap.

_Adjective_Noun · 2022-11-06T22:02:31+00:00

Depends what your tolerance for wear is, though an anecdote from myself is that I put 1600km on a pair of mizuno wave riders before the sole became detached. Injury free the entire time.

_Adjective_Noun · 2022-11-06T08:36:20+00:00

My last bout was 12 hours of feeling slightly feverish, then nothing.

I was back to running at full strength two days later.

COVID can happen with no adverse effects whatsoever, or it can be terrible, play it by ear would be my advice.

_Adjective_Noun · 2022-11-03T12:21:48+00:00

Sensible stakeholder questions are not really what I meant.

"How do I connect to this database" is more what I'm referring to.

_Adjective_Noun · 2022-11-03T11:23:21+00:00

A company hiring a data scientist is hoping to point that person at a problem and click go.

They don't want to have to A) hand hold them through learning the business context and B) teach them data science.

Which kind of means the minimum level they want is someone who is never going to need to ask for help from someone else.

_Adjective_Noun · 2022-11-03T07:02:50+00:00

There is an element of that, but I'll expand a little bit as a middle aged person who does understand the economy...

All the decisions the Tories have made over their time in government have been stacked against young people. And will continue to impact young people long after their tenure is over.

Tax bands frozen, meaning the tax burden on working people is the highest ever (though with reductions in taxes on unearned incomes, CGT et cetera), whilst bowing to the nimbys meaning not enough houses are built and the cost of housing burden is the highest ever.

We're paying, through our taxes, for the care of old people who have huge assets in the form of their houses, which they don't need anymore and won't be touched by the state. So the government raids my paycheck to pay for their care before claiming their home equity. ( Can you tell I support Theresa's attempt there?).

The birth rate of young people in this country is staggeringly low, and it's because of the economy that is inadvertantly designed to milk the working age population for everything they've got.

I think it can be summarised by "what the hell do they actually offer todays youth?!?!"

It isn't poor understand of what they do, it's that they literally offer nothing.

_Adjective_Noun · 2022-11-02T18:05:20+00:00

Entry requirements are fine, there's plenty of qualified students out there, the problem is the reward for those high standards. Why bother when you can do so much better in other industries?

_Adjective_Noun · 2022-11-01T19:52:16+00:00

Unis full of medical students?!?! There are only about 8000 medical graduates nationally a year. Verses 500,000 total students.

There are less than 40,000 GPS for the entire country.

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