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dukeyukey
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- dukeyukeyMcDonald's championing the labour theory of value is a new one.
- Yep. As much as I can see utility in some crypto, and there are some personalities in respect (e.g. Vitalik) by and large the sector in such a dumpster fire I'm not going anywhere near it. I've got some bitcoin in a Coinbase account, that's as close as I'm getting.
- That said, the last two Anker power pack models I've bought were both recalled for sometimes exploding/melting down in use. Once I'll give them, but twice? In a row?
- Good chance the reason DDOSing isn't so big anymore is because everyone is on Cloudflare.
- The post I responded to mentioned this:
> But so glad we stayed in London
So I figure they are UK based and not in North America.
- It is, but you can look at https://grid.iamkate.com/ and see wind go up and down depending on the weather.
- You're more thinking suburban, or super rural. I grew up in a rural Welsh town (~3000 people), and was is walking distance of basically everyone we knew. I walked to school, to the pool, to the shops, my friends, everything.
- With the big * of solar being fairly predictable, and wind not. You can be bereft of wind for weeks.
- England (and the Netherlands, Belgium, Northern Italy, and a few other regions) have been some of the richest parts of the world for centuries. Not quite millenia, but not far from it. That's hardly transient.
- Worth pointing out the UK has an extrememly deep and through free trade agreement with the EU, deeper than USMCA. Integration is still there, and isn't going away.
- It's about a thousand ships, but realsitically it's very fuzzy, with flags of convenaince and all. And British companies own a _lot_ of ships, just flagged under other countries.
- At least this might force the UK to reform planning so it's fit for purpose, rather than the layers of cruft we've got now.
- I'm not an economist or accountant so take this with a pinch of salt, but this basically transforms Amazon money into datacentres with a guaranteed customer. That's your profit right there.
- It's not the mount, it's the labour. People are expensive!
- That person wasn't lying or bullshitting, they were extremely obviously joking.
- They are probably being sarcastic.
- No, half of American households make more than that, and a typical household has 2.5 people.
- The US is very rich, but Europe is not poor. Europe is richer than basically anywhere on the planet _except_ the US. Like even compared to Canada or Japan, Europe is (generally) as rich or richer. Poland just overtook Japan in GDP per capita! Both the UK and France are richer than the oil-rich UAE.
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