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You act as if reacting to global warming is cost-free. It would have a drastic impact on the economy and people's standard of living, especially in the 3rd world.

You act as if NOT reacting to global warming is cost-free. It WILL have a drastic impact on the economy and people's standard of living, especially in the 3rd world.

Yes I literally copied your comment, added a single word and modified another; it's that easy to rebut.


It's a bad rebuttal. What can an individual do besides vote? I already drive an electric car, I vote for candidates who promise to fight climate change, and I've been a vegetarian for over 7 years. I'm about maxed out on my negative carbon foot printing, so getting anxious over stories like this seems unproductive at best. I can't be worried about that shit.

What's that scientific saying about correlations and causations? But, yeah, let's all go back to middle ages pre-industrial economy just in case.

This isn't that hard to understand. If you have ever gotten in your car after it has been parked in the sun, you know about the greenhouse effect. That CO2 does the same thing isn't some weird mystical thing. It's basic science. We know exactly how the causation works.

It's a good idea, as long as this clown show of a government doesn't link it to mandatory digital IDs.

Any reason to think they won't?

This is the real reason for the fudging of the data. People don't want an ethnicity/citizenship status/birth country breakdown of things like benefit use.

If you pick 2023/2024 and the UK, you can see the disaster that is the Boris Wave.

Thoughts and prayers friend.

It's already in the hands of rich men:

"A decade ago, Forbes estimated Fidel Castro’s personal net worth at $900 million."

https://www.forbes.com/sites/keithflamer/2016/11/26/10-surpr...

I'm sure most of that went to his sons (the ones that weren't Prime Minister of Canada).


The massive wave of migration in the last few years has decreased GDP per person.

At a large company I know, offshored Polish developers now cost more than ones in the North of the UK. So I think Poland has come up as much as parts of the UK have gone down.

Oh yeah, Poland has grown tremendously. I still remember Poland at the end of the 1980s when the Jaruzelski junta relinquished power: poor, shabby, nothing in the shops, badly dressed people looking for oblivion in wodka wyborowa.

Nowadays it is an optimistic and rich country. A few weeks ago, I walked around Chalupki, a relatively unknown small Silesian town on the border. I noticed that most of the family houses just shone with new facades and generally had the "we are fairly wealthy" look; they could have stood in Switzerland. And you could find all sorts of high-brow food in the local Zabka store, like seven types of Kombucha.


Standard growth-hack douche-baggery.

You'd think the YC mentors would give advice like "Don't be a dick to your potential customers".

Also I'd tell them where to stick their invoice.


Does the UK get this new AI and not the EU?

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