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    Prices of the electricity we use to charge

    the US needs to make sure that it has access to TMSC's 5nm technology. Only TMSC and Samsung have that technology. The US will give about $50 billions to semiconductor manufacturers, the EU does the same, spending about the same amount mainly in Germany and France to build the wafer fabs. China...
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    parts an prices from china

    Their public debt per capita is much less than ours
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    parts an prices from china

    We should invest less on houses and more in factories.
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    Prices of the electricity we use to charge

    Nuclear generation is not cheap, it can't compete against wind, solar, hydro, geothermal and gas. This is even before the cost of decommissioning. our government has to top up their income with tax money. If we have any sense, we must invest in energy storage, gas and batteries.
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    parts an prices from china

    SW bought his bike 3/4 years ago, so he's not riding an expensive bike. If I understand the story correctly, SW suffered an accident at work. He could have bought his bike with the money he's got from that.
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    parts an prices from china

    Our government made a profit in Lloyd's and RBS shares since. The original problem was that any one of our big four banks could bring the whole of our fintech sector down if they were let to fail. That problem still is.
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    Controller operation modes

    possibly. Saneagle said 'something like this', so don't take his formulae too rigidly. The controller is programmable, its algorithm varies with the manufacturer and model. In the main, if you are climbing a steep gradient in speed control mode, each time you increase the assist level, you'll...
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    parts an prices from china

    what do you think if the Labour party wins the next election?
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    parts an prices from china

    To force poorer people to work, you will have to remove their social safety net, remove their right to buy their council homes etc. Alternatively, you'll have to tax house ownership until a large enough chunk of investment is moved from housing to industrial. How about the poorer among the 10...
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    parts an prices from china

    do you have any solution?
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    Brexit, for once some facts.

    household budget is not all energy based though.
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    Brexit, for once some facts.

    inflation is bound to our exchange rate, even if gas price hadn't hit the roof, the Pound dropped from $1.30 before covid to near parity 1.08 when Liz Truss was PM explains a large part of inflation. In France, energy price was capped at below 5% increase, the high borrowing still caused 6%...
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    Server move

    I would be more impressed if the guy parks his car outside the office and produces a report from scanning the wifi rather than having access to an ethernet socket. Apparently, would be spies have been caught doing just that.
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    Brexit, for once some facts.

    why do they want a ceasefire? The economy of the West does not suffer from the Ukraine war while Russian revenue from oil and gas come down substantially. Russia is more isolated than ever before. High energy cost helps more than hinders, just watch the profit of energy companies and farmers.
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    Brexit, for once some facts.

    I think the map is pretty static in the winter, nothing to do with propaganda. We know that Russian army tries to take Bakhmut but it will be at least another week before we know for sure which side is winning. With new tanks arriving everyday, the Ukrainians may well gain the upper hand. The...
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    Server move

    I don't have recently any problem accessing the site.
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    Server move

    we don't have access to their logs so we don't know. I did a quick check yesterday and did not find anything. All the usual patches are present, except Lucky13.
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    27.5 bad for road use?

    the only downside of these BBS kits is their weight and they are relatively noisier than the TSDZ2.
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    Brexit, for once some facts.

    Amber Rudd: “One of the reasons I’m not in politics, and a lot of my former colleagues aren’t in politics anymore, is because we can’t get up and say Brexit is a success. " "You have to be able to say Brexit is a success to be a spokesperson for the Conservative Party.” Same applies to...