Posts by Aidan
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Hard News: Be careful what you wish for, in reply to Rich of Observationz,
Krugman's article has the important caveat that we're in a period of substantial excess savings. If that situation were to change then it might be different. Not much sign of that though.
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Hard News: Be careful what you wish for, in reply to Gareth,
The U.S. debt to China is $1.185 trillion, as of August 2016
That's we call a hell of a bargaining chip.
Nope. If you don't believe me ...
http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/10/08/the-china-debt-fizzle/
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I find it passing strange that (only slightly radical) left agendas are totally out of the question and electoral poison, but seriously radical right wing nonsense like this is fine and dandy.
The Democrats shot themselves (and the rest of us) in the foot with their bland neo-liberal managerialism. Sounds a bit familiar ...
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Southerly: Høstens Vemod, in reply to David Haywood,
Polly's explanation is great. Particularly loved the "BUGGAH", and the explanation that she got hot and took her overalls off. Those sorts of continuity problems can be really distracting, so glad she didn't try and gloss over it, but addressed it straight away.
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This is rather good:
https://soundcloud.com/rinsefm/rinse-fm-podcast-scuba-21st-march-2015
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Hard News: How about that cricket, eh?, in reply to BenWilson,
It may be somewhat traitorous of me to the region and my wife, but I'm going for India today.
Isn't it cheating to start a day early? Shame on you India.
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My glass half empty spouse was worried about the Morkel over with the dot balls, and I said "no problem, as long as Anderson doesn't let it get to him and get out ... ".
When he went I thought the chance of victory had gone too.
When Dan came out I said to spouse "he scores in an arc of about 20 degrees behind square ..." and what a demented shot that was! Dan you are one cool cucumber!
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Hard News: Privacy and the Public Interest, in reply to nzlemming,
So clearly it is randomised. Can't really understand the gaps though. Odd.
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Hard News: Privacy and the Public Interest, in reply to nzlemming,
The electorate is Palmerston North, the candidates are NZF/Internet/Lab/Nat/Cons.
It was as much about the gap as anything. Really makes it a "NZF .. or some other party".
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This is only peripherally related, but I downloaded my overseas voting papers (I usually don't vote as I don't want to tell you people how to live your lives, but sometimes an exception has to be made ....) and they seemed odd to me. NZF was all alone up the top, with a gap between it and the rest.
Now I don't wish to call my fellow voters idiots, but there are studies to show that simple ordering and what not can make a big difference to voting. I'm guessing they use some sort of rotation/randomisation for the ordering? If not, expect a big NZF donkey vote