Free trade is supposed to benefit both parties to every trade, that’s kind of the point of free market liberalism. So, by extension, any Brexit deficit would be expected to apply as much to our EU tr… (View Post)

Can’t see rejoin on the cards, but could well imagine a future UK government just going “fuck it” and taking us into the EEA, EFTA or some custom thing that’s remarkably like these two but somehow in… (View Post)

Decompensating: the final functional collapse of a declining bodily system that has previous been kept running by compensatory actions or medications. E.g. You can compensate for the effects of aging… (View Post)

The M4 is a touch faster, but not so much so that you’ll notice it out of the box I suspect. One thing to watch is memory - 8Gb was the standard / lowest available for the M2 era Airs & that’s re… (View Post)

Cue Martin Gardner’s graph of the Laffer Curve: Yes, this is a joke but it’s perfectly possible for the Laffer Curve to be path dependent & therefore what happens when you raise or lower taxes no… (View Post)