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GeneralNathanJessup t1_j8lwphs wrote

Reply to comment by FlibbleA in [OC] New Mexico Now Produces More Oil Than Mexico & Venezuela by latinometrics

Yes, anything over 51% gives the government of Norway control. But they still must pay dividends to the Hedge funds that own the other 33%.

And no, those dividends paid to hedge funds do not benefit the people of Norway at all, and that was my point.

Do you think it strange that private investors and hedge funds can invest in Norway's "socialist" oil company?

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indian-randi t1_j8lvtcq wrote

Reply to comment by dootrumpet in [OC] Rapid rise in Indian students going abroad by MePiyush

There's heavy competition for Seats in India, especially for Meds and Management students. Students always target Govt-run institutes for higher education in entrance exams as private ones are costly so not everyone can afford them without Student-loan etc but even then it's hard to get a seat in a good private college if you didn't score well in entrance exams like JEE(for Engineering), NEET(for Meds), CAT(Management) etc, reason same competition for seats. So as seats are limited and not everyone can afford private ones they go abroad. More than half of these students are medical(MBBS) students and mainly they go to Eastern Europe, Russia, and Central Asia-USSR countries because they accept NEET scores and education is quite cheaper there compare to Indian private institutes.

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kinggimped t1_j8lv695 wrote

Reply to [OC] Which Premier League stadiums have a Fish&Chips shop close enough for you to walk/run to and be back before the 2nd half starts? by F_redrik

Hey so, I'm a native Brightonian. The funny thing is, Brighton being a seaside town and all, we're kinda famous for our fish and chips. So it's kind of hilarious to see us languishing at the bottom of this particular table, because in daily life you're rarely more than a short walk away from the nearest chippy!

However, this is mostly because the Falmer stadium where B&H Albion play is right at the edge of city limits and quite far from the sea, which is where the majority of the fish and chip shops are. When I was a kid and Albion played at the Goldstone Ground, there was a chippy literally a 2 minute walk from the ground!

Someone really ought to open a chippy out there, though... clearly a gap in the market.

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HolyGig t1_j8lsac3 wrote

Reply to [OC] History of how the U.S. economy outstripped the U.K. economy and how Brexit deepened the gap by tabthough

The US outstripped the UK economy because it makes up the good chunk of an entire continent while the UK is the size of Michigan. A continent with a disgusting overabundance of natural resources and a massive population far larger than any other western nation I might add. Comparing US geographical advantages to those of the UK is like matching up an infant to fight Mike Tyson.

The US economy dwarfed the UK economy well before WWII, interested data but that war only accelerated the inevitable.

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Whole-Increase-5820 t1_j8lre3r wrote

Reply to [OC] Which Premier League stadiums have a Fish&Chips shop close enough for you to walk/run to and be back before the 2nd half starts? by F_redrik

I think the running speed seems ever so slightly off. Running looks to be twice as quick, for most people, according to Google.

The times look to be only slightly off, like I say, by between 5 and 1 minutes off - making running seem slower than it actually would be(?)

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Level-Newspaper-7536 t1_j8lquhn wrote

Reply to comment by ImAwfulAtNames1 in [OC] History of how the U.S. economy outstripped the U.K. economy and how Brexit deepened the gap by tabthough

Are you kidding? Yall begged us to join and send you arms because you bankrupted your own economies. Its not that US domination after WWII allowed them to become the economic center of the world, its that our economic dominance allowed us to bail you out of the war. Heck, we even rebuilt your economies after the war free of charge yet you still complain (see Marshall plan).

The US began to rebound from the depression BEFORE we entered the war in any capacity.

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B_P_G t1_j8lq7iu wrote

Reply to [OC] History of how the U.S. economy outstripped the U.K. economy and how Brexit deepened the gap by tabthough

That ratio's been pretty flat since the 1950s. Brexit hasn't deepened anything. Also, Brexit was in 2016. They may not have fully implemented it until years later but its effects were baked into the cake the second it was passed. What the graph is showing with 2020 is the effects of the pandemic and pandemic-era policies.

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