It's completely in the current gov's power to stop all illegal immigration and to stem the flow of legal immigration. For whatever reason I cannot fathom, they do not enact that power.
At some point we have to stop blaming the previous government.
The NatWest Three - UK nationals, working in the UK, for a UK company. "Defrauded" their UK employer and were convicted by a US court and jailed in the US for the crime.
The only link that made them liable for US extradition was "wire fraud" relating to a message transmitted in the US. Exactly the sort of extraterritorial law that the US are complaining about when it happens to them.
> So why then does the bank of England have and need the right* to print as many USD as they need, whenever they want.
The BoE does not even "print" the GBP (except paper/coins through the mint), never mind the USD. Money in the UK, like most countries, is created by banks through credit issuance (loans, mortgages):
And if the US wants to cut swap lines, thus making people more nervous about using and holding USD, thus reducing USD as a considered safe haven… ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
I'm not aware of anywhere in the UK that can print US dollars legally. As far as I can tell, there's just two locations that can print legal US dollars - Washington, D.C. and Fort Worth, Texas.
It's not apples-to-apples though due to the difference in heating efficiency. If you use N kWh to heat your house with a gas boiler, you'll use N/P to heat it with a heat pump. P is something like 3 or 4, depending on various factors (and who you ask).
Potentially bigger. There are a lot of old non-condenser boilers out there, with a typical efficiency of about 70%. And even condensers are often not much better than 75-80%; to hit the faceplate 90%+ efficiencies the system needs to be balanced such that the return temperature is in quite a narrow range.
Depends on the context; if you are presently using x kWh of electricity for non-heating plus 2x kWh of gas for heating, your options for electrical heating are either to 3x your electricity demand by "upgrading" to resistive, or 1.5x (or whatever) your demand by upgrading to a heatpump.
There's other stuff you can also do, but costs are all over the place, e.g. my 110 ish sqm house in Berlin is so well insulated (and has heat pump) that even while it's snowing outside it's hot enough indoors to be naked, for an electricity bill that's lower than that of my 37 square meter apartment in the UK, despite German electricity prices being much higher.
If your gas boiler were replaced with a heat pump with an average COP of 4 it would only require around 4,000kWh of electricity to provide the same amount of heating.
Electric cars are similarly 3-4x more efficient than petrol cars on a kWh of fuel basis.
So while we should expect increased electricity demand as transport and heating are electrified, the increase in electricity usage will be far less than the decrease in kWh of fuel.
> it uses API's unused capacity
I see no waiting or scheduling on my usage - it runs, what appears to be, full speed till I hit my 4 hour / 7 day limit and then it stops.
Claude code is cheap (via a subscription) because it is burning piles of investor cash, while making a bit back on API / pay per token users.
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