Oh dear …
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With the Eurozone (and especially Germany) in recession and the UK not in recession, that noise you can hear in the background is the last nail going in the coffin of remain.
I haven’t been keeping up with what is happening to the German economy, aside from decommissioning all nuclear which seems in itself bat crazy, given proximity to France.
Or leave a trading block and duplicate costs of transactions so companies here are paying double but still rely on imports for inputs…
All economies appear to rely on China’s performance now, which is very worrying.
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I was just joking about “-0%”. Why “minus”? It is the same as “0%” or “+0%”. Anywhay…
Cancelling all nuclear power in Germany is IMO a good decision for a couple of reasons. However this thread must not be tainted with me discussing too much off-topic stuff. 
Who come the world beating, global, world leading UK negotiators have themselves been conned into that situation by the EU negotiators?
Is there maybe some master plan or a somehow invisible bigger picture behind that?
This is Reuters take on it seeing that Guido seems to upset some people on here, can’t imagine why:
Euro zone saw winter recession, more challenges ahead | Reuters.
They weren’t conned, they didn’t want to leave. May and Robbins stitched us up with the Chequers agreement and the remainers in Parliament voted it through, with hood-winked Brexiteers duped into thinking it could be changed.
It was, by Boris but NI keeps us trapped in the EU regulatory orbit and the Windsor Framework now seals it.
the - and + denotes which side the rounding is on. It’s not the same as O%
For example -0.000000001% is rounded to 0% but the minus indicates its less than zero, due to the rounding
How are we duplicating costs of transactions ?
That might be the reason for using the “-”.
Apart from that -0 == 0 == +0 
If you accept the rounding, yes
No, in my equation there is no rounding. It just says that +0 is 0 is -0.
And I thought that we might at least agree on this mathematical fact. Was I too naive? 
On the chart it shows Germany at -0%. It’s a figure that has been rounded so the original figure would have been -0.04% or something like that. The minus sign in the -0% shows that the original number was a negative value before rounding. Only if it was 0.000000000000000% would it actually be 0% after rounding.
Thank you, no need to repeat it. I understood your point in the first round. It seems that I cannot make myself clear enough to you.
Sorry once again for my English, one last try: minus zero equals zero equals plus zero. That is all I said, no rounding no nothing.
Let us stop here, it is not important.
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Try again. The 190 billion was the sum of both goods and services. Your information, knowledge and basis for your views are once again completely wrong. However, even in the face of simple facts that prove you wrong it is clear that you will not change your ill-considered views.
US data giant Palantir has said Britain is a better place to develop artificial intelligence (AI) than the EU thanks to more “pragmatic” privacy laws, in a boost to Rishi Sunak.
Chief executive Alex Karp said a draconian data protection regime in Brussels meant “you’re going to be able to do things in the UK that you can’t do on the continent”.
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Mr Karp said: “The UK, as opposed to many places in the world, has a pragmatic understanding of data protection. It’s going to be much harder for the continent of Europe to come to terms with LLMs, the culture of privacy in the UK is really built around fairness and understanding and less around GDPR data protection.
“If you’re a pharmaceutical company and you want to do research on a medicine you’re going to be able to do things you can do in the UK that you can’t do on the continent, you have a pragmatism about technology.”
Well, I am buying from China, no one else on here seems to be doing so, directly.
We all are buying from China I am afraid. Go on Amazon and look for anything you want. Guess where it comes from.
Go to a German retailer in order to buy a coffee machine, a toaster, a keyboard, mouse, monitor, kitchen utility, lamp, music equipment, mobile phone, accessories, anything.
Guess where it was made 
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