Boothroid

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by Boothroid 9y ago
Double bluff?
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by Boothroid 9y ago
I try to steer clear of anything apart from average strength (~4%) beer. It's far harder to get through equivalent quantities to a bottle of wine and your margin of error between happy and drunk is that much greater. Also if you do hom
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by Boothroid 9y ago
Not sure if the article has been updated but the only one I could find after a quick skim was: “Love Bug’s” Thing is the writer was trying to show possession with that apostrophe but I the correct usage would be: “Love Bug”'s Not terri
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by Boothroid 9y ago
I'm blind in one eye so 3D is lost on me. Looking forward to when the films can be beamed directly to the brain!
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by Boothroid 9y ago
Dentistry is far from easy on the body and mind - high suicide rates, high toll on the body. Many if not most older dentists have some kind of physical ailment related to their job.
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by Boothroid 9y ago
Whatever happened I hope for the submariners' sake it was quick.
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by Boothroid 9y ago
Putting aside the fact that extreme austerity is a gross misrepresentation of the facts, what's the alternative? The UK is already living beyond its means, increasing the public debt every day. Do you suggest we increase the deficit st
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by Boothroid 9y ago
There was a TV programme the other night about an employment agency in SE UK that could not find enough British workers to do the work it had on its books, and how Brexit had made things worse as many immigrants the agency was previously pl
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by Boothroid 9y ago
'As a comedian, she often uses Facebook to promote her performances by showing her irreverent, misandrist brand of wit.' Replace the anti-male part of this with any other group and she would be a pariah.
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by Boothroid 9y ago
Not exclusively.
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by Boothroid 9y ago
Well, he would say that, wouldn't he.
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by Boothroid 9y ago
Just here to say the coding/management dichotomy I see repeated many times here is false - there are plenty of jobs in service management for example, and they don't require you to turn everything upside down in terms of technolog
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by Boothroid 9y ago
Women are always first in the queue and they do indeed house women that have never worked. Just because you quote that page doesn't mean that's the policy that's followed. You honestly think that tax avoidance is the cause of
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by Boothroid 9y ago
'gift from the government'?! These are people that have worked their whole lives from times when benefit scrounging was not a viable life plan. There's plenty of poverty in retirement. Also quite apart from fraud there are pe
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by Boothroid 9y ago
But if you come from the EU you do not need a visa, do you? >Reducing this means either an expansion of employment in run-down areas like Blackpool, or reducing benefit levels and hoping that people die quietly. Not reducing means that t
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by Boothroid 9y ago
So then let's have permanent war because all that spending on bombs is economically beneficial to everyone, right?
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by Boothroid 9y ago
I don't care - we need to counter the cynicism at both ends of the scale. For example, it cannot be right that someone that pays into the system their whole lives can then be refused housing in favour of an able bodied person that has
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by Boothroid 9y ago
I'd be willing to bet that the US's lifetime emissions vastly outweigh China's lifetime emissions. The US is in no position to lecture anyone.
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by Boothroid 9y ago
Quite an obnoxious website on my phone. Anyway I came here to point to GATE as a mature FLOSS option: https://gate.ac.uk/
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by Boothroid 9y ago
There are also lots of confounding variables to account for - for example, power plants (of all kinds) commonly have higher amounts of road freight than would otherwise be the case, thus greater air pollution etc. Inhabitants of areas aroun
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by Boothroid 9y ago
Let's also not forget German car makers forcing the EU to dilute emissions limits. All very well having recycling bins all over the place, but when push comes to shove, the attitude is apparently !!!! the environment.
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by Boothroid 9y ago
I'd be interested to learn more if there are any statistically significant results showing clustering - proving that there is spatiotemporal clustering that is different enough from what might be expected at random is pretty hard. I kn
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by Boothroid 9y ago
Raising the idea that immigration might have negative effects is pretty much taboo here on HN.
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by Boothroid 9y ago
Because of course, whoever is leaking this information is only doing it for the noblest reasons.
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by Boothroid 9y ago
I think you are simplifying UK involvement in Libya, failing to mention that the EU is doing a reasonable job all on its own of restarting conflict in NI, and also smearing your fellow countrymen as racist.
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by Boothroid 9y ago
What type of actual crisis are you talking about? The UK has one of the finest professional militaries in the world, amongst the finest special forces, some of the best cyber capabilities, and nuclear tipped ICBMs lurking beneath the waves
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by Boothroid 9y ago
I live nearby and recently discovered this piece of local history. I wish there were a way to open it to the public! For some reason I'm fascinated by anything subterranean. The Great County Adit is quite an incredible feat, the world&
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by Boothroid 9y ago
This is one thing I just do not understand about many of my countrymen. So often I seem to read about wanton destruction of precious places such as buildings, forest and so on. Some of the destroyers are demonstrably ignorant/moronic,
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by Boothroid 9y ago
Cat lover?
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by Boothroid 9y ago
Fair enough, my language was a little careless. The finding is interesting, but wouldn't it be more interesting still if they had performed the same study with the sexes reversed also? We would then know for definite if there is a sex

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