MickerNews

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by MickerNews 7y ago
Sorry but I can't credit him with anything much. Al Capone ran charities too.
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by MickerNews 7y ago
Why would anyone want one of these ridiculously sized guns? What a silly, juvenile pastime.
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by MickerNews 7y ago
Or just sell up and find a more respectable way of making money, increasing supply in the buyer occupier market, lowering prices.
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by MickerNews 7y ago
>The solution is to build houses, but what kind of investor is going to throw their money at Berlin, where their opportunity to make a return on their investment is severely hampered? Uh, the state. It's strange to me that someone c
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by MickerNews 7y ago
He can always own his own platform and still use others'. Just the keep the pedantry going...
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by MickerNews 7y ago
Are you seriously trying to say that he can't make this point unless he builds his own twitter? https://i.imgur.com/iBAIRqF.png
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by MickerNews 7y ago
>Monbiot still has a regular article there, he's as far left as it gets. Ah come on now.
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by MickerNews 8y ago
I'm far more experienced with the rental market in Dublin, I'm Irish living in the Netherlands. The situation in Dublin is the endgame of the same property market extremism. The national obsession with landlording and trying to ge
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by MickerNews 8y ago
Disincentivising a predatory rental market only lowers the cost of housing prices because it excludes buy-to-rent commercial landlording. Properties don't disappear from the market just because there's no landlord able to buy them
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by MickerNews 8y ago
This would seem to imply that the concept of 'sleep debt' is a lie.
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by MickerNews 8y ago
>What's your long term game plan with that? That they're going to be more mature when that happens because they've demonstrated that they weren't ready just yet.
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by MickerNews 8y ago
"...would always lose" Really? I think the reasons for the requirements of evidence are justified in civil matters just as they are in criminal. We cannot have a situation where men always have no defence because of a lack of requ
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by MickerNews 8y ago
>It then gets saved as PDF and shelved as an artefact that is disconnected from all the other architectures Sounds like architecture to me. You're doing it right already!
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by MickerNews 8y ago
The most telling evidence for me was that Signal was banned in Russia because the government couldn't read their messages, while whatsapp was just fine.
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by MickerNews 8y ago
Anyone remember when IBM was really keen on Linux around fifteen years ago? If they'd only followed through they would have had their own flavour and business to run into the ground.
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by MickerNews 8y ago
I always thought that these were called British Naval Connectors and were developed for submarines. Not sure if I dreamt that or someone was having a laugh with me.
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by MickerNews 8y ago
Wow. Haven't seen this before.
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by MickerNews 8y ago
If this were true we'd expect to see a simple and repeatable observation of decreased Alzheimer's along rural and urban lines. People in the centre of London would be far more likely to develop dementia or Alzheimer's than th
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by MickerNews 8y ago
Veblen services.
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by MickerNews 8y ago
This site can’t provide a secure connection archive.fo uses an unsupported protocol. ERR_SSL_VERSION_OR_CIPHER_MISMATCH Remember when the web just worked?
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by MickerNews 8y ago
He saw OP's argumentum ad verecundiam and raised it.
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by MickerNews 8y ago
The former is a much better name IMHO!
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by MickerNews 8y ago
I think he's just being modest and not claiming that he's expert, just that he's considered to be one. You're reading way too much into that single sentence.
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by MickerNews 8y ago
Watching porn makes people horny. Watching violence does not make people aggressive and murderous.
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by MickerNews 8y ago
Sapir-Whorf in action. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linguistic_relativity
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by MickerNews 12y ago
Spelling and grammar are an obvious one. Less obvious is an improved ability to think critically and spot flaws of logic in arguments.