NeedMoreTea

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by NeedMoreTea 7y ago
You are right of the unarguability of US manufacturing against Imperial Japan's, but that inevitability still doesn't eliminate the time recapturing territory that had Japanese presence. Their no surrender policy made island recap
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by NeedMoreTea 7y ago
No it wasn't keeping them contained, but it was an attempt to draw out the US carriers. Had the US lost Midway and Japan not got bogged down in the endless, unwinnable campaign in the Solomons that absorbed endless Japanese resources,
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by NeedMoreTea 7y ago
Strategically crucial in a Pacific that had seen most everything the Japan side of Midway fall. If Midway had fallen, New Guinea, Coral Sea and Fiji were next in line, putting Australia and New Zealand at risk. What you call minimal gain wo
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by NeedMoreTea 7y ago
Remembering my UK childhood with enough snow to play in more than once just about every year, and my kid's experience of almost never seeing snow that settles, I'd say that graph is spot on. It correlates well with my memory, and
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by NeedMoreTea 7y ago
I just think the neutrality, reduction in resource use and sustainability has to come first. Otherwise Jevons. Of course there can be intelligent overlap. I would hope that as nations move near to neutrality they must have put effort into a
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by NeedMoreTea 7y ago
> Kids who never drank coffee would grow up and never think about it, much less care Which pretty much nails the problem. Us older folks remember that cold, snowy winters were normal, that there were orders of magnitude more insects such
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by NeedMoreTea 7y ago
States can make regulations, introduce carbon taxes, ban unsafe or unsustainable activity. When was the first international industry emissions reduction summit? How are they doing in comparison to the politicians? Exxon, Shell and BP knew a
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by NeedMoreTea 7y ago
When a house is on fire, worry about the new extension after the fire is out. Otherwise it's Jevons' paradox writ large. We're still destroying and emitting at ever faster rate. Effort should be going into circular sustainabl
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by NeedMoreTea 7y ago
Rather reinforces my point. Headline: "global forest loss over past 35 years has been more than offset by new forest growth" Replacing the carbon storage of a single 100 metre mature rain forest meranti, and the diverse ecosyste
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by NeedMoreTea 7y ago
Far too little, far too late. It may have helped fix climate if we had stopped deforestation in 1992 after the first UN climate summit, used only sustainable wood from that moment on and cleared no mature forest for pasture or palm oil. O
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by NeedMoreTea 7y ago
They link to the actual legislation at the foot of the page, noting the relevant sections. GDPR is very readable, and pretty concise. They also link to two more in depth explorations of consent. Bear in mind the ICO are the UK's enforc
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by NeedMoreTea 7y ago
Excellent, as that will prompt a reaction. First to push even more non technical folks to join most techies using no exceptions ad blocking. Second to provoke even more onerous regulations.
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by NeedMoreTea 7y ago
Except one of the aims of GDPR is to explicitly rule that out. Consent requires informed, positive opt-in. Not a dark-patterned default. See ICO's guidance on consent: https://ico.org.uk/for-organisations/guide-t
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by NeedMoreTea 7y ago
Those awful galley kitchens were a feature of the move from proper two up, two down to the extra bit at the back -- the only way you can still get light into the back room is to make the projecting part narrow enough to still allow a window
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by NeedMoreTea 7y ago
Well when the term was coined, the key was two full width rooms each floor. Get out into the industrial and poorer areas especially in the North, Scotland and Wales and there were some one up, one down back to back terraces. Most of those w
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by NeedMoreTea 7y ago
The truth is in the article, but surprisingly well hidden. Most of it is misunderstanding mid Victorian housing, or at the very least the term, and talks about derivatives not 2+2s. The key point of a 2+2 is the rooms are the full width of
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by NeedMoreTea 7y ago
Trickle down economics was coined in a depression era joke by Will Rogers. You might want to start your reading with this very widely reported 2015 IMF report: https://www.imf.org/external/pubs/ft/sdn/201
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by NeedMoreTea 7y ago
You speak as though change moves in one direction, and that there is a mainly additive "correct" one. That speaks of the over-confidence of youth, sorry. I will try and answer as an enthusiastic reader of history rather than as of
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by NeedMoreTea 7y ago
Recyclable is worse than reusable, both are worse than reducing use in the first place. Best option is giving a drink in a mug or cup. Customer can provide a takeaway container or bring their own mug. All behaviour needs to be adjusted -- i
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by NeedMoreTea 7y ago
Are banning predatory practices and usurious rates of interest, restricting medicines, smoking and gambling etc elitism too? If so, I'm all in favour of it, even when I am the "victim" of said elitism, such as I was when I wa
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by NeedMoreTea 7y ago
Is it elitist if there's a real problem in stores that appeal most to the poor and disadvantaged? I don't know how they operate in the US, or the range carried, and the article doesn't expand too far, but... If US dollar stor
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by NeedMoreTea 7y ago
Well I did say punish not merely fire. I would expect that to encompass imprisonment and fine, depending on severity. Ending or severely restricting the career and income should be the bonus, lower standard of proof consequence merely for t
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by NeedMoreTea 7y ago
Both, but as a higher priority, c) punish the exec team on whose watch it happened. Bring back the concept of responsibility. They are paid to be in overall responsibility for anything that happens under their remit. Time was such a behav
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by NeedMoreTea 7y ago
I've been burned by both Namecheap and GoDaddy, along with losing a few domains in the infamous registerfly scam in the early or mid 00s. Namecheap may have been simple cock up, rather than systemic pattern of intentionally fucking ove
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by NeedMoreTea 7y ago
Yet the Soviets kept on producing those prop powered Tupolev Tu95 Bears and others well into the 80s, and Putin started patrols and the intercept game up once again. Think they've now been repurposed as cruise missile launchers as well
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by NeedMoreTea 7y ago
It's pretty well known in aviation circles in the UK. Three aircraft inevitably come up if any one, or simply idiotic cancellations are mentioned: TSR2, P1154 (Supersonic Harrier), Avro Arrow. I'm really pleased he chose to perfor
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by NeedMoreTea 7y ago
It was all lead by the supermarkets, in the UK at least. The two or three favourite varieties in the seventies and eighties have all disappeared. Not because customers no longer like them, but because the supermarkets wanted high yield, lar
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by NeedMoreTea 7y ago
Most of Europe aside from the UK, desperate for a UK-comes-off-worst trade deal, appear to have distanced themselves. Could envisage one of those being able to perform an investigation.
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by NeedMoreTea 7y ago
Also on some of the cars with EU daytime running lamps, they put the LEDs really low, where only fog lights were once permitted (fog lamps were illegal to use when not foggy), presumably firing up or entirely non directional. These are su
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by NeedMoreTea 7y ago
Language and meaning evolves. Dictionaries aren't prescriptive, they report how words are used. Electrocution is currently defined as killed or injured by electricity by both Websters and Oxford, so it's a meaning that's ca

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