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by colinb 4y ago
If a future Scotland gains independence and then seeks entry to the EU I presume (hah - big talk!) that the EU would require Scotland to adopt the Euro, free movement, full trade access and so on. Does that mean that England would want a ha
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by colinb 4y ago
> unanimously mm. No.
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by colinb 4y ago
I cannot read the article so I'm possibly talking out of line, but still, do you have evidence to back this up? All of my anecdata of the ~20ish autistic people that I know is that they fully understand basic horribleness. I read that
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by colinb 4y ago
Forgive my thread hijacking, but I suspect this is a place with people who might know the answer to my question. Given that I have a pair of reasonably nice speakers but a lack of convenient wiring opportunities, I had thought to come up wi
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by colinb 4y ago
I can't comment on their morals or views on customers, but I think they've been governed by banking regulations for some time now. In my country (.ie) that's their claim. Banking regulations come with quite a lot of consumer
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by colinb 4y ago
that's interesting. How do they figure out school cohorts with such a system?
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Daily multi-vitamins may improve brain function in older people – US study(theguardian.com)
3 points by colinb 4y ago|1 comments
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Count-Min Sketch (2019)(florian.github.io)
44 points by colinb 4y ago|11 comments
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by colinb 4y ago
I guess our memories (and perhaps locations) differ. I remember The Economist championing Bjorn Lomborg. I remember the BBC getting Nigel Lawson on more than once to argue the anthropogenic climate change isn’t real. I’ve heard Irish parlia
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by colinb 4y ago
You seem to be getting a lot of downvoting, which is unfortunate. So clearly your use of the word 'terminal' is nonsense. You have no way of knowing that, any more than you know that China's will continue to grow or any other
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by colinb 4y ago
I'll bite. How is this to do with Brexit? My local airport is not in Britain but has been a shit-show for months. My understanding is that this is true for several major European airports. Can I blame that on Brexit too?
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by colinb 4y ago
No. That’s not the case. I had a fixed rate mortgage in the UK. Now I have one in Ireland. Two of my colleagues have taken them in the last couple of months. They’re very common. But.. in both countries such terms are for a relatively short
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by colinb 5y ago
“Taxis have never been an issue in the UK” is a statement that does not match my experience. Living briefly in London taught me that you cannot reasonably expect a hailed taxi to take you from A to B no matter how hard it is raining or how
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The Sinister Return of Eugenics(newstatesman.com)
13 points by colinb 5y ago|23 comments
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by colinb 5y ago
how is that different that the Scots voting to leave the UK rather than remain part of the union? None of this is, or has to be logical. When I lived in Scotland I knew people who voted both for and against independence from the UK. Now, al
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Boeing and Airbus warn US over 5G safety concerns(bbc.com)
9 points by colinb 5y ago|0 comments
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by colinb 5y ago
I don't know if you read TFA. HN etiquette says that I shouldn't question it. Assuming you have, then please be the person who actually writes a book. I think you have a lot more understanding of the abrasive wear of normal human
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by colinb 5y ago
In this we agree. The Occupied Territories are IMO a travesty.
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by colinb 5y ago
This is not a good-faith argument. If you cannot address disagreement without asserting that your interlocutors are glove-puppet, how are we to progress? If you're going to argue from authority, then you have to be prepared to have the
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by colinb 5y ago
I live in Ireland and although (((I))) might be more sensitive to it than you, I think it comes up quite a lot. A week or two ago The Irish Times (IT) was agog at Sally Rooney's decision not to allow her newest book to be published in
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by colinb 5y ago
Ireland is always at the forefront of confronting bigotry in other places. Not so much at home. (((I))) am Irish. I live in Ireland. I like Ireland. But our social justice pretensions are no shinier than anyone else's. Ask the traveler
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by colinb 5y ago
> Success is determined by many factors, but they include Strategy, Willpower, Resourcefulness, Willingness to fail. I believe you. I think the many factors also include dumb luck, in large measure. You didn't fall and break a leg
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by colinb 5y ago
My standing desk top, a Fully Jarvis, is made from bamboo. Comparing the illustrations in TFA to the thing I'm leaning on, I think it is constructed of a core of side-pressed pieces, with a thin layer of plain-pressed pieces giving the
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by colinb 5y ago
I hope you don't mind my asking, how hard was it to skip breakfast? I feel like I'd miss it, but maybe a new morning ritual can take its place...
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by colinb 5y ago
When you say 'subjective attacks', do you include threats to rape, maim and murder? Because that's what this person faces. I don't think that the right response to someone who has faced a threat to themselves or their fa
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by colinb 5y ago
A scheduled meeting with constituents i.e people from the district the MP represents.
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by colinb 5y ago
Were you being abused for your skin colour? Your religion? Your sexuality? Your age? Were you abused by your supervisor? Did their mgmt chain minimize the harm this did, or did they tell you to suck it up or you've never make it in the
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by colinb 5y ago
I think that this is less clear-cut than you might expect. [0] talks about "Dutch Hunger Winter Syndrome" as a heavily studied counterexample. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transgenerational_epigenetic_i..
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by colinb 5y ago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QEJ9HrZq7Ro
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by colinb 5y ago
Braben & Bell, no?

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