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by drumhead 5y ago
I'd say he was mostly correct about the causes, but the thing to remember is that this situation is not going to be with us forever. It's going to last a year maybe two at most and then after that it's business as usual, the
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by drumhead 5y ago
Refinancing old expensive debt with cheaper debt, while waiting for inflation and economic growth to devalue the priciple. It standard and pretty sensible.
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by drumhead 5y ago
Whats complex about 300 civilians being killed and then having their bodies thrown into a river in the middle of Paris. And then covered up for the next 50 years? Sounds like an excuse to me.
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by drumhead 5y ago
Expandability, repairability, ports, toughness. I dont want to spend over $1500 on something only to find I cant expand the ram, change the battery or replace the ssd.
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by drumhead 5y ago
Its always been that way, you read about how scientists in Germany and the Uk and France secretly wrote to each other during WW1 sharing their latest thoughts and discoveries.
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by drumhead 5y ago
High up front costs, for Nuclear fusion/fission, geothermal and solar but cheap fuel, you can run then all day long and sell the power you generate at any price to cover the fixed costs and pay off the capital costs and of course you&#
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by drumhead 5y ago
I dont understand you definition of valuable? Do you mean in terms of revenue generated? Is that what you mean by valuable?
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by drumhead 5y ago
It was, Diana finishing third was ridiculous, but it doesnt detract from Clarkson being the most convincing with the poorest material.
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by drumhead 5y ago
Why has it been a failure? Because you say so or because you want it to be one? Scope and bredth of the lies? Like the economy crashing and going into recession the day after we voted to leave? Soldierning on, you make it sound like the eco
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by drumhead 5y ago
There was always scepticism in the Uk about the EU, all we ever wanted out of it was free trade, but slowly they were pushing the political union agenda and each successive UK government was slowly accepting it. If any of these agreements w
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by drumhead 5y ago
It will never happen, the Polish government is essentially posturing, without the EU there would be no transitional funding and you'd suddenly see millions of their citzens being forced to return home with no jobs and very angry.
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by drumhead 5y ago
She was one of the absolute geniuses and pioneers of electronic music and electronic sound effects. She's never got the recognition that she deserves. Listening to the Doctor Theme from the 60s its amazing that something so alien, hypn
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by drumhead 5y ago
When he puts his mind to it he can be quite a convincing person, because he can bring genuine passion to the subject. The most famous example was to find the greatest Briton which was done at the beginning of the century. Hundreds were nomi
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by drumhead 5y ago
French Nuclear energy has bailed out Europe when then the wind isnt blowing more often than not. They generate about 45GW on average from nuclear and its constant and pretty reliable. A big chunk of that, maybe 10-15 GW is for export, prima
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by drumhead 5y ago
Have these sex bases quotas led to better, worse or no change in the quality of government? Has having more women in charge led to better economic growth, lower crime, better educational results, or they worse or no real change. Has you cou
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by drumhead 5y ago
Does the same thing happen in any other engineering or science career where you essentially considered past it by the age of 35? I can only really think of sports and maybe some arts such as pop music. And even then in sport its just the bo
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by drumhead 5y ago
Not particularly valuable.....until your system goes down and you cant access the data or pay your employees or activate your machinery, or miss vital deadlines, etc etc.
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by drumhead 5y ago
Bitcoin seems to be a virus slowly consuming the resources of the planet and excreting nothing in return.
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by drumhead 5y ago
You don't know about the treatment of minorities in China??? Don't they have the news in Vietnam? You know all about what the west does but strangely nothing about what China does. Shall we talk about Tiannenmen Square, are you al
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by drumhead 5y ago
And people have been protesting about thoses wars on the streets, in the media, films, tv,mc, newspapers, books and everywhere else you can think of for the last 20 years. I havent seen any protests against the opression of the Uighars in C
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by drumhead 5y ago
"Paris is well worth a mass" as Henry IV of France supposedly said after gaining the crown. People can drop their deepest beliefs sometimes when the prize is big enough.
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by drumhead 5y ago
I only use Express to watch Tv overseas or access websites that are blocked by my ISP, but it makes me uneasy to know that shady characters are ultimately controlling this service in locations governed by unsavoury governments.
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by drumhead 5y ago
Will our "freedom" loving friends in Congress be backing this?
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by drumhead 5y ago
Gangster friends? I dont think my "gangster friends" have set up concentration camps to "re-educate" an entire ethnic minority have they? "Gangster friends" another term widely used by the Chinese goverment and
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by drumhead 5y ago
So facebook and twitter should unban Trump?
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by drumhead 5y ago
Reading that headline feels like i've slipped back into the 19th Century.
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by drumhead 5y ago
Youtube are a private company and as such can publish or not who or whatever they want. They arent obligated to publish anything. There are video platforms that however will, so he can use those instead. But I think the complaint in not roo
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by drumhead 5y ago
"Cold War Mentality", thats a Chinese embassy talking point.....
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by drumhead 5y ago
I had a ZX81 and then a 48k ZX Spectrum. He revolutionised the computer industry in this country, so many of us got into the industry because of what he did. A true visionary.
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by drumhead 5y ago
Did people not learn a lesson about closed communities from Facebook? At somepoint Discord will want to agressively monetise the numbers of people using its platform, and a lot of the convenience it currently provides will find its way behi

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