flembat

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by flembat 5y ago
Inflation is a stealth tax, imposed via central banks.
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by flembat 5y ago
Nightmare, they might have ended up owned by ORACLE..
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by flembat 5y ago
In the news today a drop fell into the ocean.
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by flembat 5y ago
See serenity os, 2000 like gui on modern unix like OS.
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by flembat 5y ago
There are bilions of us, we can do more than one thing at a time.
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by flembat 5y ago
Mars is a lethal desert, but it has gravity, some atmosphere, and water, making it better than most places for a species with our current level of technology. Floating cities in the atmospheres of gas giants, or underwater cities on ice mo
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by flembat 5y ago
Libraries were just an example of why the author thinks the West can't build anything anymore. I think we can, and I think we will be rebuilding a lot soon as a demonstration of that.
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by flembat 5y ago
The war is a factor going forward, but we got notified of the price increases before the war started, they relate more to the piss poor planning of our rulers than any external factors. Unless the people in charge are going to suddenly star
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by flembat 5y ago
Sadly true we need very little food to live, which in the wild or if you are broke, is very good news, I know this for a fact, it is mainly about eating less, and I am still overweight .. When I was a kid I smoked more than I eat, but I ne
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by flembat 5y ago
I read that lifting weights for only 3 seconds a day has a positive effect. So it's not all about energy expended..
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by flembat 5y ago
Werewolves is my theory on the convoy.
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by flembat 5y ago
Good to see the kind of computer we can all afford in ten years or so.
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by flembat 5y ago
It very clearly is not. For example you can protect critical infrastructure by simply unplugging the Internet access to it.
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by flembat 5y ago
Says the development manager looking at their team.
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by flembat 5y ago
Lord save us from our own clueless generals.
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by flembat 5y ago
Please hang out for a while on comp.lang.forth or one of the lisp channels, then come back and enjoy how tame and reasonable this site is.
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by flembat 5y ago
I have always liked it, from Turbo Pascal, through to Object Pascal, Delphi 7 and Berlin. Delphi is still very good, but it is expensive, and I can't stand the current owner. Literally the only time I ever paid 1000 pounds for a compil
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by flembat 5y ago
Wait until you see the horoscope for physicists though, not looking good for scientists with Scorpio in Uranus..
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by flembat 5y ago
Betrayed it's community. Right. Seems like an oversimplification. Unless it's community is a few giant cloud service providers.
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by flembat 6y ago
The UKs friends in Europe have decided to treat the UK more like an adversary than a typical third party. So certainly the EU is also to blame.
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by flembat 6y ago
I am in the UK and while in the EU I thought we were part of the world's reasonable ethical block, but now from outside it is apparent how badly the EU bullies and intimidates other countries.
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by flembat 6y ago
The market for the vaccine is two doses per adult per year for the entire planet. If we call it a market at all. Lots of countries need help, the EU countries should be low on the list of places requiring international aid.
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by flembat 6y ago
We can do more than one thing at a time, so the EU can be both useless and corrupt.
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by flembat 6y ago
Partly we are all hopelessly impressed by American salesmanship. For example our businesses ignored things like the Acorn Archimedes and bought PCs from IBM instead.
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by flembat 9y ago
I was hoping the Red project would announce something interesting at the end of the year; but not something as interesting as this.
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by flembat 9y ago
A good definition for middle class; is that you make a significant income from your capital investments. In that case it doesn't matter if you stop working for a few months; your stocks and shares still pay dividends and your tenants s
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by flembat 9y ago
If it was meant to be a currency it seems to have failed. You want the value of currency to be less unpredictable.