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421.
by growlist 7y ago
> Thinking Fast and Slow I thought a fair amount of this book was debunked in one way or another?
422.
by growlist 7y ago
Care to elaborate?
423.
by growlist 7y ago
> his friends (like Farage) Err... 'The Daily Telegraph reported on Cummings's past rivalry with Nigel Farage from the 2016 referendum campaign, and quoted Farage as saying that: "He has never liked me. He can't stand
424.
by growlist 7y ago
> Everything else the brexit crowd has produced is a steaming PoS of low quality lies ...which worked. If we accept what you are saying as true then it merely demonstrates the utter incompetence of the Remain crowd at effective communica
425.
by growlist 7y ago
Exactly. It's trivial to prove that Google's results have a strong political bias.
426.
by growlist 7y ago
> we will lose a lot of employment in the car industry This only increases the importance of hanging onto as many as possible of the shrunken pool of jobs that will be left.
427.
by growlist 7y ago
I know but to replace it with coal??? Couldn't they have gone for e.g. LNG or more renewables phased in over time? The speed of the shift seemed mighty fishy.
428.
by growlist 7y ago
Germany also shut its nuclear power stations in favour of more coal. I don't trust Germany.
429.
by growlist 7y ago
The Germany car industry should have seen the writing on the wall a few years back - when Merkel was forced to intervene to water down the European Commission's proposed emissions regulations - and disrupted itself, and if it had, it m
430.
by growlist 7y ago
Let's hope these aren't being started deliberately.
431.
by growlist 7y ago
Exactly. My Philips CM8833 Mk2 + Amiga combo was super sharp.
432.
by growlist 7y ago
'Why clickbaity headlines that bait you with the answer to an unasked question are annoying'
433.
by growlist 7y ago
Indeed - you can make more driving a tube train, or being a pretty bog standard policeman than what many devs earn.
434.
by growlist 7y ago
And there is the problem that a lot of the 'good' coders generate code that cannot be read by mere mortals, i.e. the majority of devs.
435.
by growlist 7y ago
> A farmhouse sits abandoned on County Road 24 in Yuma County on May 1, 2017 Looks pretty comfy to me. How much does an abandoned farm house in Yuma County go for these days?
436.
by growlist 7y ago
They're scared it might succeed.
437.
by growlist 7y ago
It's more about terror of the A320 isn't it?
438.
by growlist 7y ago
> Actually we get on quite well in Europe, thank you very much. I suggest you take a car-ride through Northern France, close to Verdun, if those numberless WW1 cemeteries don’t change your mind I don’t know what else will. That'll b
439.
by growlist 7y ago
> stupid things like imaginary lines drawn on soil. So let's erase all borders and see how we get on. Orwell: 'men can only be highly civilized while other men, inevitably less civilized, are there to guard and feed them.'
440.
by growlist 7y ago
> the ability to sit down and concentrate at a mentally taxing boring task for uncertain reward If anything I'd say school hindered me in this regard! I think I learnt dogged persistence through playing videogames.
441.
by growlist 7y ago
Call me cynical but - I'm guessing it's a lot easier to punish market sectors in which your own manufacturers are weak.
442.
by growlist 7y ago
I think it's possible that they were in a state of stall for an infinitely small moment of time before they were obliterated. They definitely came to a halt, which is another meaning for stall.
443.
by growlist 7y ago
Some argue her mistaken take on what's ironic is intentional, and the true irony of the song.
444.
by growlist 7y ago
Ah yes, that's why they had to change it to the somewhat nebulous 'climate change' instead of 'global warming'.
445.
by growlist 7y ago
I miss how tight my Amiga used to feel, and in the electronic music sector some people still prefer dedicated hardware rather than PC/Mac for these types of reasons. Click a button and the device responds instantly. When you're do
446.
by growlist 7y ago
NL earns fortunes pumping hydrocarbons, thereby contributing to climate change, thereby forcing itself to spend fortunes defending against climate change. For some reason I'm reminded of Alanis Morissette.
447.
by growlist 7y ago
'The race is on to figure out a fix after authorities linked Russian groups to misinformation campaigns targeting Catalonia’s independence referendum and Brexit' Thus far there's not a single shred of evidence that Aaron Bank
448.
by growlist 7y ago
I seem to recall that pulling out a joystick connector from a joystick port whilst the Spectrum was switched on could permanently damage both the joystick and the computer! Though there might have been an edge connector peripheral in there
449.
by growlist 7y ago
> The Tories tried to trigger a no deal. > The deal they did get was a pretty hard Brexit. Gross misrepresentation of the truth.
450.
by growlist 7y ago
Because fewer women in positions of power equals less misogyny?! Ok then.

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