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by growlist 7y ago
> We knew the financial types were already fleeing London for France and Germany. This seems to confirm that it's accelerating. Unless you can prove otherwise this simply isn't the case, a quick Google yielding the following ne
452.
by growlist 7y ago
> The voters pretty clearly rejected the idea of compromise. Strange, because to me it looks like The Brexit Party got zero seats, and the (compromising soft-Brexit) Conservative party won.
453.
by growlist 7y ago
> A Postgres dump would be massive. Indeed - it inflates to hundreds of GB during my import process.
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by growlist 7y ago
> the amount of processing to import their world map data file in Postgres would require several months I'd be surprised if this were indeed the case, even on spinning disks. Did you use the pbf export? I can load it in two or three
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by growlist 7y ago
> Neoliberal apologia in the guise of "oh there's no one europe". Now you're just trolling.
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by growlist 7y ago
I could pull this apart virtually sentence by sentence as it's so flawed. For example, right at the start: > 'Anglo-American society is now the world’s preeminent example of willful self-destruction. It’s jaw-dropping folly an
457.
by growlist 7y ago
“120 million people live along the Indus,” says Immerzeel, “but the Indus plain is like a desert. It’s completely reliant on the water from the thick glaciers above.” (Nobody mention overpopulation)
458.
by growlist 7y ago
Engineering of new refuse sites is pretty well understood and sophisticated these days, at least in most advanced economies. The bottom of the site is sealed with a multi-layer impermeable barrier, and any effluent 'liquor' flows
459.
by growlist 7y ago
Exactly. It really is a specialised skill, not just one that you can pick up alongside all your other GIS skills.
460.
by growlist 7y ago
The employment of children as tools of propaganda is a fresh low. Yet I suspect that the 'ends justify the means' types as regards Saint Greta would be screaming blue murder about the amorality of it all if children were being use
461.
by growlist 7y ago
Great shame. Roxette weren't very trendy when I was at school, but time has proven that their music has lasting power.
462.
by growlist 7y ago
These hand-drawn-look diagrams are starting to become a bit of a cliche.
463.
by growlist 7y ago
This seems to me like a false dichotomy of interplanetary scale - there's no reason we can't both fix the Earth and also venture forth. I'm starting to have some sympathy for the conspiracy theory that there are forces workin
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by growlist 7y ago
> Brutalism when done thoughtfully and well is beautiful, uplifting, and provides a sense of calm and space And yet common folk - unfairly deprived of an education in hifalutin architecture-speak - still seem to consider brutalism to be
465.
by growlist 7y ago
Indeed. From my observation it's the left that are looking intolerant and scary, attempting to force opinions in their preferred direction and delegitimise opposing views.
466.
by growlist 7y ago
One of my favourite Shell memories is when Outlook malfunctioned and sent an email to thousands of people in error, many of whom then also replied saying 'me too' to an initial reply-all email that said 'I got this email in e
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by growlist 7y ago
> In their minds, business is war Relevant David Brent quote: "Does a struggling salesman start turning up on a bicycle? No, he turns up in a newer car - perception, yeah? They got to trust me - I’m taking these guys into battle, ye
468.
by growlist 7y ago
> infuriating cutesy techy-language Happy to see I'm not the only curmudgeon around here. I'd say this trend is at its most loathsome when employed by big corporates - it's as if everyone is so terrified of being mischarac
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by growlist 7y ago
> I worked for a few years at Shell though and now I'm wary of ever working for a large corporation again I didn't find them that bad tbh, I think that there's good parts and bad parts in all monsters like Shell - my take
470.
by growlist 7y ago
> despite it being a Labour party matter This is an internal matter and has no bearing on who might be leading the country in a few weeks and voters don't have a right to know and the Tories don't have a right to point it out?
471.
by growlist 7y ago
> weaponization of anti-semitism Labour is the only party apart from the BNP to be investigated over allegations of racism by the Equality and Human Rights Commission.
472.
by growlist 7y ago
And she was the exception that proves the rule.
473.
by growlist 7y ago
I'm slightly surprised it's not obvious to you but giving you the benefit of the doubt: if we had had more open discussion/education about the horrible effects cousin marriage can have it might have helped change attitudes in
474.
by growlist 7y ago
So happy to see everyone not jumping to conclusions over what is just a concept car and will no doubt - like all concept cars - be considerably different to the retail version /s
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by growlist 7y ago
> Maroochydore, Australia Lucky man! Beautiful part of the world that I was lucky enough to visit myself a while back.
476.
by growlist 7y ago
Also in Surrey. A relative worked with visually impaired children, one of them of Pakistani heritage and having albinism, and this kid said one day "it's because we marry our cousins". This is one of those situations where th
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by growlist 7y ago
I suppose it could be possible to leave the airship in the air almost indefinitely, with smaller craft doing the loading/unloading at each end.
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by growlist 7y ago
> We're riding an exponent in everything around us, culture included Popular culture perhaps - but in my experience there's a massive yawning chasm between 'woke' culture and the culture of the majority of the populat
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by growlist 7y ago
I'll be amazed if that's enough.
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by growlist 7y ago
True! :) I first learnt of them years back on TV - think it was a Channel 4 (UK broadcast channel) documentary, in which they sent a British academic into somewhat hazardous situations. He walked underground along one of these tunnels. Have

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