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781.
by growlist 7y ago
Add to this: BBC 'Journalist'
782.
by growlist 7y ago
Counter-opinion: over-complication is very much en vogue! Our academia, media, business, etc. are awash with post-structuralist influenced thinking that seeks to deliberately undermine previously accepted pillars on which our culture was fo
783.
by growlist 7y ago
I have friends and relatives in London but seriously wonder how long it will be before they are forced to leave - things just seem to go from bad to worse on all sorts of indicators of quality of life, and the authorities appear acquiescent
784.
by growlist 7y ago
It's the old chestnuts that firstly the home cinema experience is now pretty close to being equal in AV terms, and secondly I don't have to deal with a scuzzy cinema, overpriced tickets and idiots talking/on their phones. Wha
785.
by growlist 7y ago
I had a quad CPU Dell server. Imagine 512 threads :-0
786.
by growlist 7y ago
> It's like humans are designed to make everything a dispute If we're aiming for more reasoned debate I'm not sure the throwing around of the 'denier' label really gets us much further forward.
787.
by growlist 7y ago
The UN wants co2 reduced, but is apparently acquiescent about massive population growth in the developing world, and indeed openly promotes mass migration from there to the developed world, necessitating massive construction, infrastructure
788.
by growlist 7y ago
Fourth: population increase to 10bn by 2050. Everyone better get used to drastically duller lifestyles if we want zero emissions with that many people on the planet.
789.
by growlist 7y ago
> A much inferior airforce posed serious trouble to a big power thanks to their great product. There's no denying their effectiveness in this example, but then the context was the UK was fighting a conflict halfway across the world
790.
by growlist 7y ago
If I trusted the NHS or UK government to strike a good deal for use of our data, I'd be inclined to back this. But our public officials have a stunning record of failure in this area.
791.
by growlist 7y ago
Studies show that when it comes to IQ, women cluster around the mean. As you go upwards to higher levels of IQ you find fewer and fewer women compared to the number of men. Somewhat debatable whether this correlates to achievement or exactl
792.
by growlist 7y ago
Men and boys are demonised and ridiculed daily all across our media, and education is in my experience biased towards males also. Teachers are mostly female, and I remember at school normal male behaviour being criticised, and a general att
793.
by growlist 7y ago
Again - I don't disagree we need to change, but I think we need to be honest about the scale of the disruption involved. Think about the amount of debt in the world, and imagine that that was created with the foundation of an oil based
794.
by growlist 7y ago
Oh god, here we go. So now there's yet another way for multiple Python installs to clash.
795.
by growlist 7y ago
I had a Dell R815 quad Opteron server for a short while. Kept a pair of ear defenders on hand for power up time!
796.
by growlist 7y ago
Wow. That's probably millions more jobs gone then for tyre shops, though obviously there will be a slow switchover.
797.
by growlist 7y ago
Couldn't put it better.
798.
by growlist 7y ago
I'm not justifying anything and probably agree with you and NeedMoreTea in general. That said, asbestos and lead are barely comparable. Virtually every aspect of modern life is currently dependent on oil. You live in houses built with
799.
by growlist 7y ago
The supermajors are all in both. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Oil
800.
by growlist 7y ago
Extremely unlikely any of us alive now will be alive to see it. Oil is just far too useful for us to be able to replace easily, and choosing not to replace it would take our lifestyles back hundreds of years. Hardly anyone wants that.
801.
by growlist 7y ago
Agreed, hugely undervalued and I would argue pretty rare. My formal grammar is pretty poor and I mainly operate on what sounds right, but nonetheless I am commonly shocked by the basic mistakes that are made by most people including very se
802.
by growlist 7y ago
Ugh these bloody birds. There are big flocks of them in London, and they are now moving out into suburban areas like northern Surrey. They are really loud and annoying, and just don't look/sound right in leafy England! I'd su
803.
by growlist 7y ago
There are plenty of tech roles where you don't have to be a superstar dev but can't still make out fine. Support is a good one - sneered at by many but actually incredibly important and can be really fulfilling in the right role (
804.
by growlist 7y ago
> in the grand scheme of things, humans and what we have produced is nothing In my experience, geologists tend towards this type of viewpoint!
805.
by growlist 7y ago
> forever buried in the geologic record That's somewhat of a contradiction in terms, depending on your timescale!
806.
by growlist 7y ago
I've never seen rigorous scientific proof that these claims for the nebulous benefits of 'perspective' are real, outside of issues that are highly specific to a particular group - and let's be honest, we are all far more
807.
by growlist 7y ago
Amongst all the domestic cat love in here please let's not forget the devastation they cause to wildlife. The same isn't true of dogs.
808.
by growlist 7y ago
You see no irony in us being asked to mourn the destruction of a religious shrine for a person that himself participated in the deliberate destruction of multiple shrines purely on the basis of differing religion. Okay then!
809.
by growlist 7y ago
Isn't Islam the only religion that says that all other religions are false?
810.
by growlist 7y ago
The other day the Guardian was inviting us to feel terrible about historic Uighur mosques being bulldozed: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/apr/07/bulldo... ...so I went and did a little re

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