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811.
by growlist 7y ago
The nice thing though is that we can all have as many children as we want, because apparently massively increasing the planet's population in future won't contribute to global warming/ecological collapse, whereas forcing me t
812.
by growlist 7y ago
Nice. Makes me wonder what the hell else that's useful could be slurped from up there.. Must be hundreds of feeds to listen to.
813.
by growlist 7y ago
Oh boy. The Brexit Party did not put up a single candidate in these elections and despite having only launched a few months ago they are leading the polls for the EU elections! I wouldn't count your chickens just yet guv.
814.
by growlist 7y ago
You articulate it better than I.
815.
by growlist 7y ago
I suppose you also think there was no behind-the-scenes orchestration behind the hounding of Aaron Banks etc., that the Remain campaign was whiter than white, and that the Electoral Commission have been completely impartial..
816.
by growlist 7y ago
> I can assure you the Guardian has been more and more centrist as time goes on I don't disagree! Put an article in front of me on most hot topics and I think I would have difficulty telling you what publication it was from - it&#x2
817.
by growlist 7y ago
Whilst there have always been loony left, misandrist etc. articles in the Guardian (I speak having read it regularly since the 80s) I'd argue that to make their supporter model work they've had to drop their editorial standards lo
818.
by growlist 7y ago
> will need to learn libraries which is easier for me personally, because the calls to the libraries are generally very much in keeping with the core language syntax, whereas the decorations can be very much a framework specific deviatio
819.
by growlist 7y ago
Well, at least they have their looks to fall back on.
820.
by growlist 8y ago
Each time I come back to C# I find more and more 'decorations' etc. that qualify behaviour of code in one way or another, and it's getting to the point that I feel I need a reference book on the desk as I try to parse some so
821.
by growlist 8y ago
“It wasn’t against my will or anything.”
822.
by growlist 8y ago
> You were not at the trial; you haven't read the court transcripts; you weren't there; you don't know. I could say the same to you.
823.
by growlist 8y ago
This case alone demonstrates it is true, and apart from this case there are other similar cases where no action was taken. Granted, it would be spectacularly embarrassing for the CPS/DPP if the accuser in the case had ended up being pr
824.
by growlist 8y ago
Don't try to pin this on the Tories - it was generally acknowledged to be the DPP's fault: https://www.theguardian.com/law/2018/jul/20/mps-criticise-dp...
825.
by growlist 8y ago
'The woman who accused Allan said he had raped her multiple times over a 14-month period, and that she did not enjoy sex with him.' 'But the text messages show her directly contradicting these claims. In one message, she wrot
826.
by growlist 8y ago
But I guess the massive, coordinated and extreme FUD from Remain passes without comment..
827.
by growlist 8y ago
For some reason I'm fascinated by underground stuff. I have to say though some of this article is certainly in Pseud's Corner territory, e.g. 'Experimental climate-change reportage such as Elizabeth Rush’s Rising; major envir
828.
by growlist 8y ago
With nine of the pages (one third of the total 27) appearing to be mainly the result of running a vectorise tool: $333333/9 gives $37037 per page $37037/30 (assuming a generous 30 clicks to assemble the page) gives $1234.56 per mo
829.
by growlist 8y ago
me: 'it's a really bad idea to be developing new functionality on Flash in 2018' management: 'that's not a helpful attitude right now'
830.
by growlist 8y ago
It's possible to question without being a paid shill - overpopulation is relevant yet taboo, we are bound to an economic model that worships inexorable economic growth despite likely consequences for the planet that cannot be solved by
831.
by growlist 8y ago
Now that the Defender has been discontinued I'm looking forward to this: https://projektgrenadier.com/ Plenty of people don't consider anything other than a Defender to be a proper Land Rover, so I thought it migh
832.
by growlist 8y ago
I find LinkedIn/contemporary corporate culture to be horrifically infested with this pollyannish nonsense. Sometimes we still need to be able to call a spade a bloody shovel.
833.
by growlist 8y ago
Mordecai uses SpaCy and is worth a look for extracting place names: https://github.com/openeventdata/mordecai I wasn't too successful running it against tweets (low hit rate/false positives, low spatial resol
834.
by growlist 8y ago
Someone please for the love of god make a minimalist news website without cookies and all the other annoying distractions! :|
835.
by growlist 8y ago
Should be especially useful when reading the Grauniad then!
836.
by growlist 8y ago
So then make the competitor pay for it: each time they launch for a competitor, add a margin equating to the total cost of deploying a Starlink satellite.
837.
by growlist 8y ago
I was actually kind of joking in my earlier post but never suspected the EU would specifically exempt themselves from it. Words fail me.
838.
by growlist 8y ago
A good reason to look at alternatives.
839.
by growlist 8y ago
Interesting - will the EU apply this to themselves? 'Mr Watt claimed that corruption was "permitted to flourish to the benefit of all the institutions' elites" and said that despite his action and that of other "whi
840.
by growlist 8y ago
And we mandate by law in more developed nations that workers exposed to dust of whatever kind use PPE. Your point is a bit of a red herring when applied to asbestos really, because there is still plenty of atmospheric asbestos from historic

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