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871.
by growlist 8y ago
So in other words according to your theory, Boeing has made a plane that is only safe in the hands of the best pilots? Better start cancelling thousands of orders then since by definition, at least 50% of pilots will be below average.
872.
by growlist 8y ago
Good news. I've been looking for text news for years now in order to be able to access a purer news source than what is available ( and the tired old 'all news is biased' argument doesn't change the fact that most MSM lo
873.
by growlist 8y ago
Perhaps it's actually better in environmental terms to concentrate development in fewer places?
874.
by growlist 8y ago
I have the privilege of working from home and always wondered why I would feel like death when visiting the office. I strongly suspect this is the answer.
875.
by growlist 8y ago
Indeed, this is the type of thing US regulators love to hammer non-US companies with.
876.
by growlist 8y ago
I just hope they've got the IP well locked down. Bound to be lots of envious eyes on this tech!
877.
by growlist 8y ago
Patriarchy?! Please. In the west at least, women make the purchasing decisions in many households so unless their decisions are subconciously driven by patriarchy I think you are out on a limb with that one: 'Women drive 70-80% of all
878.
by growlist 8y ago
Or Trigger's Broom (for those of us in the UK): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=56yN2zHtofM
879.
by growlist 8y ago
You don't say where you are, but here in the UK at least there are weekly publications that give a summary of the week's news. Good thing there is that the terseness mandated by compressing a week's news into a page or two fo
880.
by growlist 8y ago
Controversial opinion incoming: perhaps the audience for sites like 4chan/8chan reflects a curiosity created to some extent by the ever narrowing range of permitted news topics allowed by the MSM.
881.
by growlist 8y ago
> I was pretty shocked about the reaction on 8chan. I haven't been there before. It's pretty sad to see. You have no idea who is posting there, or why, and yet you take the posts at face value? Interesting.
882.
by growlist 8y ago
I love these posts of new retro consoles. I would love to see one that maintains the audio-visual aesthetics i.e. FM chip tunes, sprite-based 2D graphics yet otherwise pushes the hardware to the absolute max of what is possible today. I thi
883.
by growlist 8y ago
There is also a lot of poverty. And your experience as a tourist does not match mine - Sri Lanka is one of the few places to which I have vowed never to return, specifically because of the pointing, laughing, photo-taking, catcalling, touch
884.
by growlist 8y ago
..or perhaps Boeing should not make software that is apparently counter-intuitive for the average airliner pilot.
885.
by growlist 8y ago
> And part of any successful effort is combating the selfishness and denial of the average person Does that include people in the developing world having far too many children? Anything we do in the developed world will be utterly swampe
886.
by growlist 8y ago
I'm guessing you haven't been using the Internet for the past few years then? This stuff is rife, and often well planned and organised with the apparent collaboration of the MSM.
887.
by growlist 8y ago
I couldn't put it better.
888.
by growlist 8y ago
> nearly everyone I meet has a “pay it forward” attitude basically the opposite of what I've experienced in 15 years in tech in the UK, sadly.
889.
by growlist 8y ago
> The end goal is much much more difficult: convincing the people who run Intel and Apple and Samsung that it is in the planet's best interest to not have higher sales each year The people that run those companies are just functio
890.
by growlist 8y ago
I read somewhere that 50% of particulate pollution comes from brake discs/pads and tyres, meaning that electric cars will still cause air pollution. But hey, half as bad is twice as good.
891.
by growlist 8y ago
Here's my approach to this issue in Firefox: 1. Right click - Inspect Element 2. Right click on containing node in Inspector Panel - Delete Node 3. Read article
892.
by growlist 8y ago
> Is the BBC writing more clickbait headlines than ever? continue reading to find out more! I notice this more and more, along with promotion of clearly trivial stories to the front page - is a banal and contrived tweetstorm about Trump&
893.
by growlist 8y ago
> I recently lost my glasses in a pond filled with alligators I lost a pair of plastic glasses in the Colorado River in 1992 or so, crazy to think they are possibly reasonably intact somewhere in the Pacific Ocean :|
894.
by growlist 8y ago
I think at least things are better now than they once were. One of the reasons I am pro-Amazon, H&M and other successful new-ish companies that attract criticism from the left for various perceived crimes is that I remember what things
895.
by growlist 8y ago
To me the major strength/weakness of C# is the libraries - if you have good libraries available and can get by with their limitations you can smash out code amazingly quickly, and VS is a brilliant companion. However, for writing a des
896.
by growlist 8y ago
Independence not independance
897.
by growlist 8y ago
How about 'ethnic group' then instead? The evidence of difference is right before our eyes. Just watch athletics!
898.
by growlist 8y ago
Indeed, and taken to new heights of obnoxiousness by the British: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fairey_Rotodyne
899.
by growlist 8y ago
They could at least run this page through a spell checker. If they can't get that right, then..
900.
by growlist 8y ago
If only it were that simple.

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