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by growlist 6y ago
> controversial opinion And who decides this? All the big tech companies appear to lean globalist/left. No?
122.
by growlist 6y ago
If ESA were building reusable rockets and not instead persisting with a pork-driven employment programme that happens to have a side effect of producing rockets, I'd agree with you. Until then ESA deserve to be hammered with criticism
123.
by growlist 6y ago
It's not beyond the realms of possibility that around the same time as the sample returns to Earth, the US could have geologists' boots on the ground on Mars doing actual geology in situ, courtesy of SpaceX/Starship. Kind of
124.
by growlist 6y ago
From my perspective, I'd say politics stands more of a chance of delivering a societal collapse.
125.
by growlist 6y ago
Yes, and the death of the UK and London has been predicted over and over, and yet somehow they continue to flourish...
126.
by growlist 6y ago
The unions bear a large part of the blame for destroying British industry.
127.
by growlist 6y ago
No skin off my nose either way - I'd be quite happy to see house prices fall, which is one of the likely consequences.
128.
by growlist 6y ago
> Do you have some concrete evidence for the claim that other countries’ failures are due to being "shut down by the US"? I'm actually surprised you're asking this, because this phenomenon is fairly well known, but an
129.
by growlist 6y ago
The City has one of, if not the world's greatest concentration of finance brainpower and capital, and has survived through hundreds of years of global turmoil as one of the world's leading financial centres. Do you really think th
130.
by growlist 6y ago
As regards obesity the US might be out in front but many other countries are catching up fast. When I was a kid here in the UK large people were unusual, but now they're everywhere, albeit fewer in rich areas as it's certainly cla
131.
by growlist 6y ago
It says a lot that you think all tech workers likely earn more than £55k.
132.
by growlist 6y ago
> It's pretty much a win-win. Even in strictly financial terms this is a dubious claim.
133.
by growlist 6y ago
Well that sentence is ambiguous. It could be that the guy on the skeleton team said the following: "I am a bit dopey, but it's okay because I have my girlfriend to take care of me"
134.
by growlist 6y ago
Yeah I remember reading about this about 20 years ago. Take a look at what Germany did to water down co2 emissions rules, or the widespread environmental destruction within the EU carried out with the complicity of Brussels, then come back
135.
by growlist 6y ago
You're just asking so that you can attack my response, I suggest.
136.
by growlist 6y ago
IRL also - apart from BLM, which was completely organic and without coordination.
137.
by growlist 6y ago
Any particular reason you chose that example?
138.
by growlist 6y ago
Eh, idk. It makes for entertaining reading for a devops-sceptic.
139.
by growlist 6y ago
These guys have been doing something similar for at least a decade (I have no financial interest etc.): http://www.timbercrete.com.au Also, I live in West Sussex and the amount of clay here really is unbelievable - my town used
140.
by growlist 6y ago
> The burj khalifa is vastly more impressive than the notre dame from an architectural perspective. Seriously? Or are you being deliberately provocative? As I understand it the Burj is considered pretty vulgar.
141.
by growlist 6y ago
...and also likely more deliberately demoralising and horrific art being created today than ever.
142.
by growlist 6y ago
I agree, see my other comment - it's some organisations that have an expectation of OSM that is unreasonable.
143.
by growlist 6y ago
I should have qualified what I said with 'in the enterprise GIS world' or something similar. I'm talking about numerous occasions I've had organisations say they want to use OSM but then complain about the quality, as if
144.
by growlist 6y ago
You've hit on the central conundrum with OSM: it's a good enough proposition to make it interesting (free as in beer for many uses, acceptably accurate in many places etc), but a long long way from being a reliable, authoritative
145.
by growlist 6y ago
> I can't help but wonder: Who, exactly, wants to buy helicopters from such fly-by-night operators? Boeing still has a market
146.
by growlist 6y ago
Something very steampunk about this!
147.
by growlist 6y ago
> But there is also no reason why they should even try, whereas before there was. This makes no sense. There's countless examples of independent nations/supra-national bodies etc. with wildly diverging goals across many areas a
148.
by growlist 6y ago
Definition of canard 1a : a false or unfounded report or story especially : a fabricated report The report about a conspiracy proved to be a canard. b : a groundless rumor or belief the widespread canard that every lawyer is dishonest
149.
by growlist 6y ago
> The UK is physically large enough that everyone on Earth actually could live there with a reasonable amount of space to themselves. Clearly we have different ideas about reasonableness. > if it's population you're concerne
150.
by growlist 6y ago
But there's no reason that an independent UK and the EU cannot work together where their interests align, is there? The idea that it's all or nothing is nothing more than yet another canard put about by anti-Brexit protagonists.

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