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by iso947 6y ago
You’d think the HFT lot would jump at the chance to knock 100ms off Singapore to New York.
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Of course there is, you see it in many european countries
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Indeed, it’s a major tourism draw in Beijing, why would it be censored?
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Americans are far more heavily armed, and there’s a belief that the only defence against a gun is someone with a bigger gun.
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by iso947 6y ago
Have you tried turning it off and on again?
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Ok, same people same city. Smuggler John Hancock has his boat confiscated, starts a riot
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Why don’t the police have visible numbers on their uniforms?
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All white male police officers on deal duty for six months After that ensure they are chaperoned by a black person. All costs for “bad apples” come out if the departments pension fund.
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A black shop owner was arrested at gunpoint, live on Fox News for asking for help because of some looters, but again some people don’t see the problem.
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That’s what they told those sneaky terrorists that disguised themselves and snuck onto private property to destroy tea in Boston harbour.
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It takes 10 seconds for someone to create a lie, it takes 10 minutes to rebut it.
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Possibly, such a long time ago. The tactics that won brexit with vote leave were used later to elect trump. It amuses me to think how the world can change from tiny changes
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Yes my youngest loves carcassone, we played. He’s 5 now and we also play ttr (first journey and London), catan junior, and he is a big fan of Station Master, which is an odd little game we picked up pre kids. We went through a phase with ou
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Angus Dayton used to host that show He couldn’t keep it in his pants, so was ridiculed by the guests (including Hislop) That led to him resigning Which led to Boris Johnson hosting a few episodes A charismatic buffoon, that catapulted him t
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More and more news is regurgitated from other sites, or from press releases. Doesn’t take much for someone to spin a story in one way or another and it’s all over the world before the journalists have got their shoes on.
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7x7 isn’t 47, and 94x2 isn’t 196
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That’s a hypothesis, one easily disproven
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Auroras were seen in Baltimore and Perth (Australia) during the Carrington event in 1859, around Lisbon’s latitude (both north and south)
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I suspect this one, explaining the various parts of mission control https://youtu.be/6zFAme3SQAo
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https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/food-and-drink/ugly...
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The concept is nothing new, PR firms have been providing packed content for news consumption for years, and news organisations with ever decreasing budgets and time simply use them verbatim. I’m sure there are criticisms about specific poin
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https://youtu.be/x-tgoXncKh4
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It sounds horrendous. In a reasonable world horrendous jobs like flipping burgers and scrubbing toilets would be far more rewarded than fulfilling jobs like writing code. My own history of jobs involved delivering f pizzas for a small firm
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Is far rather write code for $40 than flip burgers for $100
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Ok so it $40 an hour flipping burgers, or $40 an hour writing code. Which would you rather do?
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Low pay compared to hedge fund managers. Both can (in massive scale organisations) swing massive amounts of money to the company. Neither does it reliably.
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Yes, hence the large gap in death estimation
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Root cause analysis is a tricky thing Died of a heart attack Caused by blood loss From being impaled on a fence After a car crash While not wearing a seatbelt And driving too fast On an icy road
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It was the government figures, and it raised far more questions - London has an IFR of half that of the rest of the UK, does that mean it’s spread more widely amongst healthy people? Does the antibody year require a higher viral load (which
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There are three level of excess deaths in E+W Those that are defiantly covid Those that mention covid on the certificate Those in excess of level of normal deaths over last 5 years That puts covid deaths at between 40k and 70k. With an IFR

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