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by kjjw 12y ago
Hardly any American soldiers. Wars still result in large numbers of other casualties; civilian and military. https://www.iraqbodycount.org/ Let's not forget what is happening in Palestine, too. Leaving aside the politi
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by kjjw 12y ago
The 'there are other worse things so we can ignore this' argument? Really?
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by kjjw 12y ago
What unsubstantiated, loaded dross. Sorry but what point is there in saying what you have? How does progress any discussion at all?
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by kjjw 12y ago
'Decentralising the internet', if considering the web as an important part of that, pretty much is an effort to break apart Google. Google is a centralised web made reality.
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by kjjw 12y ago
Surely a self-fulfilling prophecy.
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by kjjw 12y ago
I don't know but where can I get that jigsaw?
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by kjjw 12y ago
Oh yeah. That would be a long slider! :-)
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by kjjw 12y ago
Very nice. I put the slider all the way to the maximum - £500 per person per week and there are still some parts of central London that are listed as 'too expensive'. Or perhaps is there no data for those parts?
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by kjjw 12y ago
Are these people concerned with security or are they running a protection racket? The way you put it is starting to sound like the latter.
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by kjjw 12y ago
Get ready to hear indirectly from IDF PR the standard line of defence of their recent actions. "They started it!"
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by kjjw 12y ago
Well I've been using cider / nrepl.el for a long time and never knew this. Don't know how I missed it. Thank you.
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by kjjw 12y ago
Seconded. I was working with a mix of Java and Ruby for roughly a decade. I've been working full time with Clojure for about two years now, and on and off for a couple of years before that. Fantastic introductory guide. Clojure really
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by kjjw 12y ago
1. Recreation. 2. A bit of both. Tend to plan to buy big cuts of meat, whole chickens, fish and seafood from the local market. The rest comes from Ocado (online grocery deliveries in the UK) and we order pretty much the same things each wee
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by kjjw 12y ago
Sounds fascinating. In fact, it almost sounds too good. My concern is that it seems intimate. There are not many people I want to connect with on an intimate level.
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by kjjw 12y ago
Oh I'm sorry. You're absolutely right. Hold on for just five years while I perform a study to find the correlation, then after that we can argue about the causation until we both die.
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by kjjw 12y ago
Here's another idea I have no evidence for. Maybe it is a compounding problem, maybe it is the problem, maybe it's total nonsense. Perhaps we are seeing the affect of an increase in difficulty of pushing the boundaries of basic sc
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by kjjw 12y ago
1970 is about the end of the Apollo programme, and I presume the end of the massive government spending on science and engineering that went with it. You're right, a libertarian view of this is way off the mark.
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by kjjw 12y ago
I think the mention of JVM start up time is a bit erroneous. A mechanism for uninterrupted service during deployments is needed whether the JVM takes a millisecond, a second or a minute to load up. The article is interesting though.
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by kjjw 12y ago
I agree and I think you're coming to a problem with how we think about achievement in general. Getting to the moon was the end result of many small achievements that were themselves the result of individual pursuit. I guess it is fair
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by kjjw 12y ago
Yes creativity as an individual pursuit, and the acknowledgement (in my mind,) of nearly every human pursuit as being a creative endeavour, is not a vision of loneliness, of people performing in isolation not caring for anything else. These
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by kjjw 12y ago
"Overall, I believe the computer age favors the individual and that resistance to the individual work style is the last gasp of the dying industrial age. Many software companies put their faith in committees because they believe this i
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by kjjw 12y ago
As far as I remember, stopping Concorde had more to do with poor sales after the Air France crash rather than anything inherent in cost efficency.
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by kjjw 12y ago
Thank you for all your cloud first, mobile first. I think that cloud first, mobile first, but that cloud first, mobile first. If only cloud first, mobile first,then cloud first, mobile first. But I digress, because what is really important
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by kjjw 12y ago
This is interesting. I've always been given, along with an initial rental agreement, a letter dated for the end of the tenancy that asks me to leave the property. It was my understanding that this is enough for the agent to easily ejec
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by kjjw 12y ago
I'd love to know why this is down voted, because it is unequivocally true. Nearly all letting agents (probably all?) in the UK vet potential tenants and will run various forms of check, including credit checks. They will also ask for p
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by kjjw 12y ago
Sorry but I live in a place where supply of property, rental or otherwise, is so constrained when compared to demand that any local letting agent knows they can rent out any place within a week. You go along with whatever they say or you do
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by kjjw 12y ago
To update the date on the contract (renew)! You've been had! I only paid £80 for that! Never actually saw a version of the contract with an updated date, mind you. I am trusting them that it exists.
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by kjjw 12y ago
Insurance maybe. But I doubt it changes buildings insurance (which is the only insurance a landlord will take out.) Tax not really - only if one wanted to claim back the income tax one pays on a percentage of their rent, a percentage in lin
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by kjjw 12y ago
And then you'll never be able to rent again. At least through a letting agent, which is how most rentals occur.
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by kjjw 12y ago
As if they could comprehend the difference. And anyway - quite wrongly! What if one works from home? And whatever happened to fostering entrepreneurship, innovation and asking people to take their own lives in their hands by doing things li

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