tonyedgecombe

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by tonyedgecombe 2mo ago
I don’t think that has much to do with it. We were building a technology industry, there were some big players but it all went away. It’s not like there was no VC in the Uk either.
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by tonyedgecombe 2mo ago
>Were there arguments back then similar to this piece? In the UK free market ideology allowed the tech industry to slip away and financial services to dominate our economy. It's hard to see us doing anything else when we were relyin
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by tonyedgecombe 2mo ago
Yes, it just means your bug queue is twice as long as you think it is. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1/2_%2B_1/4_%2B_1/8_%2B_1/16_%...
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by tonyedgecombe 2mo ago
If they had any sense China would be looking at Ukraine and Iran and conclude that it isn't a good idea to invade Taiwan.
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by tonyedgecombe 2mo ago
That rarely works. Russia has been pounding Ukraine yet the Ukrainians are as defiant as ever.
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by tonyedgecombe 2mo ago
It’s providing logistical support. You could go to their website and order items for the “special police operation “. It’s also a juicy target from an economical perspective. They are going to need a ton of financial support to keep operati
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by tonyedgecombe 2mo ago
>All the other countries in NATO are major food importers. All apart from France, Netherlands, Spain, Denmark, Poland, Hungary, Lithuania, Turkey, Italy and Ireland. Interestingly the US is borderline now depending on how you measure foo
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by tonyedgecombe 2mo ago
I do wonder how much of a problem we are facing with the amount of steroid use going on in gyms.
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by tonyedgecombe 2mo ago
I remember decades ago IBM published some research that said that every two bug fixes resulted in a new bug.
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by tonyedgecombe 2mo ago
It's fascinating to see what people buy in the supermarket and how much it costs them. There is very little fruit and veg in the typical trolley.
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by tonyedgecombe 2mo ago
>Overall peoples happiness go up and down. Not by much. I seem to remember some research that compared lottery winners to double amputees. Within a short period both groups had reverted to similar levels of happiness. >I could go on .
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by tonyedgecombe 2mo ago
>uk's recommended level is likely way too low to be optimal. It does seem to be based on actual science. Apparently it was deliberately set high enough to meet the requirements of approximately 97.5% of healthy people in the populat
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by tonyedgecombe 2mo ago
Interestingly these regions have been getting a lot more investment from central government in recent years. It hasn’t appeared to make any difference to people’s voting patterns.
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by tonyedgecombe 2mo ago
I think it’s quite healthy to do that yourself now and then. Probably the most eye opening for me was fasting for a day. Even small things are enlightening, when my slippers disintegrated I didn’t replace them for a month. It gave me a who
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by tonyedgecombe 2mo ago
We just got a dishwasher after forty years without and I’m not sure it was a good idea.
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by tonyedgecombe 2mo ago
I just go for a walk in the woods.
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by tonyedgecombe 2mo ago
Although it was dirt cheap in the nineties.
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by tonyedgecombe 2mo ago
Big AC strikes again.
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by tonyedgecombe 2mo ago
Judging by how much effort Apple puts into its speakers it isn't a large market, probably not even on the scale of their headphones. Between Apple's poor quality AI, Amazon continually trying to sell you more stuff and Google flog
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by tonyedgecombe 2mo ago
It feels like the option for people who are too lazy to learn their tools to me.
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by tonyedgecombe 2mo ago
I remember a TV program showing someone breaking the one minute record for the first time. I could already do it at that point, I'm sure many others could as well.
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by tonyedgecombe 2mo ago
The UK has more than halved its carbon emissions since 1990 despite a growing population.
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by tonyedgecombe 2mo ago
If I lost 5% of my muscle mass every year since I was forty I would only have 32% of my muscle mass left. At 8% I’d be down to 16% left.
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by tonyedgecombe 2mo ago
Jobs in power generation will exist whether you are using coal, gas, solar, wind or hydro.
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by tonyedgecombe 2mo ago
>It's a prerequisite, but so is breathing. It's necessary but not sufficient. It's the fizzbuzz of political debate.
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by tonyedgecombe 2mo ago
But they mostly aren't.
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by tonyedgecombe 2mo ago
It seemed appropriate to me considering the question from @lazyasciiart.
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by tonyedgecombe 2mo ago
Nobody said to stop voting. You could spend the two weeks before polling day educating yourself on the options and you would be much better informed.
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by tonyedgecombe 2mo ago
Small businesses won't go for this program because it isn't a true lease, it's a loan.
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by tonyedgecombe 2mo ago
Yes, they are very cheap aren’t they.

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