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Water Cooler / Re: A "European Empire" Is Not What Europe Needs
« on: May 27, 2019, 06:54:35 PM »
"The absence of political unity allowed the continent to be ruled by many small, sovereign, and competing territorial divisions."

Yes, and look at what happened over the past few hundred years in Europe. Clue: genocide after genocide after genocide.

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Traffic / Re: Mobile, desktop search traffic split analysis @ SearchEngineLand
« on: May 19, 2019, 03:12:39 PM »
I'd love to know the ROI comparison, though - I've tended to be cynical about that with mobile ads.

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Hardware & Technology / Re: Microsoft Azure?
« on: May 19, 2019, 02:48:13 PM »
Cloud computing platform.

Effectively, virtualization of all your IT infrastructure, so you don't need to rely on the cost and expense of physical hardware.

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Monetization / Re: Google Assistant now shows ads in some answers
« on: April 15, 2019, 06:35:36 PM »
Quote from: rcjordan on April 07, 2019, 03:04:44 AM
...OR they've passed the point where they feel they can be held accountable.

HAve they ever? :P

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Economics & Investing / Re: Brexit
« on: April 01, 2019, 07:30:45 PM »
Quote from: BoL on March 29, 2019, 05:32:16 PM
it's basically England having a personality crisis

Apologies, just to qualify, it's the Conservative Party having an identity crisis, and trying to drag the rest of the country over a cliff with them.

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Economics & Investing / Re: Brexit
« on: March 30, 2019, 11:29:16 AM »
Quote from: BoL on March 29, 2019, 05:32:16 PM
For me, it's basically England having a personality crisis, and blaming the EU for life's current problems.

This, so much Like.

The problem is, England has fecked off the other countries in the union so much that you can be guaranteed that within a couple of years Scotland will have voted for independence with Wales closely following, and the inevitable referendum in Northern Ireland will have them vote to unify with Eire. These things are going to come to pass.

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Water Cooler / Re: Waterstones says it can't pay living wage, as 1,300 authors support staff appeal
« on: March 29, 2019, 10:56:49 AM »
And yet Big 5 publishers can each put nearly a billion dollars into the Cayman Islands every year.

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Economics & Investing / Re: Brexit
« on: March 29, 2019, 10:53:26 AM »
Getting rid of daylight saving time is a great idea. :)

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Economics & Investing / Re: Brexit
« on: March 23, 2019, 07:28:17 AM »
Quote from: ukgimp on March 22, 2019, 12:46:57 PM
Lots of bots?

Lots of people simply pissed off with the process, and the petition has gone viral - tis all. We all signed it after it was first reported on the BBC news, when it was still under 1m. It's almost 4m now

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Economics & Investing / Re: Recession 2019/2020 Mega-thread (putteth all thy strange eruption in h're)
« on: March 23, 2019, 07:21:56 AM »
Quote from: Mackin USA on March 22, 2019, 02:24:57 PM
The bond market is flashing its biggest recession sign since before the financial crisis

CNBC is showing their trend

https://www.cnbc.com/2019/03/21/a-key-recession-indicator-just-did-something-that-hasnt-happened-in-12-years.html

The BBC reports on this, too:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-46530860

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Economics & Investing / Re: UK: Gas heating in new homes to be banned from 2025
« on: March 15, 2019, 01:13:17 PM »
Quote from: rcjordan on March 14, 2019, 05:11:56 PM
I didn't realize UK used RU gas. I would have guessed North Sea and/or Africa.

Here you go: https://www.britishgas.co.uk/the-source/our-world-of-energy/energys-grand-journey/where-does-uk-gas-come-from



As you can appreciate, any European reliance on Russia is politically sensitive. No wonder we're pushing on fracking for energy security.

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Economics & Investing / Re: UK: Gas heating in new homes to be banned from 2025
« on: March 14, 2019, 03:09:00 PM »
Heat pumps makes for a low-cost alternative. And will make us less reliant on Russian gas, which is going to be an increasingly sensitive issue here, as it already is in Germany.

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Water Cooler / Re: Diet high in red meat linked to inflammatory bowel condition
« on: March 10, 2019, 02:31:17 PM »
I've been using this list this week:
https://www.ibsdiets.org/fodmap-diet/fodmap-food-list/

Cut a few things out, will add a few things in. Been wheat & dairy free for a couple of years, vegetarian for decades, but still get flare-ups with colitis. Especially whenever I quit smoking - such as last month.

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Water Cooler / Re: UK knives; this seems like a dumb idea
« on: March 09, 2019, 07:04:50 PM »
Doesn't help when your government slashes police numbers, then acts surprised that violent crime goes up
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-47452799

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Water Cooler / Elizabeth Warren wants to be break up tech giants
« on: March 09, 2019, 07:00:12 PM »
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-47509945

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