Interesting Links for 16-04-2013
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andrewducker- Hunger Striking at Guantánamo Bay
- Iain Banks marries in his favourite place
- Why you should avoid rar files.
- How the Internet amplifies irrational group behavior
- Why IT Security is so hard.
- Ked - the first scripting language from The People's Republic of Cork
- Spiffing CSS: the preprocessor made for Brits
- Why Does Music Feel So Good?
- It's time to admit that Goth culture has a race problem
- The Myth of Margaret Thatcher (Fascinating piece on her economics)
- The BionicOpter - Inspired by dragonfly flight
- We can now make rat kidneys.
- A Pakistani Response to the Boston Marathon Bombing
- Can streaming save music sales? (It is in Sweden)
- Why HBO Turned to Indie Bands for the Medieval Tunes of Game of Thrones
- Who has a right to claim North Sea oil?
- Charlie Stross on avoiding the news (particularly after a tragedy like Boston)
- OKCupid starts accepting Bitcoin using Coinbase!
- The Real Story Behind Facebook Moderation and Your Petty Reports
- Wearable robot exoskeleton helps people with paraplegia walk.
- Why your games are made by childless, 31 year old white men
- Netflix plotting move to HTML5 video - but only if DRM works
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Date: 2013-04-16 04:51 pm (UTC)For starters, anyone seriously suggesting that Britain hasn't really changed much since 1990 hasn't been paying attention. Then you have the old manufacturing destruction canard-you've read Worstall's stuff on this, showing it as a %age of GDP makes it look bad, but it was still at a record high when she left office, it just grew less than other sectors, some of which didn't bloody exist in 1979 FFS.
then you have that chart showing how "bad" growth was in the 1980s, which clearly shows growth was higher then than in both the preceding decade and the two subsequent decades.
I mean, destroying her reputation in economics is an open goal, you don't need to get the facts blatantly wrong to do so, and unfortunately it means the several substantive good points in the article are easily lost. Ah well.