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andrewducker) wrote2017-07-25 12:00 pm
andrewducker) wrote2017-07-25 12:00 pm
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Interesting Links for 25-07-2017
- A chart that shows where robots are going to replace humans on Wall Street
- (tags: automation finance )
- Chicago SlutWalk joins in with anti-Semitic ban
- (tags: Jews feminism OhForFucksSake usa )
- Wings Over Scotland increases defamation claim against Kezia Dugdale to £25,000
- (tags: lgbt law scotland independence politics )
- Brexit: Theresa May refuses to rule out weakening of food standards in trade deal with US
- (tags: food health usa uk europe )
- How economists rode maths to become our era’s astrologers
- I remember reading an article where the author pointed out that the hallmark of good science was the discarding of failed theories.
And noting that economics never discards a theory.
(tags: history economics fail ) - Brexit is dying – don’t worry about how we finish it off
- (tags: europe uk )
- If you want to understand where Corbyn is coming from on free movement of labour, Asquith Xavier has the answer. But you won't like it.
- (tags: immigration racism Labour history unions )
- Peter Davison is wrong about a female Doctor Who, but he's not sexist
- (tags: drwho feminism )
- Crewless electric cargo ships may be on the horizon in Norway
- (tags: automation shipping transport )
- When you think about it, Lord of the Rings is the only appropriate metaphor for the PhD Journey. Let me explain....
- (tags: lotr academia phd awesome )
- Money can buy you happiness (by paying to get out of negative things)
- This is on top of, of course, the "Money as a way of not being hungry/homeless" and "Money as a way of not letting your lifestyle decrease", both of which impact on happiness.
(tags: money time happiness ) - Roomba's Next Big Step Is Selling Maps of Your Home to the Highest Bidder
- Which seems odd to me. I can't quite figure out what they'd do with it.
(tags: privacy cleanliness automation ) - India will ban driverless cars in order to protect jobs
- (tags: jobs cars India automation OhForFucksSake )
- Essex nursery 'closes because of universal free hours scheme'
- (tags: children money UK government )
- How Nolan forgot the Indians at Dunkirk
- (tags: India wwii history movies )
- Snopes Faces an Ugly Legal Battle
- (tags: law business facts fail )
- Microsoft Paint avoids brush with death
- (tags: software art microsoft )
- Food security in a post-Brexit world
- (tags: Food UK europe )
- 22 reasons the hyperloop and driverless cars don't mean we don't need HS2
- (tags: trains transport thefuture )
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The government seem perversely deaf to the notion that if you pay providers less than it costs to provide the service they will stop providing the service either by not offering it or by going bust. For the party who said you can't buck the market they are trying to buck the market.