Interesting Links for 01-09-2017
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andrewducker- Florida power company exchanging nuclear plans for solar plans, cutting rates
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- Hot New ‘Anonymous’ Chat App Sarahah Hijacks Millions of Contact Data
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- Experimentally Reducing Racist Harassment (Being told off by high-status white males makes racists stop)
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- How Programming Languages Differ Between Wealthy and Developing Countries
- (tags: demographics programming language viaSwampers money )
- How vanishing debt costs helped the UK forget about a never-ending deficit
- a) We should be investing _heavily_ in better infrastructure right now. Heck, we should have been for a few years, considering how cheaply we can borrow.
b) Look at how worried people are about the stock market lining up for a crash. I wonder if a big-enough one could cause us to abort Brexit.
(tags: uk economics viaSwampers ) - Lenovo’s first augmented reality glasses are a Star Wars exclusive
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- Possibly the oddest spam I've ever had
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- 50% of men and 40% of women are unable to identify the vagina on a diagram
- I'd like to see the diagram myself, to be honest.
(tags: vagina Education health OhForFucksSake ) - The problem with how men perceive rape (and consent in general)
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- Tory peer says Brexit is good because young people will be able to work longer hours
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- The story of the Jewish codebreakers who helped win WWII
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- How should white people feel about privilege
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- Tanzania becomes the latest country to use drones for medical deliveries
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- Here's the first recorded instance of the F-word in English
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- Learned kinkiness - or how they trained rats to love lingerie
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- You can be your own therapist - if you’re up to the job
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- The new 7,541-piece Lego Millennium Falcon is the biggest and most expensive set ever
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- Scottish tidal power station breaks world record for electricity generation
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Date: 2017-09-01 07:15 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2017-09-01 09:41 pm (UTC)You have to feel sorry for the poor sod, for the fact that more than 700 years after the presumably embarrassing incident that caused his nickname, people still remember him for that and nothing else.
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Date: 2017-09-02 02:32 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2017-09-04 09:35 am (UTC)Good news that the tubines are in and working well.
Less good news that the the economically recoverable resource is reckoned to be 1.9GW, which seems at the lower end of earlier estimates.
Mind you, if the actual potential was closer to 18GW we'd have a really awkward time exporting it.
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Date: 2017-09-04 09:40 am (UTC)Further to our earlier conversation about the continued recessionary nature of this decade I am also a bit worried about the valuation of the stock market and the potential for a sharp correction of that causing a knock-on economic slowdown. Whether that is sufficient to make people look again at Brexit I don't know. I think the trigger for that is going to be the South East of England turning in to a lorry park and food running short in supermarkets.
Perhaps the Prime Minister of the day could helpfully suggest that people panic buy food and petrol in the run up to Brexit day.