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andrewducker) wrote2018-01-23 12:10 pm
andrewducker) wrote2018-01-23 12:10 pm
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Interesting Links for 23-01-2018
- The Lightning Network Could Make Bitcoin Faster—and Cheaper
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- Top architect insists Scotland - Ireland bridge is feasible
- (tags: bridge scotland ireland )
- Whatever happened to the Brexit talks?
- (tags: uk europe )
- 'Terrifying': How a single line of computer code put thousands of innocent Turks in jail
- (tags: turkey internet OhForFucksSake )
- The (almost) complete history of 'fake news'
- (tags: fake fraud reporting news media )
- Once you start engineering Earth's climate you can't stop
- (tags: engineering globalwarming Technology thefuture )
- How to deal with Twitter trolls
- (tags: troll advice harassment twitter )
- New York *literally* has a "get out of jail" card. What The Fuck is going on over there?
- (tags: police newyork WTF corruption )
- In Colorado, a glimpse of renewable energy’s insanely cheap future
- (tags: renewables GoodNews thefuture )
- Why Churchill was a vicious racist villain
- (tags: history UK Africa India racism afghanistan )
- Seattle’s $15 Minimum Wage Experiment Is a Success
- (tags: minimumwage usa )
- More on “Get Out of Jail Free” Cards
- (tags: police corruption usa )
- One in three women miss cervical screening due to embarrassment
- (tags: health women uk )
- Driver behaviour transformed by A90 average speed cameras
- (tags: speed driving safety Scotland cameras )
- Nursing Home Recreates Communist East Germany for Dementia Patients
- (tags: dementia age care germany memory history )
- Trump puts 30% tariff on imported solar cells and modules
- (tags: solarpower china usa trade )
- Europe's central banks are starting to replace US dollar reserves with the Chinese yuan
- (tags: china europe usa finance )
- Want a healthier population? Spend less on health care and more on social services
- (tags: health money society )
- Can You Buy A License to Speed?
- (tags: speed crime police )
- English NHS accused of fiddling A&E figures to downplay extent of crisis
- (tags: NHS fail OhForFucksSake )
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I think the British people of the 1940's had a good handle on him given how quickly he was dumped in '45 for Attlee and socialism.
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(And I think it was David Low who drew a post-election cartoon featuring a cheerful war leader Churchill saying to a grumpy party-politician Churchill, "Cheer up, they'll forget you but they'll remember me.")
Churchill, of course, didn't get the point at all, and referred to his war victory as having been rewarded with the Order of the Boot.
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