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gm3dmo··on Britain has gone two months without burning coal to generate power
We must also thank the nuclear industry for Windscale, Three Mile Island and of course Chernobyl. They've also been generous enough to allow us to pay to store their nuclear sewage for thousands of years.
gm3dmo··on Labour HQ used Facebook ads to deceive Jeremy Corbyn during election campaign
This is education, the centrepiece of The Labour Party's 1997 manifesto:

Cut class sizes to 30 or under for 5, 6 and 7 year-olds Nursery places for all four year-olds Attack low standards in schools Access to computer technology Lifelong learning through a new University for Industry More spending on education as the cost of unemployment falls

Can you demonstrate where the opposition had those policies?

gm3dmo··on Labour HQ used Facebook ads to deceive Jeremy Corbyn during election campaign
We would have won if it wasn't for ...

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stab-in-the-back_myth

gm3dmo··on Labour HQ used Facebook ads to deceive Jeremy Corbyn during election campaign
Which faction of Labour won 3 elections in a row?
gm3dmo··on Labour HQ used Facebook ads to deceive Jeremy Corbyn during election campaign
https://www.ft.com/content/2178afb2-7b64-11e6-ae24-f193b1051...

Looks to me like Corbyn never showed any party loyalty. He sewed the wind.

gm3dmo··on Labour HQ used Facebook ads to deceive Jeremy Corbyn during election campaign
Corbyn was elected Labour leader in 2015, reelected in 2016 and subsequently lost 2 general elections and torched 8% of the Labour vote. It's abundantly clear that his unpopularity extends to a much wider group than the Labour establishment.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electoral_history_of_Jeremy_...

gm3dmo··on Benin Bronzes Were Looted 123 Years Ago. Will They Ever Be Returned?
https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2002/mar/28/education.museums

I'm wondering what happened to the ones the director sold to his brother for "altruistic" reasons.

gm3dmo··on The Dyatlov Pass Incident
Days until Dyatlov Pass Incident mentioned on Hacker News?
gm3dmo··on The Dyatlov Pass Incident
Maybe there should be a citation? I have a new evidence or an original thought to add to the Dyatlov Pass Incident wiki page.
gm3dmo··on The Dyatlov Pass Incident
The 8th dyatlov pass headline on Hacker News. It's like Groundhog Day.
gm3dmo··on What America Lost When It Lost the Bison
"Lost the Bison". Losing something is unlucky or perhaps careless. The bison were not "lost", they were systematically exterminated.
gm3dmo··on America’s largest milk producer files for bankruptcy
Milk of the Poppy I learned from Game of Thrones.
gm3dmo··on It was Bill Joy's password, not Ken Thompson's, that had a control character
They all had their uid set to 0?
gm3dmo··on FOIA request for NROL-39 surveillance satellite logo
Giving children guns and suicide vests is the dehumanizing bit.
gm3dmo··on New Evidence Suggests Satoshi Nakamoto Is Paul Le Roux
In a forum post from 2002, 7 years before Bitcoin was released, somebody posted something that sounds an awful lot like an early idea of Bitcoin ...

The comments in the screenshot claimed to be from 2002 are from gmail.com addresses. Gmail was launched April 2004.

gm3dmo··on YouTube bans comments on all videos of children
They've missed a trick: Make adding a comment only available to subscribers.
gm3dmo··on Travis CI Is Laying Off Senior Engineer Staff
But Travis is the choice of well weapon DevOps people, they will be able to swap out to a new CI in 10 seconds flat. Hell, a dingbat like me could probably do it in a day. An ERP system, not so much.
gm3dmo··on WeWork’s CEO Makes Millions as Landlord to WeWork
When those vc's sell the company to your mutual there is a phrase they use as they light a Monte Cristo with a 1000 dollar bill in an infinity pool: "That guy from the mutual? We ripped his face off."
gm3dmo··on WeWork’s CEO Makes Millions as Landlord to WeWork
If he lived in 2019 he would have just dropped it on an S3 bucket. What with your government being all like shut down and all.
gm3dmo··on Google cans the Chromecast Audio
Seemlessly too.
gm3dmo··on Drone Sighting Halts Departures at Heathrow Airport
As the philosopher Connery said: https://en.m.wikiquote.org › wiki › Charl... Let my armies be the rocks and the trees and the birds in the sky. https://youtu.be/TseOHDBZ8MA
gm3dmo··on Dive into Deep Learning: Berkeley Course
Spelling not so much.
gm3dmo··on JPEG image of Shakespeare which is also a zip file containing his complete works
I do extend him, sir, within himself; Crush him together rather than unfold
gm3dmo··on Our Solar System Is Even Stranger Than We Thought
Judge planets by their size do you?
gm3dmo··on GitLab raises $100M from Iconiq, GV, and Khosla, at $1.1B valuation
Gitlab. The Evernote of source control.
gm3dmo··on Maria Konnikova Shows Her Cards
Can Google's AI win at poker?
gm3dmo··on Changes to the YouTube Partner Program
I've gone with patreon to support smaller channels, 1 to 10 dollars each, budget 20 dollars a month.

Mentions among creators drives me to new channels and I add to Patreon.

gm3dmo··on My 20-Year Experience of Software Development Methodologies
I did KT in 1998, 20 years later and it's still hands down the most powerful course/learning I've ever had.
gm3dmo··on 'Serious' security flaws found on official UK tax site
The IT guy is attending DefCon on the council budget.
gm3dmo··on The Huge Premium Intel Is Charging for Skylake Xeons
"I bought an IBM/Sun server and the salesman ripped my face off". Should adequately describe server pricing strategies.
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