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Boothroid

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About Boothroid

I know a little about things geospatial.

Recent public activity

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    Comment #16238459

    I guess either he's genuinely seen as a threat by the current leadership, or he's a handy punching bag for them. Either way I feel the antisemitism explanation is just as lacking i…

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    Comment #16238439

    I've worked with a number of utilities here in the UK and they are pioneering in their use of technology, to the extent that in one example a power company had reached the limits o…

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    Comment #15936308

    Quite. Moreover and with apologies to Marx, where is this 10x coming from? The simple fact is that it's the fruit of other people's labour that is being appropriated.

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    Comment #15936213

    OK, but look at the context - out of nowhere we have obvious diversity at all costs propaganda. I'm watching the BBC's Christmas trailer now which involves a brown skinned single f…

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    Comment #15935729

    You know you are talking about something different.

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    Comment #15935591

    Wow, liberal fascism distilled, pretty much a call to arms for the destruction of individual cultures and global imposition of wrongthink. South Park's Death Camp of Tolerance come…

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    Comment #15907011

    For a grad level position I'd argue it's just about acceptable - outside of the big tech companies UK salaries aren't that amazing, and it could probably be a nice stepping stone o…

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    Comment #15901086

    The Running Man has the same idea (without the porn aspect).

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    Comment #15899145

    I selected PostgreSQL for a geo project recently. Still haven't got my head around tuning, but apart from that I've found it great to use. I use psycopg2 to connect from Python. No…

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    Comment #15877859

    Some obvious discrepancies around permitted speech on this topic. Say you like traditional British values and think they are being undermined by immigration: "Racist! Xenophobe! Th…

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    Comment #15859497

    This reminds of a trend I read about a while back where the rewards accrue to an increasingly small number of high profile people in a field while the majority just get poorer.

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    Comment #15857386

    Stop avoiding the question: do you honestly believe there was not FUD from the remain side? I suggested you google brexit scaremongering to enlighten yourself. Did you do that? You…

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    Comment #15853216

    With you on this. I've never bought a new PC, always eBay or self build.

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    Comment #15852851

    'First Round Capital reports that its investments in companies with a female founder have posted 63 percent better returns than men-only firms.' so what? Correlation does not imply…

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    Comment #15852045

    Do you honestly believe there was no FUD from the remain side? If so you are obviously a troll or out of touch with reality. There literally hundreds of hits if you google brexit s…

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    Comment #15846762

    OK so disregard the Treasury then if it makes you happy - my general point stands, despite your effort to split hairs - there was massive concerted lies and deceit from leave, and …

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    Comment #15846008

    Majority of what? The FUD? In another post I've given a series of links showing some of the crap that was flung around by the remain campaign, of which there was plenty. Bob Geldof…

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    Comment #15844770

    'Brexit would prompt stock market and house price crash, says IMF' https://amp.theguardian.com/business/2016/may/13/imf-warns-s... 'How bad could it get? Morgan Stanley warns Briti…

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    Comment #15844242

    No, you are the one playing semantics. The consensus is that Merkel forced mass immigration on the rest of the EU. Look how well that went down in recent elections in Germany - she…

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    Comment #15844012

    You are seriously claiming that Merkel did not play THE key role in setting immigration policy across the EU? That seems to go against what most reasonable sources conclude. As reg…

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    Comment #15843635

    I know, the poor innocent lambs in the remain camp, how were they to stand up against the evil nasty leavers! Do me a favour.

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    Comment #15843544

    Why don't you try to refute my general point? There was FUD on both sides. I'm just seeking to point this out to those with selective memories that bleat on about the £350m claim a…

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    Comment #15843133

    The Treasury's document today says: "A vote to leave would cause an immediate and profound economic shock creating instability and uncertainty which would be compounded by the comp…