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> generally we hope vacuum tubes last for years If I may offer an anecdote, the output stage in my guitar amplifier is powered by a GEC tube that is now 55 years old. It sounds gre…

> What you’re seeing there, isn’t a giant sticker being applied. I thought it worth mentioning that stickers were in the mix too. In the town I grew up in, there was a printing com…

As objets d'art . The thinking is that owning (and crucially, displaying) vinyl records marks you out as being more discerning than the rest of the herd.

Further down the page, there's a link to an article from a couple of years ago, titled "Migration isn’t increasing". So which is it?

I've heard a lot of vox pops in recent years on the subject of why young couples where I live are not starting families, and by far the most common reason given is that the cost of…

It's a shame we can't ask Genghis Khan for his thoughts on the matter.

> They're still free to move about the continent, make investments, do whatever Except that's not true at all, is it? See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_sanctions_dur…

I just want to add that I wholeheartedly agree with this, and I would hate for anyone who's losing their hair to conclude that it's the end of the road for their love life. Good gr…

Good for you. I always did notice if there was a spark between me and someone I encountered. I wasn't going to act on it if I was already in a relationship, but I found it nice to …

> baldness, and the downside of the condition for sexual attractiveness of its bearers Just a guess, and I highly doubt there are any reliable statistics on this, but perhaps baldi…

The real question is why the Portuguese government is allowing this to happen?

When I read the headline, I pictured something like the flying cars from "Blade Runner". What I see in the video is a helicopter with six rotors. I get that the leap forward here i…

It's amusing to see comments implying that the TB-303 is some kind of neglected classic. In reality, it can only be considered to have been forgotten for perhaps the two years afte…

Yes, there are many problems with the planning process, but as you conceded in another comment, the actual reason that we don't have an LNG terminal is that Eamonn Ryan nixed the p…

Sure, I get that. I was just aiming for comic effect in pointing out that the player's initial reward for having made it through all the levels of a very difficult game is "lol, do…

Just want to say, I hadn't encountered your website before, but it's an absolute treat. I'll be working my way through your Timeline over the next while!

Okay, that's interesting. I was in my early teens when it was released. Absolutely everyone I knew had either a Spectrum or a C64, aside from the one rich kid who owned a BBC Micro…

> excruciatingly difficult As the author of the article notes, the NES was not popular in the UK or Europe as a whole, and indeed, I've still never seen one in the flesh, so to spe…

> It’s the same for his cars, they haven’t suddenly got worse at building them. Actually, they demonstrably have. The Cybertruck is a technical and commercial disaster. You're corr…

> They keep a skeleton crew office in the EU for compliance purposes only According to LinkedIn, they have over 2,000 employees in Dublin alone.

If "50% of all jobs will be completely eliminated in two years" comes to pass, then there will be a violent contraction, perhaps even a total collapse, of all advanced economies. I…

Those who are cold won't find their situation improved if an undetected Russian submarine sabotages the country's natural gas interconnectors.

Nicely set out. I completely agree with you. I'm also pretty certain - and I say this both as a lover of the arts and as a taxpayer - that I will see no benefit whatsoever in my li…

Hmm, I'm pretty sure there was something else going on in this instance. Baseball caps are an extremely common sight in Dublin. I frequently wear one when I'm out and about here, a…

What do you mean, at a practical level, when you set out your "priority list" above? Are you referring to the use of congestion charges to discourage private motor vehicle use?