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    Nine teenage boys in the Nigerian city of Kaduna started experimenting with making sci-fi films in 2016. They borrowed smartphones from family members, and made tripods out of wood…

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    It bothers me (too much) that we are going to space and still using 'feet' as a unit of measurement.

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    This acquisition was made to bolster their US strategy. CEO of FanDuel is becoming the head of the combined US entity.

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    I think the opposite is true. Pure capitalistic free market naturally tends towards monopoly or collusion. State intervention is needed to ensure competition.

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    We have, back on 1600s when joint stock companies were first invented, eg Dutch East India Company. They had their own armies and we got slavery, colonisation of Philippines, India…

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    I think certain British items are valued, especially in the luxury range where heritage and quality matters: -Fashion / clothes, e.g. suits and fabric in general, shoes. -Engineeri…

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    You might like this then: "It does exactly what it says on the tin" (often quoted as "does what it says on the tin") was originally an advertising slogan in the United Kingdom, whi…

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    >Earlier, the Mayor of London said Uber had put "unfair pressure" on TfL, with an "army" of PR experts and lawyers. >Mr Khan, who is also chairman of TfL, told the BBC: "What you c…

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