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Comment #42282139
Why not?
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Comment #30126805
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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Comment #20114414
It bothers me (too much) that we are going to space and still using 'feet' as a unit of measurement.
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Comment #17488523
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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Comment #15628564
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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Comment #15628431
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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Comment #15489573
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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Comment #15489539
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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Comment #15331073
>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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