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  1. Re:Every intelligent person on Britain's Scientists Are 'Freaking Out' Over Brexit (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    Again, the problem here is you lack of imagination, not Brexit.

  2. Re:Usual media FUD on Britain's Scientists Are 'Freaking Out' Over Brexit (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    We're beholden to Japan's laws and regulations when we export or travel to Japan. We're beholden to the USA's laws and regulations when we export or travel to the USA. Most countries in the world aren't members of the EU.

  3. Re:Usual media FUD on Britain's Scientists Are 'Freaking Out' Over Brexit (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    Yes you see the problem here. (1) there's absolutely no chance trade will stop - both the UK and EU are members of the WTO so your hypothesis here is just a fantasy and (2) the UK now has greater scope for deals abroad (so far 27 countries have expressed an interest in bilateral trade deals with the UK), so any export loss to the EU will be more than offset elsewhere, especially as elsewhere tends to be growing whilst the EU is stuck in a Euro-denominated perma-crisis.

    And I'm not really sure why you aren't parcelling up the export figures by country rather than using the UK individually v the rest of the EU as a whole. German exports to the UK amount to €89 billion. UK exports to Germany are €39 billion. We have a €50 billion trade deficit with Germany - and Germany is the most powerful and influential member of the EU. So what do you think German policy towards the UK is going to be? Another example, France. She exports $41 billion (sorry for the change in denomination) to the UK. UK exports amount to $27 billion. Again another huge trade deficit with another very influential EU member country.

    Why don't you think these things through?

  4. Re:Funding Levels Not Grant Allocation on Britain's Scientists Are 'Freaking Out' Over Brexit (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    You're pushing at an open door with me if you suggest funding should be directed away from these areas. At least until they start replicating and/or stop p-hacking.

  5. Re:Oh really? on Britain's Scientists Are 'Freaking Out' Over Brexit (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    I don't know why this is modded "redundant", it's insightful. Applying for and winning grants is a skill in itself, as every scientist (with funding) knows.

  6. Re:Spin Spin Spin on Britain's Scientists Are 'Freaking Out' Over Brexit (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 3, Informative

    Don't confuse the poor fellows with facts. Brexit is too convenient an excuse.

  7. Re:Every intelligent person on Britain's Scientists Are 'Freaking Out' Over Brexit (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 0

    the main "leave" campaign guys are now running away and officially stating that they have no idea what they actually planned

    Don't confuse your own ignorance with other people not having ideas. You could, for example, read Daniel Hannan's pamphlet. There are dozens of others. In any case the whole point of the vote wasn't to elect a Leave government with a set of Leave policies, it was to enable the government to enact a policy on arrangements, something it could not have if we were members of the EU, obviously.

  8. Re: But they pay more to the EU than they get back on Britain's Scientists Are 'Freaking Out' Over Brexit (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 2

    The EU will have less money to spend. The UK was a net contributor and due to its relative economic performance, was going to be an even bigger net contributor in future.

  9. Oh really? on Britain's Scientists Are 'Freaking Out' Over Brexit (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Well, perhaps we could find a better way to hand out grants to scientists, so we don't end up wasting it. I mean there's the Replication Crisis to consider, and the Decline Effect, and then somewhere north of 40,000 neurology papers that were a waste of time (not all British of course).

    I think Ford are closing plants all over the place. Their sales are weaker in the USA and China too, which is absolutely nothing to do with Brexit, although Brexit is a wonderful excuse for useless executives to hang their poor performance on.

  10. Re:Receiving job offers based on 9-year-old CV on You Can't Turn Off Cortana In the Windows 10 Anniversary Update (pcworld.com) · · Score: 1

    No joke, I do receive about 10 unsolicited tech recruiter emails per day. This is why when I was looking a few years ago I set up a different email account for it. Tech recruiters are some of the biggest spammers out there and most of them haven't got a clue what they're doing. They're worse than estate agents in my view. And their fees are shocking. I honestly don't know why employers use them.

  11. "head hunters" lol. If you put your CV online, even for 5 minutes at a job site, you'll be forever after "pinged" by tech recruiters about 10 times a day.

  12. Always watch the pea under the thimble... on Highest-Paid CEOs Run Worst-Performing Companies, Research Finds (independent.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    With studies like these, you must be careful to look at the start-end dates on the data. 2005 - 2014 seems strangely designed to centre around the couple of years of financial crisis. I wonder if the companies chosen for the study were also cherry picked.

  13. I have no idea what this story is all about. I'm a Windows developer maintaining a suite of software and I have to test it against every new release of Windows to check for bugs and changes, some of them subtle but none of them I would say attributable to malice. APIs change over time. Things get deprecated, improved and so on.

  14. Re:Twitter is easy to define. on Twitter, a 10-Year-Old Company, Is Still Explaining What Twitter Is (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Are you suggesting that blonde people cannot be manly? That's both sexist and racist. You should be on Twitter.

  15. Re:Twitter is easy to define. on Twitter, a 10-Year-Old Company, Is Still Explaining What Twitter Is (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    My back is quite hairy but I have blonde hair so the effect is lost.

  16. Re:Twitter is easy to define. on Twitter, a 10-Year-Old Company, Is Still Explaining What Twitter Is (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Ahaha.

  17. Re:Working with? [Re:well well well] on Clinton Campaign: Russia Leaked Emails to Help Trump (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    It's one of the mysteries of Slashdot that comments get hidden once they reach Level 20. You can unhide them with the usability-obfuscated sliders at the top, if you have Asperger's. Otherwise you'll just have to take my word for it.

  18. Twitter is easy to define. on Twitter, a 10-Year-Old Company, Is Still Explaining What Twitter Is (theverge.com) · · Score: -1, Troll

    Twitter is a platform that allows mostly liberal, Marxist, left-wing metropolitan types with hipster beards, undefined sexuality, testicles the size of blueberries and a cock the shape of a little acorn, to signal their virtue by posting pictures of themselves holding up various signs with writing on.

  19. Re:Working with? [Re:well well well] on Clinton Campaign: Russia Leaked Emails to Help Trump (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    Jesus. What is wrong with you? My comment concerned Dahamma's -1 flaimbait comment higher up in the thread. Do pay attention.

  20. Re:Working with? [Re:well well well] on Clinton Campaign: Russia Leaked Emails to Help Trump (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    If the Republican candidate's campaign is working with the Russian intelligence agencies to sabotage the opposition, it sure as fuck matters more who did it.

  21. Re:well well well on Clinton Campaign: Russia Leaked Emails to Help Trump (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    What is wrong with your brain? Are you completely fucking stupid?

  22. Apart from that they're both probably wrong? No, not really.

  23. Re:Working with? [Re:well well well] on Clinton Campaign: Russia Leaked Emails to Help Trump (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    The DNC claim is the DNC claim. Parent said explicitly the Republicans were "working with" Russian security services. You are simply parroting the DNC narrative that Trump is good for Russia and inviting naïve or stupid readers to join the dots. Nothing new there. We had the same in Project Fear over Brexit. Apparently voting for Brexit was "good for Russia" too. Well fuck you and fuck Russia.

  24. Re:well well well on Clinton Campaign: Russia Leaked Emails to Help Trump (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Why are you talking about Trump? This is about the Democratic Party and leaked emails. See what you're doing? Moving the pea under the thimble again...

  25. Re:well well well on Clinton Campaign: Russia Leaked Emails to Help Trump (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I was watching the pea under the thimble there. Nice use of the phrase "working with". Don't think it wasn't noticed. We go from Russia leaking something in it's own interests, to the Republican Party being in cahoots with Russia in leaking DNC emails. This is all notwithstanding the fact that the DNC want you to believe that Russia leaked them, even if they didn't, to deflect attention away from their content - something you haven't really considered.