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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.

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 father and his daughter. This in no way represents the average in the UK in fact the UK is almost 90% white - so what message is the BBC trying to send? Am I one of the bad guys to recognise the colour of the skin? Because you can bet that whoever came up with the idea certainly had race at the front of their minds. Is the UK really so racist that we deserve to be subjected to this type of manipulation? Is it beyond the realms of possibility that the people behind this agitprop are in fact the very same nefarious forces you mention?

You know you are talking about something different.

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 comes to mind. I await the introduction of the reeducation gulags.

Edit: I'm just amazed that people cannot see this guy is blantantly arguing for the exact thing he claims to despise:

'Meanwhile, give the right-of-way to people driving cars with the “Mean people suck” bumper sticker, and remind everyone that we’re in this together against Lord Voldemort and House Slytherin.'

He goes on at length about why us and them is bad and then LITERALLY ARGUES FOR an us and them attitude :|

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 onto something bigger and better. Usual story in SE UK though - on that salary it would likely be a long and dull road of saving hard even to afford a shoebox, and patriotism doesn't pay the bills.

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

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 nasty surprises in use, and found that all my pidgin SQL translated easily. Also worth knowing that ogr2ogr supports PostgreSQL and is an awesome tool.

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! There are no traditional British values anymore! Go back to the Daily Mail little Englander!"

Point out that Israel or Japan have immigration policy that are highly exclusive: wind blowing, tumbleweed..

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.

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 are obviously a troll :)

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

'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 causation. Also it might be that female founded firms are less risky, and so less likely to generate mega returns. Or it could be the opposite. Point is we don't know and the stat is useless on its own.

'This man naturally assumed that he knew more about it than I did. It was his ingrained view of women — a view that’s costing all of us.'. This is nothing more than an assertion.

Finally I think only the most naïve or faux-naïve would be surprised to find that Wall Street contains some pretty serious/insane characters. Isn't that kind of the nature of the beast? I bet there are plenty of men that have to deal with terrible behaviour also. That's not to excuse any of this behaviour, but I'm sure the idea that if you are a man you are guaranteed an easy ascent to the upper reaches is risible.

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 scaremongering or similar that reference scare tactics both within and outside of the UK, but no doubt you will refuse to accept that that proves anything either, so I wish you well with getting back in touch with the real world.

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 subsequent 'despite Brexit' stories from the BBC etc in their attempt to distract from the egg on their faces. Care to address the leave FUD directly? I suspect you've exhausted your rhetorical armoury by now.

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 on the Thames hurling abuse at Nigel Garage? That was a pretty sight. Eddie Izzard slagging off leave on Question Time didn't look too good either.

And if we are on the topic of lies and deceit let's consider the ongoing campaign to undermine the democratic decision of the British people, quisling puppet Gina Miller, war mongerer Blair et al. Lovely bunch of people. It wouldn't surprise me if the £350m was deliberately planted to give remoaners a weapon to undermine the result.

'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 British stocks could lose nearly 20 percent in a Brexit win scenario. Bank of America Merrill Lynch believes U.S. stocks could lose upwards of 7 percent. Citigroup sees European stocks down 20 percent. Deutsche Bank sees 10 percent downside risk.'

https://www.cbsnews.com/amp/news/could-brexit-vote-cause-a-s...

'Unemployment would rocket. Tumbleweed would billow through deserted high streets. Share prices would crash. The government would struggle to find buyers for UK bonds. Financial markets would be in meltdown. Britain would be plunged instantly into another deep recession.

Remember all that? ..It hasn’t worked out that way. ..it is obvious that the sky has not fallen in as a result of the referendum, and those who said it would look a bit silly.'

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/aug/20/brexit...

'To the shock of many — not least business titans who bankrolled the Remain campaign — the instant collapse doesn’t seem to be happening.'

https://www.spectator.co.uk/2016/07/that-brexit-apocalypse-i...

Somehow I doubt you would be so scrupulous in asking for sources for generally known facts if they were not so inconvenient for your position. I'm also interested to know in what world you think 'immediate and profound economic shock' does not correspond with a stock market crash.

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 barely escaped and only after an unprecedented intervention by the president.

Personally I'm on the side of Poland in resisting the globalism-at-all-costs push. One could just as easily describe the 'accept mass immigration and fuck your population's feelings' attitude of the EU as a form of fascism.

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 regards Poland I think perhaps you are believing what you see in the MSM rather than taking things with the pinch of salt they deserve. Putting the MSM to one side there are plenty of commentators that consider recent EU actions towards Poland as an unprecedented interference with sovereignty. Also you are verging on Godwin's law with this assertion: 'slipping into far-right fascist state'. Have you actually looked at photos of the recent march? Protestors had anti-communist AND anti-nazi flags.

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 as if the remain side were whiter than white. They were not! Just accept it.

And after some more research I can confirm the Treasury actually did predict an immediate crash. You are exactly 100% wrong.

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 complex and interdependent negotiations that would follow".

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/business/news/brexit-to-cr...

The EU is doing a pretty good job of disuniting itself without help from outside what with eurozone woes and consequent blight of mass youth unemployment in many countries, unilateral adoption of mass immigration by Germany, interference in sovereignty of Hungary, Poland, etc.

This is just a personal attack disguised as civility.

Remain too. We were told that on the day after a vote to leave there would be an immediate crash of financial markets and recession. That didn't happen.

Indeed, the FUD put about by the remain campaign probably made the victory closer than would otherwise have been the case.

I saw an incredible video about a drone motor factory in China that made me think the days of China being behind technologically must surely come to an end, and sooner than we think.

Is that inflation adjusted?

However did men manage to create modern civilisation given their apparent frailties?

Networking (people!) and personal impact.

Part of the value of gold comes from the many industrial applications of the stuff.

Lovely work.