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"Continuous effort - not strength or intelligence - is the key to unlocking our potential." - Sir Winston Churchill
US bank Morgan Stanley estimates that the energy needed only for mining Bitcoin will represent some 0.6% of the world energy consumption in 2018.
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Harvard has announced that Hillary Clinton will receive a medal for "transformative impact on society". But there is only one society she truly transformed. Libya--from the most developed society in Africa, into a smoking, ISIS-infested ruin
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Look at your phone as tool not an obligation. Would you walk around with a hammer in your pocket? You would pick up a hammer when you needed it you would never be addicted or obligated to it. Use your phone like a hammer only pick it up when you need it.
Kristian Niemietz wants a hard border in Ireland @K_Niemietz
"You say you want socialism. You're probably too young to remember this, but Britain HAD socialism in the 2020s, under PM Corbyn. It led to the Great British Famine of 2029, and forced labour camps in..." -"Oh COME on! Corbynism wasn't socialism!" A dialogue in 2067.
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Retweeted FT Westminster
Lots of hype about what AI might do. In reality, EU rules on data that come into force this week inhibit the application of data tech - indeed, they inhibit even basic 1980s-style direct mail tech.
Joe Saunders:
When the lefty British newspaper The Guardian published an article earlier this month touting the role of British intelligence agencies in fomenting suspicions that the Donald Trump campaign had been aided by Russia, The Guardian editors were no doubt hoping to feed Americans doubts about the duly elected president.
But a writer for the conservative magazine American Spectator had an entirely different take on it — and argued it points the finger back at the kind of “Deep State” obstruction to the Trump administration that Trump supporters have been warning about since before Trump’s inauguration.
In an April 19 piece, Spectator writer George Neumayr wrote that The Guardian had unintentionally provided proof that former CIA Director John Brennan was using any weapon that came to hand to try to ensure the election of Hillary Clinton in 2016 — and keep his own job.
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Lots of hype about what AI might do. In reality, EU rules on data that come into force this week inhibit the application of data tech - indeed, they inhibit even basic 1980s-style direct mail tech.
Joe Saunders:
When the lefty British newspaper The Guardian published an article earlier this month touting the role of British intelligence agencies in fomenting suspicions that the Donald Trump campaign had been aided by Russia, The Guardian editors were no doubt hoping to feed Americans doubts about the duly elected president.
But a writer for the conservative magazine American Spectator had an entirely different take on it — and argued it points the finger back at the kind of “Deep State” obstruction to the Trump administration that Trump supporters have been warning about since before Trump’s inauguration.
In an April 19 piece, Spectator writer George Neumayr wrote that The Guardian had unintentionally provided proof that former CIA Director John Brennan was using any weapon that came to hand to try to ensure the election of Hillary Clinton in 2016 — and keep his own job.
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“In 100 years we have gone from teaching Latin and Greek in high school to teaching Remedial English in college.”
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