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March 7, 2017 by yorksranter 0 comments

Future populism post, delivered

That populism post has been delivered!

April 1, 2015 by yorksranter 7 comments

AFOE post, and that #businessletter

So I done an economics over at the Fistful, swinging off a a data at JW Mason’s. Meanwhile, is there anyone in this list who isn’t an embarrassment? Some journo should obviously ring them all up and ask if they will confirm they are domiciled in the UK for tax purposes, but to be honest,…

November 23, 2014 by yorksranter 12 comments

Progressive as in “progressively reducing benefits for the poorest”

This piece about Catalan #indyref crystallises everything I hate about what I call Euro-nationalism. It’s wonderful that they’re all so engaged: Kilted men wearing saltire capes and foam fingers on both hands danced in the aisles as “The Red Hot Chilli Pipers” played a bagpipe version of Don’t Stop Believing. Sorry. That was the other…

April 15, 2012 by yorksranter 0 comments

Shameless self promotion

Over at Fistful of Euros, my review of Daniel Kahneman’s Thinking, Fast and Slow. Coming up here, far from the eurocratic business-class lounge of AFOE, my action-oriented Kahneman for Thugs post, at least when I get away from debugging Project Lobster scripts. Am I on crack, or does ScraperWiki’s datastore do an implicit cast to…

November 15, 2009 by yorksranter 0 comments

we flippin’ murdered them

Peter Beaumont goes for a Holt’s battlefield tour of southern Lebanon: Cruising through the serene green wadis that connect south Lebanon to the Litani river to the north, the commander explains what happened at the end of the last war. “We knocked out three of their tanks on the first day, as they tried to…

December 10, 2006 by yorksranter 1 comment

For Dawkins’ sake…

Get your idle legs over to the Weblog Awards and vote for Fistful. Exercise your democratic rights here. We’re losing to some random bunch of Dutchmen, but you can help us finish ahead of the demented thrappers of Brussels Journal. As usual with blog awards, it’s stuffed with the overrated and the clichéd. There was…

‘Free and impartial’ addiction helplines paid secret commission by rehabs | Drugs | The Guardian
They were calling up our finance department and demanding early payment. They’d want their commission for the whole length of stay upfront, even though people might drop out and want refunds,” he said. “And we were getting all these emails from the brokers with names of people, saying: ‘If this person writes to you, they […]
Let it go - by Tom Hamilton - Dividing Lines
I would gently suggest to the Conservative Party that relitigating an issue that helped to prompt a huge shift in public opinion away from them, contributing a great deal to the downfall of an election-winning Prime Minister and an eventual landslide defeat, is not the best use of the time of a new leader who […]
Qualcomm claims trial win in dispute with Arm over chip design licences
Qualcomm said it was pleased with the verdict. The jury had “vindicated Qualcomm’s right to innovate” and confirmed the products at issue in the case were protected by its existing contract with Arm, it said. Arm said would seek a retrial based on the fact that the jury was “unable to reach consensus across the […]
Foxconn quashes delay rumors: GB200 NVL72 server shipments set for 4Q24
industry sources confirm that Foxconn Technology (Hon Hai) is maintaining its original schedule. Initial shipments are set to begin in December 2024 as planned // well they've not got long
Emmanuel Macron, une certaine idée du pouvoir
Full of quotes and petites phrases but in the end it's court gossip
Arm says it’s losing $50M a year in revenue from Qualcomm’s Snapdragon X Elite SoCs - Ars Technica
That $50 million in alleged missing revenue looks like a relatively small amount to be fighting over, given that these are both billion-dollar companies—Arm made $3.23 billion in revenue in fiscal 2024, while Qualcomm earned $39 billion in revenue. It also seems counterproductive for Arm to disrupt the business of one of its largest and […]
Former MI5 chief to lead search for new Archbishop of Canterbury
It is understood that no candidate will be able to apply for the role. Instead, they will be “invited” into the recruitment process if their name comes up for consideration.
SeekTruthFromFacts on X: "@CofESurvivor @churchofengland I totally agree that there is a massive old-school-tie/old-university-pal problem in the Church of England. But Oxford and Cambridge have Anglican chapels and chaplains that serve undergrads. Many f
Every ABC (bar Carey who was Durham) has been an oxbridge graduate for hundreds of years.
HS2 boss blames failure to control costs on rush to start work | HS2 | The Guardian
“We have to acknowledge that HS2 in its core mission to control costs has failed,” he said. “We must break the cycle.” // kind of illuminating that the core mission is not to e.g. build a railway.
Légion d’honneur, mode d’emploi
Avec l’âge vient la course aux honneurs. Cela traduit aussi la peur d’être oublié