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I live in UK. The Guardian is as left as it gets unless there are some underground communist papers I don't know about.


If you're looking for a daily paper well to the left of The Guardian, can I interest you in the Morning Star? Available from your local newsagent, owned by a co-operative closely linked to the Communist Party of Great Britain. No need to go underground!

More seriously, The Guardian is a (social) liberal newspaper. It's politics are generally those of the 1980s Social Democratic Party, not the left of the Labour party. It's biases are metropolitan, if anything.

That there is no quality paper to their left is mainly because the British newspaper market is already crowded so it's commercially difficult. It doesn't mean that The Guardian can be reasonably labelled as extreme.


The Mirror could be described as further left than the Guardian lately.

The past few years especially has seen a shift in the Guardian's position well to the right to the point where even calling it centrist is probably not correct. This is likely a consequence of falling sales and reliance on advertisers - you'll see a large number of sponsored articles on it these days for example.


Pragmatic handover of released code and DB to a less technical CRUD team. Avoiding unproven non-anecdotically solutions like EventStore yet still shipping quickly. Avoiding becoming an F#/Scala snob or a JavaScript monkey.


Well it's pretty proven, it's just also likely overkill for what you need. Use it in your personal hobby projects so that you know the costs, and benefits. That way you don't blindly apply it where it doesn't fit (which admittedly will be most places).


What if you vote for someone willing to pardon long-overstaying illegal aliens?


NASA? It's maintained by Russia.


No. The vast majority of Station is the USOS, the US side. Station overall control is handled by NASA.


Control in what sense? Paperwork? Only the Russian segment has any engines that could change ISS's orbital position.


Control as in day to day operations. Who organizes visiting vehicle ops, consumables, etc.

Those Russian engines are only used occasionally. Mostly, Station relies on US-side control moment gyros for attitude control. Also, the huge solar arrays (USOS, again) act as controllable aerosurfaces. In a pinch, you could actually use the solar arrays alone for desaturating the gyros. Until Shuttle retirement in 2012, Shuttle was also used for reboosting Station. It's possible for other visiting vehicles (ATV, HTV, Cygnus, Dragon, Proton, Soyuz, Starliner, Dream Chaser) to reboost as well. Mostly Proton does the reboosting, but that's just an operational decision.

Something like 75-80% of the mass of Station is USOS. Something like 80-90% of the power as well. Zarya, a Russian-built module that was the first part of ISS and which contains propulsion systems (Ukrainian-developed control systems), was actually bought and is owned by the US.


I guess it's good when a team member doesn't mess up team's effort.


So... Communism? 100$ shirts? Sweatshops? Ludditism? Also there is no free market anymore - have you seen all the punitive economic sanctions recently.


As if anyone tried it at meaningful scale using manageable tools.


Well if you will not engineer geniuses you will eliminate them. Will mutations and thus good/bad outliers still be present?


Well either abortion is unethical or embryo research is ethical.


Devils advocate: Abortion can be ethical and embryo research can be unethical, since there are additional ethical concerns. There's no consent, if you believe an embryo is alive. Also the embryo is being kept alive artificially, which may be seen as cruel.

Also it's possible to oppose both abortion and embryo research.


tl;dr: the author is a writer not a coder/artist.


Let's see if those stores will become even more useless. Maybe they will start selling healing crystals?


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