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2016-09-01 (Thursday)

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Links

  1. Inside The Federal Bureau Of Way Too Many Guns | GQ

    How the non-computerised method of finding out who bought a particular gun, from its make and serial number, works in the US. Crazy.

  2. Income and inequality historical data explorer

    Graphing the data for successive UK governments.

Tweets

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    @holgate @migurski Yeah, they’re gone out of business, not been bought by a co and shut their service down. I’m strict!

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    @alexforey 👍

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    Go back to 2000 and convince these bloggers that in 2016 folk will post thoughts in tedious “storms” of 140 chars metafilter.com/1142/Now-this-…

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    @tomstuart I wish the U of Chicago issue wasn’t so: “You’re either a fascist or a left-wing, wimpy, PC nutcase.” Like all issues I guess.

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    @jamesjefferies Probably not. You’ll find me alone in a cave up a mountain.

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    @iamseb Yeah, the response makes it all worse.

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    I rarely use Amazon because of it, and now, for first time, seriously wondering if I should switch from Apple. Bet I won’t tho. Idiot.

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    @ocdtrekkie @alexkorban Thanks. These never stop being incredible. (I’ll post it a bit later)

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    Given I dislike Amazon, Starbucks etc for paying little tax, Apple’s response makes me feel rightly icky about spending so much with them.

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    @alexforey Looks good! You have been busy :) One suggestion - the video itself doesn’t have your name on it anywhere, unless I missed it?