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37% of the voting population voted for Brexit, it wasn't anywhere near a majority.

> all we got in the UK was the BBC Micro, way back in the early 1980s, and since then tech has been culturally uncool. Off the top of my head, ARM is from Cambridge.

People send their private photos to their private cloud backups with the reasonable expectation that those photos remain private and therefore not a privacy violation. If it transp…

The kettle was boiling water. The chef was out the back, boiling water. The chef was out the back. Boiling water had spilled everywhere. The seas had turned to boiling water. I dun…

Speeding is a criminal offence, lying about who was driving is punishable by prison.

"Share" is a big ask. Why should anyone be bothered to listen to something you couldn't even be bothered to write?

Art is all over the natural world, look at animals which build nests, arrange pebbles, choose shells etc.

He gets it on the healthcare like all developed nations.

There's a lot of people complaining "Why use knobs?" and a lot more people giving the reason "Because DAWs use them" without explaining why DAWs use them. First, it's a visual repr…

Where's all this wealth going to come from if nobody has any jobs?

If you're a morning person and you're scheduling meetings for the morning you're literally wasting your period of productivity.

While physical media feels more valuable because you can hold it, share it with people etc, I'd suggest you didn't pay $3.99 for the video at Blockbuster, you paid for the event of…

Lapland new forest 2008? https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-dorset-11842396

I consider a "bug" to be "it was supposed to do something and failed". Issues around business logic are not failures of the system, the system worked to spec, the spec was not comp…

There's entire studies on it, I saw a lecture by some English professor who explained how the brain isn't fast enough to parse words in real time, so runs multiple predictions of w…

Haha, does it involve timers?

It's pretty simple if your goal is using boring, stable technologies. Django/Postgres/Memcached/Redis/Nginx are all really stable. I've built quite a few projects using almost exac…

Why should the parent's deny the child a smartphone because Tik Tok has terrible data use policies? You can also use Tik Tok on a laptop, but schoolwork is all online, what's the p…

Stick a nail in

I remember doing the authorisation by phoning up a Streamline who would give you an authorisation code to put on the credit card form. I worked for Electronics Boutique and we coul…

Yes, but they were moving from enterprise JAVA which is considerably more verbose

You were born in London and say "gotten"?

Because as soon as you tilt from producing features to fixing bugs, you are losing traction and your competitors will win and now you are bankrupt. I've seen entire businesses coll…

Phone OS do most definitely have emergency services features allowing you to bypass normal OS functionality, yes. Similarly, if you want to own the worlds information, you have cer…

> Isn't that only for age 13 and over If your child has their own tablet set to their age, sure, but I know plenty of people who just let the kids use Mom's iPad