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Most Scots and Cymry do not identify as British, and do not like it when you refer to them as British. I'm Scots, not British. Roughly 50% of us support independence from the UK.

He is wrong. Everything is tech now. And other things are the value add. For example, if you are a law firm, or a real estate company, and if your tech is not operating then your c…

Nice, an appeal to a false equivalence. The conservative obstructionist and scorched earth tactics are obscene.

No, proponents of the capital punishment attempt to create process that attempts to mitigate complaints made by abolishionists. Nice attempt at shifting the goalposts and shifting …

Absolutely not true. There are many lawyers that will take cases on a "no win, no fee" basis. Clearly Stripe was in breach in this circumstance, and courts look dimly on that kind …

It is an infusion, not "tea," unless it has leaves from camellia sinensis, the actual tea plant. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camellia_sinensis

Remember that the human genome project was started in in 1990, completed in 2003. In 2003 it took a year to sequence 80% of the human genome, now it takes a day to do 98%. In 1990 …

300 MJ is about 83 KWh. In the UK is 1 KWh is £0.34 So, this costs £28 in electricity to run this experiment. The experiment is a momentary thing. Clearly there is now some work to…

I'm not sure what your experience is, but mine is over multiple decades over multiple companies over multiple continents, and in general, corporate management, project management, …

Considering the EU has their own Mastodon service, I suspect yes. https://social.network.europa.eu/about

It would be great if Google stopped making nasty Urls with the nasty "Scroll To Text Fragment" feature. It is the biggest tech retrograde since MS started putting UUIDs in to their…

The Windows Registry is a pretty good key-value store for centrally storing config. Because some, perhaps many, have abused the originally good idea, does not invalidate its positi…

The Facebook app is a worse app than it was before it introduced "Stories" which is a terribly irritating feature. Also, auto play of video and sometimes audio also makes it a horr…

Canada is not a train culture.

Knife crime statistics include "stop and search" where orinary working people have boxcutters, Leatherman multitools, and Swissarmy knives taken off them. POC and young people are …

>> BT FTTH doesn't suffer from congestion issues (nor does the FTTC). That is just not true. BT consumer FTTC is contended up to 40 to 1--that is you are sharing your backhaul with…

>> career growth Sorry, I don't buy in the fetishisation of that and being instantly available. If someone needs to get in touch with me, then they will.

>> London Yip, things in London are quite different than the rest of the UK. While Openreach has to allow access to other providers to its infrastructure, most infrastructure is ow…

No, Canadians do not see Crown Land as owned by the Canadian Monarchy, they see Crown Land and owned and controlled by the government as a public asset. Canadians see the Canadian …

Federal Crown Land is almost exclusively in the northern territories. Resource administration is a constitutional power that provinces administrator. The area in white in the below…

>> Crown land is owned by the Canadian Crown; the monarchy owns all crown land officially. It's administered by a split across federal and provincial jurisdictions. No, Crown Land …

Yes, HBC has a Royal Charter from King Charles II which granted HBC exclusive economic activity in the lands that drained into Hudson Bay. HBC lands were surrendered to the British…

National Parks are not Crown Land. National Parks are reserves of land owned and managed by the Federal Parks Department and development is not allowed on that land whatsoever. Cro…

No. "Crown Land" in Canada is owned by the provinces. There is no such thing as a "British Crown Corporation." Crown Corporations are a Canadian thing. I lived in Canada for 30 yea…

Just wait until you hear about the UK. BT/Openreach has control of about 80% of the backhaul/trunk connectivity.