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The GDPR was implemented in UK law by the Data Protection Act 2018 https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2018/12/contents Which is still in force

> In the 2019 fiscal year, LinkedIn brought in $6.8 billion worth of revenue $272m isn't small change for each infringement, and there's millions of them here [0] https://www.busin…

If it's stored in a reversable fashion, it means somebody can pretend to be me, therefore auditing is meaningless.

I talk transatlantic and further a lot on t'phone, no real issue

What latency? 100ms is fine for pretty much every internet use there is.

What happens when your 1G FTTP is plugged into a 48 port switch with a 10G uplink and you're throttled to 200M?

> In the US, patients should go to urgent care for minor health issues that are unlikely to require a fully outfitted trauma and surgical unit Just looked up the one near to my hot…

"Not just the 4th and 17th character - the whole thing" If any company asks for the 4th character of your password, that means they are storing your password in a reversible fashio…

Wasn't a joke. I went to the US on business - our corporate insurance means there's a $1000 excess that we pay up front. Went to a hospital for a minor issue. At no point was there…

Good job it wasn't in america, she'd have woken up, seen the bill, and had another heart attack!

One thing that really harms the utility of cameras is face coverings. Over the last 20 years the two most prolific face coverings in the UK have been attacked in society - Hoodies …

> Massive campaign contributions is not as common in Europe Also far more complex - the political groupings in europe (EPP, ALDE, etc) are far looser organizations than the US part…

Cover every roof in Austrailia with a solar panel and you're pretty much set. No extra land use needed. https://www.pv-magazine-australia.com/2019/06/13/australia-c...

Carmichael coal mine is planned to be 447 square km [0], over half being "surface disturbance area" Insolation at that location is about 2.1MWh per square metre per year, or 2100GW…

1sqkm is 300GWh a year at 20% A patch of land 20 miles by 20 miles generates enough electricity for the entire Aus requirements. That’s an order of magnitude less than area taken b…

We seem on track to avoid the jump to the left in the UK, alas we've already stepped to the right several times

My understanding (mainly from Star Trek) is that most of the fun of baseball is the stats.

The onus is on TFL to vet the drivers. Uber lost the license because they were 'not fit or proper', nothing to do with vetting, seemingly because of a feature of the website that s…

What difference in vetting is there between Black Cab drivers and Minicab drivers in London? What difference in vehicle maintenence? The vetting process may be flawed, but it's fla…

gnumeric is great for simple tabulated data as far as simple charts etc, but the advanced features that spreadsheet lovers use aren't available.

Private hire drivers are vetted, and their cars have to undergo enhanced MOTs

> I know this opinion is not popular but I'm so happy everytime I see bad news for Uber and all these companies that only exist thanks to basically exploiting THEIR workers. Yes co…

Rising nationalism in the 20s and 30s eventually leading to major armed conflict from 39 onwards.

I think it's an important take away for product owners - if people chose your product because it 'just works', they aren't going to be happy when you change it so it doesn't 'just …

Tech has always been terrible. What was unusual about the iPhone was it just worked.