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This is another good case for security-by-minimisation. I struggle to see why NI numbers were required on the electoral register — particularly when democracy in the UK had been fu…

And indeed, there's an important caveat in the Django 4.1 docs; Note that, at this stage, the underlying database operations remain synchronous, with contributions ongoing to push …

Craig is a former ambassador to Uzbekistan, who served in the Foreign Office for many years. He's since dedicated a lot of his time to following and reporting on the Assange case i…

> By taking everything literal ("no, Bill Gates is not literally inserting microchips"), their enemies can avoid dealing with the issues a more charitable interpretation would be g…

Thank you for remdinding me of this fantastic book! One of my favourites.

I've been practicing kriya yoga and hatha yoga every day for the past half year. I usually do it as soon as I wake up, and it takes about an hour. It's quite intense work, but I'm …

Many thanks for posting this. It's a very well-written and timely piece.

Thanks for reminding me of this. A very pertinent and insightful observation and, as you suggest, one that is missing from the linked article.

I agree. And the more centralised the banking system is, the weirder the incentives become / banks are somewhat decoupled from the incentive to lend to credit-worthy / promising bu…

I think this article misses a valuable point: because they lend more than they keep in reserve, banks create money or credit, and thus expand the available money supply. Removing b…