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by PJDK 6y ago
There are several thousand in london already, embedded in lampposts so you might have missed them. Here's one within 100 meters of my very run of the mill flat https://www.google.com/maps/@51.4689844,-0.1013741,3a,
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by PJDK 6y ago
Electric vehicles solve several problems at once though. They don't emit any of the other unpleasant gases, particularly NO2. And they massively reduce other particulates (no clutch, regenerative brakes). Plus, having that much batte
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by PJDK 6y ago
As of this year you can get an a lease on an electric company car with a benefit in kind tax rate of 0%. i.e You don't have to pay income tax on the lease[0]. That can make an enormous difference to their affordability, and should also
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by PJDK 6y ago
I recently got a Tesla while living in London with no off street parking. I had the same basic concerns, and only went ahead because I knew I'd be moving somewhere with off street parking within a few months. But it actually turned ou
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by PJDK 6y ago
Am I missing something as to why anyone finds this outrageous? My understanding of the "wrongness" of insider trading is using privileged information to make profit and thus "stealing" from other investors - at least tha
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by PJDK 6y ago
Reading through it seems like people are misinterpreting this. By my reading the car has an anti-theft device that was triggered by the installation of seats. There is a remote system to override the anti-theft device, but that doesn'
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by PJDK 6y ago
Can anyone with more of a background in central banking describe what this means in more concrete terms (or explain that this is fluff). The best I can find for what this means is in the PDF "In this report, the term digital euro deno
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by PJDK 6y ago
That looks pretty straight forward unless you have trouble understanding there are 4 different governments policies presented. England's policy is "you can't be in groups bigger than 6, stay 1m or more apart".
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by PJDK 6y ago
I'm sure that's annoying, but given the nature of what is being discussed it's hard to come up with a scenario where that has a serious impact on the observation of justice. Not least because if the live feed goes down at th
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by PJDK 6y ago
A totally fair point, Uber needs to be held to account for their systemic failings. That doesn't mean that an employee being clearly negligent doesn't also need to be held accountable. Them being held accountable is one part of a
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by PJDK 6y ago
According to the quote in the tweet itself the proceedings are accessible to them and all other members of the media over a live link. Amnesty really needs to explain why this is not adequate, and if it genuinely is not adequate why the des
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by PJDK 6y ago
But holding individuals accountable for their actions. A better system would have spotted this person was watching their phone not the road, but it would still have held them accountable and (at minimum) fired them!
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by PJDK 6y ago
I think in this case politically motivated would mean something more like "Assange is a journalist sympathetic towards Biden so we're trying to get him for tax fraud". In this case it's "Assange is working for Russi
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by PJDK 6y ago
This tactic only really works during peace time. The main strategy relies on the fact that the US (or whoever) isn't willing to shoot on sight. The swarm might well be able to get a good shot or two in but that would be the end of it.
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by PJDK 6y ago
Perhaps France - Germany is a better analogy. The point being that events from nearly 70 years ago don't need to automatically taint relationships.
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by PJDK 6y ago
It wasn't very many years earlier that Germany waged total war against the US but a grudge hasn't held out there...
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by PJDK 6y ago
Not a lawyer - but the act of putting something on the street doesn't make you stop owning it. If you leave a bike unlocked and someone takes it they still stole it, even if you were unwise not to lock it up.
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by PJDK 6y ago
No - but you are fly tipping. You could arrange for them to come to your property and go through all your bins if you wanted to...
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by PJDK 6y ago
To my mind there are two types of ethics around being a software engineer. The first is just normal ethics, and it applies equally to everyone else - am I working towards something I think is ethical? For this reason someone might choose
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by PJDK 6y ago
If you ever need to do any bike repair's the late Sheldon Brown's website is a godsend. Looks like someone is still updating it too! https://www.sheldonbrown.com/
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by PJDK 6y ago
Seems from this thread that they don't seem to work for everyone. But a friend of mine is Red/Green colour blind and recently got a pair. We went for a walk in the countryside and he was still (a couple of weeks later) excitedly p
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by PJDK 6y ago
He managed to extort his way into the national press - but I don't see why he should continue to be rewarded for his crimes. These ideas might be worth exploring further but there's no need to explore his version of them. Conside
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by PJDK 6y ago
Not the OP - but to my mind this is missing the point. It would be totally unfair to criticise a piece of anarcho primitivist writing by saying "I'm not reading this, this is what Ted Kaczynski believed". But Kaczynski murder
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by PJDK 6y ago
I assume you were being rhetorical - but it definitely still happens. Radiohead's website redesign being the last one I personally experienced earlier this year https://www.radiohead.com/library/#ir (mostly shari
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by PJDK 6y ago
That's got to be one of the most useful skills you picked up in school though!?
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by PJDK 6y ago
To be fair - we asked to go to the library because that's where the crappy old machines lived. Excuse me while I go down memory lane... I think when I started (1995) it was a computer room with some 486s and the library with 186s. The
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by PJDK 6y ago
In 1997 I was doing IT classes in secondary school. One of our preferred ways to bunk of class was to ask if we could "write up our reports in the library" on the RMNimbus 186s. 15 or so minutes for the computer to boot into som
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by PJDK 6y ago
Has anyone done any deep analysis of this kind of thing. Of those assaults, what impact did the police officer's gun have on the situation? You can imagine an example where the gun is an asset - for example if the officer encounters an
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by PJDK 6y ago
Just to extend on this - this is how it's done in the UK. Specifically in London the regular police are not armed. Armed police patrol the city in cars - if you're in the city you can identify these cars as they have a big yellow
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by PJDK 6y ago
Thanks! That's a really cool fact to start my Friday.

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