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by adwww 7y ago
Technology alone isn't enough - you can't just switch ICE cars to EV cars and solve all transport and envrionmental problems. It needs to become normal (and desirable) to walk and cycle short journeys, and to take public transport
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by adwww 7y ago
It was also raised here in a recent article about the 10,000 year clock - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20161637
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by adwww 7y ago
They probably already had access to the files through their work in a studio or whatnot. Still a thief, but not by literally stealing a physical minidisk (most likely).
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by adwww 7y ago
They actually backed down from their original - misjudged - planned action of blocking the London Underground. I agree it seems a silly target, people doing the right thing, but I think their point was we cannot continue business as usual a
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by adwww 7y ago
how about trust your staff.
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by adwww 7y ago
I also worked in Ad Tech - outside of a major tech area, it was the biggest, fastest growing tech employer around. The pay was only average for the area, but the company clearly had money and was experiencing rapid growth which is always ex
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by adwww 7y ago
I recently Skype interviewed for a local startup run by a former Googler. He was very proud how much the interview process was based on Google's, with multiple stages to ensure they get the highest quality developers. The startup sound
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by adwww 7y ago
Not just American and Soviet (or Russian now) - just 10 years ago a French and British nuclear submarine crashed in the middle of the Atlantic. Both highly advanced, almost undetectable submarines, failed to detect each other. The odds of m
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by adwww 7y ago
Doesn't stop you leaving laundry, tools, bike parts, raw meat, or whatever else you think might put prospective tennants off all over the apartment.
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by adwww 7y ago
When I was last renting (in the UK) I changed my locks the day I moved in, then swapped them back to the original cylinders when I left. I thought it was pretty good practice not to have a door with an unknown number of previous tennants, c
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by adwww 7y ago
You could also make a subject access request under GDPR to see what data they have on you.
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by adwww 7y ago
For maybe 90% of UK employees you don't need to file any kind of tax return, your employer handles all that for you. If you do have some uncomplicated deductions (eg. you are a higher rate tax payer and have made large donations to cha
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by adwww 7y ago
In the UK everyone has a tax code that tells your employer how much tax you're paying. It doesn't tell the employer why you have that number, which could be for lots of reasons - eg. over / under paid in the past, working two
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by adwww 7y ago
I'd counter, especially relative to other contemporary newspapers, the Guardian's quality is consistently high.
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by adwww 7y ago
Honestly leaks are such a common part of the current UK government he is probably just suprised that THIS TIME people are taking it seriously.
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by adwww 7y ago
I'm depressed just thinking of the admin battle and stress you went through! I paid £2 a day for parking when my first child was born, requring an emergency c section and 4 days of intensive care. Hospital food was shit, but medical ca
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by adwww 8y ago
I advise against taking lessons on racism from the Daily Mail.
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by adwww 8y ago
Came here to say a similar story. After ~12 years of development, StackOverflow has gone from invaluable to irrelevant. These days my questions are either so niche nobody answers them, or like you, I get a tonne of abuse for asking in the w
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by adwww 8y ago
Shame the BBC Sounds app doesn't support casting though, instead telling people to just ask their smart speaker to play the BBC podcasts directly. I sympathise with their decision, but it doesn't seem a very joined up one.
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by adwww 8y ago
Airlines will all have their own long list of criteria to help decide which aircraft to buy. Removing common type will mean a few less points in a given airliners scoring system - it might tip the score to favour the Airbus for some, and fo
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by adwww 8y ago
^^ I just made the exact same comment, but this puts it clearer!
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by adwww 8y ago
I expect it makes switching to an Airbus model more compelling - if you're going to have to retrain your crew, you might as well get the plane you want, not just the one you think will be easiest to train for. I have no idea if the equ
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by adwww 8y ago
Mindgeek lobbied hard for this. They (owners of Pornhub etc) are the government's approved age verifiers, so are in theory now in charge of access to all the other porn sites.
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by adwww 8y ago
The private cars were also diesel in great numbers, and there were many more of them, carrying on average barely more than 1 person. You can't blame London's poor air on it having a congestion charge...
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by adwww 8y ago
Ha my children both did that in preschool (aged about 3) here in the UK. I don't think it would have been many children's first trip either, just a cheap morning's entertainment for the nursery...
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by adwww 8y ago
Why does this apply almost uniquely to programmers, and not other professions though? Aside from a handful of doctors giving up their holidays to work for MSF or similar overseas, nobody expects lawyers to do pro-bono work in their evenings
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by adwww 8y ago
Ah yeah I didn't mention employment which is clearly the biggest barrier at the moment to living outside urban areas, as I assumed the parent comment was suggesting remote working is what will enable moving away from big cities.
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by adwww 8y ago
To be fair, The Pentagon has repeatedly listed climate change as one of it's biggest threats for a number of years, but it's currently too politically touchy to do much about. One report in particular... > The 22-page assessmen
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by adwww 8y ago
Cornwall. I think the EU funded the fibre - they've had it for years. Massive leave voting area, of course.
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by adwww 8y ago
It's not happening though. My parents live in a beautiful part of the rural UK and have super-fast fibre to the premises internet, next day Amazon prime available, online food shopping from 4 or so supermarkets locally, etc. Basically

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