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by allegory 12y ago
Been driving into the city for 22 years, not as a cabbie but a frustrated commuter. There is no knowledge that can predict a system as complicated as London, as you will see by the number of taxis wedged in all the traffic jams. The utility
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by allegory 12y ago
The CC is not a big deal. If you travel in lots, you get a discount. If you don't, it's £11. Or in my case it's £0 because my car is exempt. There wasn't any congestion before it and to be honest it's worse now than
93.
by allegory 12y ago
Couple more to add, from a London regular: 4) London taxis are incredibly expensive in inefficient. I did a thorough comparison of them against train and car travel into the city considering the other 4 people in the car with me (I travel e
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by allegory 12y ago
You do realise that the clang part of llvm includes the Objective C compiler and it's under the BSD license as well?
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by allegory 12y ago
Tried that. No bookmarks appeared in iCloud...
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by allegory 12y ago
Yeah I would rent one for a bit first, preferably long enough to try and get water out of a diesel tank and empty the sewage tanks! You might enjoy it, but I certainly didn't. Also, literally everything went rusty. Even stainless steel
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by allegory 12y ago
No it's not. There's really not much difference in spec between the two devices other than the status points obtained. And it's about 1/4-1/3 of the cost. Edit - plus my experience: Possibly going aganist the grain
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by allegory 12y ago
Macintosh = nicked from Xerox, boxed up. iMac = TRS-80 Mac OS X = FreeBSD munged with NeXT. The iPod = Diamond Rio Original iPhone = every damn windows mobile phone for at least 5 years before hand. The innovation was the style, the marketi
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by allegory 12y ago
What I want to know, having a contactless card, is what do you do when the machine isn't working. You can't swipe it or use the chip in this case. Then you're screwed. If you have to carry the card anyway to get around this,
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by allegory 12y ago
Firstly, this is not a troll. I really shouldn't have to start with that comment. I'm actually rather more excited about the Lumia 730. Value for money, not status is a killer feature for me.
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by allegory 12y ago
I was doing it in Leyton/Woodford in East London so borderline city/suburbs. I'd do it again, 100% of the time but the three children, wife, mortgage and inevitable responsibilities that come with these things make it difficu
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by allegory 12y ago
As someone else who lived like this for a few months (except out of the back of a much smaller Land Rover Series III), pissing is done in hedges (and the odd beer can), shitting in public toilets or food restaurants and cooking on a gas bot
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by allegory 12y ago
It's the chains of being responsible for the security :-) Integration between various companies, nothing more. We're a hub.
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by allegory 12y ago
Everything is only a compromise or two away from being revealed. It may be one compromise away and we don't know it (yet). Cat and mouse my friend, that is all. There are no passwords - we use our own CA system, PKI, carefully selected
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by allegory 12y ago
Exactly this. Business is not about providing optimum security - this is financially impossible unless you have a black ops size budget. It's about protecting one's ass as best as possible and having mitigation in place for anythi
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by allegory 12y ago
We don't encrypt it. We don't send it anywhere. You have to come to us to read it.
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by allegory 12y ago
And this is why us financial people have our own secure messaging services that don't touch email systems other than for notification...
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by allegory 12y ago
Hospital doors are used a lot. Automatic doors tend to break or fail unsafe, have limited fire protection and are expensive to maintain. My brother-in-law sells doors to hospitals by a wonderful coincidence. Heard so much about the damn thi
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by allegory 12y ago
Just because you don't get a vote doesn't mean they bundle you in with the voting statistics. That and public opinion are separate.
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by allegory 12y ago
Some notes on this (from experience): This is because the non-YouGov polls are quite slow to aggregate data. For example Ipsos Mori is mainly scheduled physical panels and not online (some of it is still paper collection!?!) so any shift in
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by allegory 12y ago
I'm not sure what they would use myself but based on the prequel questions they ask people plus some heuristics they can determine roughly were you sit within the populous on a number of aspects between age, class, income, location and
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by allegory 12y ago
Actually no. The yes campaign gets people to sign up but it doesn't mean they will be surveyed. It's invitation only i.e. you sign up and wait until you are invited based on your personal information. They are gated polls. Also ba
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by allegory 12y ago
YouGov allows everyone to register but selects panels based on approximate population distribution rather than surveying everyone. Disclaimer: used to work in that sector.
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by allegory 12y ago
No. I actually went through the book "Mathematics, from the birth of Numbers" by Jan Gullberg (and Mathemtics for the practical man) and extracted material and wrote my own course. This was all done before betterexplained was brou
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by allegory 12y ago
I'll read this today in detail and reply later. I've read similar studies before (I'm on the chair of governers for a school) and will approach with an open mind.
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by allegory 12y ago
Yes I do indeed like that site and have purchased the ebook already! I have actually self-taught my oldest two their entire mathematical knowledge outside of school (bar that, physics and software engineering, I know little else) and they&#
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by allegory 12y ago
I really don't like commenting on these threads but I had to bite here. I call bullshit on this. 18 months of maths is a completely vacuous measure of anything and this is pandering to teachers getting even more lazy and dependent on t
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by allegory 12y ago
They do indeed file a SAR and it doesn't matter if it's a property sale and you have legal documents. I do somewhat regret not splitting it into £10k slabs and putting them in deposit boxes but I needed the cash for another house!
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by allegory 12y ago
It was £306000!
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by allegory 12y ago
It's pretty normal. No surprise. You weigh the cash with kitchen scales and check it's not paper blanks. That's about it. You have already exchanged contact details and IDs etc so it's all above board plus there is a sol

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