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by desas 5y ago
Only something like 15-20% of Brits actually have to do a tax return in the first place. I did mine for the first time this year, and it was surprisingly easy.
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by desas 5y ago
> There is no significant tax pool coming from cyclists to build or maintain said infrastructure. Don't they pay income tax? I think I read that most of the cost of roads in the USA is raised from income tax and sales tax. > I fo
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by desas 5y ago
If they're actually legitimate they don't need to ask for consent, they are two separate lawful basis for processing data.
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by desas 5y ago
He was a founder of xamarin which sold to Microsoft for $400+ million five years ago.
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by desas 5y ago
Yes, but it is below the horizon when it's in the north and most rooms don't have 360 degree windows.
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by desas 5y ago
Most bike activists don't have an unspoken strategy of slowing people down. They want to be able to use their bike to get places safely and quickly and they want others to feel able to do that too. It doesn't make sense to create
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by desas 5y ago
Isn't there two things going on here? A single sign on service, and also an identity check. A yubico device can say "I'm still the same security key that was enrolled" but it doesn't say at enrolment "I am bein
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by desas 5y ago
The people who opt out get a smart card. The pitch will be something like smart cards can be lost or stolen, faces can't.
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by desas 5y ago
The school is in the UK, and Scotland at that - barely anyone has health insurance. The system uses face recognition for interactions at the till, when paying for food, the likelihood of it filming usable footage of the dining hall that wil
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by desas 5y ago
Golf you say? javascript:l=location;l.href="//scribe.rip"+l.pathname;
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by desas 5y ago
Nope. I'm not sure that growth hacking was even a term then. It refers to hacking as in messing about with technology to do exciting, fun, unexpected or novel things
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by desas 5y ago
In the UK 80% of the population don't even have to sign anything and send it back. The rest have some employment income information on a website and have to supply the rest of the data, I found it pretty straight forward when I did it
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by desas 5y ago
Uber is mostly made of drivers, yet is considered a tech company. (I'm aware drivers are not technically employees). Maybe it's more to do with the strategy of the company.
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by desas 5y ago
Ordnance survey maps are a different kettle of fish altogether. The UK has a completely different scale of geography though. It takes 403 maps to cover the UK, what would it take for the US at ordnance survey detail?
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by desas 5y ago
Yeah intentionally so. https://pizzey.me/posts/no-i-didnt-try-to-break-companies-ho...
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by desas 5y ago
Lots of people in the UK can't charge at home. Many people live in terraced houses and can't always park on their own street never mind outside their house. In the evening this road will be full, bumper to bumper. There are many s
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by desas 5y ago
You let your web browser use your whole screen width?
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by desas 5y ago
The piraha language is probably the most famous non-counting language. They appear to recognise - https://slate.com/human-interest/2013/10/piraha-cognitive-an...
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by desas 5y ago
I work on an NHS focused web app, if it's pockets they're pretty deep ones.
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by desas 5y ago
Yes, that'll pay about £7000 pa, depending on payments in and other wealth. 70 sheep will probably attract a farming subsidy too
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by desas 5y ago
We modified our code base to give us nested transactions using postgres savepoints, came in handy for automatically wrapping tests in transactions too (though you can opt-out per test)
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by desas 6y ago
It's another layer, you don't have to use it. If you pretend schemas don't exist you basically never know they do, unless you go looking for complexity in the postgres bowels.
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by desas 6y ago
Public sector jobs often have an explicit "London weighting" (or HCAS), it's set at 20% of salary up to a cap of about £7k, and decreases the further you get from central London. Some private sector firms do similar apparentl
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by desas 6y ago
Bridgerton at least was written by an American novelist and then made into a TV show by an American director / writer / producer team for an American media company.
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by desas 6y ago
Just because a house is detached and private doesn't mean it's big. The UK average house size is 76 m2 while the US is about 200 m2
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by desas 6y ago
It pushes HMG towards executing better or changing priorities. That and it raises the their personal and party profile while highlighting the opposition doing poorly. I'd argue that UK politics don't tend to be won on ideas but ma
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by desas 6y ago
I don't think that the point is that HMG haven't thought of "planning" and "not leaving business out in the cold". I think the point is that HMG's execution hasn't been very good.
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by desas 6y ago
It depends upon your environment, it wasn't clear to many people. I thought that proprietary unix was doomed when I started an internship at a bank's IT ops department in 2005. The seasoned Solaris admins I worked with had commiss
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by desas 6y ago
Decades of uk politicians letting the EU take the fall in the tabloids and little of the credit.
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by desas 6y ago
Best case: there's a lot of legal kerfuffle and he is a multi-billionaire Worst case: there's a lot of legal kerfuffle and he is a multi-billionaire

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