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by desas 8y ago
There are other free text to speech APIs.
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by desas 8y ago
It's not that they're making so much money, it's that they're making so much money and not contributing anything back. It's not just tech giants, Starbucks is another corporation that is often targeted for its tax p
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by desas 8y ago
I live near the Peak District National Park in the UK. It pulls 13 million people per year and is 550 square miles, which is much much smaller than Joshua Tree National Park
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by desas 8y ago
They should surpass us, they're stood on our shoulders after all.
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by desas 8y ago
We have the same thing in actual England, our rail system was the first and now we have to live with tunnels and bridges not high enough for double decker trains. Most of our railways are limited to 125mph due to lack of in-cab signalling r
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by desas 8y ago
In the UK I've never seen a rear loaded fridge, you always stock from the front.
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by desas 8y ago
You're talking to the guy who wrote crash bandicoot
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by desas 8y ago
Pretty sure opera had both tabs and a somewhat recognised brand before Firefox had either.
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by desas 8y ago
A huge disruption? It's managed without a fuss when traveling between the UK and the rest of the EU.
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by desas 8y ago
> My bicycle doesn't have nearly as many air bags as a typical car. yet statistically per-passenger-mile you're more likely to get a head injury while in a car than on a bike.
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by desas 8y ago
Pay zero on it now. You'll be paying on it when you withdraw
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by desas 8y ago
Probably have to offset that with the reduction of cost to the NHS of pollution related illnesses. Outside of TfL and absent a "diesel scrappage scheme" the cost would be born by primarily by private individuals anyway.
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by desas 8y ago
That doesn't have to be in money raised, that would be rather unlikely in this case. It could be percentage of problems "fixed" whether that be by sharply worded letter or by court proceedings (the former is far easier and ch
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by desas 8y ago
Depends on your system. We have an automated process that produces a PDF, which a human will then go through and redact so we're not leaking through the non-relevent PII of other people if one of our users isnt using the system quite
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by desas 8y ago
I work in recruitment within the EU and you are completely wrong. Probably you can redact it so that it doesn't include the actual names of which interview panellist said what.
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by desas 8y ago
> we now pay fees to all sorts of data protection authorities What fees? In the UK you have to register with the authority (as UK companies did before) and that fee had a max of £2900 per year for companies with a turnover greater than £
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by desas 8y ago
Remembering a unique one for every site is hard.
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by desas 8y ago
The price for electricity rarely prices in negative externalities like increased pollution.
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by desas 8y ago
Many suburbs (and inner city London local authorities) have stymied Transport for London efforts to introduce cycle infrastructure. Hardly fair to sneer at cherry picking
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by desas 8y ago
If you increase capacity then drivers will use that capacity.
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by desas 8y ago
S&P500 90 year average is 9.8%. people FIREing typically have nearly all their money invested in low cost index funds.
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by desas 8y ago
Well they planned on location arbitrage, non-employer health insurance makes the US pretty expensive.
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by desas 8y ago
The gdpr only applies to EU residents. People here on tourist visas are visitors not residents.
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by desas 9y ago
There are plain english guidelines available for the GDPR, in the UK they are published by the ICO which is the government agency tasked with enforcing the law. I'm sure there are edge cases which aren't fully documented but as lo
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by desas 9y ago
It's the law in the UK (and presumably similar in the rest of the EU). Every conviction must be declared for a small number of years if asked. After that period it must only be declared if you're applying for a sensitive job (e.g.
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by desas 9y ago
Facebook and Google have many subsidiary companies based in the EU
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by desas 9y ago
We're implementing the gdpr. It comes into force at the end of may, before we leave the EU. Our information commissioner is very keen on the legislation.
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by desas 9y ago
There's a big ugly gas power station on the north coast of Crete on the edge of Heraklion. I stayed in the hotel next door :-/. There's quite a lot of solar on hotel and house roofs too. From memory they were planning to hav
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by desas 9y ago
Sort of. The civil service has lots of people with their own agenda which they push to the elected politicians when they ask the civil service for options on how to solve problems
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by desas 9y ago
Isn't this how virtually all insurance companies work? I'm sure I read that in relation to Berkshire Hathaway once.

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