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721.
by lbriner 5y ago
JUst to correct my original comment, this example is actually the IEC, and is only around $100, and is not the ISO but I think the same argument stands!
722.
by lbriner 5y ago
100% agree! I am very angry that standards that were paid for by taxpayers around the world were then given by governments to the ISO who then charge for very minimal work done afterwards. For example, BS3939 was created by the UK Governmen
723.
by lbriner 5y ago
I think you raise an important point though about the safety of the environment. On some trains (mainly local), they can be no staff on at all apart from the driver. Even on larger express trains in the UK, you are likely to have 1 Train Ma
724.
by lbriner 5y ago
My experience is that in many scenarios, comments were an attempt to create sticky relationships when the comments themselves add very little. Take a news site, an article about, say, Trump becomming President. Comments are likely to range
725.
by lbriner 5y ago
I'm ashamed to admit to the number of times I am impressed by someone from a third-world country not only being resourceful but being able to create much more than I could from much less. I think of William Kamkwamba creating windmills
726.
by lbriner 5y ago
With these sorts of proposals, I don't understand why government funding would make much difference (other than cash can sometimes help a bit). How does it help to recruit specialists? How would it help them buy the manufacturing hardw
727.
by lbriner 5y ago
I would personally prefer you to fix the multitude of things that don't work well in Visual Studio and library issues that are continually pushed back as "won't fix" or "upgrade to .Net5/6" as opposed to a
728.
by lbriner 5y ago
Yeah, I don't agree with several of these "assumptions" and it def sounds like an engineer protesting that somehow their multiple experience is obviously a qualification for any job they think they can do. > Much of the
729.
by lbriner 5y ago
I wonder why a department with a large budget manages to make something so terrible but I think I know the answer. Every time I work with a bureaucracy, I realise there are a lot of people, many of whom are average at best but all want to m
730.
by lbriner 5y ago
Yes. I think we all know that interviews are not perfect so we won't be overly strict on anything. Do we think they will get on with others? As long as they are not a definite "no" then that's fine. Do they seem interest
731.
by lbriner 5y ago
We don't use coding tests in this way. We use coding tests as a screening process to ensure the candidate is in the correct ballpark. If we are recruiting a senior, we would expect them to easily complete basic technical tests. If they
732.
by lbriner 5y ago
Exactly. So many people complain about how bad interviews are but if you have ever had to risk $10Ks of money on a hire, especially since you might stop looking after employing someone, you employ the best things you can like whiteboard int
733.
by lbriner 5y ago
Maybe college is about learning stuff and having a roomie to challenge and help you. I doubt the powers that be are worried about you wanting a long-term relationship. Remember that people having sex while not married has only been acceptab
734.
by lbriner 5y ago
He doesn't talk about who is going to pay for everything. In a road with lots of private ownership, one person can improve their property but they can't force their neighbours to do it as well. The only likely method is the deep p
735.
by lbriner 5y ago
And let's not forget the elephant in the room. Money. How much would it cost to add, say, a cycle lane to an existing road 1km long if it required more than just painting the pavement? £100K? More? How many Kms would be required to cha
736.
by lbriner 5y ago
As other posters have said, I think there is somewhat too much nostalgia about how "easy" it was in the old days. I was reading about software dev in the 70s and it took like 4 years to write what we could do in a day today. Also,
737.
by lbriner 5y ago
This should definitely be a banned topic on HN! The can of worms every time we change the clocks forwards and backwards and despite what the "experts" say, there is clearly no obvious advantage, otherwise we would just get rid of
738.
by lbriner 5y ago
Not a reason for the UK. We don't have anonymous companies like the US e.g. by assigning your attorney as a director so they can hide behind privilege. The Directors of your limited company would be available for all to see with their
739.
by lbriner 5y ago
I have never done this for personal house sales in the UK, the only time we did it was when getting a commercial lease signed by the directors and each of them had to ID at the Solicitors offices. Thinking about it, it does seem very open t
740.
by lbriner 5y ago
It's a shame that the systems that are really important, like passports, id cards, property registers etc. are all still so far behind in basic security. They could easily require certain info up-front on the title like mobile, photo e
741.
by lbriner 5y ago
No, I think the issue is that police would have no power to "take the house back" because it was legally purchased. They could investigate the fraud committed by the seller against other organisations but specifically, the real ow
742.
by lbriner 5y ago
Yes, it is unclear why the police told him it was civil since fraud is "misrepresentation for a gain", which the fraudulent seller presumably did. Maybe the argument is that without proof that the fraudulent seller made a gain, it
743.
by lbriner 5y ago
That's not what they said. They said it was not criminal but civil, which a lot of contract and tort law falls under, it means the police won't do the investigation for you. I don't know why they considered that this was not
744.
by lbriner 5y ago
The Solicitor has no existing relationship with the real owner of the house. A bloke turns up and says they want to sell their house and has the correct Land Registry details and some ID, the solicitor does other checks and makes it all hap
745.
by lbriner 5y ago
It is the same with a Solicitor but if they followed the correct process and the problem was actually with, say, the DVLA who issued a driving licence in the wrong name, I'm not sure who is liable for the error.
746.
by lbriner 5y ago
I'm not a lawyer but the article implies that once the title is transferred, the new owner owns it! There might be liability with the Solicitor or the Land Registry, otherwise it would appear to be incredibly unfair!
747.
by lbriner 5y ago
Inconsistency is terrible regardless of how high-quality the law is. Law is about setting boundaries but if you see everyone else breaking a law and then you get prosecuted for breaking it yourself, you don't create anything except res
748.
by lbriner 5y ago
Not sure whether they will ever find the link. Regarding signs etc. it sounds like the owner worked away so maybe the neighbours just assumed that he was selling? In the UK, it is very much a paperwork exercise, I have never met any of the
749.
by lbriner 5y ago
It sounds like the fraudster got a copy of the real person's driving licence, although he must have looked the real person presumably. A Solicitor has to due the legal due-diligence to make sure they have the right to sell including us
750.
by lbriner 5y ago
If they were disciplined, yes, the "clever" part (read immoral but not unlawful) would be the University deciding that another Professor will get that senior position instead of you. You could fight it but it would be pretty easy

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