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by steve_gh 7y ago
This looks like a fairly significant GDPR breach
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by steve_gh 7y ago
Well that's just a crock. You simply have to have a policy that says how long you retain backups for, and what you would do if you needed to delete PI if required to do so under GDPR. It's not rocket science!
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by steve_gh 7y ago
If you can count how many scooters are in the system at any time (and how many belong to different providers) then you should be able to enforce your licencing regime. And if you know roughly where rides are going to / from and when, t
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by steve_gh 7y ago
Depends on the granularity of the data. What's wrong with (say) 100m square blocks as spatial granularity, with ride time to the nearest minute or even 5 minutes. The city should be able to ensure regulatory compliance, while anonymity
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by steve_gh 7y ago
Fred Beckey really was an absolute legend in the world of mountaineering - he was known worldwide as the original climbing bum, and one of the world's finest alpinists - right up there with the likes of Walter Bonatti. This is a reprin
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by steve_gh 7y ago
Agreed. The ability to assemble and organize and pursue interests is distinct from the specific mode of organization of the limited-liability company, where stockholders (the owners) and protected from liability for the actions of the compa
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by steve_gh 7y ago
This is a key point: many transport routes are optimized for 9-5 commuting in and out of cities. And because we can only measure what is there, we don't understand the journeys that don't happen because they are not catered for. H
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by steve_gh 7y ago
This is a very good answer! I got a PhD almost 20 years ago (in ML). I worked hard and played hard - and had the time of my life. I learned to surf, got a black belt in Aikido, restored a sailboat, climbed 3 times a week, and made friends f
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by steve_gh 7y ago
Like the BBC? https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-49594264
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by steve_gh 7y ago
Sierre-Zinal and Pikes Peak are strictly not even ultras, as they are not long enough. Not to take anything away from them, they are both really good races. I'm not sure that I'd agree that most serious ultra runners are doing one
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by steve_gh 7y ago
Sierre Zinal is a pretty short race - it's only 31km. Serious ultra runners run a variety of distances, including the very long ones such as the UTMB (160km) and the Tor des Geants (340km). Earlier this year Jasmine Parris won the Spin
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by steve_gh 7y ago
My kids think that they are being oppressed because they are expected to help with chores and tidy their rooms. Clearly (as an oppressor) I am excluded from any objective discussion of the issue.
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by steve_gh 7y ago
For me, it has to be Tinker Tailor. A truly great novel about the lies people tell to themselves and others. A spy novel in the same way that Crime and Punishment is a police procedural.
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by steve_gh 7y ago
Have you seen the new electric Lotus? It makes the Bugatti Veyron look distinctly underpowered. The price? If you have to ask...
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by steve_gh 7y ago
Ghosting. hmmm. I can see an Streisand effect coming on here...
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by steve_gh 7y ago
The UK Govt actually. There is a current call for Future Mobility plans - the Govt is putting a lot of money (£90M IIRC) into a tender process, to select 3 local authorities to develop future mobility plans over the next 10 years, integrati
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by steve_gh 7y ago
Neural nets have also been fed training sets of climbing route names, from various areas (Boulder, Joshua Tree, and UK). UKC article here: https://www.ukclimbing.com/articles/features/neural_network_... I'm n
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by steve_gh 7y ago
Funnily enough, I was chatting to the guy who came to repair my 10yr old Siemens dishwasher a month or so back. His advice - next time you buy one, buy a Beko, as they have long understood how to build a good product to a price cap. The mar
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by steve_gh 8y ago
I do a lot of work with the rail industry in the UK (both heavy and light rail) - but the UK is much more passenger focussed. Reducing cost can take a lot of tweaking to get right, and is likely to take more than one cycle to do. But new sc
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by steve_gh 8y ago
Ultratrail runner here. No-one in the ultra community uses handheld torches. We all use headtorches, and we run long distances at night through mountains
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by steve_gh 8y ago
Didn't realise the connection with the OS Benchmarks - there's one on the wall next to my garden gate. Thanks for posting :-)
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by steve_gh 8y ago
At St Andrews University (where I studied Philosophy in the late 1980s), there were two (physically linked) Philosophy Departments. The Dept of Moral Philosophy, and the Dept of Logic and Metaphysics. An undergraduate Philosophy degree invo
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by steve_gh 8y ago
Thanks for sharing this. You learn something new every day
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by steve_gh 8y ago
A lot of the problem isn't in the debt as such, it is in the collateralization. When you bundle the debt and sell it on in slices with different risk profiles (i.e. separating out who gets paid first (least risky) to last (most risky)
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by steve_gh 8y ago
No. VAT is across the supply chain, provided they are all VAT registered. So as a business you only pay The net VAT between sales and purchases.
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by steve_gh 8y ago
@n4r9. Where in the world are you working? I would be interested in getting in touch. You can reach me at stephen dot gooberman hyphen hill at amey dot co dot uk
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by steve_gh 8y ago
Interesting application of clustering. My group in the UK (Amey Strategic Consulting: https://www.amey.co.uk/amey-consulting/services/strategic-co... ) have been doing very similar things for a while now to optimi
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by steve_gh 8y ago
English law is also a common law system, relying heavily on previous precedents that have been set down in similar decisions. Civil law juristictions (for example France) give less weight to precedence, so courts have narrower scope to inte
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by steve_gh 8y ago
It's a little more nuanced than that ... the SE of England was generally the area most in favour of Remain. Pretty much all of rural England outside of the pull of London voted to Leave. I see Brexit as the losers in the globalization
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by steve_gh 8y ago
Generally, carriers only have access to the RAN metadata (cell sector, signal strength, etc), not GPS. And in Europe they can't sell or pass on personal data. They can aggregate it, and sell aggregated data (e.g. for transport planning

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