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by gnerd 12y ago
I have to agree. I have seen the Shoreditch triangle come a long way and having taken my skill set around Europe, there really is no place like home but we aren't exactly silicone valley. I look forward to some home grown giants over t
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by gnerd 12y ago
Pity we didn't acquire Neanderthal genes for their 1600 cc brains, the largest of any primate species found to date. [1] Edit: Apologies to the downvoter, I should have substantiated that claim. I have added a source. [1] http:/&
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by gnerd 12y ago
Spot on. All this will do for the person trying to erase their past is drag up old memories and re-syndicate whatever they are running away from. More eyeballs, more indexing of new pages, more edits to the Wikipedia page, more comments on
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by gnerd 12y ago
> In Europe, laws generally aren't to be interpreted by the letter. That's a very general statement and generally untrue (although you are in this case, partially correct). Acts and statutes are always interpreted by the letter
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by gnerd 12y ago
Well I think in this case the language does fit the task at hand, since the language choice is one of communication (communicating concepts), it's probably a wise choice to go with a ubiquitous one to achieve the goal of delivering a m
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by gnerd 12y ago
Just because you say welfare is the same as an unconditional basic income system, doesn't mean it is. Did it ever occur to you this movement started in some of the safest welfare based nation states on earth? The difference is this. It
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by gnerd 12y ago
In the unconditional part? Some implementations might have a mean test for who gets what (so a lot like welfare in Anglo and/or European countries) but there is an unconditional part that means in the UK, an ASBO isn't going to be
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by gnerd 12y ago
I thought minimum wage was around £12k per year. Are you studying and/or only working part time?
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by gnerd 12y ago
> See my other comment, Australia already has it. No, your other comment just mentioned the dole, which is NOT the same thing at all. Other countries have the dole, in fact, every country listed above in the comment that states they don&
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by gnerd 12y ago
Lots of countries have that and I don't think Australia implemented any of those measures first. I think what is being discussed here is guaranteed unconditional income, not the dole.
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by gnerd 13y ago
THe GPIO is not going to help you build a custom H-bridge to drive motors forward and backward with variable speed. You can use the 2 relay switches to make one of those, but it will be noisy and you only get 1 H-bridge out of all that wiri
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by gnerd 13y ago
Yep. All of that could happen as far as I can see, which again, is why my comment was specifically talking about automated decision making.
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by gnerd 13y ago
Did you read my comment or just scan the second paragraph and assume I was saying license plates weren't public data? I was talking about automated decision making using collected data, I was not saying license plates were or were not
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by gnerd 13y ago
Weren't modern license plates made the way they are to aid automatic (or human) detection? For instance, traffic cameras, automated scanning from traffic police to make sure your car is insured or even your elderly neighbour writing do
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by gnerd 13y ago
For the EU, Data Protection Directive 95/46 (and the incoming changes from 2012), attempt to offer protection against automatic decisions. In that document there is the concept of consent and that the consent can only be for the purpos
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by gnerd 13y ago
I think the real interesting thing about this isn't any of these questions but really, much like with the internet, when does an IP become a person (or in this example, when does a license plate become a person)? Is there a legal disti
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by gnerd 13y ago
I don't know. People are unlikely to remember the license plate (unless it strikes an obvious pattern) but a person who was so inclined could write numbers down manually and store them indefinitely a bit like a CPU with no storage mech
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by gnerd 13y ago
PHP is a tool and as any tool with a low learning curve it can be used by people with or without expertise. I think we certainly have had PHP built infrastructure that scales, but surely you can see why an order matching system should not b
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by gnerd 13y ago
I had a little peak and started seeing a few bugs but then I hit line 1009: > mail('mark@ookoo.org', 'BLOCK IMPORT ERROR', $e->getMessage()."\n\n".$e); I haven't done much digging around this issue (
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by gnerd 13y ago
I'm not sure it would count as a robbery as usually in English jurisdictions the term robbery implies force (through violence or threat of violence).
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by gnerd 13y ago
Well that's tough titties, because they have told you who you can't rob or murder on your private property.... anyone and everyone. If your license plate was protected, it wouldn't be stuck on the outside of your car in high
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by gnerd 13y ago
Well I was thinking there is no DB for them to draw from because it was a private run camera, not because the facial recognition DB doesn't exist (because technically it does exist for anyone who has ever got a biometric passport in Eu
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by gnerd 13y ago
I think the line is usually defined as you have no expectation of privacy in public, at least that was the justification for the CCTV in the UK (and other English Common Law jurisdictions). I don't think you should destroy anything, th
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by gnerd 13y ago
I find it interesting in a thread about failure you are going to use an example of highly improbable success to highlight what you call vision. That is a cool anecdote and all but it smells like confirmation bias. I'm sure the one guy
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by gnerd 13y ago
Well it's a little deeper than that isn't it? There is a lot more common ground than just the language, like 4 of those countries are CommonWealth realms with the Queen as the head of state, so there's a big distinction right
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by gnerd 13y ago
I feel like on any given day I could fall into any one of those two camps.
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by gnerd 13y ago
What were the difficulties in getting charities taking the bread? I mean, were they logistical problems? Were they worried about some increased risk or was it simply a case of bad admin?
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by gnerd 13y ago
I was just picking a country that seemed to me to be as good a country as any, with their own methods of law, their own values etc. who has remained productive as a nation. I think I may be learning I might not have the same definition of &
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by gnerd 13y ago
> On the topic of men in prison, the US does indeed have a rape culture. I thought it was clear from context that I'm using the term the way western feminists do, but I guess I should have been explicit. I am afraid it wasn't c
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by gnerd 13y ago
Agreed. But I am talking from a "Wealth of Nations" perspective rather than a per-capita basis. The brand, "China" is not poor and is only getting richer, not saying anything else than that. There are certainly poor peop

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