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by isostatic 6y ago
The GDPR was implemented in UK law by the Data Protection Act 2018 https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2018/12/contents Which is still in force
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by isostatic 6y ago
> In the 2019 fiscal year, LinkedIn brought in $6.8 billion worth of revenue $272m isn't small change for each infringement, and there's millions of them here [0] https://www.businessofapps.com/data/linkedi
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by isostatic 7y ago
If it's stored in a reversable fashion, it means somebody can pretend to be me, therefore auditing is meaningless.
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by isostatic 7y ago
I talk transatlantic and further a lot on t'phone, no real issue
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by isostatic 7y ago
What latency? 100ms is fine for pretty much every internet use there is.
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by isostatic 7y ago
What happens when your 1G FTTP is plugged into a 48 port switch with a 10G uplink and you're throttled to 200M?
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by isostatic 7y ago
> In the US, patients should go to urgent care for minor health issues that are unlikely to require a fully outfitted trauma and surgical unit Just looked up the one near to my hotel. Closes 6PM. Not much use at 2330.
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by isostatic 7y ago
"Not just the 4th and 17th character - the whole thing" If any company asks for the 4th character of your password, that means they are storing your password in a reversible fashion, and they should be dumped. The online account s
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by isostatic 7y ago
Wasn't a joke. I went to the US on business - our corporate insurance means there's a $1000 excess that we pay up front. Went to a hospital for a minor issue. At no point was there any price list shown, at the end I was asked for
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by isostatic 7y ago
Good job it wasn't in america, she'd have woken up, seen the bill, and had another heart attack!
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by isostatic 7y ago
One thing that really harms the utility of cameras is face coverings. Over the last 20 years the two most prolific face coverings in the UK have been attacked in society - Hoodies and Niquab/Burkas. For various reasons the UK populatin
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by isostatic 7y ago
> Massive campaign contributions is not as common in Europe Also far more complex - the political groupings in europe (EPP, ALDE, etc) are far looser organizations than the US parties, and power is spread in lots of different levels. Mos
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by isostatic 7y ago
Cover every roof in Austrailia with a solar panel and you're pretty much set. No extra land use needed. https://www.pv-magazine-australia.com/2019/06/13/australia-c...
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by isostatic 7y ago
Carmichael coal mine is planned to be 447 square km [0], over half being "surface disturbance area" Insolation at that location is about 2.1MWh per square metre per year, or 2100GWh per square km per year. [1] Solar panels are aro
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by isostatic 7y ago
1sqkm is 300GWh a year at 20% A patch of land 20 miles by 20 miles generates enough electricity for the entire Aus requirements. That’s an order of magnitude less than area taken by austrailia’s roads.
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by isostatic 7y ago
We seem on track to avoid the jump to the left in the UK, alas we've already stepped to the right several times
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by isostatic 7y ago
My understanding (mainly from Star Trek) is that most of the fun of baseball is the stats.
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by isostatic 7y ago
The onus is on TFL to vet the drivers. Uber lost the license because they were 'not fit or proper', nothing to do with vetting, seemingly because of a feature of the website that seemingly allows drivers to upload new photos and g
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by isostatic 7y ago
What difference in vetting is there between Black Cab drivers and Minicab drivers in London? What difference in vehicle maintenence? The vetting process may be flawed, but it's flawed in both hackney carriage and phv licensing. This wa
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by isostatic 7y ago
gnumeric is great for simple tabulated data as far as simple charts etc, but the advanced features that spreadsheet lovers use aren't available.
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by isostatic 7y ago
Private hire drivers are vetted, and their cars have to undergo enhanced MOTs
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by isostatic 7y ago
Rising nationalism in the 20s and 30s eventually leading to major armed conflict from 39 onwards.
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by isostatic 7y ago
I think it's an important take away for product owners - if people chose your product because it 'just works', they aren't going to be happy when you change it so it doesn't 'just work' -- i.e. introducing
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by isostatic 7y ago
Tech has always been terrible. What was unusual about the iPhone was it just worked.
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by isostatic 7y ago
Never heard of it. Wikipedia says > for profit And > Its editorial position is strongly antifeminist and frequently accuses feminists of being misandrist. somewhat different to things like the white ribbon campaign that it tried to hi
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by isostatic 7y ago
Which is the "most famous of them"? In this UK it's probably "mankind", hosted on a microsoft owned IP, I assume azure.
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by isostatic 7y ago
I've just looked at the to 4 sites for mensrights and see hosting on Azure, GCP, Cloudflare and godaddy. Do you have any links to any cloud or other hosting company kicking out any mens rights sites?
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by isostatic 7y ago
2000 was always the future - probably for 3 or 4 generations of kids. 2020 seems arbitary
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by isostatic 7y ago
The ads I ran in the 90s were cut and paste html along the lines of <a href=' http://doubleclick/adid'><img src=' http://doubleclick/ad.jpg</a> I never ran puch the monkey s
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by isostatic 7y ago
Not really, Windows is handling DoH as a system service, which is great Chrome (and firefox) are providing their own DNS, away form the system. This means that loading www.blah.com in chrome, firefox and opera will result in 3 different DNS

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