t_luke

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by t_luke 1mo ago
Literally all normal people on the tube already pay with bank card or Apple Pay and are thus trackable anyway. This just levels the playing field for the barrier pushers.
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by t_luke 1y ago
All the UK university ranking systems use basically the same data — the National Student Survey (NSS) which measures students' impression of teaching quality, the Graduate Outcomes Survey (GOS) which measures employment 15 months after
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by t_luke 1y ago
Does anyone else find Signal quite hard to use? The syncing between devices stops working a lot of the time, and needing to sign in again fairly regularly. I’ve tried switching but it doesn’t stick because of the annoyance factor.
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by t_luke 1y ago
London’s DLR is a gadgetbahn. For all its obvious limitations it’s been quite successful. Lots of new stations, lots of expansions, decent integration with traditional rail. VLR would work similarly.
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by t_luke 1y ago
It’s fairly obviously designed to avoid the issues which almost caused the cancellation of the new Edinburgh tram — spiralling costs caused by the need to move existing utilities under the deep track base. That crisis was probably as much t
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by t_luke 1y ago
I’ve had the same experience on a flight. They said the plane was overweight and we couldnt travel. The person I was travelling with became extremely difficult. Then magically, it wasn’t overweight any more.
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by t_luke 1y ago
The conclusion of Davies' second extract — about e.g. being bumped off a flight — is recognisable but the conclusions are actually wrong. The situation in these cases is actually more subtle. The person you're speaking to does nor
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by t_luke 1y ago
The conclusion of Davies' second extract — about e.g. being bumped off a flight — is recognisable but the conclusions are actually wrong. The situation in these cases is actually more subtle. The person you're speaking to does nor
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by t_luke 1y ago
It’s not that complicated. Business rates (commercial property tax) are very high for shops in the UK, and Charity shops are exempt. The rates really are high — about 50% on top of the rent. Plus a lot of the staff work for free. Their cost
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by t_luke 2y ago
The first paragraph misstates the nature of the Wirecard fraud. The money wasn’t ’siphoned off’, it never existed in the first place.
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by t_luke 2y ago
The British art journal has run a long campaign to establish that (a) museum photographs of out of copyright works cannot be copyrighted and (b) the schemes to sell such reproductions don’t even break even financially
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by t_luke 3y ago
If Programmers Had to Work Like Architects - you aren't allowed to do any programming yourself, you just write a specification - the majority of the people doing the programming are incapable of reading the specification - many of thos
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by t_luke 3y ago
The precedent people should be paying much more attention to is sampling in music. When it first arose, it really wasn’t clear what status it had. There was at least a decade when people basically thought it was legal to use small samples o
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by t_luke 3y ago
It’s actually ‘anthropogenic’ (as in caused ‘generated’ by humans) if we’re going to be pedantic
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by t_luke 3y ago
Their auditors reported that they couldn’t be sure the (reported) 500 million in subscription revenue actually existed because the financial controls were so underdeveloped. I can see why the regulators dont want to give them a banking lice