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37% of the voting population voted for Brexit, it wasn't anywhere near a majority.

> all we got in the UK was the BBC Micro, way back in the early 1980s, and since then tech has been culturally uncool.

Off the top of my head, ARM is from Cambridge.

People send their private photos to their private cloud backups with the reasonable expectation that those photos remain private and therefore not a privacy violation.

If it transpired Google or Apple had staff looking through people's cloud photo backups, yes this would be considered a violation because "cloud backup" is framed as a personal solution and not a hosting or processing solution.

The kettle was boiling water.

The chef was out the back, boiling water.

The chef was out the back. Boiling water had spilled everywhere.

The seas had turned to boiling water.

I dunno, could be down to interpretation.

Speeding is a criminal offence, lying about who was driving is punishable by prison.

"Share" is a big ask. Why should anyone be bothered to listen to something you couldn't even be bothered to write?

Art is all over the natural world, look at animals which build nests, arrange pebbles, choose shells etc.

He gets it on the healthcare like all developed nations.

Where's all this wealth going to come from if nobody has any jobs?

If you're a morning person and you're scheduling meetings for the morning you're literally wasting your period of productivity.

While physical media feels more valuable because you can hold it, share it with people etc, I'd suggest you didn't pay $3.99 for the video at Blockbuster, you paid for the event of going to the store, browsing the titles, maybe discussing with your friends/family what you want to see, grab some popcorn, there's trailers on the TVs. It feels a lot more special than just scrolling through Netflix

I consider a "bug" to be "it was supposed to do something and failed".

Issues around business logic are not failures of the system, the system worked to spec, the spec was not comprehensive enough and now we iterate.

There's entire studies on it, I saw a lecture by some English professor who explained how the brain isn't fast enough to parse words in real time, so runs multiple predictions of what the sentence will be in parallel and at the end jettisons the wrong ones and goes with the correct one.

From this, we get comedy. A funny statement is one that ends in an unpredictable manner and surprises the listener brain because it doesn't have the meaning of that one already calculated, and hence why it can take a while to "get the joke"