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Most Scots and Cymry do not identify as British, and do not like it when you refer to them as British.

I'm Scots, not British. Roughly 50% of us support independence from the UK.

He is wrong.

Everything is tech now. And other things are the value add.

For example, if you are a law firm, or a real estate company, and if your tech is not operating then your company is not operating.

If your Internet is offline, or your local network, then your business is not running.

If your company has a security breach, then you will have massive reputation problems.

If you're a small business, you need to have an online presence with Insta, Facebook, and Google maps.

It's all 75% tech now. Get with the programme.

Nice, an appeal to a false equivalence.

The conservative obstructionist and scorched earth tactics are obscene.

No, proponents of the capital punishment attempt to create process that attempts to mitigate complaints made by abolishionists.

Nice attempt at shifting the goalposts and shifting blame. And making a false equivalence with nuclear power.

Abolishionists want capital punishment abolished because capital punishment is inhumane, cruel, and morally objectionable.

Absolutely not true. There are many lawyers that will take cases on a "no win, no fee" basis.

Clearly Stripe was in breach in this circumstance, and courts look dimly on that kind of behaviour.

Remember that the human genome project was started in in 1990, completed in 2003. In 2003 it took a year to sequence 80% of the human genome, now it takes a day to do 98%. In 1990 they had the understanding on how to sequence DNA, but scaling that across whole human genome seemed like monumental task.

I'm guessing in a decade we'll have a viable early stage industrial process, and in 2 decades we have commissioned fusion reactors.

If we don't kill the planet with nuclear war or the climate crisis.

300 MJ is about 83 KWh.

In the UK is 1 KWh is £0.34

So, this costs £28 in electricity to run this experiment. The experiment is a momentary thing.

Clearly there is now some work to, but now this is becoming an engineering problem of how to extend, sustain, and scale this process.

I'm not sure what your experience is, but mine is over multiple decades over multiple companies over multiple continents, and in general, corporate management, project management, and business analysts are not concerned about security.

Instead, they are interested in delivering buttons, fields, and streamlined workflows. Technical debt and library upgrades? Os upgrades? Forget about it. They need to deliver value back to the business in terms of faster business processes.

Only when the business is hacked or they fail compliance does the business leadership start to care.

Blaming the people with the hands on the tools is not fair when the business will not give the resources to do their work properly.

It would be great if Google stopped making nasty Urls with the nasty "Scroll To Text Fragment" feature.

It is the biggest tech retrograde since MS started putting UUIDs in to their Urls. Which they largely stopped except for sharepoint documents.

The Windows Registry is a pretty good key-value store for centrally storing config.

Because some, perhaps many, have abused the originally good idea, does not invalidate its positive aspects.

Also, I do not agree it is a file system. It is a key-value storage system that is leagues better than the win.ini, system.ini, and the prolific ini file collection hell it replaced.

Some form of version control would make the registry better.

The Facebook app is a worse app than it was before it introduced "Stories" which is a terribly irritating feature.

Also, auto play of video and sometimes audio also makes it a horrible experience.

There is so much about Facebook that keeps pushing me away.

Canada is not a train culture.

Knife crime statistics include "stop and search" where orinary working people have boxcutters, Leatherman multitools, and Swissarmy knives taken off them. POC and young people are particularly targeted.

Knife crime in the UK is a red herring.