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Comment · 3 years ago

Interested to see your full list!

Comment · 3 years ago

> Could have been a great opportunity to try to actually improve things rather than adding loopholes for the benefit of special interests.

But the kind of people who want the policy that Brexit is - i.e. xenophobic nationalists - are not the kind of people you'd want to take such an opportunity.

Membership of the EU was a great opportunity. Brexit is an opportunity for fascists.

Comment · 3 years ago

Well rather than one book, it would be valuable to summarise the top 20 "management" books at once and ask it for the common points and unique points.

And perhaps which of them reference the others the most - and which points.

Would that be possible?

(Nice work!)

Comment · 3 years ago

Surely there are, say, British, European or American FIFA representatives who can be tried for taking bribes, or for being part of an organisation which takes bribes? Why are those people immune? They're complicit.

Comment · 4 years ago

Thanks for answering Qs. Does this compete directly with Tekton ( https://tekton.dev/ ), or do you imagine a way the two could interoperate? Why choose Dagger over Tekton to power pipelines?

Comment · 4 years ago

The upfront cost could remain the same while externalities like road deaths, insurance, and even pollution (via e.g. more efficient braking / speeds) goes down.

Comment · 4 years ago

The best pen is the Muji gel. 0.38, 0.5 and 0.7mm, about £1, multiple colours, refills sold separately.

Comment · 5 years ago

Excellent! Perhaps offer to save as PNG rather than JPEG, for these?

Comment · 5 years ago

> where you are looking for something unexpected

I'd be extremely sceptical of its use on medical images for this reason.

Comment · 5 years ago

This is my (basic, lay) understanding of how changes to UK law happen, as well.

For example, here is a collection of "Statement of changes in Immigration Rules: 1994 to 2020": https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/immigration-rules-...

If you click on the latest document, "accessible" version, you'll find paragraphs such as the following:

  Changes to the Introduction
  Intro1. In paragraph 6.2, after the definition of “English language course”, insert:
  “ “EU national” in Appendix T5 (Temporary Worker) International
  Agreement Worker means a person who is a national of: Austria, Belgium,
  Bulgaria, Croatia, Republic of Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia,
  Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania,
  Luxembourg, Malta, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia,
  Slovenia, Spain, or Sweden; and who is not also a British citizen.”.

  Changes to Part 7
  7.1. For the second paragraph 276BB1(vi)(d), substitute:
  “(e) the Ministry of Defence, the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, the
  Department for International Development or the Foreign, Commonwealth
  and Development Office has determined should qualify for relocation under
  the ex-gratia redundancy / resignation package, including confirmation that
  they served ‘on frontline duties outside the wire in Helmand’.”.

Anyone interpreting this law (i.e. lawyers) does not have the "latest" version to hand; they have to stack successive changes.

There are other complications, which I can't recall, but I dearly wish someone would do this for UK law.

Comment · 7 years ago

Highly recommend Capek's other works, The Insect Play, and War with the Newts.

Comment · 8 years ago

> given the sudden presence of an obstruction in its path

It doesn't even need to have been in its path; it should have detected a pedestrian near the edge of the road, concluded that they might step into the road (it's a possibility), and decelerated. Before she even stepped into the road, the Uber was at fault.

Comment · 8 years ago

This paradigm-shift is a chance to address one of the leading causes of preventable death in the world.

It doesn't surprise me for a moment that this was Uber (though it might have been a Tesla). From all I've seen and read, these companies are racing unscrupulously, and some have inferior technology compared with others.

Waymo seem to be approaching the problem from a safety direction rather than a pure race for profit.

We need to hold SDs to a higher standard than we hold human drivers. Not 1.5x the standard; 1000. 10,000. 100,000.

And every death must be treated as a serious failure of engineering. These are preventable deaths.

Comment · 8 years ago

That's fantastic, thank you! https://www.buymeacoffee.com/np

Is it possible to further reduce the minimum supporter amount (to, say, $1?) - or customize it?

Comment · 8 years ago

> One good thing though is they apparently move bikes around in vans to help fill capacity

Much better is NYC's approach of using "Bike Angels" ( http://www.slate.com/blogs/moneybox/2017/02/09/new_york_s_ci... ) to redistribute. As I understand it, they still use trucks, but this is visionary compared with London's system, which simply adds more (badly driven, polluting) trucks to traffic.