Commuting enables this. If people couldn't commute, they couldn't invade your area. I've long claimed one of the biggest problems with the UK is the tube; it enables people to pile into London every day. Get rid of the tube, and people and business would be more spread out, which would in turn get rid of the elephant in the room being the UK is a one trick pony - "What do you have, UK?" - "London.", "What else?" - "London", "What else?" - "London". Oh, and then there's the medieval monarchy nonsense...
Assuredly we can afford this and so much more. Anything we can actually do, we can afford. …
Little did John know the future would bring such wonders as HS2, lockdowns, the Ethiopian spice girls, NHS, a fake property market, ... a very different world.
Your logic is that a government would want a backdoor in this app because another app was successful? Just because the same founder? That's a lot of hopeful backdoors - poor return on investment for the government. I've worked on bigger projects than that without backdoors. "Pretty huge" is relative I guess - I certainly wouldn't describe it as that. I seriously doubt that app had a government backdoor, and neither will this one. Was that an attempted appeal to authority?
Backdoors for a calendar app no one's heard of? No offence, but bigger fish to fry. And why would the company breach GDPR if it's making such a fuss about sticking to it?
Yeah, I work with an English second language guy who uses pronouns excessively, leaving me clueless. In his case I expect he's saving processing power for translating the bigger ideas.
We have a company wide meeting every other week literally called the "family meeting". My team members are so different from each that there is generally zero chit chat on slack, all day, every day - required questions/answers only. Family? This is just HR trying to show their worth with their latest simpleton ideas, just as the tech side has silly ideas like scrum, etc. We've recently started getting company wide emails with a big "Kudos" banner when somebody you don't know has done something that means nothing to you. Because we're a tight-knit family. Is this combo cargo culting meets gaslighting? You will be family - look into my eyes - you will be family. It's somewhat patronising, and I'm not sure it even makes sense with recent HR diversity pushes - we put in oil, then water, now mix like they're the same sort of things; a simplistic metaphor, but it sums up my team. We're there to do the work - maybe HR should give the Fantastic Four movies a rest.
Why do these things take so long to find? Do they not show up in all collisions - why not, wrong matter, wrong speed? Do they regularly appear, but the "camera" has limitations? Is the "camera" all-seeing, but measurement interpretation inefficient? All/some of the above?
In London the parks were full, the ice cream shops were open, and if you think anyone was having their exercise limited to one hour a day you're unfortunately subservient. I have never worn a mask, and I have been on multi-hour rides around London without seeing a single mask. Dog walkers were all stopping for chats, people gathering at duck ponds for chats, parties continued to be had. My condolences to Manchester, it seems to have naive understanding of how the world works; stand up or get stepped on.
How clear the rules are is irrelevant - they were theoretical, an occasional example made, but no one really gave a damn. If you followed those rules you're a gullible sucker, most people were in the parks drinking and socialising.
BBC attempting to sway/nudge/gaslight, as usual. Firstly, it wasn't a lockdown, that's just the fear motive militaristic terminology they thought would achieve their goals - so much was open, and traffic congestion across cities daily, it could be called a slowdown or a partial shutdown, but "lockdown" is just transparent. The slowdown is the reason I haven't quit my current employer; my social life is just as crap as it was before, and every other aspect of my life has improved thanks to the slowdown. I absolutely won.
"Americans have been trained to have a strictly binary" - not just Americans, but that aside, isn't that inevitable when parties compete for power - allegiances form to gain numbers, and mergers take places until there are only two competitors left with no groups left to merge with. The inevitable strategic optimum.