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> you grow into someone with more experience who stops making them.

or at least fewer, and sometimes more complicated mistakes.

Only something like 15-20% of Brits actually have to do a tax return in the first place. I did mine for the first time this year, and it was surprisingly easy.

> There is no significant tax pool coming from cyclists to build or maintain said infrastructure.

Don't they pay income tax? I think I read that most of the cost of roads in the USA is raised from income tax and sales tax.

> I found the behavior of ignoring established traffic law as if it were optional to be dangerous and selfish.

A lot of car drivers are out there too running lights, breaking speed limits and driving under the influence. People are the problem, not their transport.

If they're actually legitimate they don't need to ask for consent, they are two separate lawful basis for processing data.

He was a founder of xamarin which sold to Microsoft for $400+ million five years ago.

Yes, but it is below the horizon when it's in the north and most rooms don't have 360 degree windows.

Most bike activists don't have an unspoken strategy of slowing people down. They want to be able to use their bike to get places safely and quickly and they want others to feel able to do that too.

It doesn't make sense to create biking / walking lanes raised up on pillars because a) that introduces artificial hills and b) it increases effort to get places - you'll only be able to get on or off the raised system at a ramp, which might be inconvenient.

In London the average car speed is 11-12 mph, and then you'll have to walk to / from a car park. Cars aren't always fast and point to point

Isn't there two things going on here? A single sign on service, and also an identity check.

A yubico device can say "I'm still the same security key that was enrolled" but it doesn't say at enrolment "I am being used by Fred Jones of <address> with passport no 123, NiNo ABC".

GDS verify / government gateway do support 'authenticators' (typically password + totp) to provide a level of assurance that the person logging into the account is the person the account belongs to.

The "document check" is part of the identity bit. That is, how confident are we that the person creating this account / performing this action is who they say they are and can do this thing or see that information. The document check is part of their solution but other parts are supposed to layer on top of it to provide a proportionate level of assurance. e.g. a video of you holding up the passport to check that it's you using it or asking you to provide answers to details you already have like 'how much tax did you pay last year' or checking multiple documents.

> I presume the British government does own a database of the passports they issued, so this isn't news to them.

The passport office (part of the Home Office) own that database. Part of this work is basically a web service to that database for the rest of the government to use.

The people who opt out get a smart card. The pitch will be something like smart cards can be lost or stolen, faces can't.

The school is in the UK, and Scotland at that - barely anyone has health insurance.

The system uses face recognition for interactions at the till, when paying for food, the likelihood of it filming usable footage of the dining hall that will be kept until leaked is pretty low.

A more likely threat model is that rather than video analysis, the system records Tommy bought five doughnuts each day and that database get leaked/sold.

Golf you say?

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Nope. I'm not sure that growth hacking was even a term then.

It refers to hacking as in messing about with technology to do exciting, fun, unexpected or novel things

In the UK 80% of the population don't even have to sign anything and send it back. The rest have some employment income information on a website and have to supply the rest of the data, I found it pretty straight forward when I did it for the first time.

Uber is mostly made of drivers, yet is considered a tech company. (I'm aware drivers are not technically employees).

Maybe it's more to do with the strategy of the company.

Ordnance survey maps are a different kettle of fish altogether. The UK has a completely different scale of geography though. It takes 403 maps to cover the UK, what would it take for the US at ordnance survey detail?

Yeah intentionally so. https://pizzey.me/posts/no-i-didnt-try-to-break-companies-ho...

Lots of people in the UK can't charge at home. Many people live in terraced houses and can't always park on their own street never mind outside their house.

In the evening this road will be full, bumper to bumper. There are many streets like it. https://maps.app.goo.gl/Fk68kARYkuxS6FnN8

There are things that can be done about it, e.g. lamp post charging but it's not simple.

You let your web browser use your whole screen width?

The piraha language is probably the most famous non-counting language. They appear to recognise - https://slate.com/human-interest/2013/10/piraha-cognitive-an...

I work on an NHS focused web app, if it's pockets they're pretty deep ones.

Yes, that'll pay about £7000 pa, depending on payments in and other wealth.

70 sheep will probably attract a farming subsidy too

We modified our code base to give us nested transactions using postgres savepoints, came in handy for automatically wrapping tests in transactions too (though you can opt-out per test)

It's another layer, you don't have to use it. If you pretend schemas don't exist you basically never know they do, unless you go looking for complexity in the postgres bowels.

Public sector jobs often have an explicit "London weighting" (or HCAS), it's set at 20% of salary up to a cap of about £7k, and decreases the further you get from central London. Some private sector firms do similar apparently, but I've never heard of it in the tech sector.

Other cities don't usually get similar supplements, even places like Cambridge where housing costs can be really high.

Property taxes are called "Council tax" here, they're probably the most regressive tax in England (the rest of the UK have slightly different rules). The amount of tax depends upon both the local area and the value of the property in 1991. Everyone who's house was work more than £320k in 1991 pays the same rate. This means in Kensington, London someone in a swanky 250 sq.m. £8million house pays £2473 per year...as does someone in a £million apartment on the next street. The person a few streets over in a grotty 20sq.m £300k studio will be paying £962 per year.

Bridgerton at least was written by an American novelist and then made into a TV show by an American director / writer / producer team for an American media company.

Just because a house is detached and private doesn't mean it's big. The UK average house size is 76 m2 while the US is about 200 m2

It pushes HMG towards executing better or changing priorities.

That and it raises the their personal and party profile while highlighting the opposition doing poorly.

I'd argue that UK politics don't tend to be won on ideas but mainly on perception of competency.

I don't think that the point is that HMG haven't thought of "planning" and "not leaving business out in the cold". I think the point is that HMG's execution hasn't been very good.

It depends upon your environment, it wasn't clear to many people.

I thought that proprietary unix was doomed when I started an internship at a bank's IT ops department in 2005. The seasoned Solaris admins I worked with had commissioned some Linux servers the year before in a non-prod setting and had written it off as a toy...

Decades of uk politicians letting the EU take the fall in the tabloids and little of the credit.