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interestingly health data is a huge problem in the UK. In that the NHS trusts have extremely valuable information on a population wide basis and do next to nothing with it.

Does google/a private company have to do it? No, but at a minimum the UK govt needs to make significantly better use of this data for research purposes. a 100x increase in medical research spending and a new more agile public medical research body would probably be enough

the amount of people who think that social stigma cant be changed is beyond me.

This is one of those cases where when we open things up we realize that just about everyone has or does things that are stigmatized and we have no choice but to stop stigmatizing them, the secrecy and shame are self-reinforcing.

i cant give you that guarantee today. I can't guarantee the government or your healthcare provider isn't misusing your data.

In fact a surefire guarantee essentially doesn't exist. But what exactly are you afraid of? How does someone weaponize your information? Everyone in my life already knows about my health conditions, i speak openly about them in my personal life, my business life and online there have been zero consequences to this.

>"we have layoffs because revenues are worse than we expected"

These days a lot of companies seem to be we have layoffs because everyone else is doing it and shareholders want short term gain.

They're also doing the same with the green belt, housing and businesses in general.

Farmers are being told they need to diversity but they can't have wind turbines, they can't have businesses that need any kind of premises, they can't build housing on their less productive land. Something has to give at some point.

Everyone agrees they need to do something but many governments are intent on doing nothing

This would be a useful feature. Though how will it know when you die?

Sadly the amount of bots is a stain on the internet to the point that actually processing all requests from them can take down a web app.

The only reason it might be behind azure is how aggressively Microsoft market azure to existing customers and bundle it with other products.

As a standalone product I'm not sure anyone would use it.

A person I'm vaguely acquainted with runs a web store as a solo venture. She was in a traffic accident and injured badly enough to be unconscious for an extended period of time and unable to do anything with the website, it kept selling product until everything registered out of stock and eventually she was able to shut the site down (no idea how the merchant account didn't get suspended in the 5 months or so as nothing shipped and obviously there was no response to any charge back)

> he can now routinely drive home drunk

> So, relative to the confidence most non-technical people seem to have had, this percentage is still not high enough.

My confidence in self driving cars is boosted by my extremely low confidence in people. I know too many drivers who have no business being on the road sober, and other people who routinely drive drunk. I'm confident self driving isn't there yet, i'm also pretty sure that it won't be too long before it gets better than the average driver.

most engineers blindly trust things when another engineer or vendor has signed off/certified on it. There's simply not enough time in the world to go through the certification date for every single part you use in a project.

We trust that there has been a testing process that validates that things do what they say they will do. Admittedly when dealing with non-OSS vendors you can sue them if something goes badly wrong.

their costs are almost certainly not higher in proportion to their costs. There is almost without a doubt a premium because the people that they are selling to are not price sensitive.

In my country they just have a secure maternity ward with access to specialist care. After birth the child is allowed to live with it's mother inside a specially equipped prison. The child is in no legal sense detained as it is free to be sent to live with anyone else should the mother choose for someone else to raise the child.

the cost of living isn't lower though.

I was unemployed in the UK once (early in my career) it was not fun, luckily i was able to move in with my mother and scrape by for a few months.

When my partner became unemployed in the USA i was amazed that she was getting $750 a week and her healthcare plan was $200 a month due to the marketplace subsidy.

The only EEU country in Europe proper is Belarus.

this has nothing to do with the EU. EEU and EU are unrelated.

the EU could blacklist grain imports from the EEU.

Does home insurance cover act of children while they are in they are in their probably possessed by demon stage?

> It's pretty insane what Amazon gets away with.

In this case amazon are essentially being eBay and like eBay they will refund you if anything goes wrong. They will then deduct that refund from the seller (while still charging the seller fees). We don't sit around and wonder how eBay gets away with these things. They also cant inspect every good to see if it's stolen. If you want to allow third party sellers on an online platform this will happen and there's very little we can do to stop it.

there have been desalination trials with spreading the brine over a much larger area releasing much smaller quantities at each outlet. AFAIK these have been quite successful

I'm unsure on the impact of costs. Maybe we just pump it into the salton sea....

> If the government wants sidewalks, they should be maintained by the city and contiguous with the street.

I'm not sure why this isn't the case everywhere. We all want sidewalks, they are a public space and a public good, they should be maintained from the public purse (as are the roads)

compensation requirement in europe (and other international flights)is 1300 euros per passenger. Most of us don't have more than 1300 euros worth of stuff in a checked bag. Insurance is a good idea however as dealing with them is usually much quicker than dealing with the airline.

in the USA the number is $3800 for domestic flights

they often only attach one barcode to the bag. (the one around the handle)

These can get caught on things and detach occasionally. It's rare enough that it will probably never happen to you in your lifetime but common enough that it happens to many people every day.

given that over 13 million trips were taken on air canada alone even if they lost 1 in every 1000 bags (assuming roughly 1 bag per passenger which may not be accurate) then there would be 13,000 bags lost every year

It's also entirely possible that the tag became detached or damaged which lead to them being unable to identify the owner of the bag.

almost certainly. Net metering is ultimately unsustainable. Realistically we should be paying homeowners wholesale electricity rates + an amount to cover transmission savings + whatever incentive we decide on for the energy they produce (along with time of use based consumption charges).

This would likely incentivize storage, and could be extremely valuable with V2G technologies that are incoming.

VR for communication may not be. VR for training will almost certainly be in use by millions of people on a daily basis in the very near future. Anything that requires operation of a machine or performance of a physical procedure and some level of risk/cost will probably involve VR.

any death toll is acceptable if we're accustomed to it. It's seen as inevitable and people stop caring.

The only reason we actually (as a society) care about people dying is when they're dying from something novel.

I want a self driving camper van not for the office commute but for travel. Imagine being able to leave after work on a Friday night, chill on the sofa with a few drinks, sleep and wake up parked anywhere within 14 hours range.

Then on sunday night you simply go to bed, wake up, have the shower and coffee and boom you're back at the office. Or if you work remote you could potentially work while the van drives you places.

most of the time it takes significantly more time to faff around taking off shoes/belts, taking laptops/liquids out of bags than it does to get through the ID check section.

Though as more advanced scanners come in this might lose value, at many airports now everything stays in your bag anyway, shoes stay on and you go through the whole body scan (which takes 5 seconds). It was amazing how quick it was going through las vegas

> including anyone flying private

Why? The point of TSA in theory is to prevent you from taking a weapon onto a plane. If you are flying on your own plane or one you lease what benefit is there in going through TSA?

The whole point was to stop people hijacking or destroying a plane. If you've got the money to fly private you could just rent the plane for a day and fly it yourself. Plus i don't think there's been a single case of people hijacking a private jet...

> Don't allow congresspeople to bypass the TSA

the only people in commercial airports who can skip TSA AFIAK is diplomats, and that would be based under international law exempting them from search by another nation