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Champion of free speech only goes so far eh?

If it’s the pitch then you don’t have a product.

Google wave had what might be the greatest pitch of all time. I was certainly all in.

It’s 2022 and all we have to save us from email is Slack which is a pale imitation of Wave wearing a sparkly tutu stolen from IRC.

> so the easier narrative to believe is that Robinhood was part of a conspiracy theory to screw the little guy.

Do Robinhood have big guys as customers?

Their name suggests they should serve the little guy. If they cannot do that, then there is no reason for little guys to use them.

Digital Rights Management (DRM) is what sprang to my mind.

Always wondered if these are part of money laundering operations.

Was it the phone provided and secured by the government or the off the books phone they have WhatsApp groups on?

If it’s the first then security services have a problem. If it’s the second then those individuals have a problem.

> Sadly, they will happen again and again and again, I think.

The principles that the Government Digital Service tried to instill/make departments adopt should prevent that

I think that kind of behaviour was endemic among outsourcing companies around that time and they acted with impunity on government contracts.

Sky outsourced a contract to EDS. EDS had delivery problems. It all ended in court:

https://www.pinsentmasons.com/out-law/guides/bskyb-v-eds

What won it for Sky seemed to be the fundamental dishonesty of a single individual at EDS who claimed they had worked on an MBA that anybody could buy via an "internet university". The Sky lawyer bought a degree for the dog named Rover.

The could have gotten away with incompetence but when the liar doubled down on lying that was the end.

Because, when it is used in construction:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grenfell_Tower_fire

+1 for thorough but:

> Titanium is in theory much better, but is incredibly difficult to work with(requiring forgings in most cases, and being almost unmachinable), and very expensive as the bond it forms with oxygen is so strong the normal fluorine based processing used with Aluminum won’t work. Yeah, you read that right.

I have a spoon bought from Amazon which they claim is made from titanium. [Lockheed_SR-71_Blackbird](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lockheed_SR-71_Blackbird) claims 31 aircraft made from titanium and first flew in 1964. Given they got it off the ground in 1964 and can make a spoon in 2022 what kind of machining problems are left to solve for titanium? Usually it's the other way round like make s spoon from wood for 5,000 years then make an aircraft in 1905.

+1 for Francis Maude because he definitely grokked it.

Martha Lane Fox also deserves mention for: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/directgov-2010-an...

They all tore up the rulebook. The rule being: Government can’t do computers. Outsource to favourite big consultancy. Twenty years were wasted on that nonsense approach.

Some of the greatest resistance comes from the big departments who are actively hostile to many of the changes required to work in this way. There’s a lot to be said for a round of golf at The Belfry with the splendid chaps from the IT consultancy your department spends £2bn a year with.

Golf days: https://parliamentlive.tv/event/index/abfe49d3-f24c-4b93-b8e...

> But I like stats ML and data so I'd love to try for that.

Building some reputation on an ML/AI/Data site like Kaggle might be helpful to get noticed.

https://www.timpson-group.co.uk/timpson-foundation/ex-offend... Timpson's have a very strong reputation for offerening employment to marginalized groups. I'm sure they have a back office operation that drives the shoe repair and key cutting shops so they may be worth investigating.

> Throughout the pandemic, each time a public safety measure arrives on the scene, some experts fret that the masses will simply use the newfound sense of security as license to behave recklessly, canceling out or even reversing any benefits of the safety measure.

The public did recklessly go out and panic buy toilet paper. I suspect the experts may have a point.

>Cute, but trivially falsifiable. Wearing a Freddy Krueger mask on Halloween doesn't make you Freddy Krueger.

That is true enough for most, but not all.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Gonzalez_(spree_kille...

Daniel clearly could not separate the Freddy mask from fiction and made it a tragic reality.

>There are probably more trolls pretending to be Nazis than there are actual Nazis.

"We are what we pretend to be." --- Kurt Vonnegut

If those assembled people are armed and dressed for fighting, must I support them to be considered a supporter of freedom of speech?

Indeed:

2) Bring every container chassis owned by the national guard and the military anywhere in the US to the ports and loan them to the terminals for 180 days.

Loan them sounds like they want them for free.

What's the plan for the military to move containers during the 180 days if all their kit is loaned out?

Wherever there's a geek beating on a book. I'll be there :)

Failing to turn up to 5 COBRA meetings on the bounce could account for Johnson's failure to grasp the seriousness of the situation he was dealing with. Preferring to be spoonfed reassuring pap armchair experts like like Cummings show a clear lack of judgement.

It's called a citation.

Yet he is happy to spout lies about single mothers for his followers:

https://www.google.com/amp/s/news.sky.com/story/amp/general-...

He has never taken the high road in his life.

The EU helps to fund the sarcophagus built around Chernobyl:

https://www.euractiv.com/section/energy/news/eu-co-finances-...

Which might account for why they are reticent about nuclear.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/924574.stm interesting that in 2000 the panic was sparked by an active measure, e.g. a physical blockade of refineries, this time round it only took a leaked document.

Ensuring there are regular backups of the organizations data is the responsibility of the organization and not the responsibility of GitLab.

Disaster recovery did not go away with the advent of cloud providers. It morphed from having a plan to recover when fire takes out a data centre to having a plan to recover when provider X whose free plan we base our business on no longer has our data.

It won't be worse for either Cook or Pichai though.

His accent is quite common in Scotland. What's really cool is he has a brother "Ralfy" who also has a Youtube channel specializing in reviewing Whisky:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DWRyIShLRO0

They are the Tappet Brothers of the 21st Century.

That would be very cuil.

s/woke/being nicer to people/g

Master/journeyman/apprentice were the terms in the middle ages when your parents sold you to master as indentured labour for a 7 year term. I'm of the mind that that was a form of slavery.

Peter Grimes in the George Crabbe poem murders apprentices and get off Scot free until an eventual comeuppance.

I'd be happy with Dave Chappelle defining what's racist.

What if you want to make organisations who need English translations of EU documents foot the bill for translating into a non Official EU language?