Posts by JHC_97 31 publicly visible posts • joined 17 Oct 2014
I got one of those for of all things a java job in 1999. It was based on assembly memory management. A vital skill in java :-). I'd never done assembly my comment to the manager interviewing me well that was tough. Nevermind he said most don't pass. Oh i said i didn't say i got anything wrong i said it was tough.
This is just nonsense and I assume you as a brexiteer trying to get your way if 52% voted leave and 48% voted remain then the MP is either going to annoy 52 or 48 percent of his/her electorate. Considering the 2020 GE isn't a single issue then not all people will vote purely on which way the MP voted 3 years ago on the brexit deal.
Is there really that much of a burning desire to leave the EU even in Durham/Sunderland i don't see it. Alot of hatred of the south, disgruntlement with the government and a pinch of nationalism but does anyone care enough to take pitchforks onto the streets. I think not.
The rule seems a little daft, but i see nothing wrong in aiming laws specifically at uber. After all they are the ones who say, all over the world, the rules don't apply to us, we are a distruptive technology etc. Whereas all they are is a big huge private hire taxi company trying to use legal semantics to get around taxi laws.
Sigh in one sentence DC is calling JC a security risk in the next he is allowing the Chinese to build nuclear reactors in the UK. Oh and the reason DC can't use a British company probably has something to do with the loan he refused to the British company that makes the cores, unlike these entirely independent chinese companies.
Here is what the original idea of Webservices was there would be a platform I could advertise my skills on it and if you required them for Gardening/Taxi/Web page design/Nuclear Bomb building the platform would link the two of us together. In the very fucked up world we live in this technology is now used in a monopoly to screw the drivers out of what 20% and give the passengers an uninsured ride. This is not a disruptive technology its just having enough money to pay enough lobbiests and lawyers to break the law.
As for the judges ruling its nonsense could the fair be calculated without the phone. No. So is uber using it as a meter yes.
I mean at least Halo uses licensed cabs and if you are in the position of making halo look good 10% off drivers for a digital transaction that probably can't be measured in currency then you are way off the scale.
I think he means from 1969 and 1980 when the tax on the wealthy was massively slashed and we were told we would all get richer as a result.
The last 30 years has seen a massive jump in the wealth of the extremely wealthy and in real terms a drop in the income of the middle class. This is unprecedented in a period of technical innovation such as the internet (see motor car, steam engine etc for earlier tech advances).
It wasn't just the hysteria following 9/11 it was Bush appearing to steal the election. Basically people from countries where election rigging was the norm looked across at the USA and said hey they are corrupt as well. That is when America started losing the propaganda war.
One of the great things about government funded research is it doesn't have to have a clear financial goal. So if government invested more we might get more stuff like.
HTTP invented at CERN
ARM party started by NEB - an government organisation formed because of Wilson speech (not the best sub there Tim)
ARPNET - US Government funded
Internet - Al Gore put the bill though congress
Teflon - NASA
Computers - Bletchley Park
Graphene - University of Manchester
instead of
Viagra - Pfizer
FaceBook - Zuc
better hoovers - dyson
Whilst "Technology changes society" is true, is it not unreasonable for disruptive technology to be reviewed before being let into the marketplace. Its difficult to argue that Uber is worse than a local mini cab business in London, for instance i would be surprised if i hadn't been picked up by an illegal cab more than once but as a multi billion dollar company they need to be held to the highest standard. Its already been shown by journalists that it is easy to use false credentials to set yourself up as a driver and frankly the cut they are taking is outrageous.
When people call for a free market they really mean a fair well regulated market. Uber looks like creating a monopoly very quickly if something isn't done about it. This isn't something that will benefit society.
Okay I don't drive, don't go round in your internal combustion engine causing me asthma.
Note i am not actually telling the poster that he shouldn't have a car just pointing its impossible to live in the modern age without having some effect on others.
Global warming is irrelevant. We are running out of fossil fuels and we don't have that many decades of fission supplies left. We need to develop alternate energy sources. At the moment that means fusion and renewables. If anything produces more electric than the energy used to make it its worth investing in.
Bin the existing trainset certainly the cost of buying the land means we should be looking at a cutting edge train system maglev at least if it going to cost a freaking fortune just to lay the track we might as well spend some money on R&D so we can at least sell the tech on.
Until companies train Graduates our young people won't get the skill sets. Code isn't an under 18 year old discipline. Its best learnt after 3 years of a STEM BSc followed by a taught Masters or in a 4 year Computer Science BSc* (including year in industry). All this rubbish about making computer literate O'Levels or A'Levels is crazy. You wouldn't employ a plumber who showed up with his A'Level in fluid disposal technology so why expect an A'Level in ITC to qualify someone as a coder.
*3 of my friends are at the top of the coding scale and don't have a days academic training in computing between them. When i said best i didn't mean only.
Or someone went oh the cloud/<buzzword of the day> is fashonable right now and chip fab doesn't sound sexy. Lets sell it! It frightens me the way we see our business leaders as all knowing and far seeing when in reality they don't have a clue what they are doing.
We don't know if it was a viable concern, whether the sale had another motive and pointing to it as evidence of the unstoppability of globalization is illogical.
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