arj2024.bsky.social
Programmer since the ZX80 days when a computer came as a kit you had to solder together yourself (and so long ago it was in black & white). Never been to pick up my A Level results, only ever worked for my own company.🇪🇺
⬆️ Front garden, FR
⬇️ Cambridge
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You are exactly right. Without EU SM+CU we'll never get our SMEs exporting to the EU again.
Sadly this brain dead government are unable to see it or are so petrified of a bad Daily Express headline they daren't even mention the EU.
They are just pathetically useless.
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I've heard of instances where the opposite happens and school staff give considerable support to the student to get the coursework ready to be submitted.
I guess there are some parents who expect to get descent results for their money.
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My other half works for an exam board...that's not half of what they do to get better results!
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Super lucky that my kids go to the best performing school for Oxbridge admissions - yes it's a state school (Hills Road Sixth Form in Cambridge).
How they achieve this with just £4,834pa/pupil is a miracle!
Many kids leave private schools to join HRSFC in the sixth form if they want good results.
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Exactly. Many private schools don't get great exam results either. Many of the children I hear about need to supplement their expensive school with additional tutors to pass exams. The sports field might look lovely but the exam results aren't great.
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In my household 3 of 4 need to go to Cambridge at least once per day. The bus, on Thursday mornings to take people to sell produce at St Neots market (what!), goes in the opposite direction!
Often urban politicians set policies without any comprehension of life a few miles from the city centre.
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He must mean "working class people" who he wrongly believes are the people who vote Labour. The people he's thinking about much prefer the racism and xenophobia of Reform.
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🤷♂️It explains their reluctance to offer any criticism.
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You're probably not allowed to say it but I suspect you really need to have had your own children before you are fully qualified to decide the fate of others.
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Here is Cambridgeshire we had a somewhat older Reform Councillor who was kicked off the Council's children and young people committee after "clumsy and regrettable" remarks.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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I bet these are the same private school parents who try and get an injunction to stop ALL exams because their precious child has an exam clash (despite being within the JCQ rules).
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I totally support youngsters getting involved in politics - it's the only way we'll shift the policy bias towards older people.
However, I suspect you need greater life experience to deal with child and adult services, something a 19 year old is mathematically unlikely to have.
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Both of them are useless and simply don't seem to understand what's needed to grow a business (and therefore grow the economy).
Perhaps that's to be expected when they are a government of ex-civil servants and union people.
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I'm not sure Cambridge needs East-West rail as much as it needs a comprehensive "travel to work" transport infrastructure.
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It's utterly pathetic that Starmer and Reeves can't see that business needs EU SM+CU to get growth started.
An economy in decline will be ruthlessly exploited by Farage to march straight into No. 10 at the next election.
Why can't Labour see the risk? Time for Starmer & Reeves to be replaced?
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How on earth can Reeves be so ignorant of the fact that the UK needs EU SM+CU if it is ever to get growth started?
Unbelievable. It's time for Starmer and Reeves to be replaced with a pro-EU leadership to save the economy otherwise Farage will march into No. 10.
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How about pushing the police to take an interest in the Cambridge cycle theft problem?
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Because this Labour Government made "GDP Growth" the metric they want to be judged on.
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The "0.7%" GDP Growth last quarter was an aberration caused by a seasonally adjusted investment figure (ie not "real" growth - merely an accounting trick). It's therefore no surprise to see GDP growth fall.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=bZaG...
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Starmer & Reeves need to be urgently replaced with a pro-EU leadership.
Unless this happens the UK economy will continue to decline.
Without growth the inevitable recession will be ruthlessly exploited by Farage to march straight into Number 10.
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Will you refuse to verify your identity as a director or PSC (an offence) and could be disqualified?
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I assume you are not a director of a company otherwise you'd already be familiar with the "GOV.UK One Login" used to replace 190 different methods of accessing Government services?
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The UK government already have that information in their database. It's called an NHS number, a National Insurance Number, a Driving License number, a Passport number...how's it protected today?
It's about safely proving our ID to non-Government organisations, like a bank.
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If implemented carefully then proving your identity wouldn't necessarily result in a static data token that could be tracked.
Using cryptography a new token string can be generated each time so no two are identical, yet your identity is still confirmed.
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Great, so do I, but we're talking about the vast majority of people who don't know how to block adverts or tracking cookies.
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These profile auctions happen every time you view a web page containing adverts. It's not just a Google thing.
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The "reset" was simply a heads of agreement...the details are yet to be negotiated with the EU.
Without EU SM+CU the economy will be unable to thrive.
The inevitable stagnation or recession will be ruthlessly exploited by Farage and hand him the keys to Number 10 at the next election.
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See here for brief details of the real-time auction that feeds adverts based on your profile.
support.google.com/google-ads/a....
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It's because I'm a programmer that I know these profile/location databases already exist and hold details on the vast majority of people.
They might not be databases run by the government but they can, and do, buy access like any other advertiser.
ID doesn't need to be a centralised system.
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Databases of our personal data already exist. Every time you see an advert on a web page your personal data is being traded in a real-time auction to decide which advert is displayed to you.
On balance a secure way of proving identity is surely beneficial?
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I'm pretty sure Palantir et al already have a huge amount of data on you particularly if you carry a mobile phone.
How is the ability to authenticate ourselves securely anything but a good thing?
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I wonder if she will finally admit to the enormous harm Brexit is causing for the UK economy?
They'll never create growth until they have the honesty to acknowledge the biggest problem.
I fear we'll have little honesty today.
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We have Labour politicians who steadfastly refuse to even talk about the enormous harm Brexit is doing to our economy.
How can anyone be that stupid or so fearful of an Express/Mail/Telegraph headline that they prefer to let the economy suffer?
It's nowhere near good enough.
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Our "no papers please" proof of identity by two utility bills and a bank statement from the last 3 months does seem like total madness and open to huge abuse.
Surely if Estonia can use digital ID for all government services the UK can do the same?
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I suppose you could argue they have a lot more familiarity with the issues, compared to the normal aged councillors, given one of them was legally a child last year?
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At what point will Labour admit that Brexit is a huge drag anchor that's slowly sinking the UK economy?
The solution to grow the economy is to re-establish EU SM+CU membership so our SMEs (where 61% of UK employees work) can effortlessly export to the EU again.
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I totally agree. The UI now feels fragile - you almost daren't touch any key for fear it'll change everything.
The UI definitely needs work to make it clear what's existing code and what's proposed.
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This is also the exact location where Johnson wanted to build his "Boris Island" airport.
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In our attention economy charisma matters if you want airtime.
Sadly Starmer is about as exciting as soggy cardboard - that was enough to win the '24 election but far from enough to beat Farage.
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6 cameras covering 9 central roads, cars only, vans, HGVs and coaches exempt, 100 days free for residents.
It sounds like they've learned quite a few important lessons from the STZ (which was much more focused on maximising tax revenue from drivers to help a struggling council).
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I think I'd put my money on Johnson returning to politics.
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Yet we have Labour and LibDem politicians who, until the 2024 election, were advocates of solving this problem by imposing a £1,250-£12,500pa tax on drivers - a tax to deliberately push people out of "their" city. Politicians want to shove this problem away for someone else to solve.
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Free school meals have become an odd metric. My 21yo, at Cambridge Uni, has been rejected from quite a few summer intern programmes because she didn't have free school meals. Were they ever intended to influence the roles you can apply for 15 years later?
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In our attention economy the facts are not all that important.
Reform are successfully making an emotional appeal to low information voters - it's a technique that works particularly well with a 30s video clip on TikTok.
It's why Reform will be so dangerous at the next election.
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What potential harms are there given the information the state already holds on us, either directly or via the commercial data tracking companies who profile our every move?
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I suppose I'm thinking of the services where KYC conditions apply.
I accept proving you are 18 to buy a pint is different.