That will clear all ignored updates. From the CLI docs it doesn't look like there's a way to do it individually but there's probably a plist somewhere you could modify.
whats the alternative for the ubiquitous payment processor on the web with a centralized interface that allows to communicate with the seller / buyer, addresses complaints, allows to cancel subscriptions etc?
Paypal is fine for sending and receiving payments, but just don't store your funds in PayPal. They have a tendency to seize your money at the drop of a hat. Sweep to bank account every day.
being able to fold a simple origami crane at any given moment is a very satisfying skill, unfortunately, it fades if you don't practice it enough. I learned how to fold origami cranes at least 3 times in my life
With me it is solving the Rubik's cube. I must have relearned David Singmaster's a couple of times but after a year or two of not solving one, I easily forget.
Not completely automated at this stage. Check my last paragraph on my first comment here. As soon we can make it work 100% automatically we will have much more freedom to change our pricing model.
I can't fathom this. I have a condition that makes me incredibly nauseous and STILL I long to cook and eat beautiful meals, even though I can barely tolerate them.
Specifically, I found the "distrustful of everyone to the point of paranoia"-part is really pervasive. I'm not trying to upset anyone here, but it's one of those things that's hard to notice unless you have a different perspective (e.g. you're a foreigners, have lived abroad, etc.)
A lot of the British seem pretty okay with it shrug
The further north you get, the friendlier people are, and the more distrust for Government there is. This however does also include cultural and sectarian divides, so the split isn't as simple as north/south.
With that said, I'm Scottish and living near London and find this distasteful. But it's easier to configure a VPN then whine about it, so maybe we're just lazy?
This is passive listening to unencrypted data. Anyone could do it.
I actually commend them for announcing it. Most businesses just hire an 'analytics' company and end up getting all the same data from their customers without asking.
I think TfL just wants money. People won't pay for public transportation with increased taxes and whine loudly whenever fares are increased to cover the cost of the ride, so instead they track your movements with WiFi.
But the Tube is already foolishly expensive, even by London standards. If you compare it with e.g. the BCN Metro the fares are typically about five times higher.
The only thing to be said for TfL is that the passengers are generally very well behaved and never look at each other.
Compare the whole running cost, not just the ticket price. More than half comes from general taxation.
Also compare to similarly sized cities. Transportation has a massive scaling benefit. If there are 1000 people on a tube train, charging £2.50 each, that's £2500. The drivers salary for the half hour journey could be perhaps £15. The train and track are going to have their costs spread out over 60 years or more. The land was in most cases given to them for free. The electricity for a 5 mile journey for a train costs £0.50.
How else are they spending the remaining £2484.50?
Answer:. Staff salaries are insanely high because of unions. Productivity is insanely low because of government work ethic and red tape. Tech is all contracted out an great expense, and all tech is both ancient and custom, stopping them buying in cheap systems from other countries. In some cases, trains are still controlled by men with big mechanical levers which raise flags!
- TfL isn't just the Tube. Tube profits are used, among other things, to cross subsidize the buses and ferries and whatnot, which carry less passengers per driver. There's also the stuff like bike infrastructure which has most of its cost frontloaded.
- Track is not a sunk cost, there's also ongoing maintenance and renewal. They've spent billions and are spending billions of pounds on upgrading the signals, and are also spending billions of pounds on upgrading the fleet and make it bigger. Not to mention capital works like building out the Northern Line Extension, the upgrade of Camden Town and eventual separation of the Northern Line, the continuous drive to build accessible access to stations, the assorted array of Crossrail-related upgrades, etc.
- National funding. TfL has seen its operating grant from the Department of Transport shrink to zero since 2017/2018, and has to make up for it from other sources.
Sure they spent billions on new signals... But signals are really just lights in boxes. If I gave you a pile of raspberry pi's, some light bulbs, and a few months salary, I think you could do it.
The expense comes from the ancient methods they wanted to use. In the same way a handwritten book is much more expensive than using a printing press.
The new signals are trains communicating their exact location with each other and a centralized control system, and determining their speed based on the train in front of them. The same kind of vehicle-to-vehicle communication that doesn't really exist in personal automobiles today, despite billions of dollars in investigations. You can't use LIDAR or anything used in commercial AVs, because trains are much heavier and take longer distances to come to a complete stop, and line of sight is not sufficient.
If a satisfactorily reliable solution for such a problem could be engineered on the cheap, a private company offering it for much less would make a fortune off of all the railways chomping at the bit to save billions of dollars. The fact that no such solution exists anywhere leads me to believe that it isn't trivial.
Now compare it to other countries in Europe or even my home; Hong Kong, the region with the most expensive real estate in the world. I live and work in the equivalent of Zone 1 and pay 5.1 HKD (50p) to get to work, even less because there's currently a government fare subsidy scheme in operation.
I thought part of the issue was to raise prices in order to reduce demand, since you can’t even get on the trains at some stations during the rush hour.
It is falling to have to pay five quid to stand on a platform looking on as several train loads of sardines poke their heads through open doors, before you can squeeze on.
Opinion but I'm getting that impression, I was visiting Britain earlier this year and to gain entry to a sit down restaurant (Denny's type place), I was required to produce my passport or ID so that a copy could be scanned and saved before being granted entry (this was the norm for locals as well).
There are plenty of nightclubs that do this, and police frequently mandate that they do so as a requirement of operating their alcohol license in the UK. It's completely legal.
It would be very unusual for a restaurant to do so, but I'm wondering if it might have been a restaurant with a nightclub attached (if we're talking central London here maybe Tiger Tiger?). That's quite plausible.
This is extremely common at major bars in most states in the US, especially if you're anywhere near a college. It's there to detect fakes. I'd imagine fake IDs are a much larger problem in the US, however, given that the drinking age is 21.
That said, at least years ago, the ID scanners would operate on data stored on the card and not make any network connection to a database. So then more expensive fake IDs began to exist that could scan fine. Then, I think some bars started getting more expensive ID scanners which actually do talk to some database.
Some bars and nightclubs use ID scanners for verification purposes. A machine vision system is much better than a bouncer at spotting fake IDs or knowing what a Latvian driving license is supposed to look like. The scanner can also check names against a list of banned patrons, which may be shared between venues.
This isn't quite true. Since the licenses can be valid for a long time (e.g. ten years) there are still europeans with valid old-style licenses. Until I renewed mine last month I had a ridiculous paper booklet with a photo glued on.
Free credit checks - make sure you didn't get an unknown credit card / loan / mortgage opened. You could also be cautious and report that passport as stolen, so it gets reissued with different numbers.
FYI, that's not even slightly normal for eating out in the UK. In my entire life, I have never been required to produce ID when eating out (other than perhaps a few times when I was younger and ordering alcohol, to prove that I was of legal age).
In fact, such a policy would probably be catastrophic, because there was a big fight over whether we would all be required to carry compulsory ID cards here a few years ago, and for once the civil liberties side won after a big campaign.
Most older Brits don't carry any sort of ID at all. Young people often need ID to buy booze, but when you're old enough that nobody could mistake you for under 25 they never bother you. Source: I've never carried ID, in my 40s this ceased ever causing any hassle because now nobody ever even asks.
This absolutely _isn't_ normal. I don't routinely carry ID, and never have done. The only place I can think of that did this was one nightclub near my university, but the upshot was we just didn't go to that nightclub often.
Given that almost nobody in the UK has any form of ID on them at any given time, and certainly nothing a restaurant can verify, it seems this as an entrance policy may be hurting the restaurant's business. Where was it? I've never been asked this. Did you consider reporting them to the police? If not, why not?
I wouldn't be entirely surprised if you had to do this to get into a restaurant somewhere slightly sensitive, such as at the top of a skyscraper. And i have been asked for ID - and patted down! - going to the bowling lanes in a slightly gangy part of town.
But nobody's going to give you the third degree to get into a Nando's.
Plenty of bars in my local area of London have this set up unfortunately, usually they only turn them on after a certain point in the evening. I understand it's a requirement of their license. Most larger nightclubs in London will also do the same, I was very concerned when I first saw it.
