Chris Francis
@chrisfrancis1
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Day job is SAP Director Government Relations. All opinions are my own. Ideas may be widely sourced!
Joined December 2009
Having seen this for pi , I asked Grok .. and Grok is not encumbered with the foolish consistency that is the hobgoblin of my mind ...
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I can't help but feel at some point we could stop budget secrecy and 'fiscal' events and do actual proper public consultation on new rules and policies and get decent scrutiny on the data used to justify them.
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I'd not seen this Hans Rosling video before - as ever the man is fantastic!
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For the record I didn’t. Telling someone who was forced to give up cycling for medical reasons to tour Europe by ‘Brompton’ so they can ‘learn’ is ableist in the extreme. I do however object to people pushing active travel example with far less public transport provision.
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Glorious …. Vote Dalek - We Want Our Country Back! https://t.co/Dtc2uwVeBz via @YouTube
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https://t.co/obKbPsLAzW. So if it were true that Dyson spheres were commonplace we would have the answer to the Fermi paradox and possible evidence gravity is easier to manipulate than we thought. Otoh possibly fusion power and interstellar travel is seriously harder !
newscientist.com
Sufficiently advanced aliens would be able to capture vast quantities of energy from their star using a massive structure called a Dyson sphere. Such a device would give off an infrared heat signat...
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Just came across this in a government consultation ‘a lack of certainty is not grounds to avoid carefully considered statutory intervention’ … not knowing what is going on is indeed a reason to avoid statutory intervention which by definition can’t be carefully considered.
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Recommendations wanted for a retail bank operating in the UK that understands why I don't want to reset a password by telling a human being my password!
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Just read a draft law which included software but excluded digital content ... sigh.
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NEW: We've taken action against Lewisham Council for failing to respond to hundreds of Freedom of Information requests. At the end of 2022 the Council had: 👉338 overdue requests for information, 👉221 requests over 12 months old, 👉requests in their backlog from December 2020
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Why is it that my pet insurance works with a simple hand over of a policy number to my vet yet my one stop time saving car/legal/house insurance can only communicate in a half a dozen incomplete and ambiguous pdfs with no cross references and repetitive questions?
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https://t.co/fy9n0UVgUK. Just maybe closing Sunningdale was a bad idea …
independent.co.uk
A six-day government workshop on ‘creating a powerful personal presence’ is run by tutors from Rada, the academy of arts theatre – at £1,400 a person
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