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Comment on Drones, Amazon & the future of labour relations by jcee

jcee — Thu, 26 Jun 2014 03:07:52 +0000

The Left – the actual Left as opposed to the neoliberal pseudo-Left – will continue to focus on capitalism and larger issues of equality and social justice. The scenario you present could well offer opportunities for change that could harness broad-based social action.

Comment on Drones, Amazon & the future of labour relations by Software will destroy transport – The era of drones « Damien Mulley

Software will destroy transport – The era of drones « Damien Mulley — Wed, 04 Dec 2013 10:28:43 +0000

[…] course as I started writing this, I saw Chris Applegate’s post and that pretty much covers all of this so you can stop reading now. Chris thinks it will be […]

Comment on Drones, Amazon & the future of labour relations by Max Parker

Max Parker — Tue, 03 Dec 2013 12:32:01 +0000

Very interesting, and it’s good to see an update to this blog, I’ve missed your commentary.

A related idea that one of my friends brought up is the concept that free market economics could be unsustainable. It seeks efficiency in labour, by reducing pay to the minimum necessary for survival (or lower), and by use of automation to eliminate people. Taken to the extreme, with automation increasingly introduced into white collar jobs, this will leave nobody able to afford any of the products of the free market apart from essentials.

Comment on Why it took me five months to write @whensmytube by Peter Saxton

Peter Saxton — Mon, 30 Sep 2013 11:47:55 +0000

Great job and an interesting read. I have several Questions though.
First the same as Chris above, I am sure that trackernet does not include DLR services so what is the source of DLR station departure boards?
Second, do you have any more comments on the logic behind dealing gracefully with “kings cross” vs “King’s Cross St. Pancras”? I have looked through the code on github and it seams that you just look through a list of key words relating to alternatives.
Finally just want to add my agreement with your thanks to TfL. They don’t need to provide this data and I am currently struggling even to find a complete dataset of disabled access information for national rail stations.

Comment on Why it took me five months to write @whensmytube by Chris Birkett

Chris Birkett — Fri, 09 Aug 2013 23:36:56 +0000

Great job, Chris. As a developer just looking into TrackerNet, I definitely appreciate the level of effort that surely went in!

Quick technical question – did you use TrackerNet predictions (summary or detailed) to build this? If so, how did you get DLRs working? Do you have the line code for it? There’s only so much googling / brute forcing I can do. Some things one is clearly just not meant to find! Any pointers would be much appreciated – many thanks.

Comment on Introducing @whensmybus by @VixBus: proposta de melhoria do transporte público de Vitória | Cérebro eletrônico

Mon, 06 May 2013 19:01:18 +0000

[…] (vixbus@gmail.com) e twitter (@vixbus), entramos em contato com o o Chris Applegate – do @whensmybus, do Reino Unido – e com o Metzen, de Vitória, que criou o excelente No Ponto e iniciamos a […]

Comment on “Your Freedom” is a failure. How to make it better by Crowdsourcing policy? Politicians do this better than apps | Local Democracy

Sat, 06 Apr 2013 20:22:07 +0000

[…] of that said, how have they done, and what could they have done better? Well Chris Applegate rather lays the boot in here, effectively endorsing the treasury’s approach rather than the ‘Your Freedom‘ […]

Comment on Some thoughts on quitting Facebook by a.sangaki

a.sangaki — Fri, 07 Sep 2012 07:20:13 +0000

Hey everybody, I hate the steaming turd that is timeline and have declared September 12th ” Quit facebook Day”.
Join me or don’t, but I am closing my account on the 12th.
As DEVO would say it’s my FREEDOM OF CHOICE. Smell ya later.

Comment on The curious case of Twitpic’s disappearing Terms of Service by James

James — Sun, 15 Jul 2012 12:36:32 +0000

When I upload pictures on Twitter via Twitpic the older ones disappear! (I knew I should’t trust Twitter for those memories) That’s why I’ve switched to Instagram, it was resolved but days after it went back to deleting my old photos again whenever I upload a new one. I used to have 10 rows but as I upload new pictures be it via Twitpic or Instagram or what it deletes older pictures right now I only got 4 rows of pictures most of my real time one moment memories gone. I don’t know how or where can I retrieve my pictures but for sure.

Comment on There is no HTTP code for censorship by ???? | ??451???????? - ??????

???? | ??451???????? - ?????? — Thu, 14 Jun 2012 13:46:29 +0000

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Comment on There is no HTTP code for censorship by ?? » ??451????????

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Comment on There is no HTTP code for censorship by More 451 | Die wunderbare Welt von Isotopp

More 451 | Die wunderbare Welt von Isotopp — Tue, 12 Jun 2012 10:21:04 +0000

[…] which in turn references an even older discussion at http://www.qwghlm.co.uk/2008/12/09/there-is-no-http-code-for-censorship/ […]