h2g2bob @h2g2bob@mastodon.dbatley.com

If I was a Tory Chancellor, I wouldn’t abolish inheritance tax. I’d fix the ridiculous marginal rates that can exceed 70%

https://www.taxpolicy.org.uk/2023/09/24/70percent/

Someone did an actual study on why text editing on phones sucks so bad and built a prototype that solves a bunch of its problems and I want it real bad ;_; https://jenson.org/text/

UK GDPR recognises the USA as adequate for some (many?) transfers of personal data:

https://decoded.legal/blog/2023/09/uk-gdpr-recognises-the-usa-as-adequate-for-some-many-transfers-of-personal-data

#UKGDPR #GDPR #DataProtection #Adequacy #USA #decodedlegal #lawfedi

View the International Space Station twice this evening! First, 8:37pm for 5 minutes starting in the west, and again one orbit later at 10.14pm, for only 1 minute. https://spotthestation.nasa.gov/sightings/view.cfm?country=United_Kingdom&region=England&city=London #Space #London

Very enlightening post on the "seven bins" thing from Tom Forth (who I don't think is on the fediverse yet?). Worth a read! https://tomforth.co.uk/sevenbins/

"The length of #motorways in #Europe grew 60% between 1995 and 2020 while #railways shrank 6.5%. For every €1 governments spent building railways, they spent €1.6 building roads.

In the public and political debate, small investments into #BikeLanes and railways were heavily scrutinised while investments in roads were taken for granted. “This absolutely needs to change if we are to meet #climate mitigation targets in the #TransportSector.” "

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/sep/19/european-governments-railways-road-building-report-motorways-funding-rail
from the Guardian

When people say "government needs to get better at regulating tech", the related "government needs to get better at tech to regulate" is just as true, and this inflation/price fixing in Austria is a fantastic example:

https://mastodon.gamedev.place/@badlogic/111071396799790275

If you like listening to podcasts where people are set ingenious puzzles and have to reason things out live, you can now listen to one with me in! I'm in the latest episode of #Lateral with Tom Scott: https://audioboom.com/posts/8362443-completely-inedible-eggs

Every now and then I come across some old ancient webpage left over from the 1990s full of valuable an interesting information. And I’m like oh I need to save this to the Internet archive and then I check and no one has ever save that page ever before! WTF?! These pages aren’t going to Archive themselves people!