alexbilbie

The good to know points are very strange; looking at London:

| Most Londoners socialize in their own neighborhood and rarely cross the river -- pick your area carefully because it becomes your whole world.

This just flat out isn't true and is a bit of a historic trope

| Council tax varies wildly by borough, so two flats at the same rent can cost hundreds different per year in total.

Council tax is defined by the value of the property, not by the rent

| The Overground and Elizabeth Line have completely changed which neighborhoods are convenient -- don't just look at Tube maps.

The tube maps show the Overground and Elizabeth Lines as well as all the other TFL managed services. A better map of where is "convenient" is this https://neilgarratt.com/campaigns/improving-travel-times/

Having said that I 100% agree with the rest:

| Sunday in London is genuinely excellent with markets, roasts in pubs, and park life -- it's the city's secret best day.

| Cycling has become a serious commuting option with protected lanes expanding every year, especially south of the river.

It is free to become VAT registered and only takes a few days for the VAT number to be assigned and posted to you.

There’s going to be a lot of LinkedIn scrapers and tools that are going to stop working if LinkedIn adopt this - a lot of these tools work off particular session cookies you share with them

For those who don't know, Dame Stephanie “Steve” Shirley was a British entrepreneur and philanthropist, famous for founding Freelance Programmers in 1962 - a pioneering software company that primarily employed women working from home, decades before remote work was normal.

She changed her name to Stephanie and later adopted “Steve” as a professional first name to overcome gender bias in business correspondence - male clients were more likely to respond.

She came to Britain as a child refugee via the Kindertransport in 1939.

You can read more about her story here - https://www.steveshirley.com/

Its an ancient practise, codified into law in 2012 when the regulatory framework was re-codified from multiple laws like Port of London Act 1908 as well as time immemorial acts like this.

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When I applied for my UK driving license I was able to opt in to the organ donation register then

Cloudfront now has native brotli support

You can also use ACM certificates directly on nitro-powered EC2 instances too

https://docs.aws.amazon.com/enclaves/latest/user/nitro-encla...

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Rent control is not a neoliberal policy - neoliberalism promotes free markets and de-regulation with which rent control does not align to.

That’s a fair point about creating Stipe tokens.

In my experience (processing several thousand payments with Stripe daily) when there are blips they do seem to be isolated to specific endpoints/entities.