FLOSS virtualization hacker, occasional brewer

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  • Care needs to be taken with big orgs like the NHS to not try and boil the ocean with massive IT systems. Concentrating on open interoperability standards allows for smaller more flexible contracts and the ability to swap out components when needed.

    Open source licences would be the ideal default although at a minimum the purchasing org should have a licence that allows them (or subcontractors) to make fixes without being tied to the original vendor.














  • It’s probably cowardice.

    I totally get why people are upset but the real question is what to do next. You can try lobbying the government with the massive majority by accusing them all of being bigots or form a new party (or join an existing one) with this reform at the top of their agenda.

    Sadly while there may or no may not be a majority in the country who have sympathy with the plight of trans people I doubt there are enough where it is the top off their priorities when deciding who to vote for.






  • Alex@lemmy.mltoPhilosophy@lemmy.worldAbout Will
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    5 days ago

    I suspect we don’t know enough about the mechanics of consciousness yet to determine what free will really means. We certainly know enough about psychology to understand predispositions to make certain choices and humans as a group are fairly predictable.



  • I think there is certainly a case for baring MPs from consultancy gigs where they are effectively being paid for influence. It gets trickier with some professions needing a certain number of hours to “stay current”. Who’s going to take a worse paid job which guarantees they can’t return to their old career if they lose the next election?

    I’d prefer paying MPs and ministers more but with the same sort of anti corruption approaches they have in Singapore. Get paid well for an important job but get the book thrown at you if you do anything dodgy. I’d quite like to see professional ministers as well so MPs can concentrate on being MPs but I appreciate that would need some changes to the way parliament work.