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I could have sworn your comment originally said "track and trace" not "test and trace". Perhaps not enough coffee.

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Test, track, and trace.

https://fullfact.org/health/NHS-test-and-trace-app-37-billio...

"The NAO said that of the approximately £13.5 billion spent on the NHS Test and Trace programme in 2020/21, £35 million was spent on the app.

The vast majority of the spending in that year was accounted for by testing (£10.4 billion)."

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Out of an abundance of caution, I've deleted it. So there we are.

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It went un-noticed here, I think, but The Pragmatic Bookshelf recently fired most of its staff and are taking on no new books. In the email they sent to authors, they quoted a 40% YoY fall in non-fiction sales, industry-wide.

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And when they came back, they were blacklisted by order of the government:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-16287211

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You can do:

  cpdf -output-json in.pdf -o out.json

(Modify out.json as liked)

  cpdf -j out.json -o out.pdf

(Disclaimer, I wrote it.)

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PDF annotations sit within the file.

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The last big RISC OS program written in BASIC and assembler. I published something through Cerilica called TextFX, also in BASIC and assembler.

There was also Composition, by a chap from New Zealand. Multiple transparent layers of any size and position, and and interesting system-wide plugin system.

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Try with cpdf (disclaimer, wrote it):

  cpdf -output-json -output-json-parse-content-streams in.pdf -o out.json

Then you can play around with the JSON, and turn it back to PDF with

  cpdf -j out.json -o out.pdf

No live back-and-forth though.

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"....financial precarity (his income through the 1970s averaged £7,600 a year)"

£100000 in today's money in 1970. £35000 in today's money in 1979. Minimum wage today about £23000.

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rules_of_origin

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"Management is that for which there is no algorithm. If there's an algorithm, it's administration." (Maurice Wilkes, IIRC)

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Trains in operation:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Rail_Class_139

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I suspect they are confusing "total market capitalization of companies on stock exchange" with "financial industry".

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We come mentally of age when we discover that the great minds of the past, whom we have patronized, are not less intelligent than we are because they happen to be dead -- Cyril Connolly, The Unquiet Grave

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No, they don't. Whilst Switzerland is not in the EEA, it does have agreements with the EU which include FoM.

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Iceland already has freedom of movement (to live and work) due to its EEA membership; and it is only somewhat to do with Schengen, which is about passport free travel not living and working. You can have FoM without Schengen - e.g Romania until 1st Jan 2025.

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Iceland is not in the CFP.

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Pedantry: Cyprus is in the levant, and the UK has two sovereign areas there.