Interesting Links for 05-06-2017

[andrewducker]

The real-life events that inspired The Handmaid’s Tale

(tags: viaSwampers feminism history women dystopia )

Scientists discover how the brain recognises faces

(tags: faces vision AI neurons )

UK PM wants to ban crypto: here's what it would cost, and why it won't work anyway

(tags: security OhForFucksSake politics Conservatives uk )

"I'm a serving firearms officer and the Government is wrong to claim police cuts have nothing to do with recent attacks"

(tags: police terrorism fail uk )

Edinburgh trams boost prices of houses along routes

(tags: housing trams edinburgh )

Terrorism is becoming normal, and that will be its undoing

(tags: terrorism society ireland psychology )

General election 2017: Muslim women centre stage in Bradford West

(tags: islam women society uk )

'They didn't get back to me' - The man who reported one of the London attackers two years ago.

(tags: terrorism police fail uk )

Comments

[danieldwilliam]

I wonder why house prices are moving more in Ballgreen and Saughton than they are in Murrayfield?

Murrayfield is posher than Ballgreen but I'm wondering that is translating in to a big difference in house price movement.

[andrewducker]

I suspect the difference between "I wouldn't want to live there" and "That's now an option" is more than "That's a nice place to live" and "That's a slightly nicer place to live".

Murrayfield already got lots of buses, and was somewhere people wanted to live. Whereas Saughton was somewhere people were actively avoiding, so if it's now entered the list of places in Edinburgh that people consider living it's going to leap up a fair bit.

[danieldwilliam]

That's a good point. If the reason house prices are low is that the area is not brilliant *and* the public transport links are very poor then fixing one is going to have to a big effect compared to somewhere the public transport links were already pretty good.

Does Saughton become a target for gentrification now?

[andrewducker]

I think that anywhere which becomes affordable and not completely toxic to middle-class people moving in will get gentrified.

[randomdreams]

Correct me if I'm wrong, but if I use partial disc encryption (in my case, say, an encrypted directory in /home/[user]/, that's indistinguishable from free space, isn't it? So how would they even do this? Try to ban encryption applications?

[andrewducker]

You're right, and yes, the only way to do it is to ban encryption apps. Which basically means banning the internet. The levels of draconianness needed to prevent encrypted conversations are at North Korea levels.