Recent content by MrGray

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    Lawyers send warning to people who use ChatGPT, Gemini, and Claude at work in South Africa

    Are these the same lawyers who derive a huge chunk of their income from advising on compliance with POPIA, EEA, etc?
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    South Africa stuck in a dollar trap

    Have they only noticed now that the US Dollar has been the global reserve currency for 82 years?
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    Only 33% of South Africa’s air quality monitoring stations are operational and meet minimum requirements

    Air quality monitoring stations running at SANAS standards require a lot of regular maintenance, calibration and general babysitting, and that's before you even get the data off them reliably and conduct proper quality assurance on it. The typical station has an array of very expensive and...
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    SARS plan to get more South Africans to pay their taxes

    Anybody in their right mind who receives a WhatsApp claiming to be from SARS will immediately assume it's a scam.
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    Uber is illegal in South Africa

    "The fact that Uber’s registration remains outstanding after nearly seven months from its submission and six months after the deadline is puzzling." So... the way this story is spun is that Uber has ignored the process when the small print explains that Uber filed the registration and it's the...
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    Ramaphosa says a new international flight for South Africa is coming

    He speaks as if restoring one of the many routes they dropped when they ran the airline into the ground is some kind of achievement.
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    One-week warning for anyone with a driving licence in South Africa

    I am so glad I saw this urgent warning.
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    Zero-alcohol driving law for South Africa is like setting a 30km/h highway speed limit and jailing people for it

    There's a reason why most jurisdictions have settled on 0.05 - the incremental risk of alcohol impairment up to that point is very minor, so it's a reasonable trade off between a draconian regime and safety. I'm interested on the policy effects that self driving vehicles might ultimately have -...
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    Compulsory new laws coming for vehicles in South Africa

    Just as long as people understand that this will dramatically increase the price of entry level cars. Safety vs utility is always a trade off. You could make the roads extremely safe if you decreased the speed limit to 5km/h, but there's a point where society accepts a level of risk in order to...
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    SARS is coming hard after South Africans looking for over R500 billion

    It is likely that the reason for this debt is that those individuals and businesses literally don't have the cash on hand to pay them. So no amount of coming hard at them will change that.
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    Stop what you're doing right now and take a photo

    I just want to point out what it looks like if you take the thread instruction completely literally. Did I win?
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    R111.6 billion threat can sink Eskom

    Maybe it's time to somehow stick a remotely controllable meter in every property and just switch off anyone who doesn't pay up? Would that cost more than they'll lose in the long run? This would also allow for variable peak demand rates. I know this has been considered and there is the whole...
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    Airlink ultra-low-altitude stadium flyover stunt under official review

    I don't think you have to be an aviation expert to question whether flying passenger jets 14m over a crowded stadium through pyrotechnics with a high density residential area in the flight path behind the stadium is the wisest idea. Fly them +100m above the stadium at a clearance that I suspect...
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    Chery’s latest car brand to unveil 2 new SUVs in South Africa this weekend

    Someone mentioned to me recently that one of the reasons he doesn't like the Chinese brands is that no sooner than you've committed to buying one model there's a newer one out with more gizmos and a better design.
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    Eskom diesel lie

    It does not sound like it was a "failure". More like fraud.
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