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The BBC charter is being renewed soon, and there is certainly a faction within Government that is trying to push the BBC in this direction.

The BBC is forbidden from undertaking any commercial activity within the UK in their charter. While obviously quite integral to the way the BBC works and is able to work, this is a weird side-effect o…

I haven't seen this before. No URL can be posted twice afaik, so hackermoon.com must be doing something odd with their URLs. My apologies.

Why?

It has high value in small volume - this is the point. It allows you to keep significant sums of money outside of a bank with relative ease. The abolition of high-value notes makes this significantly …

I have, it's great fun, the documentation is fantastic . Reminds me - I need to update my watchfaces to the new SDK this weekend!

I like that they've staunchly resisted trying to compete with Android Wear / iWatches, but are sticking to their guns, even with their 3rd-gen products (most recent KS). Although a shiny ful…

* burgles. I tend to ignore these types of news articles, of the format: "[Pokemon Go/AirBnB/Uber/New Thing] used in crime!". Crime remains the same, the landscape and tools c…

I do not think it is, no. I think the difference in deterrence between prison, and prison where you might starve is likely to be very low. The real question is not whether rehabilitation-based prison …

But they're bad people, and they must be punished. /s

Don't ask questions, have a conversation, preferably with quite a few people involved from the team they're applying to. Some conversation starters I have used: * What's the biggest pro…

And the microphone? I'm much more wary of microphone data being captured than camera data.

We have the means already: government controls on their stockpiles, and different tariffs for different uses of the gas.

Yeah, the extent to which the banking sector leaves might make an impact, but the collapse of sterling is probably going to drive more investment into London property, not less.

The house-pricing problem is not due to startups (although this has put pressure on/gentrified a few small areas). The startup scene is a very small part of London as a whole. It is the combinati…

I'm not saying Remain didn't peddle crap (or even implied that only Leave was doing so). The two issues I've highlighted are demonstrably false. The whole campaign descended into the wo…

Agreed, for the Brexit vote, anyone with a degree was much more likely to vote remain (and there was a strong correlation between more education and likelihood to vote remain). This current government…

In both the US general election and this referendum, the primary forces at play are emotive campaigning backed by false or at the very least misleading information (in our case: portrayal of immigrant…

Theresa May is one of the scariest contenders as far as I've seen. Very pro-surveillance and anti-open internet. She would be a (nother) disaster for UK tech. If there's anybody left who has…

There are 3 escalators going up, and the left-most 'lane' (left-hand side of the leftmost escalator) is kept as a walking lane.

Totally agree. Standing on the left with space in front is difficult.

I commute to this station every day, at rush hour. There is an 'avatar' (a projection of a person) repeatedly asking people to stand on both sides. Recently she has started becoming more sar…

I'm not trying to justify it, just explaining the reality. Human nature is a powerful thing, and there's only so much anyone can bend it to their will, especially when they're on a rela…

I'm not justifying what goes on there, but I happen to know someone who works in the immigration detention centre at one of the major UK airports. This article is right: you do not want to end up…