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"...Whether this reform [Criminal Finances Bill] is adopted will tell us much about who Prime Minister Theresa May really is" Well in theory Britain isn't a dictatorship, so it should…

"...Cuarón’s most effective decision was to shoot so many scenes on the streets of London, without adding much except graffiti, litter and all-round squalor." Actually, I lived around the …

> I've always wondered why more tech companies and corporations don't embrace this aesthetic The Oracle Corporation's global HQ in Redwood City[0] does look a little like the Bonaven…

Also mentioned: "The first time it snowed, all hell broke loose!" Although later on, the article alludes to the ingenious solution to this problem which was devised elsewhere in the world - …

Actually Antony Jenkins had relatively little involvement with investment banking (and only towards the end) - his main background was with credit cards, then as you say retail banking[0]. [0] https:…

I believe the article author is aged around 21, so the dot com boom would not have been within his living memory.

As much as I love Edinburgh, and hope the technology sector and economy there (and in Scotland as a whole) thrives, it has to be said that the technology job market is currently very small in comparis…

My dad worked for the Falklands Islands Dependency Survey between 1958 and 1961, setting up the ionsopheric station at Halley Bay. He then returned to work for the Department of Scientific and Industr…

I've been putting together fanless PCs for my own use for a few years now, also disliking the aircraft-taking-off sound of many desktop PCs when they are switched on. I started with the Zalman Re…

> Most UK roofs are tile, slate if older, and asphalt shingles reserved for sheds, garden structures etc. Tile lifespan should be 60+ years. Asphalt for the better quality sheds, corrugated iron fo…

Good to see they've automated this (beyond the initial classification of training data). In the early days of the web, such filters were typically based on manually maintained lists of sites. I a…

This is essentially what happened to eBay, for example - at first it was a marketplace to connect individual buyers and sellers, but over time shifted to favour the bulk sellers. When the internet was…

There are floating wind farms. The world's largest (according to [0]) is due to be built off the north east coast of Scotland next year. Incidentally, this is not far from the site of another off…

When the author says "add QR codes on bills so that consumers can easily extract their consumption data and make better choices", I think they mean "bill" as in a printed or writte…

"Nigel gave me a drawing that said six inches ... Now, whether he knows the difference between feet and inches is not my problem. I do what I'm told."

Most of the examples of company towns in this article are from the late nineteenth century onwards, when working and living conditions were already starting to improve. But it is worth looking at the …

Exhaustion might have become a status symbol for workers, but according to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11821629 ( http://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/…

According to the reference in [0]: "As at the end of June 2013, there are 197,800 ATMs in use on the [Chinese] mainland, of which 100,700 or 55.28% have been upgraded with the serial number enqui…

I'd have thought that what the article refers to as "coding architect" would be a dev lead in many organisations, and the role of "knowledge-sharing architect" is the traditio…

Brexit should have been a decision about policy, but appears not to have been - that is one of the points of the article. The EU appears to have been too complex a subject for many voters to fully und…

I think that was the point of the original article - the mistrust of "authority" following the financial crisis is leading to irrational behaviour such as blind faith in charismatic leaders …

Like there was plenty of "political innovation", especially in Europe, after the Great Depression in the 1930s? I'd argue that didn't work out too well. Hopefully this time its dif…