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Speaking as someone who has led teams in small startup .net companies. At your level I'd not really be thinking too much about specific C# skills, I'd just expect you to have them.…

Can I push you to give it a try - places with honesty boxes feel like places with honesty boxes if that makes sense. Obviously you might get your car egged once - but you can get e…

Does it keep teasing a war with China - seems like China keeps teasing an attack on Taiwan and the US is deliberately ambiguous on how it would respond to such an attack. I think a…

It makes sense when you remember that the vast majority of football is played by purely amateur players - the rules need to handle a village school as well as the world cup final.

On the battery front that really is just a function of your use. I've got a smart phone I use purely for work, which in reality means sending a handful of messages in a day. That b…

I don't know for sure (not in that world) but wouldn't this make sense from a compartmentalisation perspective? You have a person that knows X and a person that knows Y, but knowin…

Potentially - it's not like a strictly defined term. With mainstream political parties you'd more often think about specific policy areas than the whole business.

Populism is definitely a part of democracy, but it is a criticism from "responsible" politicians for "irresponsible" ones. Obviously this is all politics so you needn't worry about…

So, we often look back on the old days with rose tinted glasses. But let me recount my IT classes from the 90s. We'd sometimes go to the library to write something up in MS Word. W…

Coming from a UK background something I've been long curious about is is there a constitutional reason for when the opposition presidential candidate is selected. It seems like the…

It's not actually really come up fortunately, but we have an agreement that we have £X allowance a month for our own spending. We don't then need to justify what can come out of th…

We do something very similar. All pay goes into a joint account and all the bills and joint expenses come out of that one. We pay ourselves each an allowance that covers our person…

Some people even take a day off sick when they are actually not feeling sick at all!

Worth noting that UK missiles (but not warheads) are taken from a joint pool with the US. They have completely shared maintenance, so any reliability concerns are shared. Similarly…

That's definitely impressive tech, and I'm sure the experience inside a headset is pretty incredible. What I'm saying is that it is not a good match for live sport. When you watch …

My argument is that the experience of seeing sport from a specific seat is inferior to watching it multi camera with huge zoom lenses. The thing that draws you to the stadium is th…

I've heard the sport idea thrown around a few times, but I'm not sure I buy it. If you go to a sports event you are mostly buying the experience of being there, the energy of the c…

Would anyone be condemning people who paid for youtube premium and also blocked tracking with ublock?

I think it's worth gaming out a world without nuclear weapons in the context of the Ukraine war. It seems pretty undeniable that both Russia and NATO would be more willing to count…

I've seen this notion a few times, but I think it bares some scrutiny. What places used to exist that no longer do where you can exist without the expectation of buying something? …

The Royal parks in London generally close at night. Interestingly some of the parks ar "commons" as in common land and so can't be closed!

That might work as a first strike capability - although sailing a cargo ship from North Korea to Tokyo without garnering any interest from intelligence agencies might be more diffi…

Speaking as someone now married to a woman he met on tinder. I took the view that if I matched with someone and they replied to a message there was a pretty high chance they were i…

I'm not sure this is accurate - tests on students are twice a week according to this https://dfemedia.blog.gov.uk/2021/03/09/covid-testing-in-sch...

In the UK flour and yeast disappeared from the shelves for quite a while during the first lockdown baking boom. The issue wasn't a shortage, but a shortage of flour in small bags. …