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That seems to be how the EU works. They did exactly that when Ireland rejected the Lisbon treaty. Ignored the referendum results and basically told them to go back and vote again, …

Good point. I'm actually talking about inflation. I'd assume devaluation usually leads to inflation, especially if we buy a lot of imported goods (we do), but it ain't necessarily …

Devaluation is the easiest solution from a political point of view, but it is basically a transfer of value from those with savings/creditors to those in debt (including all of us …

There is also a fair bit of javascript in there. Disable it, and the side navigation doesn't work.

Ken Livingston shows us it can be done.

People like working from home. They don't have to commute, they can sit a watch telly, they can go into the garden. Lovely. Under those circumstances how many people are going to c…

A major difference between software and engineering (roads, bridges etc) is in the amount of redundancy. Bridges and such are usually made massively bigger and stronger than they n…

My experience is the opposite. Our department recently changed flexi-time start from 7am to 6:30am, leading to moaning in other departments where they want the same (mainly because…

I just read this and came here to see if anyone else was confused by some of the answers they've given. From question 2: "They found that a large percentage of participants overest…

I'm a bit wary of any system that automatically supplies identity information to a website. Under a system like this, how would you decide 'I don't fully trust this site so give it…

Completely off topic but "Wikipedia, brought to you by Orange"? What is that all about?

So they have a quarter-life of 7 years?

"considering one's yearly dose limit is 1 mSv total." In Ramsar, Iran the background radition is around 200 mSv/Y (compared to a worldwide average of 2.4 mSv/Y) and _according to w…