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I'd draw a distinction between intellect and intelligence . It's quite possible to have a powerful intellect and still make poor decisions, i.e. be stupid. Intelligence is about ma…

Yes, healthcare is "as long as a piece of string" in so many ways that I don't think it's a solvable problem, but definitely could do with a better level of debate than the sacred …

Approaching zero. It wasn't paperwork holding things back, but people who knew there was no problem with poor performance. The contractors knew it and would milk it as long as they…

Yes, I have, so no, it's not a complete fairytale. I was quite clear on my views.

That depends on your socio economic status. If you're rich, the service is unbelievably good, if not, it's not. You can't treat figures about the US the same way while ignoring the…

I've worked in the NHS, for several different organisations at different levels of the hierarchy (PCTs, SHAs, CCGs etc), as a contractor, over several years. I would privatise it t…

I'm going to give it a try for a while, thanks.

Thank you.

What is STT?

I agree with you. A PhD (then) student I know was supplied with a Comp Sci Masters student from the uni to help her set up a website for data collection across Europe. She complain…

There's RFC 4151 to keep in mind, TagURI, a scheme for URIs that is independent of URL (but can use it too). One reason to use it would be to mark a page as being the same resource…

Thanks for this. I did some extra work on it (via someone else's fork) so it can run across multiple directories. I've too many projects lurking around to cd into all of them! I ad…

It's not asking for access to the system keychain. No, those aren't the automated update checks because I already dealt with those. Yes, I'm treating it like a hostile app - it's a…

I have all those boxes unticked, and yet Little Snitch shows me it still keeps trying to connect to Google's servers, around every 15 minutes and on start up at the very least . I …