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My presumption was it came down to money. Machines have a lot higher initial one off costs. The repair costs of some robots might make them more expensive per hour. Humans are trie…

I might be wrong, UK law is different than the rest of the EU (you can opt out of the working time directive here). That said, isn't it a 40 hour max on contracted hours? Otherwise…

Don't offices and residential buildings have different building regulations, not to mention licenses. I don't know much on the subject but it would't surprise me if this was either…

Recently former BT employee here. The primary affects of stack ranking at BT is on bonus and raises. If you receive a sufficient number of sub-standard rankings then you would go t…

I know for fact BT do not do this however it is my understanding that Amazon (and possibly other big US tech companies operating in the UK) employ their UK workers as contractors t…

I'm getting increasingly intrigued to how much advertising they're getting for their $30m

As some-one living in a flat, if there was somewhere with a quality piano I would happily pay gym prices to go play it. Although much like a gym, if I couldn't get at the piano I w…

I used to get put on a lot of 3:30 shifts because if you worked 4:00 you were entitled to a paid 15min break (worked retail part-time in the UK)

Was coming into this expecting an interesting piece about the distribution of prime numbers. Either a new approach to predicting them or a proof of why they're unpredictable. But n…

Are you saying no project can consist of multiple languages working together?

But that's precisely what this article argues is a falacy. He discusses a trial carried out in hospital conditions with regulated liquid meals of exactly the same number calories b…

What this articles says is any diet which says you can eat the same number of calories and lose weight is lying. Some diets may make you want to eat less calories, but you cannot e…

They're saying the OP came up with the puzzle in the pursuit of karma. Which would appear to have worked.

The question is not one of who is worse. Universal does some morally reprehensible things, that does not excuse Grooveshark. Grooveshark aren't for anybody other than themselves, t…

I have no real knowledge of the law. But I thought it was more along the lines of, you have to have sufficient evidence. If it transpires you were wrong you're ok as long as you ha…

They're not legally guilty but morally guilty. It's websites like Grooveshark that weaken the premise for laws like DMCA safe harbour. Their entire business lies in using DMCA in a…

28 days is the legal requirement in the UK [1]. I'm getting 35.5 total which is reasonably uncommon but not unheard of. Although paid paid holiday does sound pretty fantastic. [1] …

Because any surplus saved for the bad years is money that could have been invested in further growth.

This drive for any business to continually grow (and this isn't a Valley specific problem) is a topic I could rant about for hours. From my understanding growth is necessary in pub…

This is entirely similar to my experience. I played when I was around 18 and created a hacky fix for skirts (they were an object attached to your body and when you sat down they wo…

I used to work in a small supermarket, towards the end of last year we were being directed not to accept credit cards.

Just wanted to add that I've been craving something akin to this system for a fair few years now, the amount of reasonable little bits and bobs I've come up with that I just can't …

I can't be the only person who has never used timelines? I assumed other people used facebook like me: To read what friends had posted, maybe occasionally post myself and respond t…

I think this is a good compromise between allowing their business to run for the day and getting the message to as many people as possible. I particularly like this style of black-…