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There's a proposal to create 'virtual' articles from Wikidata: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikidata/Notes/Article_genera... The benefit of this is that articles would be dynamic…

Depneds on the company - best to do some research. Are there any clues from photos on the company website/at events? If you know someone (who knows someone etc) who works there, as…

Also, although this is more the case overseas rather than in Westeros itself, slaves. Ancient Greece and Rome certainly had the knowledge and ingenuity to have industrial revolutio…

Not sure about the identifier used in England and Wales, but in Scotland most boards use the 10-digit CHI number. From this you can determine the patient's date of birth and sex. F…

"It is a well-known fact that those people who must want to rule people are, ipso facto, those least suited to do it... anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President s…

This is very like what happens in the book World War Z, which was probably inspired by government responses to SARS and other epidemics. A mysterious disease arises in China, and t…

Just as well he's not gay then - Bradley Manning would have found things a bit harder in this situation

Interesting that having a daughter makes CEOs more mindful of equal pay, when they already had a woman close to them that they should be looking out for - their wife/partner (I'm a…

At least it's not a load of non-technical founders of 'pink' startups (fashion, kids etc) and tech tv presenters, as these things tend towards. Found some cool people to follow on …

I had similar feelings when I started to use 'programmer' and 'developer' on my CV, and when I started my first IT contracting job. I had done programming in my previous job, but i…

'electronic dance music' does not seem to be all that new to me. I'm amused by the idea that something popular in Europe for decades which originated in US alternative cultures is …