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I'm an avid FT reader and like that description, but have never seen it before. Any chance you can provide a reference?

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Particularly in London, houses are overvalued to the extent that rents are comparatively cheap vs. the rest of the country. Rental yields in London are significantly lower than the…

The problem is what the question implies, which is that in this workplace the interviewer has until now found it impossible to to convince his manager. This doesn't look good for t…

They never had control or they never lost it?

Your experience will depend very much on which Terminal you're at (there is a big difference in age and layouts of individual terminals) and, in particular, whether you're forced t…

Essentially you are being given a copy of a VM that has a copy of Windows pre-installed. It's unlikely (but possible) that Microsoft has granted a license for this. I imagine this …

In some jurisdictions penknives are explicitly allowed, due to their blade typically being just under 60mm long.

If you're interested in using a js bookmarklet to bypass, search for "froomens".

I think that's a very interesting question, to which the answer probably depends on how you define 'thrive'. It seems unlikely to me that any language could become mainstream witho…

The passwords are generated on the client.

This. I find it surprising that the offender wasn't terminated and incomprehensible that the victim was required to continue reporting to him.

My girlfriend started watching Reign on Netflix when we were visiting the US. She is able to watch it when she visits me in the UK. At her home in Germany it is unavailable.

Absolutely! Also, the inclusion of non-ASCII operators harkens back to APL. Mind mind isn't yet made up on whether I like this. I anticipate code being easier to read and harder to…

A "good" language might let you run "5 < x" when x is a list and return a list of booleans. This is what languages in the APL family do.

Thanks for that - I'd never heard of the Igon Value Problem and love the concept.

Why do you not find this believable? In the UK there is a 24.2 year difference between the life expectancy for men in the Calton area of Glasgow and the national average . I think …

Malta has the reputation of being the easiest to acquire EU citizenship. It's unlikely that Germany would be one of the easiest, as it requires 8 years of permanent residence to be…

Yes, ideally those human rights would be provided for by the government. However, there is too much food poverty and lack of medical insurance, even in developed nations, for me to…

I have a hunch that this may play out in a similar way the Scottish Independence Referendum did last year. It is in the interest of business and the elite to stay in, while there i…

Insider information is known but non-public. I think it's more appropriate to describe this as forward-looking. I.e. we are getting an insight into things that haven't even happene…

If the list is known in advance, what about a strategy of sorting the items by absolute value and then summing from smallest to largest? Would this improve accuracy? If so, by how …

I agree that doors of parked cars in cities may be a frequent and painful source of cycling accidents. They are not, however, the most dangerous. The most dangerous source of accid…