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All the UK university ranking systems use basically the same data — the National Student Survey (NSS) which measures students' impression of teaching quality, the Graduate Outcomes…

Does anyone else find Signal quite hard to use? The syncing between devices stops working a lot of the time, and needing to sign in again fairly regularly. I’ve tried switching but…

London’s DLR is a gadgetbahn. For all its obvious limitations it’s been quite successful. Lots of new stations, lots of expansions, decent integration with traditional rail. VLR wo…

It’s fairly obviously designed to avoid the issues which almost caused the cancellation of the new Edinburgh tram — spiralling costs caused by the need to move existing utilities u…

I’ve had the same experience on a flight. They said the plane was overweight and we couldnt travel. The person I was travelling with became extremely difficult. Then magically, it …

The conclusion of Davies' second extract — about e.g. being bumped off a flight — is recognisable but the conclusions are actually wrong. The situation in these cases is actually m…

The conclusion of Davies' second extract — about e.g. being bumped off a flight — is recognisable but the conclusions are actually wrong. The situation in these cases is actually m…

It’s not that complicated. Business rates (commercial property tax) are very high for shops in the UK, and Charity shops are exempt. The rates really are high — about 50% on top of…

The first paragraph misstates the nature of the Wirecard fraud. The money wasn’t ’siphoned off’, it never existed in the first place.

The British art journal has run a long campaign to establish that (a) museum photographs of out of copyright works cannot be copyrighted and (b) the schemes to sell such reproducti…

If Programmers Had to Work Like Architects - you aren't allowed to do any programming yourself, you just write a specification - the majority of the people doing the programming ar…

The precedent people should be paying much more attention to is sampling in music. When it first arose, it really wasn’t clear what status it had. There was at least a decade when …

It’s actually ‘anthropogenic’ (as in caused ‘generated’ by humans) if we’re going to be pedantic

Their auditors reported that they couldn’t be sure the (reported) 500 million in subscription revenue actually existed because the financial controls were so underdeveloped. I can …