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You could double that number to account for the "fraud and error" spend at DWP: I would presume that further spending in this regard is dedicated to other departments.

I would count coordination here as a deep technical skill, which requires a depth of study and/or experience. You are selling your coordination skills. It's the stick of the T.

People who have broad interests with no depth of knowledge have not identified (for themselves) where their value lies. I would imagine that this type of engineer needs to be caref…

Requiring "means testing", i.e. excluding people who are not in need, is often shown to cost more money than it saves. (and allows some people who don't technically qualify to fall…

> The market price for a referral is negative. Businesses would normally pay to seek them out. By threatening to withdraw from a national market, Google seem to be saying that its …

I think the video evidence people wish to collect is exactly the evidence that you are wrong - that people get arrested (or perhaps brutalized, or killed) despite being wholly resp…

I learned recently that the Food Pyramid was created by the Department of Agriculture in the US, i.e. not by the Department of Health. So, not experts. (Not in the field they were …

I would wager that "Reject All" does not, in fact, opt you out of "Legitimate Interests" - sites are using the language "Object to Legitimate Interests" for this.

If the drug is granting people willpower , then it really is miraculous.

> Security by obscurity replied to hacking Considering that Wikipedia dates the concept and its rejection back to 1851, you have understood it wrong.

Being overweight/obese might be (and might not be) a side-effect of the things you list, but it also that causes its own further side-effects and is worth dealing with in its own r…

The principle of 'obscurity is not security' would seem to apply to anti-spam algorithms on the scale of Google. I suspect that Google are not claiming this law would interfere wit…

This page doesn't contain the word 'spam' - is that actually Google's claim, or are you inferring it?

I am not clever enough to understand this analogy, at all. Why would Google be opening a coffee shop? Could you please translate this analogy into the factual situation, so that I …

> What the nobility had to offer peasants was safety. The purpose of the article, as I read it, is to identify that this claim was written into history by the nobility.

This is simply wrong. Most people are unlikely to reach top 1% for income in any one year of their lifetime. The top 1% for wealth is even a much higher bar to reach: you need to h…

London financial industry traders and London voting residents are not related. Greater London residents voted overall ~60% to Remain, but you'd expect that traders live in the East…

> making money less able to purchase power you could achieve this by: giving everyone a basic amount of money, so they are on a more equal footing to benefit from opportunities.

Primarily, the employer benefits - which is particularly evident in this case. They can ask the applicant to do the work to prove themselves, with the pretence of an available job,…

I say "They asked OP to do a bunch of wasted work on the off-chance that their prize candidate was not available - even though they were not (under no circumstances) interested in …

I think it depends (similar to other comments): Either, you are engaging the kid's own personal interest in the thing, which has the potential to grow independently of you as a par…

I disagree with your statement that it was respectful. Accepting your scenario, this suggests that they did not really want to hire the candidate and at best thought they might set…