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Kim Philby was also mixed race - his mother was Indian. In British society at the time that very much didn't make him part of the Establishment, and he did face prejudice from senior officials because of it.
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Philby wasn't trusted from 1951 onwards, he was sacked from SIS and caught in lies by interrogators - using things like his wife's passport stamps to capture his movements. Technology these days may enable mass surveillance but hi
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The key unanswered question, and for me the fundamental reason I switched from using Bootstrap to Foundation at work, is how designer friendly the two are. Bootstrap is fantastic when you want a site that looks like Bootstrap, these tend to
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Two World Wars, millions of deaths and the subjugation by conquering powers of one of participants isn't a process we really want to repeat to solve other conflict zones. The process whereby nations are built from multiple ethnic group
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I once went to the town of Evian and saw people ordering bottles of Volvic in the restaurants...
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The irony is that a huge number of people in the UK military wear the F91W as it does everything you need a watch to do, is dirt cheap and hard to break. Don't know if the same applies in the US, but I wouldn't put it past the pro
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Given how many surnames are occupational (Fletcher, Butcher, Smith) I'd suggest that historically your "rank, profession or occupation" (as the Victorian census put it) was a major part of "structure, meaning and belongi
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The UK has a welfare state that tries to ensure that people don't have to worry about freezing to death, starving or not being able to afford basic shelter. The reasons for homelessness are complicated and often heavily influenced by d
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Odd - I'm ~6 years out of a Scottish university with a CS degree. Everyone of my class who stayed in Scotland owns their own property and has a much higher disposable income than those in London. They're in Edinburgh mind you, why
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The FT tweeted this chart recently - https://twitter.com/ftdata/status/705059490765348864 It's clearly for the job market overall, there will be variation within sectors. Given over 2 million private sector j
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Different countries have different problems which the article barely touches though the graph hints at. The UK has a skills shortage, it's vacancy to applicants ratio is back to pre-recession levels despite huge levels of immigration f
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They're not - they're convincing Royal Bank of Scotland or Barclays customers to switch to their bank because it has a better UX. Mondo is in the process of registering as a bank.
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Glencoe 15cm of snow on the ground today according to Google. I live in Edinburgh and have always been able to live less than a 15 minute walk from work, often in my own flat, for very reasonable sums. Everyone I know in tech has been able
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By night I might play with Django and like it. By day I make good money using C# where I get all of the above at what seems to be a much more web appropriate level than Go. One of the things that I'm really liking about the ASP.Net Cor
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For what values of "full knowledge" - you bootstrapped your compiler and verify every line of source code you've downloaded. But then if you're up against nation state actors they can probably force your source code sour
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Sometimes the objectives for a battle are a little more complicated than breaking through - holding actions, diversions, rearguards etc. The British Expeditionary Force, and lots of the regular French Army, was sacrificed to blunt the initi
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One theory is that Saudi is keeping prices low to try and destroy the US shale industry. Another is that OPEC is no longer operating as a cartel and Saudi couldn't persuade other governments to cut production to boost prices so they di
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https://github.com/OpenBankProject/OBP-API seems to be related to them. The snazzy writeup suggests loads of people are involved but the project has a pretty low number of contributors. Is this the whole organisation o
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We can and we do to some extent. The problem is that on the high seas it is the country of registration that you need permission from to board. It wouldn't cost much to offer the poor countries that register the worst offenders to eith
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Pro tip - along with auditing add permissions and security. For example Github charge twice as much for 50 repositories on the Organisation plan as the personal. One of the downsides of many startup types never having worked in a traditiona
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Because most of the strikes are in the Tribal areas near the border with Afghanistan where the writ of the Pakistani state doesn't really run. The Pakistani military has received some bloody noses when trying to operate in the area. Ev
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Slides are at https://speakerdeck.com/mattheath/handing-failure-in-microse... Sadly not many of the videos are up yet. I'm pretty certain they were recording all of the sessions so they should be coming at some p
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Specifically UK bank deposits are protected up to £75,000 under the Financial Services Compensation Scheme. If you've got so much money that you have > £75k in a single bank for any length of time (house purchase etc aside) then you
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Disclaimer: I'm seriously considering investing in this. There was a very good talk about their back end infrastructure at NDC London that makes me confident in their tech chops. Some of the value add concepts on their website look rea
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"Evergreen CS fundamentals" is absolutely key. I've had a rant brewing for a while now that this article exemplifies. A newcomer who has picked up Javascript cannot seriously want programming to be much more like maths /
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On a local level a huge number of candidates run unopposed. Even for Congress there were 31 unopposed candidates in 2014. Money isn't everything. Giving a damn matters too.
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More precisely everyone got the same currency but didn't have to actually live by the stability pact. The politics of Euro membership were more important than the reality. Greece should never have been allowed to join, France and Germa
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A) You need to build up to capacity, so you've got a multi-billion dollar fund already by that point that is charging low fees and presumably doing very well. You just close it to new business until outflows make space. B) You can win
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It's also worth observing that fund and asset management is one of those areas where the more successful a manager you a the lower the fees you charge. People are used from other areas with higher fees = better. However a good manager
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You're absolutely right. Plenty of non-tech scummy practices have been banned / curtailed under consumer protection laws. HTTPS circumventing adware is unjustifiable from a consumer protection stance.

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