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by d4rti 9y ago
The reddit did this as a challenge mission, including the Rich Purnell manoeuvre https://www.reddit.com/r/KerbalSpaceProgram/comments/3q4u4a/...
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by d4rti 9y ago
With respect to SLA's the two important things in my opinion are: * How precisely is it measured? * What happens if it is not met? As observed by the other posters, scheduled maintenance doesn't count.
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by d4rti 9y ago
NICE do this in the UK, and by and large do a good job. Don't let perfect be the enemy of good.
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by d4rti 9y ago
Sure, this can happen. I think it's a reasonable assertion to say that the UK banking system is, by and large, better than the US one across all income groups.
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by d4rti 9y ago
A cynic might suggest that it's to keep the army of consultants on board - the carrot in the distance of their stock options finally paying out. (How long is their exercise provision after you leave the company?)
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by d4rti 9y ago
If we are citing polls now then most brits were against brexit.
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by d4rti 9y ago
There are more older people in total.
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by d4rti 10y ago
I applied for Irish citizenship as a contingency
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by d4rti 10y ago
I have to ask if you have ever applied for a UK visa, because dealing with the Home Office for visas is very painful, and choosing to relocate now, with a reasonable expectation of having to go through that process I would consider to be ra
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by d4rti 10y ago
> The phrase “virtue signalling” came up a lot, which is the sequel insult to “champagne socialist”; again, it doesn’t have very much meaning, beyond “person X holds views less compromised and more ambitious than mine, ergo, person X is
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by d4rti 10y ago
The kids ride bikes too.
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by d4rti 10y ago
Same, request the pat down instead of the body scanner.
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by d4rti 10y ago
There's also no prohibition of advertising the job with a salary range, which would also solve the problem.
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by d4rti 10y ago
Indeed, it made the news here in the UK when the Bank of England was funding it's pension liabilities with assets that matched, instead of the more common "hope for 6-8%" return method.
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by d4rti 10y ago
Why is this useful? You can argue for both, but to argue for only showing the tax free price is just hiding the price; It's not like you can ask for the tax to be taken off. In the UK we have a default all included price on items for e
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by d4rti 10y ago
As an aside, if you want to cook (primarily Sichuan) chinese food I can highly recommend Fushia Dunlop's Every Grain of Rice - http://www.fuchsiadunlop.com/books Excellent book, and includes a recipe for General Tso&#x
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by d4rti 10y ago
Yep and many of them are just plain wrong. Godfrey Sullivan was not a Splunk founder.
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by d4rti 10y ago
The NHS overall works pretty damn well. US insurance complexity wastes at least as much as NHS management. The NHS is also great value, costing us far less for universal healthcare than the US government spends on healthcare. The NHS is als
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by d4rti 10y ago
I think that servicing 98% is not the same as 98% market share, and that anti-trust cares about market share. All it means is that 490/500 companies bought at least one Dell/EMC product. I'd assume most also bought at least o
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by d4rti 10y ago
NICE does a pretty good job in the UK. https://www.nice.org.uk/
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by d4rti 10y ago
They could work with leasing companies, or even with private individuals / companies who own the vehicles and get a cut of the usage. It seems unlikely to me though.
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by d4rti 10y ago
Things can be both difficult and common The immigration process is not easy for Non-European nationals. It requires sheafs of paper documentation and significant fees.
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by d4rti 10y ago
Sage have X3. Maybe not on the scale you're looking for.
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by d4rti 10y ago
I think the point is that it's unclear what a leave vote means - particularly in regards to EEA/Single Market membership etc.
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by d4rti 10y ago
Jon Ronson's So You've Been Publicly Shamed ( https://www.amazon.co.uk/So-Youve-Been-Publicly-Shamed/dp/03... ) is an interesting book that goes into some detail on the moral outrage and abuse side of soci
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by d4rti 10y ago
I've never seen a good argument against running it as an auction where the highest salaries offered win.
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by d4rti 10y ago
> They got burned badly for 'breaking their promises' after being elected into the coalition. Particularly university tuition fees, which was an important issue for much of the base. (It's pretty sad what happened, and I t
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by d4rti 10y ago
What's the upside for investing a pension versus an ISA then?
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by d4rti 10y ago
on demand car hailing = taxis?
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by d4rti 10y ago
> literally, they cost more to implement than the money that is recoup'd from "illegal" activities I'd presume there is a deterrent as well as a direct effect on reducing money laundering; I'd expect to see more

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