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by willyt 9y ago
But if you are unemployed in the UK and relying on benefits to survive, if you try to negotiate salary and get turned down for a job offer your benefits will be sanctioned and you will have to rely on food banks for X weeks until the sancti
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by willyt 9y ago
Someone earning £80k ($100k) per year in the UK will pay about 30%[0] tax this is inclusive of income tax, local property tax and National Insurance ( mandatory insurance which covers healthcare, basic sickness and retirement benefits ). If
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by willyt 9y ago
The car hire company never knows that you have it because the insurance you take out is for the excess only, not the full legally required car insurance. Most hire cars come with a basic insurance included in the cost, but with a massive ex
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by willyt 9y ago
Dont buy comprehensive insurance top up cover from the car hire company. Use a third party insurer. e.g. insurance4carhire.com Same price for a year of 'super cover' as for about 4 days cover from the car hire company.
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by willyt 9y ago
Edam! Stilton surely.
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by willyt 9y ago
Talk to the top of the phone. There is a separate mic up there for Siri. Took me a while to work this out.
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by willyt 9y ago
>With public projects there generally is no such accountability. Public projects use construction contracts just like private ones, they are just as accountable to their clients in this sense. The difference between property developers a
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by willyt 9y ago
Ha Ha! Welcome to the world of Starchitects. For a building like the Walkie Talkie, Vinõly would have been personally involved only at the very beginning. The question of who is actually responsible for removing the mitigation measures from
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by willyt 9y ago
IANAL but my understanding is that wether an advert is a business proposal or not is based around the idea of an 'invitation to treat'[0] in contract law. It's pretty interesting reading about some of the cases where this con
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by willyt 9y ago
Open plan Say about 12m2 (130sqft) per person. In London roughly £50-£100/sqft/annum. £6500-£13000 rent per person. So for e.g. Google in london are pretty central and are probably paying >£10000 per employee in rent assuming t
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by willyt 9y ago
Architect here. Distraction is an issue for us as well. My ideal office would be along these lines too. Mostly it's just construction and rental cost that prevents it; open plan offices use much less floor space and are simpler for thi
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by willyt 10y ago
You could join the RNLI. You would learn seamanship and paramedic skills. It would be pretty tough in London though, I think you would encounter quite a few dead people in and around the Thames so you should think about how this might affec
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by willyt 10y ago
Once both my kids wet the bed every night for a week. 3 loads a day. Even on a sunny day in Scotland a duvet won't dry on the line in 1 day.
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by willyt 10y ago
Your comment is over simplistic because many reputable news outlets are reporting the hard observable fact that a general election has been called. Therefore the fact that the Guardian is a source for this is irrelevant. A single newspaper,
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by willyt 10y ago
Italy also has small farms and delicious vegetables.
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by willyt 10y ago
Trains should be faster than cars in dense urban environments (if you are close to the station), e.g. London Euston to Watford 19miles 15-20mins by train 32mins by car (outside rush hour).
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by willyt 10y ago
Buildings are a really complicated mix of design, engineering, regulations and regulated trades. This looks like a nice student concept project with some great graphics for the assembly drawings. Here are some hopefully constructive comment
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by willyt 10y ago
Other people have mentioned the high embodied energy of concrete but there is also a problem with insulating this structure. I hope the PIR wasn't just injected into the cavity because that is a recipe for disaster. The zigzag cross br
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by willyt 10y ago
It's already done everywhere in Europe. Here is a typical example. http://www.scotframe.co.uk/MainlandUK/Val-U-Therm/Val-U-Ther... . No-one is willing to pay architects/engineers to design houses like air
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by willyt 10y ago
Yes. In the U.K. many architects persist in drawing their buildings at OS grid coordinates relative to the origin of the file in mm because it make importing surveys and OS maps easier. So a building in Scotland would have a translate of so
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by willyt 10y ago
I don't know about Europe generally but in the UK the number and size of bins in crowded public places is limited because the IRA used to use them for hiding bombs. Seems quaint these days though!
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by willyt 10y ago
Sputnik
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The data that turned the world upside down(motherboard.vice.com)
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by willyt 10y ago
UK has this too. Late Payments of Commercial Debts (Interest) Act. I think it is implementing an EU directive. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Late_Payment_of_Commercial_Deb...
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by willyt 10y ago
I believe the principal is called Contra proferentem. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contra_proferentem
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by willyt 10y ago
Who cares? John Lewis is a partnership of all 90,000 employees and they are probably the most successful supermarket and department store chain in Britain. They dominate high end food and homeware sales. http://www.johnlewis.com&
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by willyt 10y ago
Already happened. http://arstechnica.co.uk/gadgets/2017/01/smarter-fridgecam-m...
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But the ship route China <-> London is a lot more miles than the train.
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by willyt 10y ago
I hate to be the sanctimonious European on HN, but I was really surprised to read that 3 days and 2 detectives is all that is (or was) used to investigate a murder. From American films and tv we get the impression of maverick cops with this
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by willyt 10y ago
MSProject -> Omniplan ?

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