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NotesMy poem on diversity in the workplace and youth unemployment at the Race for Opportunity dinner
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"And if the Mail believes it is justified in doing something that is normally unacceptable simply because it can see other people around it doing that thing, then perhaps it should reconsider its coverage of last summer’s riots, when thousands of people looted shops for no better reason than that they could see other people doing it."
Brian Cathcart on the coverage in the Daily Mail of the uncovered prince
(Source: inforrm.wordpress.com)
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Notes"If a British company imports components, it has to pay tax on those (and most components are not made in the UK). If, however, a completed device is made abroad and imported into the UK – with all of those components soldered onto it – it does not attract any import duty at all. This means that it’s really, really tax inefficient for an electronics company to do its manufacturing in Britain, and it’s one of the reasons that so much of our manufacturing goes overseas."Raspberry Pi explaining why they couldn’t manufacture their computer in the UK as they wanted to
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Notes"BT’s current market capitalisation is just north of £20bn. So, as an operating telecoms company they’re worth £30bn less than the mountain of copper they’re sitting upon"Tim Worstall explains how British Telecom, with a market value of abound £20b owns about £50b worth of copper cable.
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"The BBC does not compete. Like the NHS, it may not be perfect, but it is paid for by the public in order to provide a service to the public. It is not in competition."
Warren Ellis in an oddly prescient article written in Wired at the start of 2010 and looking into the future few months. Finding it on the lunch table 18 months later makes it even more interesting reading…
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"Surprise surprise - an economic system based on expecting the majority to thrive on the scraps from the table of the richest doesn’t work."
Adam Ramsay reminding us of the causes of the current economic crisis
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Notes"While Cameron insists that he occupies the centre ground of British politics, that he shares our burdens and feels our pain, he has quietly been plotting with banks and businesses to engineer the greatest transfer of wealth from the poor and middle to the ultra-rich that this country has seen in a century."George Monbiot on the sneaky tax law changes planned by the government
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"We were traumatised at this point. We were crying. We’d been hit by police for just wanting to go home. We were begging to, please, just let us go home. They showed no mercy whatsoever."
A 17 year old girl’s description of the despicable behaviour of the police towards her and her friends at a protest against the proposed increases to student fees - full interview on the BBC website
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"Cutting spending to pay the debts of WW1 caused the great depression. Building the welfare state allowed us to build our way out of the debts left by WW2."
One of many clearly stated arguments as to why cuts aren’t the answer to the current economic situation
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15 year old students protecting a police van from vandalism in an attempt to make sure that the media reports the purpose of the protest rather than the behaviour of a few extremists.
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"So, they’re arguing that in order to compete with air travel, train travel has to compete on speed, and that this is the main defining factor. Let’s be honest, a train is never going to beat a passenger jet in a race. Speed is only one factor."
Harry Bridgnull on UK government plans for a new train line - maybe they are asking the wrong question when they search for ways to make the train faster…
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“We believe you were involved in antisocial behaviour i.e. taking photographs”
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Just as the clock on London’s Big Ben rang in the New Year, thousands of fireworks lit up the city’s skyline. Lucky for him, Dan Kitwood’s capture...
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Jean-Paul Bourdier uses colorfully painted human bodies as props in these stunning landscape photos!
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Well right, naturally you should hate spirituality. That word almost always refers to someone using the spiritual as spackle to fill a defect in... -
Being in the world’s deepest swimming pool is kinda like straight up swimming in the ocean!
Check out these photos from Nemo 33 in Brussels!
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Most Pressed Keys and Programming Syntaxes
I switch between programming languages quite a bit; I often wondered what happens when having to deal with...
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How I built Hopper in a week, without internet
I built the minimum viable product for Hopper. In a week. With no internet.
“But why,” you say,...
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Slow lorises love tiny umbrellas!
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“Boris ‘has cut police numbers by 2,100 in a city about to host the Olympics; had 110 meetings with bankers, and only 74 with the police; claimed...”
