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People respond negatively when you ask them to share their knowledge by imagining them being horrifically killed by their own negligence. Use "if someone in your family won the lot…

Pure speculation dressed up as news.

A UK student now who earns £40k will pay £142 per month student loans yet £800 tax/ni and still take home £2400. There's nothing to apologise for.

I think the UK loan system is pretty much optimum. It's a "can't pay don't pay" system. Even on £40k gross my payments are £1710 a year, leaving £28k after deductions (not includin…

Decreasing lead time in manufacturing has dramatically changed the world during your lifetime. There are lots of unsolved problems in computational logistics that look like tsp. We…

Inferno was sold to Vita Nuova Holdings Ltd in March 2000. Other licensed versions exist, I was working on one until 2007. Plan9 3rd edition was released June 7, 2000 Plan9 4th edi…

Crumb's "A Short History of America" in one http://i.imgur.com/h1D5Qo3.jpg

You mean "Calls the vet" not GP

With Anita Sarkeesian and Zoe Quinn on the team, what could go wrong?

"The customer is always right" The irony of this is that phrase is actually the answer to "why isn't anyone buy my stuff?", and the answer is "because they don't think it is good e…

One suggestion is to include the actual price of delivery instead of "free delivery" (or discounted) into the displayed price. Swift delivery is changing our expectations. If I kne…

Once upon a time, not so long ago, this was perfectly acceptable: "Please allow 28 days for delivery"

While I have some sympathy for that position.... "Hello, can you have someone deliver this parcel for me. I'll pay you $5" You're saying that if Amazon is asking that, they are res…

It's not even secret sauce. Pick up most management books and you'ok see the same. Jack Welch's version was "get the right people on the bus and then decide where to go" Lou Gestne…

Sometimes you're leading, sometimes you're managing but you should know which is which. Just like sometimes you're mentoring, coaching or teaching.

I'm so glad I cam across this, I didn't know OpenSCAD has those kind of features.

Britain's largest export, by volume, is waste paper / cardboard. It was going to China and coming back as cardboard.

For more happy thoughts, many of the ones that only eat inside dine on food produced by human slavery: e.g. Nestlé (Purina) admits slavery in Thailand while fighting child labour l…

Unethical Life Tip Catch the cat and release it 50 miles away

> some greybeards are still pretty attached to that idea "Whenever you remove any fence, always pause long enough to ask yourself, 'Why was it put there in the first place?'" G.K. …

In Lean Six Sigma mistakes are treated as mistakes of process not mistakes of participants.

I expect it's because I mentioned the Queen. Who spent $1.4B vs Dr. Trump's $957.6M https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/politics/2016-electi... including $3m on buying r / poli…

> Fake news, facebook & twitter ads that influenced US elections proved that it's possible to do something like this. but Hillary lost. Facebook has identified $100,000 of ads that…

The train takes 3 hours and is $300 per person

by doing other things > this is part of its strategy to reduce the company's carbon emissions by 30% by 2025.