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Even discounting annual variance, the UK economy has been performing very poorly since, at least, 2010. > The UK economy is in the doldrums. The IMF has forecast it will be the wor…

In general European countries have bans on smoking in public places much stricter than the US. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_smoking_bans#Smoking_b...

In my experience, trying to push away these feelings of shame, jealousy and inadequacy won’t help at all. By sheer will, or by using “mental hacks” from pop psychology you might be…

"The dose makes the poison". Paracelsus already said it in the XVI century.

I'm a Spanish person, living abroad and with a penchant for cooking, and I was too very gratefully surprised by Kenji's Spanish tortilla video. Also by his other Spanish recipes su…

That's exactly the problem: assuming that the only valid reason to talk about an awkward situation is to convince the other person that they are wrong or change their behaviour. We…

There's a common misconception that awkward conversations should be avoided because they are difficult and elicit drama. But that's just magical thinking. Believing that to make so…

Hey uses turbolinks, so opening an email is an XHR call not a full page reload.

A context switch in a modern CPU takes only a few microseconds. A GB of RAM costs less than $10. So those concerns, although valid in theory, are usually irrelevant for most web ap…

ORMHate is nothing new under the sun. Martin Fowler wrote a more balanced article about the issue years ago https://www.martinfowler.com/bliki/OrmHate.html

The median annual household income worldwide is about 10k/year. 20k/year puts you in the 91st percentile globally for person income. So it's perfectly possible to live with that mo…

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