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Note that "a bit" refers to the second half of the sentence, not your comment exactly.

A bit like imagining how many of the royal family have to die before Princess Eugenie becomes Queen or a Borgen-type affair where a junior minister becomes prime minister, can you …

Specifically, any new creative input to the book is copyrighted. Usually, this is things like new prefaces or forewords and new illustrations or cover art.

It comes from the Latin "laevus". Funnily enough, although "sinister" came to mean "the bad side", it may have come from Proto-Indo-European for the "favourable side".

> He told us our product was too expensive for what it was and that we would never succeed in business like he would. To be fair, when you're a 15 year old selling homemade drink, …

Just like Amazon being unable to deal with fake reviews and listing manipulation, despite having so much data that they have to invent new words for it like lakes. They don't want …

> But what is a Nixie Watch? How does it function? These are some questions worth exploring with this distinct and idiosyncratic wristwatch. So—let’s continue! > .... > Without get…

"Some people (X'Grn'k et al) say it was a device used for humorous purposes. However, we consider that the presence of sacred etched silicon devices rules this hypothethis out. Whi…

I don't know, I think there was definitely a turn around the mid 2010s when actions and consequences really started to diverge. And to be clear, I don't mean that the exposure of C…

The problem is that this (if my theory is not just bunk) isn't something you can really go back and do differently. An emergent property of the reactions of polarised groups to the…

My pet made-up theory is that careers aren't really killable like that any more, since Cambridge Analytica. Before CA, the received wisdom was that if you do something bad, you wil…

My school had streams for several subjects which is perhaps unfashionably pragmatic, but at least it allows the top, bottom and inner quartiles to go at their own paces with more t…

White reflects sunlight better and leads to less heating of the airframe's skin, shows up damage and leaks well, and the expensive paint job doesn't fade in the high-UV troposphere…

As usual, there's a relevant Akin's Law: > 12. There is never a single right solution. There are always multiple wrong ones, though. I'm not sure simple arithmetic is really the fo…

That's a document that really has had money spent on the formatting, it's really very nicely designed. The editable fields are a great touch as you can just paste in your answers d…

Which is a pity because my i7 Lenovo laptop is acoustically and thermally some kind of jet turbine in a case, because I was foolish enough to believe a review, and I really wish I …

My comment is more of a tangent along people/products but certainly I agree in that I don't see why the wider Wiki media group of sites including things like Wikibooks needed to co…

I'm also a pretty strong inclusionist at heart, but I can see also that if the living-person rules were relaxed, self-aggrandisement would proliferate like crazy. Even under the cu…

It's a shame all the cool stuff is all hidden in a white box, but I suppose it does look a bit like a Hollywood depiction of a homemade nuclear bomb so the British Transport Police…

It's a fun theory, and sounds rather plausible at first blush, but do so many of the upper management class really have so many commercial real estate investments that they're will…

I imagine Fujitsu did everything they could to put only loyal management on the stand. They did call the Fujitsu chief architect, who is now under investigation for perjury for his…

The UK justice system is pretty broken. I don't think the Post Office debacle features, but at the end of the Secret Barrister(1), a hypothetical example is given where the many cr…

They're not pointless if you're in the Guild of Box Ticking Consultancies, and guess who gets to say what the boxes are?

I like this description of having major problems with GDPR as usually either being because you actually are abusing people's data, or because you've run up a huge pile of technical…

Nothing represents the idea that cars were intended to be absolutely welded to the idea of respectable American society than the "parkway" (it's a park, but you drive on it!). http…