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Yes, exactly this. A second chance is a safety net, available mostly to those with the circumstances or resources to deploy it. One helpful circumstance being youth (plenty of time…

There is an incorrect anecdote about Willie Sutton who was allegedly asked why he robbed banks. "That's where the money is" he is supposed to have replied. Be where your prospectiv…

For a British kid from an impoverished background this was (early 70s) my Internet, vast range of content, intelligently selected and with capsule reviews/extracts of everything wh…

Raising prices is difficult, charging when people are used to free is near impossible. Most of your free users were never going to pay anyway so there is no point in having them us…

I wonder where the "If they have nothing to fear what are they worried about?" brigade are. People like accountability until it is applied to themselves.

I've read the first 2 Slow Horses books. A wonderful antidote to the hyper efficient slick characters featured in e.g. Bond films. Even screw-up spies have their moments. Perhaps t…

UK tourist towns were highly seasonal. No one wants to go to Blackpool in December. Providing accommodation for asylum seekers or whoever was year-round money with cost savings as …

Brit Boomer. I grew up in a single parent family near the bottom of the heap in England. What kept us going and saved me from early death or a life of crime or drug dependency was …

It seems you have a perfect excuse for the short period. "Relocated, family were unhappy, have made a difficult decision for my family's sake."

There is a difference between academic learning and vocational training. The UK used to have higher education institutions called Polytechnics, I went to one. These taught degree c…

Here in the UK the educational system is equally stratified. Now, it is true that excluding the very few admitted for sporting prowess (rowing at Oxbridge) the typical student at a…

Perhaps subscribers get to call it XX, or even XXX? Rebranding requires careful thought and planning and even then is often unsuccessful. This name change hasn't even been given a …

The morons were doing the electing.

I'm kind of old and kind of appalled. As ThomFox said perhaps it is a way to look at your other stuff or perhaps as I suspect it is a way to screen out older people? How old was th…

Nothing to do with productivity, confuses quality of work with quantity of reported work hours. If results are the same or better who cares how many 'hours' of work are recorded?

Title is very misleading. The dates appear to be from the copyright at the bottom of the page. Work on Visicalc started in '79, by '99 it was long gone.