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I did 4-hour nights of sleep for a year, mainly because I didn't like my job, so was trying to maximise my time outside of work. It's possible, but you lose the ability to think pr…

The article assumes that people are happy to click on a link within an email from an unrecognised source, in order to cancel a fake member account. This rings all sorts of alarm be…

True, but if Worldwide end up paying/losing, that means less money paid back to the corporation, therefore a lower budget for other productions (effectively the same thing). I'm a …

I doubt the BBC's legal team would have allowed it to broadcast if they didn't think it would end up in their favour. The losers in this are the British public, who are presumably …

This is a form of blood sport (i.e. killing for personal entertainment). Animals that are destined for human consumption aren't generally killed for entertainment.

I think websites like Stack Overflow, GitHub and HackerNews attract a certain type of programmer, which might not always be the sort of person a business is looking for. Or, at lea…

Indeed. There are also lots of scanning services that go through websites to commercially exploit them. That's why you get these blunt T&C, which basically point out that you are a…

It's weird, I only meet intense hostility/hatred/dislike for PHP on websites like this. Is it some sort of geeky way of appearing cool, or do people genuinely dislike it? I can't s…

Could this be an "old boys' network" type of deal? Investing in it because one of their other established investments is in line to purchase it? Is something like that allowed? If …

Rather than thinking organic/inorganic, why not try different varieties of carrots? If you can't find a retailer that sells named varieties, try growing your own because seeds are …