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If Figma is running an ad on the Photoshop keyword, then it should be blatantly obvious that it's not an ad for Photoshop. Like "Figma: an Alternative to Photoshop" (you can tell I…

Cell networks have a special "call emergency" code, which doesn't actually call a number at all; phones are required by the (ETSI) standard to translate dialling 112 into the call …

>But the best-case percentage improvement in the overall company bottom line due to his innovations as a fork lift driver is still very, very small Depends on whether you count sha…

Almost everyone owns stock in all the major companies - indirectly via their 401k or index fund. To a first approximation, there are no non-stockholders. One real question is why, …

> It is luck of a sort that someone is 2 meters tall, but I bet their parents were also taller than average, so saying that it's lucky that they were able to be a pro at basketball…

The circumstances of your birth are luck for you . They are not luck for your parents but you are not your parents. One of the problems here is that there is one position that ever…

I think this makes a much deeper point. You can't create an app that will pay people badly because it will pay people badly. We (society) have traditionally massively underpaid peo…

>Really? Because AV is what Ireland uses and called it PR-STV. This is not correct. PR-STV requires multi-member constituencies (as they have in Ireland). AV is single-member const…

We didn't want AV. It was the least-worst system we could talk the Tories into voting for a referendum on. We wanted STV. We also thought that AV would probably increase the number…

It wasn't that we (I was a Lib Dem candidate in the election) promised it in the manifesto; it was that individual MPs made a personal promise to vote against an increase in tuitio…

If freedom of speech is absolute, then it means that any contractual clause purporting to restrict it is void. In the same way that any contractual clause purporting to enslave a n…

"freedom of speech, except you can't lie under oath in the witness box"?

So, it's just a coincidence that it happened on the day that the first episode of Doctor Who was broadcast? :)

Albert Einstein is already well on the way to being a legend.