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It is well known that all true investors are born with innate instincts for entrepreneurship and do not distract themselves with other careers, skills or knowledge.

Animals in Australia are suffering due to a lack of automobile infrastructure?

I find it interesting to track the reality of using these free-er devices well after launch. Sadly it always seems incredibly painful and hinted at post-launch improvements tend to…

I've been on both sides of the most common comments in this thread. I tried it ages ago and struggled with unintuitive interface. After getting fed up with software on my Tolino - …

A church in that sense is basically just a (social) club. There are many, many other options for social clubs that don't come with the religious baggage.

On Android https://github.com/QuantumBadger/RedReader - no account required

The hypermarket concept was more or less invented in France in 1963. Clearly joining the EU allowed greater trade options which suit large scale market leaders, but their growth wo…

Realistically there isn't really any commercial value left in it though. While there were some notable unique games made with it (Titanfall 1 & 2, E.Y.E, The Stanley Parable, etc),…

Not sure the page rank style algorithm is that useful from my limited browsing. Apparently https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kellie%27s_Castle is the most significant entry in human hi…

So when would that be exactly? Firefox was first released in 2004 and Mozilla Corporation was founded in 2005. According to https://gs.statcounter.com/browser-market-share#yearly-2…

Things have moved from "no one got fired for buying IBM" to "no one got fired for buying AI".

You're right, it's just a puzzle game. Strange to use the theme of chess and change a queen into a prince too. Pawnbarian is more chess-inspired than a chess themed, but actually r…

LinkedIn didn't even disavow people pretending to work for LinkedIn until someone had too much fun with it - https://chrisduffycomedy.com/blog/2016/11/2/6-months-as-the-...

A salary of £180k put you in the 98th percentile of UK salaries in 2024 (99th percentile was only a little higher at £207k) [1]. With a household income approximately doubling that…

A very large and powerful government puts an awful lot of effort into making sure people don't reference a particular time their military vehicle made contact with a person standin…

Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?

> My client was a utility company > Adding a lot of pressure, this was a regulated monopoly > Some requirements I derived: > ... > We had to meet WCAG accessibility (the team settl…

Corfu has been a mainstream holiday destination for Europeans for half a century. I don't think it's really in the same category as Albania.

I suspect that most government departments see data centers as a liability and are very happy to outsource to the big providers, apart perhaps from the ones hosting stuff they don'…

The page proclaims "A Ferrari is forever" underneath showcasing an app for chasing climate control. Durability/preservation and companion apps don't go hand in hand. It could be li…

Isn't Venice as problematic/artificial as suburbia in its own way? If you're saying car-free then I assume you mean the centre, where the real population is tiny (compared to San F…

That said, I'm not sure if new certifications are still being accepted. So there may have been uncertified Dogme95-compliant films made since that was never been in the official li…

35 in total as of last year, with the most recent released in 2004 https://web.archive.org/web/20250215082603/http://www.dogme9...

To extend your metaphor further, it would be like also giving them performance bonuses and building them a new home office which they then rent out on AirBnB on the strength of tho…

I once met someone who refused to engage with leadership using his team's story points as a direct measure of productivity. To make it harder to extract the data and compare agains…