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Inferno was sold to Vita Nuova Holdings Ltd in March 2000. Other licensed versions exist, I was working on one until 2007.

Plan9 3rd edition was released June 7, 2000

Plan9 4th edition was released in 2002

This version went into continuous improvement mode, the latest commit in the tree was Apr 29 2017

Crumb's "A Short History of America" in one

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You mean "Calls the vet" not GP

"The customer is always right"

The irony of this is that phrase is actually the answer to "why isn't anyone buy my stuff?", and the answer is "because they don't think it is good enough value and the customer is always right".

Good marketing doesn't ask "what do you want" it asks "what problems do you have".

The tale told about Ford is they old "they would have said they wanted faster horses". And that's why Ford didn't have a market research department for a hundred years. This, like many things Ford did (e.g. full vertical integration), was poor a strategy.

One suggestion is to include the actual price of delivery instead of "free delivery" (or discounted) into the displayed price.

Swift delivery is changing our expectations. If I knew it would take a week to come I would plan ahead, instead I can buy on impulse. Of course the real costs are being externalised, on the poor drivers but also on congested roads and pollution.

One of the consequences: https://www.londonair.org.uk/london/asp/annualmaps.asp

Once upon a time, not so long ago, this was perfectly acceptable:

"Please allow 28 days for delivery"

While I have some sympathy for that position....

"Hello, can you have someone deliver this parcel for me. I'll pay you $5"

You're saying that if Amazon is asking that, they are responsible for the life of the person delivering it.

If I am asking Amazon that, therefore, does that make me responsible?

It's not even secret sauce.

Pick up most management books and you'ok see the same.

Jack Welch's version was "get the right people on the bus and then decide where to go"

Lou Gestners is "culture is not part of the game, it's the only game"

Sometimes you're leading, sometimes you're managing but you should know which is which.

Just like sometimes you're mentoring, coaching or teaching.

I'm so glad I cam across this, I didn't know OpenSCAD has those kind of features.

Britain's largest export, by volume, is waste paper / cardboard. It was going to China and coming back as cardboard.

For more happy thoughts, many of the ones that only eat inside dine on food produced by human slavery:

e.g. Nestlé (Purina) admits slavery in Thailand while fighting child labour lawsuit in Ivory Coast

https://www.theguardian.com/sustainable-business/2016/feb/01...

Unethical Life Tip

Catch the cat and release it 50 miles away

> some greybeards are still pretty attached to that idea

"Whenever you remove any fence, always pause long enough to ask yourself, 'Why was it put there in the first place?'" G.K. Chesterton

In Lean Six Sigma mistakes are treated as mistakes of process not mistakes of participants.

I expect it's because I mentioned the Queen.

Who spent $1.4B vs Dr. Trump's $957.6M

https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/politics/2016-electi...

including $3m on buying r / politics, via ShareBlue if /pol/ is to be believed

> Fake news, facebook & twitter ads that influenced US elections proved that it's possible to do something like this.

but Hillary lost.

Facebook has identified $100,000 of ads that came from accounts associated with Russia.

Clinton and Trump combined spent $81 million on Facebook. [1]

[1] https://techcrunch.com/2017/11/01/russian-facebook-ad-spend/

The train takes 3 hours and is $300 per person

by doing other things

> this is part of its strategy to reduce the company's carbon emissions by 30% by 2025.

I understand and agree with your nuance.

If I had a store, though, I would count someone walking past one way and then they other as two potential visits.

I would imagine that "people in room at time t" and "people in room t+1" is quite a good proxy for "number of people present all day", it is certainly an upper bound.

They should really let me charge up my account by $10 and then take it out of that until it gets below $1 and do it again etc.

It was the Co-Operative Society in the UK that joint funded the Manchester Ship Canal, first national UK distribution service, first to promote Fairtrade goods. They were the UKs largest grocery retailer by far.

Today they are still 6th but with 4million members.

Votes in the EU are weighted by population

Germany 82,114,224

U.K. 66,181,585

France 64,979,548

Italy 59,359,900

Spain 46,354,321

So, yep. Most powerful being about 15% of the votes.

Still doesn't make the EU a domestic political institution.

> along with a sunlamp

a regular sunlamp? They are UV-A and don't help with Vit D at all

You need a UV-B one which doesn't tan - https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B004NOPC9S/

The lightbulb manufacturers colluded to stop marketing based on lamplife.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phoebus_cartel

The EU operating against the will of the people is why Leave won.

So, I repeat in slightly different words:

You want an external entity to have control over my democratically elected government because right now the decisions aren't your personal preferences.

Really? ..... Really?

I ... you want an external actor, over which you have no control, to have judicial power over your government, because right now the decisions go the way you want them to?

Or you'll fall out of love and go through a messy and painful divorce.

Platonic cubes don't exist