PeachPlum

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by PeachPlum 9y ago
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
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by PeachPlum 9y ago
Crumb's "A Short History of America" in one http://i.imgur.com/h1D5Qo3.jpg
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by PeachPlum 9y ago
You mean "Calls the vet" not GP
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by PeachPlum 9y ago
"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 custo
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by PeachPlum 9y ago
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 ahea
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by PeachPlum 9y ago
Once upon a time, not so long ago, this was perfectly acceptable: "Please allow 28 days for delivery"
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by PeachPlum 9y ago
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 deli
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by PeachPlum 9y ago
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
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by PeachPlum 9y ago
Sometimes you're leading, sometimes you're managing but you should know which is which. Just like sometimes you're mentoring, coaching or teaching.
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by PeachPlum 9y ago
I'm so glad I cam across this, I didn't know OpenSCAD has those kind of features.
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by PeachPlum 9y ago
Britain's largest export, by volume, is waste paper / cardboard. It was going to China and coming back as cardboard.
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by PeachPlum 9y ago
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
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by PeachPlum 9y ago
Unethical Life Tip Catch the cat and release it 50 miles away
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by PeachPlum 9y ago
> 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
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by PeachPlum 9y ago
In Lean Six Sigma mistakes are treated as mistakes of process not mistakes of participants.
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by PeachPlum 9y ago
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 ShareBlu
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by PeachPlum 9y ago
> 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. Clin
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by PeachPlum 9y ago
The train takes 3 hours and is $300 per person
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by PeachPlum 9y ago
by doing other things > this is part of its strategy to reduce the company's carbon emissions by 30% by 2025.
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by PeachPlum 9y ago
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+
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by PeachPlum 9y ago
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.
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by PeachPlum 9y ago
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 b
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by PeachPlum 9y ago
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 insti
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by PeachPlum 9y ago
> 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/
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by PeachPlum 9y ago
The lightbulb manufacturers colluded to stop marketing based on lamplife. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phoebus_cartel
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by PeachPlum 9y ago
The EU operating against the will of the people is why Leave won.
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by PeachPlum 9y ago
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.
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by PeachPlum 9y ago
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?
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by PeachPlum 9y ago
Or you'll fall out of love and go through a messy and painful divorce.
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by PeachPlum 9y ago
Platonic cubes don't exist

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