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  1. Re:They should just get rid of it on Why Edinburgh's Clock is Almost Never on Time (bbc.com) · · Score: 2

    If it tells you to catch them from a railway station I'd suggest not using it.

  2. Re: I do this to my wife... on Why Edinburgh's Clock is Almost Never on Time (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    *Strawbeings, or you'll have PETA on your case.

  3. There's a word for them. I believe it's "management".

  4. Nurse! He's been skipping his meds again on The EU Could Vote To Wreck the Internet Tomorrow (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    Of course it hot-diggety-did, goshdarnit.

    What other possible explanation is there for the overwhelming "no" in the Brexit vote after his 'back of the queue" threat?

  5. Re:a new report? was this false for a while? on Actuarial Science Ranked As Most Valuable College Major (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    The downside was that the actuarial profession maintained a fixed intake into the accountancy degree courses

    Why would actuaries be able to limit entry to accountancy degrees? Utter twaddle. They both begin with "ac" and they're both to do with money. That's where the similarity ends.

  6. Re: Aww... on Actuarial Science Ranked As Most Valuable College Major (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    And when they scream, boy do they scream!

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

    When I say "boy", of course I mean young (or self-identifying as such) person of whatever gender, orientation, colour, flavour, species or planet of origin they wish.

  7. Re:Lemmings on Actuarial Science Ranked As Most Valuable College Major (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    I knew one once. What got him down was the fact that it was mind numbingly tedious.

    I am rather surprised that most of it hasn't been automated away, though. Isn't this the kind of shit that ML is supposed to excel at. Please forgive the pun.

  8. According to Marx it was offside.

  9. However, to have a strict four day work week, you'd need a different sort of arrangement because you've still got negative productivity on the eighth hour.

    Does it really work like that? I don't think you can treat each day in isolation like that. I'd be less tired by the end of Wednesday if I'd had Tuesday or even Monday off.

  10. You're assuming that the entire cost of the article is workers' wages. I think somebody might be skimming a bit off, just a little here and there.

    If you look closely you can see a tiny little sliver at the right between the red and orange lines. https://i.stack.imgur.com/iCTu...

  11. Studies have shown that people are more productive the less time they spend in an office

    I've encountered several who were more productive when they didn't come in at all.

  12. Re:Wasn't this in the Jetsons? on Four-Day Working Week For All is a Realistic Goal This Century, UK Trade Unions Say (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    However having employees work 5 days a week at 6+ hours or 4 days a week at 8 hours.

    This sentence containing no finite verb.

  13. Re:UC not a trade school on Silicon Valley University Asks Professors To Offer Students Affordable Housing (fortune.com) · · Score: 1

    How many gen ed (or whatever you call them, we don't have them) courses are you going to take? Fewer than the number of departments, I'd suspect.

  14. Re:Yeah I'm sure this will work. on EU To Move Ahead With Cultural Quotas For Streaming Services (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 2

    Having seen Black Panther I think I'd go for the frogflick - it probably has a better plot & dialog plus a 75% chance of some gratuitous nudity.

  15. Roberto Viola, the European Commissionâ(TM)s directorate general of communication, networks, content and technology

    He can't have much free time if he's an entire department by himself.

  16. To be fair, they said a similar thing about TV, radio, and the printing press.

    To be even fairer, they were probably right.

  17. Re: So they're a threat to national security? on Facebook, Twitter Execs Admit Failures, Warn of 'Overwhelming' Threat To Elections (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 1

    Russia medaling in USA election

    Gold, silver or bronze?

  18. Re:They're proof-of-work for useless managers on Ask Slashdot: Should We Hang Up on Conference Calls? (ft.com) · · Score: 1

    The size of the groups and the number of groups both matter.

    Two groups of six isn't bad; usually only one person in each room will talk at a time anyway if there's a decent "captain" keeping them focussed. Six groups of two would be chaos.

  19. Re:Why can there not be profit? on European Science Funders Ban Grantees From Publishing In Paywalled Journals (sciencemag.org) · · Score: 1

    I'd say in some cases they may get even a little too cavalier funding projects that wont go anywhere.

    Half of what we spend on research is wasted; I only wish I knew which half.
    --
    Oscar Wilde (or maybe it was Virginia Woolf).

  20. You can do sell consulting services, sell physical distributions, offer support services.

    Not to mention T-shirts, hats, lunchboxes...

    Is there a difference between publications vs software?

    I think so. For one, I've heard of consultants who install, configure and customize software to fit users' needs but I've never heard of any doing that for publications. Secondly, there aren't multiple versions of each scientific paper that don't quite work the same.

  21. Ob on Google Wants To Kill the URL (wired.com) · · Score: 1

    If you're having a tough time thinking of what could possibly be used in place of URLs, you're not alone.

    The answer must be blockchains, emojis, or both.

  22. I see what you did there on Apple and Google Face Growing Revolt Over App Store 'Tax' (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    A backlash against the app stores of Apple and Google is gaining steam

    Golf clap.

  23. I thought "legacy system" meant the one you've had for at least a decade and are currently replacing, or the one you're intending to replace like real soon now, honestly, and are wrapping all sorts of wrappers around in the meantime as a temporay workaround, because yo dawg ...

    But I did see a post once saying "We're developing a new legacy system ...", so maybe I'm wrong. Maybe it's a generic term for any system that the hiptarded fuckster writing the article doesn't understand the function of.

  24. Re:They mostly have, but some have more mostly on Verizon Throttled Fire Department's 'Unlimited' Data During Calif. Wildfire (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    He looked from prisoner to worker, and from worker to prisoner, and from prisoner to worker again; but already it was impossible to say which was which

    Apologies to Eric Blair.

  25. I am not Scottish, but if I were this would merit at least one jing. perhaps even a criven.