I've had it happen to me quite literally; I've had two pairs of cheap boots not even last a month before the soles detached. There's always a point of diminishing returns, but it doesn't really make much odds where that…
The USPS has a bunch of highly-specific requirements that they aren't willing to change, which makes an off-the-shelf van impossible. These are things like: giant unpainted bumpers, sliding drivers door, the rear door…
Yeah, it's just the culture around it, with the US doing its pricing in $, the UK doing it in p.
The emissions weren't the issue; they just kept replacing the engine with newer ones - the Ford one they were using at the end had a Euro VI version so they could have kept using that. The issues were more around safety…
The feedback loop has got ever shorter. The approach now is to announce a non-feasible hard-right policy in the right wing tabloids, wait for The Guardian to react the next day, denounce that, then the day after forget…
It's everywhere in job listings, just largely as a nice-to-have on jobs that are primarily in something else but need the odd script putting together here and there.
There's a big problem where social care got moved from the department of health to local government a few years ago. Then, shortly after, the government cut local government funding massively. It used to be funded by a…
> Back in 2004 when I lived in the UK, the NHS was really good. And I remember hearing at that time that it was nothing compared to the NHS in the 80s and 90s. In a lot of respects, this isn't very accurate. It got…
It's worth clarifying that the issue with the government infrastructure is with the regulatory agencies, rather than the water infrastructure itself which is privatised. There's also a good text article version;…
I've had it happen to me quite literally; I've had two pairs of cheap boots not even last a month before the soles detached. There's always a point of diminishing returns, but it doesn't really make much odds where that…
The USPS has a bunch of highly-specific requirements that they aren't willing to change, which makes an off-the-shelf van impossible. These are things like: giant unpainted bumpers, sliding drivers door, the rear door…
Yeah, it's just the culture around it, with the US doing its pricing in $, the UK doing it in p.
The emissions weren't the issue; they just kept replacing the engine with newer ones - the Ford one they were using at the end had a Euro VI version so they could have kept using that. The issues were more around safety…
The feedback loop has got ever shorter. The approach now is to announce a non-feasible hard-right policy in the right wing tabloids, wait for The Guardian to react the next day, denounce that, then the day after forget…
It's everywhere in job listings, just largely as a nice-to-have on jobs that are primarily in something else but need the odd script putting together here and there.
There's a big problem where social care got moved from the department of health to local government a few years ago. Then, shortly after, the government cut local government funding massively. It used to be funded by a…
> Back in 2004 when I lived in the UK, the NHS was really good. And I remember hearing at that time that it was nothing compared to the NHS in the 80s and 90s. In a lot of respects, this isn't very accurate. It got…
It's worth clarifying that the issue with the government infrastructure is with the regulatory agencies, rather than the water infrastructure itself which is privatised. There's also a good text article version;…