Unrelated, but is this a case of the Pareto Principle? (Admittedly the first time I'm hearing of it) Wherein 80% of the effect is caused by 20% of the input. Or is this more a case of diminishing returns? Where the…
We didn't start the fire, it was always burning since the world's been turning...
Your comment made me think of the Terry Pratchett book "Going Postal" in which a conman is put in charge of the post office and quickly realizes what you said: selling stamps is free money. One of my favorites from his…
See the EV1, a popular, mass produced electric vehicle that was controversialy "discontinued" in 1999 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Motors_EV1?wprov=sfla1
If you're in the U.S. and a "government agent" told you to use iMessage, you are 100% being scammed. No way they would accept anything less secure than a fax message or a document portal that looks like it was set up in…
I can't speak for Waitrose specifically, but luxury brands will definitely do a comprehensive analysis of the surrounding area before opening a store. In the US at least, the equivalent is looking for the closest…
Can someone explain. From their definition it looks like the credits and debits column in their example transaction table is flipped e.g. the first "debit" to the cash (debit normal) account increases the value, while…
Unrelated, but is this a case of the Pareto Principle? (Admittedly the first time I'm hearing of it) Wherein 80% of the effect is caused by 20% of the input. Or is this more a case of diminishing returns? Where the…
We didn't start the fire, it was always burning since the world's been turning...
Your comment made me think of the Terry Pratchett book "Going Postal" in which a conman is put in charge of the post office and quickly realizes what you said: selling stamps is free money. One of my favorites from his…
See the EV1, a popular, mass produced electric vehicle that was controversialy "discontinued" in 1999 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Motors_EV1?wprov=sfla1
If you're in the U.S. and a "government agent" told you to use iMessage, you are 100% being scammed. No way they would accept anything less secure than a fax message or a document portal that looks like it was set up in…
I can't speak for Waitrose specifically, but luxury brands will definitely do a comprehensive analysis of the surrounding area before opening a store. In the US at least, the equivalent is looking for the closest…
Can someone explain. From their definition it looks like the credits and debits column in their example transaction table is flipped e.g. the first "debit" to the cash (debit normal) account increases the value, while…