I had a discussion of exactly this kind with my step-daughter yesterday about her driving lesson price increase. The price of a lesson is going up from £30 to £33, but she can get 10 lessons for the … (View Post)

They are, of course, simply a way for people to advertise their wealth and sophistication (in the eyes of the beholder), like any other unnecessary item. We humans have a wide range of equivalents of… (View Post)

Yeah, I know the term best with reference to, for example, copying and pasting a bunch of code in order to get a new version out the door fast, but knowing that it needs to be properly refactored at … (View Post)

That's the sense I know, but I think JJ was using it in a somewhat different sense. (View Post)

As I understand it, gas prices set the price of electricity in the UK (as the most expensive type of generation needed to meet demand) because of the marginal pricing system used in the energy market… (View Post)