Yes, it's a rather dramatic expansion of the brain-dead 'sack the lowest-performing 10% of staff' so beloved by techbroes and finbroes. (View Post)

It took about the same time for London to fully recover from the Great Fire in 1666 as it did from the Blitz. About fifty years. Though the Great Fire was more extensive, but more localised, than the… (View Post)

He already is meddling. Unless you think his intervention in Syria and his getting loads of weapons from Iran is solely a one-sided transaction. One of the mahossive mistakes Netenyahu made was not b… (View Post)

I was about to comment on that. Willington closed in 1995/9 (A and B stations) and the cooling towers are still standing. But until recently there were plans for there to be a massive new CCGT (gas) … (View Post)

One of the slight problems astronauts have is that their sense of taste changes. There can be a food they love back on Earth, which is then processed into 'space food' which they still like… (View Post)