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    Laptop or Chromebook for small business

    If you want Excel beyond basic formulas, the Chromebook is probably out. It will run the web version of Excel and this is it. If you are power user you will soon find yourself missing some features. If you only use the standard stuff you should be good to go. An alternative to the Chromebook...
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    How do you manage your time and ensure that you are productive and motivated?

    All good tips, but for me I take a long work before I start the day. It seems to blow the cobwebs away and allows me to mentally prepare for the day. I would add ensuring you have a very clear and rigid divide between home and work life. I have been freelance programming for 15 years and until...
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    Politics and Facebook

    Must just be all my politically loud-mouth buddies being on holiday. From them, it is the sort of silence that makes you think about making some sort of welfare check (but they are posting on other stuff)
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    Politics and Facebook

    Censor was probably the wrong wording on my behalf - maybe it is a leaning of the algorithm to push political stuff downwards if political stuff is not read
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    Politics and Facebook

    When Boris quit, I expected an avalanche of gleeful posts, memes and cartoons on Facebook, but there wasn't one. Still aren't any. I know many of my friends and family wouldn't have missed an opportunity like this, so where are they all? Is FB censoring/burying the stories about Boris or...
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    Bye bye Boris?

    This would probably be the best thing for the country as a whole. Starmer has zero fight, zero policies and is trying to get by, by just being the "The non-Tory" party and not rocking the boat. Hopefully, Labour will get a better leader that can hold Boris's feet to the fire and give the Tories...
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    work-az

    That will be a very difficult business model for them to keep going. One thing UpWork and other platforms rely on is, all communications go through them and they make it as difficult as possible to go "off-platform" with future work. That way they get a cut of all repeat business. It will be...
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    Recession - winners and losers

    The lipstick effect is a known and documented side effect of recessions. The theory is because people can't afford to treat themselves to holidays or expensive goods they treat themselves to lower-end luxury stuff like lipstick (link). Revlon went bust a few weeks ago because of supply issues...
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    Who Were the Real Winners in the By-election?

    I can see a lot of parallels between the two sets. They both blindly repeat the official line without deviation even when faced with an avalanche of facts. They both blindly try to deflect the blame (they keep calling it Starmer's protests and his doing, when he has nothing to do with it. One...
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    Who Were the Real Winners in the By-election?

    Totally agree. But I would add that, the members of the cabinet that have bent over backwards to protect Boris need to go as well. The public will just see them as Boris 2.0 if they take over the running of the party. I get the impression that people are now seeing Boris's political protectors...
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    Has anyone ever taken successful legal action to stop spam mail?

    There used to be a way of feeding your emails through GMail and their anti-spam AI was pretty good. Outlook.com had a similar system but I dont believe it was as good
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    Can we invoice a courier for wasting our time?

    If you could I would be worth a mint by now. I live in a village which is off the beaten track and our deliveries are often the only ones the driver has for miles around. There have been loads of times where I have been watching the tracker and seen the exact moment the drive has thought "sod...
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    Ringfencing Projects

    Didn't Trump rely heavily on this mechanism to screw over suppliers? A big project would get built then the controlling company would fold and the building would turn up as an asset in another Trump company. Meanwhile, the suppliers of the original company were left trying to get money out of...
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    Has anyone ever taken successful legal action to stop spam mail?

    There is this case link I recall there was a case where someone threatened the spammer with handling charges for processing their spam (I think it was about £50 per spam email). The spam didn't stop so he started to send them invoices, which of course went unpaid. He then took them to the small...
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    Will He Win?

    His speech today needed to be something special to get the public back on board. The public want/need things to help now. Instead, we got lots of bluster about past "successes" and plans that will take years, possibly decades to bear fruit. If it was meant to get people onside, it wasn't very...
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