The Yorkshire Ranter – Page 366 – A non-kinetic onslaught

January 1, 1970 by yorksranter 0 comments

Miners’ Strike 20th anniversary

Is today. What can I say? The very first political event I remember – I was 4 years old, but I do recall the “day counter” on Look North and everyone being Deeply Concerned. Some people – and I remember this in the blood after a nasty confrontation with one of them – say Scargill…

PsyArXiv Preprints | Lost in the Mall Again: A Preregistered Direct Replication of Loftus & Pickrell (1995)
the "Lost in the Mall" thing works. interestingly, though, when told one of the stories was a fake, 85 per cent of the subjects identified it correctly although a majority of them had remembered it. the point is made that there is a base rate issue with the choice of a fairly common event
Fintech Klarna reportedly raising at a $6.5B valuation, giving new meaning to the phrase ‘down round’ | TechCrunch
if completed, it will represent a big fall from grace for Klarna, which was riding high last year when it raised $639 million in a round led by SoftBank’s Vision Fund 2 at a $45.6 billion valuation.
These four iconic European founders plan to kick the asses of VCs who never started a company | TechCrunch
Cabinets de conseil : Capgemini, le coûteux prestataire dont l’Etat ne sait plus se passer
Comme beaucoup de cabinets de conseil, Capgemini profite à plein d’une règle budgétaire au nom barbare introduite en 2001, la fongibilité asymétrique, qui interdit aux administrations d’augmenter leurs dépenses de personnel en cours d’année. Face à l’urgence d’une mission confiée par le pouvoir politique, l’Etat, empêché de recruter, n’a souvent pas d’autre choix que d’externaliser […]
Boris Johnson can’t (or won’t) do discipline – POLITICO
“It’s the transactional basis on which he runs everything,” they said. “It’s establishing a mafia, or a coterie, or a tribe whose principal aim is to share the spoils.”
Hurt badly by Huawei, Parallel Wireless lacked scale and scope | Light Reading
History, Mission Command, and the Auftragstaktik Infatuation
By the mid-nineteenth century, for a prince of the house of Hohenzollern, or even his senior uniformed representative, the chief of the Prussian and later German General Staff (Chef des Großen Generalstab), “to insist on close supervision of a subordinate commander’s plan of action would have been a grievous infraction. In other words, Auftragstaktik grew […]
What the NHS needs is more managers
Instead, our research suggests that as a complex organisation – now the fifth biggest in the world – the NHS needs more managers.
Crypto Crash Widens Divide Between Rich and Amateur Traders - The New York Times
“No matter what, those with money will end up being fine,” he said.
Print Is Dead? Not Here - The New York Times
>They see this big newspaper — The Villages Daily Sun is three times the thickness of The Indianapolis Star — so it looks like a real paper >Subscription and newsstand prices are kept exceedingly low. (A seven-day, 52-week subscription is $76. A similar package for the Orlando Sentinel costs $312 plus tax.) >But the investigative […]