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If you keep welcoming yourself, you'll go blind. RobS^{Free Kyle!} 16:34, July 27, 2021 (EDT)

Hell, is that what's happening, @RobS? Dang! I thought that was only with guys: don't I feel like a freaking idiot? -J Psircleback (talk) 16:37, July 28, 2021 (EDT) PS: I wrote my first 'Go' program today. Totally random choice: I came across a 'playground' (ie sandbox) and I remembered I hadn't tested my second prime series on Andy S's talk page so, an hour and some later, I had:-

// Print some early values of Nilakantha's series for Pi
// Tested at <https://play.golang.org/> on July 28th 2021

package main

import "fmt"
import "math"

func f(x int) float64 {
  if (x <= 0) {} else {
    t:= f(x-1)
    y:= 2*x; y= y*y; y= y*(4*y - 5) + 1
    z:= float64(y); z= 6.0/z
    fmt.Println(t, y, z, -math.Ceil(math.Log10(z))) // Show my working
    return t+z
  }
  return 3.0
}

func main() {
  fmt.Println("Hello, Jane Doe!  Here are some approximations of Pi:")
  fmt.Println(f(10))
}

Recent progress

My Wednesdays are always really heavy, so I didn't get much done on CP today: t/m should be better. I want to keep expanding Equity for a start; other pages I'm hoping to improve soon(ish) include Hayek, Popper, Roger Scruton, and (maybe) Pi. -J

In the out-turn Thursday was better, just not in the way I expected. My old craptop crashed once too often so I finally got round to fixing the boot problem on the new(er) one. Betcha I spend Friday and half of Saturday frobbing, tuning, and tweaking the damned thing haha. Equity's just gonna have to wait its turn. -J Psircleback (talk) 11:38, July 29, 2021 (EDT)

Just to prove I haven't done nothing but play with a laptop for the last 48 hours... -J Psircleback (talk) 03:40, August 1, 2021 (EDT)

Measures to encourage employee share ownership however, thereby giving workers an incentive to take a broad view of their business's interests, have often been successful, sometimes very successful. The Americans having been insufficiently stupid ever to embark on a program of nationalization in the first place, history gave to the British the task of demonstrating why and how to reverse the process - although strictly they were anticipated on a small scale by the Canadians, who had vastly less industrial devastation to undo. Earlier attempts to 'denationalize' the so-called "commanding heights" of the British economy under the lackluster premiership of Edward Heath in the 1970s having come to nothing, it fell to middle-period Margaret Thatcher to champion the cause of 'popular capitalism' with an aggressive program of 'privatization' (although Thatcher herself disliked the word, at least initially; similarly, her longest-serving chancellor of the exchequer (=finance minister) Nigel Lawson's original coinage "people's capitalism" smacked, to her, far too much of "people's democracy," ie communist dictatorship, and was swiftly replaced).

The neologism 'Privatization', however, stuck - not least because no-one could come up with a superior alternative. But even if the word was ugly, the practice was usually a triumph and the overall results were quite remarkable: under Thatcher the proportion of British adults owning shares rose from one in fourteen to one in four. According to Lawson^[1], an "encouraging feature" of the Thatcher-era privatizations was that the proportion of the workforce subscribing for shares in the company many times exceeded ninety percent (which turned out to be the average; it reached 96% at British Telecom where only one in twenty-five employees did not invest), and this always despite trenchant union opposition to boot: "trade union leaders would condemn the privatization with bell, book, and candle, and enjoin their members not to touch it with a bargepole, and their members would take not the slightest notice of them." The unions found one or two unlikely allies among the old guard in the City of London (=financial district), with the head of one broking house exclaiming "But John [Moore, Lawson's Financial Secretary], we don't want all those kind of people owning shares, do we?"