September 29, 2016

/biz/ copypasta

A small, sleek and portable kitchen appliance with easy pre-set buttons that'd heat up your Mexican tortilla chips to that classic restaurant-style warmth, that could easily be tucked away in a cabinet.

The device would be a huge hit at parties, get-togethers, etc. but also for dinners, or something to better your midnight snack. This could spark a dinner trend of having the tortilla chips with your dinner meal always be expectedly warm, too. Middle America is going to love this.

Both young and old alike would enjoy this product:
>young guys wanting to have heated chips available for their friends as they play video games
>old people not wanting to mess with any of the trial-and-error routine of using other appliances.
>People camping outside that'd want a hot & easy snack
>Parents buying it because their children demanded it
>Couples buying it for their partner as something cute and fun
>A company buying it for their lunch room

Tortilla chips are bought practically bi-weekly in American homes, by all demographics for all types of social situations. The customer base is astronomical - build and market it, and they will come.


inb4:
>muh ovens
>muh toaster ovens
>muh microwaves

Nobody wants to heat up the house over just chips with an oven, and for the microwave or a toaster oven...All microwaves heat up differently, and nobody knows how long they'd need to be put in for; it's trial-and-error every time. Similar with the toaster oven. This isn't even mentioning the mess that comes along with that whole process. Indeed, this is why practically nobody does that.

A circular base with an upright tube attached on top would give it the small & compact design. The chips would be heated up from either the bottom base, or throughout the tube. Once done, the user would pour them out from the top of the tube. For $19.99, what I'm imagining doesn't exist.

September 27, 2016

BBC: Not enough women millionaires in the 0.1% in Europe

Nitro378 22 minutes ago#1
http://archive.is/v1JEQ

There are very few women among the richest people in the UK and other OECD countries, according to a report published by the London School of Economics.

Out of the wealthiest 53,000 people in the UK in 2013, only 9% were women.

The report examined tax data from OECD countries where couples made separate tax returns.

It said a wealth "glass ceiling" appeared to exist, with women a distinct minority of the very wealthy.

The UK showed the lowest number of wealthy women in that group among the six countries that could be compared.

Professor John Hills, co-director at the LSE's International Inequalities Institute, which is publishing the paper said: "Right at the top it is still a male world."

"Woman have managed to increase their representation in the top 10% because of their success in the professions and business, but few of them are among the very wealthiest."

Co-author Alessandra Casarico, associate professor of Public Economics at Bocconi University in Italy said: "Women now make up more of the top income groups, but they are a distinct minority and they become rarer the higher one climbs."

"Composition of income is important: In the old days, the rich were those with property; they have been replaced by CEOs and entrepreneurs, among whom women are not well represented."

Sam Smethers, chief executive of the Fawcett Society said it was "depressing but not surprising" that women were not better represented among those with the highest incomes.

She said: "There are structural and cultural barriers at work here and we have to proactively address them if we want to see more women progress."

"Unconscious bias, with men recruiting in their own image from informal networks, a male-dominated, long-hours culture and the unequal impact of caring roles, all contribute to perpetuating a no-go area for women at the top. It has to change."


Have we officially reached the peak of vapid liberal feminism?..
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Bond_543 7 minutes ago#2
we just need to let this fashionable trend run its course. I cringe to think what the next one will be. It will continue to be this way until we achieve a free market in academia. Where these clowns arent propped up by the state.
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