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Peter Tanham
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Peter Tanham
@PeterTanham
Interested in the intersection of tech and public policy.
Dublin, Ireland انضم Mart 2008
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We should build loads and loads and loads of houses that look like this.
Millions of them.
Make them cheap as chips.
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Mhm there are quite a lot of books describing what’s wrong w the European macroeconomic construct but I don’t know one that pulls the story together, so I will try in a thread: /1
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⏰Only 3 days left to apply for ‘Founders’, Ireland’s Talent accelerator!
40 exceptional individuals. €100k seed investment. No idea needed. Plus, €2,000 monthly stipend. 💸
What would you do if you weren’t afraid? Deadline is this Sunday at midnight. apply.joinfounders.co
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The Dublin Rape Crisis Centre has launched a new online anonymous platform where survivors can share their stories.
@DublinRCC @WeConsentIRL @RCNIreland @WomensAidNI
hotpress.com/health/dublin-…
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The Bloomberg survey of professional investors shows that 90% think that “companies on both sides of the Atlantic have been raising prices in excess of their costs since the pandemic began in 2020. “ Almost four out of five said that tight monetary policy is the answer 1/
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In this week's newsletter: The next budget will see the government faced with huge amounts of spare cash, but very few ways to spend it well.
My argument that the surplus should be saved:
petertanham.com/the-wrong-time…
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The EU's new fiscal rules are based on GDP, so they'll barely apply to Ireland because our GDP numbers are half make-believe. Handy 🤷
irishtimes.com/business/2023/…
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Good thread on why solely "affordable" housing isn't the way to go
Iron Economist@IronEconomist
Focusing on affordable housing is just a closet Nimby strategy. We want the average quality of the stock to rise over time so every new house should be above the median price point in the area. We should be making old houses affordable by building 4-7m ‘luxury’ homes.
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@paulg ChatGPT seems to parse it just fine.
A language model that can't understand metaphor and context would be completely unusable.
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What if someone decides to teach an AI that "silence is violence?" Will it attack silent people in order to neutralize them? We're going to have to think carefully before making claims like that once we have a powerful servant that takes us literally.
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@Bubblenoma From memory of the last time I read up - Vitamin D doesn't have enough science behind it to be an official recommendation, but the early research seemed significant and promising and there's no real downside to taking a daily supplement. Worth a punt.
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I've been trying to search for tips to prevent Long COVID but all the tweets say "the best way to prevent Long COVID is not to get it" but that ship has sailed for some of us!!
I've had COVID twice! I do not want Long COVID
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I can finally say it: I settled the bet early with @balajis! Took some time to work out the details but he proceeded in good faith and you can see the receipt of funds on chain in the next tweet. $500k to me (so I get 30% post tax as planned) and 500k to @GiveDirectly
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@Aidan_Regan Interesting proposals. I wonder how many vacant properties & lots are owned by the banks that the Irish govt own?
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Spain and Portugal tackle property crisis by embracing public housing ft.com/content/abd093…
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Amazing how quickly the possibility of profit-driven inflation went from ludicrous to established. bloomberg.com/opinion/articl…
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I really hope there’s a team in some Government department getting ready to analyse, rank and purchase commercial property at steep discounts and convert it to (emergency) accommodation, if/when the market turns.
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On a 12-month basis, €24 billion of Corporation Tax has been collected. It is now heading for €5,000 on a per capita basis with most of this paid by foreign-owned firms. It is unclear where the peak will be as it continues to go in only one direction.
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The table below shows the annual increase in residential rents across a group of EU comparators and Ireland between 1997 and 2022.
Red = average annual rents up by 5% or more
Green = increasing by 2% or less
Yellow = rents falling
Spot the outlier.
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