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Leath Al Obaidi ๐๐โโ๏ธ๐ข ๐๐๐๐
@pluckup_courage
Economist with passion for exploring more economics, policy, strategy, energy & innovation. Views strictly my own & RT not endorsement๐พ๐โโ๏ธ๐โโ๏ธ๐ด
London, England Beigetreten Kasฤฑm 2022
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Six weeks of summer. Forty-seven local camps. One very complicated childcare puzzle.
I built KidSorted to help Walthamstow families compare camps, check dates and prices, find free HAF places, fill every week and keep an eye on the total cost.
kidsorted.co.uk
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Stock splits hide compoundingโs scale. What would one original S&P 500 share be worth today?
NVIDIA trades around $207 in this research snapshot on the day of the their IPO it was $12. But one original 1999 share became 480 shares. Its reconstructed value today is roughly $99,283.
Have a look: leathalobaidi.com/projects/neverโฆ
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Yesterday we held the @econ_SPE Society of Professional Economist Summer Drinks Reception with @SoumayaKeynes. Lo and behold, we even persuaded her to sing trade songs.
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Built a free Chrome extension that makes browsing @letterboxd much faster.
Swipe through films instead of endlessly opening and closing pages.
Feedback welcome.
chromewebstore.google.com/detail/swipe-fโฆ
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I finally got tired of clicking hundreds of tiny "+" buttons to read Financial Times comments.
So I built a free Chrome extension that expands every comment automatically.
chromewebstore.google.com/detail/ft-expaโฆ
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Reminds me of @TheEconomist article Welcome to Britaly- A country of political instability, low growth and subordination to the bond markets
economist.com/leaders/2022/1โฆ
Overfit Quantitative Strategies@OverfitQuantit1
Vai Inghilterra!
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@RuddleMatthew well, while we are at it, could you please test my vibe coded Chrome extension :)
chromewebstore.google.com/detail/swipe-fโฆ
Thanks for being my guinea pig!
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So this quote from the Letterboxd CEO in 2023 when they sold their controlling stake has aged well...
DiscussingFilm@DiscussingFilm
Netflix, Paramount, Sony and Versant have all had early talks about potentially buying Letterboxd. (Source: puck.news/ted-sarandos-yโฆ)
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One of the most illuminating parts of this, I thought, was Djokovicโs honesty about the frustrations of aging:
Ben Rothenberg@BenRothenberg
Novak Djokovic lost in a match without too much flavor at Wimbledon on Friday, but his press conference--both in English and in Serbian--got fairly spicy. Read it all--the Serbian-to-English translation included--at Bounces: benrothenberg.com/p/novak-djokovโฆ
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An entire Herculaneum scroll has been read for the first time
news.ycombinator.com/item?id=486751โฆ
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"If God had meant there to be more than two factors of production, He would have made it easier for us to draw three-dimensional diagrams."
-Robert M. Solow, "The Production Function and the Theory of Capital" (1955)
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The entire Criterion Closet is now available as a website, where you can browse all 1,247 films by walking the shelves, thanks to redditor olievans.
the-criterion-closet.vercel.app
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Built a free Waltham Forest summer holiday camp planner
e17studio.com/holiday-camps/
#walthamstow #e17 #walthamforest
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I poured my 10 years of teaching experience into a skill.
It's called /teach, and it can teach you anything.
Here's how it taught me to solve a Rubik's cube:
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I feel this sort of hobby has died out either way the arrival of smart phones and social media. It looks and feels like ancient entertainment of a time long gone.
El Club del Arte ๐จ๐ท๐๐ผ๐๐ผ@Arteymas_
Este vรญdeo muestra a la ilustradora britรกnica y naturalista aficionada Jo Brown hojeando su cuaderno con temรกtica de hongos, que contiene ilustraciones detalladas y descripciones de varios hongos que ha observado en las zonas silvestres de Devon.
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Insane photos taken at Roland Garros captured by Geoff Lowe (2026)
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