Lee McCoy
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Lee McCoy
@getvisible
I’d rather be an unknown here. And have my name up there.
Remote Inscrit le Ocak 2009
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Maybe getting the opportunity to play Augusta National unlimited times the month leading into The Masters, while skipping three straight tournaments, gave Rory McIlroy an unfair advantage over the other competitors… Just maybe.
Congrats, or whatever.
The Masters@TheMasters
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Evolution of programming languages:
1940s → Machine Code (0s 1s)
1949 → Assembly
1957 → FORTRAN
1959 → COBOL
1964 → BASIC
1970 → Pascal
1972 → C
1983 → C++
1991 → Python
1993 → Ruby
1995 → Java
1995 → JavaScript
1995 → PHP
2000 → C#
2009 → Go
2010 → Rust
2011 → Kotlin
2011 → Elixir
2012 → TypeScript
2014 → Swift
2015 → Solidity
2026 → English
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"Keynesianism"
Eyal Yakoby@EYakoby
Snow removal under Zohran Mamdani in NYC. Is this what you voted for?
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This article just won Dan Koe $250,000 from 𝕏
Article Summary: Full guide: how to unlock extreme focus on command

DAN KOE@thedankoe
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The total destruction of civilization is happening now. Right now. Who is going to stop it?
Concerned Citizen@BGatesIsaPyscho
Time to check in on the streets of Paris, as the French government, once again goes after Elon Musk & the social media app X
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@eightsleep Any reason I can get king sizePod 5 Ultra in the US and not the UK - is it coming to the UK or should I just go with TEMPUR?
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@TPExpressTrains the 1707 from Manchester picadilly to warrington West didn't open the doors for the front carriage. So now I have to go to Liverpool parkway
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I'm in the @NewStatesman today arguing why rejoining the EU Customs Union won't fix Labour's growth woes.
The basic reason: UK and European stagnation predate Brexit, and the real challenge is competing with US and Chinese dynamism.
Brexit didn’t cause our economic problems, but it did create an excuse for them. The EU debate sucked the air out of our idea space, particularly on the left, which means we haven't properly interrogated the root causes of our economic malaise.
Europe as a whole suffers from a lack of dynamism. Our largest companies are much older than those in the US, and weighted towards legacy sectors (finance, luxury goods, oil, pharma, automobiles), many of which have seen poor productivity growth compared to America's digital services and AI, or China's advanced manufacturing.
Crucially, dynamism is not the same as innovation. Britain, like many European countries, has no shortage of entrepreneurs and inventors, scientists and creators.
The challenge is continually re-allocating talent and capital towards evermore productive uses, in effect turning ideas into profitable companies that can take on incumbents and scale.
For this, market structure, regulation and underlying infrastructure are more important than ingenuity and skills.
We do not build enough housing, particularly in productive cities, and especially in London. This means workers can’t afford to move to good jobs, and wages are inflated to cover high rents, increasing cost and reducing business investment.
Britain has some of the highest electricity costs in the world, in part due to our failure to build transmission infrastructure and nuclear power. We have not built a reservoir since 1992, or a runway since 2001, or high speed rail since 2007.
Physical infrastructure is important for dynamism because it effectively levels the playing field. Productive firms cannot take on established incumbents if they face prohibitive costs to expansion. The net effect is dampened investment and firms that would rather scale in the US–or not at all.



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There's a line every Chancellor knows they cannot cross: you do not invent a crisis to plunder the public purse. Rachel Reeves didn't cross the line – she erased it. The facts are clear. On 31 October, the OBR told her she had £4.2 billion of headroom. No black hole. No fiscal cliff. No looming disaster. Yet on 4 November she strode out and spoke as if Britain were teetering on collapse, as if some unseen storm had torn through the nation's books. She talked of "difficult choices," of "consequences," of a shortfall she knew was fiction. That wasn't a slip of the tongue. It was a deliberate lie.
She didn't raise taxes because she had to. She raised them because she wanted to. She froze thresholds, dragged almost a million more people into higher-rate tax, and cooked up the biggest stealth raid in modern times. All of it hidden behind a phantom crisis. The black hole was political theatre, designed to shield a welfare splurge aimed at pacifying Labour's restless backbenches. The story of a collapsing budget was nothing more than an alibi, and a clumsy one at that.
Once you strip away the noise, the truth is plain: Reeves lied to the public so she could tighten her grip on their money. She even blamed Brexit, the Tories, inflation, global instability – anything except her own choices. And when the OBR published the timeline that exposed her, the Treasury lashed out, accusing the watchdog of breaching some sacred "private space." It was an act of panic. The OBR didn't breach anything. It blew the whistle. The only thing the Treasury wanted to protect was the lie.
A Chancellor's authority rests on trust. She signs off every tax a family pays. She shapes the numbers that steer the markets. When that figure misleads the country about the state of its finances, the entire system is tainted. Every forecast becomes suspect. Every Budget becomes theatre. Every future tax rise is greeted with the question she fears most: what are you hiding this time? You cannot run a credible economy when the Chancellor has debased her own currency – the truth.
Even Labour MPs can see it. Graham Stringer says the whole justification for the pain has melted away "like snow on a spring day." Others mutter that "it all looks a bit odd." When your own side begins edging away from you, the dam has already cracked. Kemi Badenoch is right to call for her resignation. Mel Stride is right to say she misled the country. And the public – those who will now pay more on their wages, their savings, their pensions, their fuel – can see the pattern for what it is.
This isn't a one-off error. It is the first real glimpse of how this government works: panic the country, raid its pockets, and hope no one spots the join. Reeves didn't inherit chaos. She manufactured it. She should go. If she stays, it tells Britain that dishonesty is no longer a scandal in government but standard practice. A free people cannot accept that. A country built on plain dealing cannot live under a Chancellor who treats truth as a prop and the public as marks.
Reeves should resign because the office she holds demands honesty, not stagecraft. And because a nation cannot build a future on a lie.
"Reeves didn't inherit chaos. She manufactured it. She should go. If she stays, it tells Britain that dishonesty is no longer a scandal in government but standard practice."

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