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Thinking of doing a house share in London, somewhere fairly yuppie within bike distance to the city. Dm me if interested.
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the only guy that can code in the most boring department at the biggest financial institution you’ve never heard of. alt @granular_flaws
Beigel side of London 가입일 Aralık 2020
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@NathanpmYoung And even if we do turn things around in 2029 and recreate, say, the best decade of per capita gdp growth in the last half century (1993-2003, £26,546->£34,968) then by 2039 we’ll still be poorer than Germany and Australia, and 20% poorer than America AND we’ll all be old!
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I think Britons should be *more* pessimistic. If you live in Britain it probably won't get better. Get involved in politics and fix it. The current process (short a big AI reroll) doesn't look good.
Now is the time to panic.
Ellie Hodges@elliehodges62
We’ve become more comfortable talking about Britain’s decline than its strengths. But the country still has resilience, culture, and a sense of possibility. Believing that it can improve is where it starts. ⬇️ @elliehodges1/note/p-191273283?r=3x2r11&utm_medium=ios&utm_source=notes-share-action" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">substack.com/@elliehodges1/…
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@lucaajw Even if it did it wouldn’t solve the core issue of low performance.
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The only issue here is that the towers are too short and too sparse
Alastair Hilton@London_W4
On a train heading out of London for a trip to England. Thought I’d show you the architectural dross that is Nine Elms. Possibly the most poorly designed, most devoid of character, devoid of personality area in London. If you can bear to watch to the end, there is a glimpse of an architectural masterpiece amongst it all though.
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@stanfordNYC I mean yes, conservatives call that the 60s and its consequences and @robinhanson would call it cultural drift
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There does seem to be a sense that our lives have degraded socially, culturally, spiritually even while being enriched materially. Some posit that these are inherently connected; a trade-off.
But I'm not sure. What if we genuinely made our society worse arbitrarily?
Kelsey Piper@KelseyTuoc
My ancestors buried half their children. All mine are alive. My ancestors' house had a dirt floor. Mine is wood. I have indoor plumbing, I have hot water, I have never in my life hauled a full bucket half a mile and I probably never will. Do you know how rare it is, in human history, for small children to wear shoes? Mine have multiple pairs. I can speak to my relatives who live thousands of miles away, for free, at any time. Video, if we want video. With machine translation, if we speak different languages. The original Library of Congress had 740 books in it. I have more than that. If I run out of books in my home my local public library has 350,000. If I want to take a hundred books with me on vacation, they all fit on a device that fits in my purse. I have heat in the winter and AC in the summer and a washing machine and I have never, ever, ever had to scrub a dress clean by hand in the stream. I can look up recipes from more than a hundred different countries and I've tried dozens of them. I ride a clean and modern train across my city for $4, or take a robot taxi if I'm out too late for the train. I donate $40,000 every year to the cause of getting healthcare to the world's poorest people and even after the donations I never have to think about whether I can afford a book, or a pair of shoes, or a cup of coffee. There is a great deal more to fight for, of course. I hope that our descendants will look back on our lives and list a thousand ways they're richer. Maybe we ourselves will do that, if some of the crazier stuff comes true. But the abundance is all around you and to a significant degree you aren't feeling it only because fish don't notice water.
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I bet women outperform men in this.
Simon Kuestenmacher@simongerman600
The Color Guesser game sounds dull but is great fun for a few minutes. You are giving the name of a color and have to pick the right color. The game gives you a proximity score. Even better here is data showing how the community of guessers did. Play it here for free: beta.colorguesser.com
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@s8mb I do not think TfL uses my money very well. I’m much happier with lower fares and investing in capital myself with higher returns and less waste.
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My unpopular opinion is that TfL should raise peak tube fares more. In the mornings, stations and trains are uncomfortably overcrowded and it's often difficult to get a seat. Higher fares would help with that and raise more money to invest in newer rolling stock.
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While those things will help, it is not the case that traditional styled buildings with ornament are higher cost than high spec contemporary buildings.
In most cost models, facades are <10% of the total cost and ‘trad’ stone, ceramics, brick, etc are similarly priced or cheaper than glass curtain walls or showy steel.
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@BW6792505937146 because its the North West of England
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@BernoulliDefect Why is Central Britain always referred to as the northwest
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Wonks talk a lot about regional inequality, but my northern coworkers who have migrated down talk of something else: the North-West - namely Glasgow and Manchester - is incredibly grim from a weather perspective. Roughly *half* the winter sun of (already very dark) London!
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An England unchained by planning law would have millions move from the dreary north west (1,200 sunshine hours/year) to the Greater Kent Coast Megalopolis (1,900 sunshine hours/year)
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@BarneyFlames @gbrl_dick Edinburgh is ineligible for top 20 for its weather alone
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@gbrl_dick Lot of inexplicable entires here even like Edinburgh and Copenhagen are weird
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@LemanWalters you should share a clip for the less well read
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Restore’s defenders all have this tendency to talk like that splicer in the first Bioshock game in the frozen level where he thinks you’re working for Fontaine. J’ have put lines and lines into spelling their position out. Cannot believe people batting for morons like Downes
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@BenRamanauskas You have one joke and it’s quite good
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Not saying that HM Treasury is in a panic but an official literally ran into me. Good to see they're Delivering at Pace, just a shame that they didn't see the Big Picture.
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