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Looking at what @elonmusk is doing with this platform, I think I’ve had enough. Can be found elsewhere with same username. Might pop back occasionally.
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Daniel Johnson
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Daniel Johnson
@hackloon
don’t really post here any more - more active where the skies are blue…
Katılım Mart 2009
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@joshglancy @LukeDyks @megbaynes Is that the total including the DB scheme which is in run-off? Because if so surely that’s a very odd metric to use as it is in surplus and the surplus has increased?
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Fascinating piece by @megbaynes on how risk-averse British pension schemes are.
The £73bn universities pension scheme has been delivering an insanely pedestrian *1.7%* return for its members over the past 5 years
thetimes.com/article/1b7a1f…
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@hackloon Have to plead autocorrect I’m afraid, and I care slightly less about your irritation than I have instinct to change it via the edit button
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I care about the change slightly less than I do about someone writing “a millennia”.
Fergus Butler-Gallie@_F_B_G_
Intensely depressing that the most mediocre group of MPs in history, almost all of whom will be eviscerated at the next election, were allowed to sweep away a millennia of history and pretend it somehow made life in the country they’re screwing up better.
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I see the useless leaders of @thameswater are doubling my monthly bill 😡 If ever there was a failure of the market, they really are the perfect example.
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@OxIRandHistory I think this is where I know more about contracting for public sector work than you do…
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@hackloon Would it? I'm not sure. Postmasters scandal seems to me the product of multiple failings past the contract level, and that duty of care would seem not to fall under 'wider...benefits' beyond the specific G&S but probably a safeguard with respect to the service itself.
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Read an article recently that government should stop packaging things into bigger things. Procurement is to procure at the lowest cost to the taxpayer, and then redistribute/incentivise elsewhere.
At a stroke the electorate and government can see where money is going.
Joe Hill@jo3hill
We should worry about 'mission-driven' procurement, which in isolation would be a step backwards. Quick 🧵on why this kind of 'everythingism' in procurement is so dangerous.
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@OxIRandHistory Would that Fujitsu contract have been better if they had a duty of care towards individual postmasters?
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@hackloon I'm not sure I disagree on loo roll and consulting and tax advice - certainly the government ought to be purchasing in bulk. Responding specifically here to bundling of 'social value' into procurement.
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@OxIRandHistory So each army barracks should buy toilet rolls separately? And spend more to do so?
Because much the same goes for (eg) consulting and tax advice as it does for bog roll.
There’s a middle ground but it’s hard to find. Which is why we have procurement.
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Someone didn’t get an upgrade 😂
Luke Tryl@LukeTryl
Not to get too deep about something like Tier points, but there is something about @British_Airways now which embodies a hollowed out management consultancy led, computer says no approach to service that pervades business and frustrates so many people and diminishes loyalty.
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@OxIRandHistory I’ve never heard of Valerie Stivers. Being generous, I’ll assume that you’re posting this completely out of context and she isn’t quite as ignorant as that passage suggests…
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Quite right. Many are frustrated with what appears to be the iron cycle: 'It isn't happening' alternating with 'It's happening, and that's a good thing'. Consistency is a virtue, and hypocrisy should be examined and acknowledged.
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@TypeForVictory And the whole “still being paid off until 2015” thing is nonsense…
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Britain's carribbean colonies (Jamaica and Barbados most notably) were mostly self-governing at the time and, after 1776, feared we'd spark independence wars.
We bought freedom for people beyond the jurisdiction of English law (under which slavery had been illegal anyway).
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At the moment there are no fees for the DPS system because the entities that safeguard the cash also get to keep the interest arising on it (at super low rates because it’s almost zero risk). So might not be much of an opportunity here.
Benjamin Lewis@tc1415
Random thing that just occurred to me right now. But that's how my brain works. Deposit protection for tenants is great. Very high value law change. But it now needs to go further, deposits should accrue interest. Probably at a discounted rate. But still, there should be some.
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And anywhere else (at least originally under ER I) where Latin was “commonly understood”.
Fr. Timothy Matkin@FrMatkin
My Latin edition of the 1662 Book of Common Prayer, still used at the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge.
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@DominicSelwood @Farm_Direct So far it’s been excellent quality! Plus also a way to buy from farms more directly rather than via supermarkets.
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Stunning piece of beef via @Farm_Direct 🥰 Plus veg and bread for tomorrow’s leftover sandwiches
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