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London 🇬🇧🏴 Katılım Nisan 2014
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Since I was in Japan Uber wants to give me Rakuten points - is there some bizarre arbitrage opportunity here?
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very happy to announce that i’m joining @UseCorgi to work on marketing, growth & events in NYC :)
corgi is an insurance carrier that cuts out the broker and uses AI to underwrite policies directly for startups and businesses - and they're killing it
we’re also opening a 24/7 cafe in NYC soon, so if you want to partner or host events with us, DM me!
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If you're a millennial or younger there's a good chance you will never get a state pension at all
Steven Swinford@Steven_Swinford
Millions more people face having to work until they are 68 before being able to claim their pension under plans to bring forward a rise in the state retirement age, @oliver_wright reports The state pension age is due to gradually rise to 68 between April 2044 and April 2046. It will reach 68 for those born on or after April 6, 1978 However, Treasury officials have told the Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR), the government’s fiscal forecaster, that the “current policy” is to bring the increase in the retirement age forward by at least seven years, to 2037 This would mean that about five million people who are aged between 49 and 55 at present would have to work for an additional year before being eligible for their state pension, costing them about £12,500 The decision would save the government about £6 billion a year from 2037 compared with the present timetable Last year ministers launched a review of the state pension age led by the Government Actuary’s Department and Suzy Morrissey, deputy director of the Pensions Policy Institute. It is due to make recommendations on when the pension age should rise before the government legislates for any change. Ministers have insisted no final decision has been taken However, in a response to the OBR, the Treasury said the government’s intention was to bring forward the pension age rise towards the end of the next decade The OBR said: “We assume that the state pension rises to 68 in 2037-39. The Treasury has confirmed to us that this is the government’s current policy position, rather than the legislated increase set in the Pensions Act 2007.” thetimes.com/article/b74703…
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Over the last century physical fitness stopped happening naturally, and people have had to build exercise habits to offset naturally sedentary lives.
We're now entering a default sedentary era for intellectual fitness, and we need to build intellectual exercise habits somehow.
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Even though France vs Spain will be a great game, the anticipation for England vs Argentina is so much higher
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Join us for London Fintech Drinks next month on July 16
Looking forward to @Londonmaxxing ✨
Register below 👇🏼
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Swiss private bank Julius Baer ranked the top ten cities for lifestyle for HNWIs
1. Singapore
2. Zurich
3. Monaco
4. Hong Kong
5. London
6. Shanghai
7. Paris
8. Sydney
9. Milan
10. Bangkok
Based on prices of 20 luxury goods and services, with a higher weighting to residential property and cars
Goods: Bicycle, car, champagne, jewellery, men’s suit, residential property, sports equipment, technology package, watch, women’s handbag, women’s shoes
Services: Business-class flight, fine dining, healthcare, hotel suite, LASIK eye surgery, lawyer, MBA, private school, spa
How things have changed since 2022:
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@itsnekodayo @Msamalam I'm already a billionaire in Indonesian Rupiah
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No developed economy has ever gotten rich by purposefully devaluing its currency. What Takaichi is doing is criminal.
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@itsnekodayo @Msamalam sumimasen... when I came there on previous occasions it didn't feel cheap at all
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I’m not sure where this photo comes from - I bet it is Scandinavia somewhere.
Actually around me I see opposite. Huge glass spaces as windows for better and they are not loosing heat.
New houses around me (mine included) has typical whole wall of glass in living rooms and we are not living in mild climate for a winter.
Insulation and building materials are actually solved many of those concerns.
And if you want to block heat - put a heat protection wrapper on a window.
It stops most of hear radiation but is not dimming the light
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🇪🇺 The new trend in Europe now is building new houses with tiny windows, so that they stay cool and don't need to install or use AC to cool them
"Less sunlight = less heat = less cooling = less energy use" is their thinking
But there's a reason people buy modern design villas that are floor to ceiling glass (I did)
You want as much sunlight as possible coming in for your health, because your circadian rhythm depends on it, improving your sleep quality so you produce melatonin at the right time and fall asleep easily and stay asleep all night
Sunlight also affects your mood of course, it heavily boosts serotonin and decreases symptoms of depression
Having wide views of the sky, nature or ocean also have a measurable effect on lowering your stress
So Europe is now building houses with tiny windows all so they don't need to install AC, while the new home owner inside will slowly become miserable, stressed, depressed, start sleeping bad and as a second order effects of that become sick (but of course then you can sell them pills)
The conclusion is the same I had during the ongoing heatwave in Europe where tens of thousands of people are still dying every month because they're not allowed to install AC:
Europe now cares more about energy use than people's lives
Degrowth is a completely delusional cult affecting all of Europeans lives now!
Peter Hague@peterrhague
These are hideous. You know, if we had cheaper energy we could add more and larger windows…
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HNWI vs refugees for Group C? I think there already is or was a refugees World Cup
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They should run a minnows world cup - countries under 500,000 - to run at the same time towards the end, with games scheduled for the days when there are no WC games on, so at least we have Liechenstein v Andorra to look forward to x.com/BBCSport/statu…
BBC Sport@BBCSport
What are your thoughts on a 64-team World Cup? 👀
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Desktop apps are combined and ChatGPT always had WAY more users than Claude
Can’t track this anymore
Latent.Space@latentspacepod
Did... Codex just overtake Claude Code? 24.5 hours ago Tibo announced 6M active users. this means Codex usage jumped 1M in ~ONE DAY. the last user number we heard from Claude Code was 2M in Feb: latent.space/p/ainews-codex… more analysis within, but this is very big if true.
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@BlairBarley If almost every middle class home in China can find a way to install it and make it work then I'm sure we can. The more who want it the easier it'll be to find and install, but right now there is a consensus against it by a large chunk of the population it seems.
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@mttjon I agree it’s something to be fixed, and we need it increasingly urgently. I think public buildings absolutely should have it. But I don’t think most Brits see it as ideological, just practical. We want it, but it’s hard to retrofit our houses and expensive to install and run.
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The UK is cooked. People are dying due to heat as aircon is seen as ideologically impure.
Channel 4 News@Channel4News
Does the UK need air conditioning? Architect Smith Mordak argues Britain needs to stop treating extreme heat as an exception and start building for the temperatures we're already experiencing.
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