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by noneeeed 7y ago
I think it was an episode of Planet Money a couple of months ago, that had an interview with someone senior in the bond world. She seemed really quite worried about the current state of the market. There is so much capital desperately tryin
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That's pretty cool. It's funny that Ireland has such an accurate system now, when it used to be used as the classic example of not assuming things about addresses because much of Ireland didn't have postcodes of any form. I
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Can someone explain how it is that the Bank of England can summon huge amounts of money into existence through QE by just updating entries in some ledgers, but for something like this we need to mint/print some physical object? Every t
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by noneeeed 7y ago
From what I've seen, Zipline is being run between managed locations, rather than delivering to random points on the map, but I could be wrong about that, I last read about it a couple of years ago. Also, like a lot of solutions, this d
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by noneeeed 7y ago
Germany's sudden shift from nuclear without a plan for what to replace it with was just so frustrating to watch. So much coal :/
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by noneeeed 7y ago
For anyone interested in power useage and supply patterns you should check out https://gridwatch.co.uk/ It shows UK power use and generation in realtime, and over various time periods. There is still plenty of room for more
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by noneeeed 7y ago
Mass production of both along with greater effieciencies in manufacturing and installation. There are huge factories that churn out solar panels, and the installation systems have become simpler and faster. On the domestic side it can now t
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by noneeeed 7y ago
People do hold a grudge, I see it all the time in our data and feedback. People applying for entry level jobs angry because they were rejected quickly based on their CV. You can do all the basics right, but a lot of people are still going t
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by noneeeed 7y ago
I think it was Tim Harford (possibly quoting someone else) who said "Microeconomics is everything we think we understand, macroeconomics is everything we don't". My problem with macro-economics/economists is that so many
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That is actually a surprisingly good ratio. I work for a company that deals with this kind of data and the applicant to hire ratio at some companies, especially in retail or unskilled jobs can easily hit much, much higher than that. When I
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by noneeeed 7y ago
Why are they buying rat poison in bulk?
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by noneeeed 7y ago
The problem for MoviePass has been that a membership scheme is something the cinema chains can and do run themselves. In fact when I first heard of MP around 2017 the Odeon chain in the UK had something similar that a colleague used at leas
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by noneeeed 7y ago
Thank you, that was a great explanation with lovely examples.
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Absolutely. We can't even change our voting system, I can't see a written constitution being agreed any time soon.
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It will be interesting to see if, in the aftermath of all this, we end up with a more formally defined constitutional system, or if we'll just carry on as before. I can't see us adopting a "big ideas" written constitutio
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by noneeeed 7y ago
There is a place near me that is part of Regus, but you wouldn't know it, it's very much positioned as a co-working style location. They seem to be using the tactic of setting up parallel brands that don't have the baggage of
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by noneeeed 7y ago
Similar experience here. 25 years at a "job for life" and he got a carriage clock. A couple of years later we move to the other side of the UK. A couple of years later they shut down that office making dad redundant. I am under no
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by noneeeed 7y ago
If you're in the UK you might want to check out https://wheelmap.org It is also crowd sourced, so coverage varies. Where I am in Bath, there has been a big push to get much of the city mapped (it's a pretty wheelchair-
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by noneeeed 7y ago
It can be incredibly annoying when doing something like updating a cloudformation stack. I might open RDS in another tab to grab a snapshot ID or EC2 to check a sec group, and when I switch back to my half updated CF parameters the damn pag
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by noneeeed 7y ago
The three things that annoy me the most about the console: 1) state management/sync is frequently terrible. E.g you are looking at a page with some health indicator and a log view. The last entry in the log is some variation of "t
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by noneeeed 7y ago
It's great. It allows you to push the responsibility for checking values are in type right out to the earliest point, reducing the need to sprinkle bounds checking code all over the place. If you are using static analysis like SPARK or
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Range types were one of my favourite features of the Ada type system. Such a simple idea, but super effective, and really useful when doing static analysis. Being able to push constraints to the interface simplified a lot of things.
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That sounds very much how things are here in Bath. Amazon people don't seem excessively busy, and manage to park without killing anyone, which is relatively impressive as parking round here is a nightmate at the best of times. I'm
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by noneeeed 7y ago
Just looked up the Vestal Vergins. That was grim reading. People really can be incredibly awful to one-another when they put their minds to it.
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Ineed, sadly. Rosling is one of the people on my "fantasy dinner-party" list.
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I think it's might have been a knowing ommission. This piece is pretty much a transcript of Tim Harford's series "50 Things That Made the Modern Economy". The episodes for that series are only 8 minutes long, so there is
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I guess for many places it was simply that food supplies were never that plentiful, so it's worth the risk to try and make safe something that looks like it could be edible. If your food supply is plentiful there probably wouldn't
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by noneeeed 7y ago
I'm not going to say Amazon in the UK are some paragon of virtue, but this article does seem to make it sound much, much worse in the US. While I do see plenty of delivery vans (for the likes of DPD, UPS as well), they certainly don&#x
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Would be interesting to know the numbers. It's a bit like IKEA, their furniture requires less energy to produce and ship but does the resulting cheapness cause people to buy significantly more? I don't think I buy significantly
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by noneeeed 7y ago
Yeah, one of the lightbulb moments for me when learning more about aerodynamics and talking to my dad (former aircraft designer, workedon concorde) is how often what's happening at the back can be more important than what happens at th

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