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by rowanajmarshall 4y ago
Yesterday I spent the day volunteering at a gathering of homeless services, handing out food to anyone who needed it. Today, I went to a British Museum exhibit with my partner. Tomorrow, I'm going on a 12 mile hike in Surrey with some
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by rowanajmarshall 4y ago
But it still shows there's more nuclear energy floating around the EU and it's neighbours than any other region of the world.
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by rowanajmarshall 4y ago
For France (and I imagine it's similar for other countries), EU contributions are a smidgen under 1% of GDP. I can't imagine that makes the decisive difference here. And in any case, since the EU still gets more of its energy from
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by rowanajmarshall 4y ago
> The EU only put all focus on "green" energy and then tried to solve the problems it created with fossil fuels while forgetting about or even actively working against nuclear. I'm not sure that's true. The EU (25%) a
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by rowanajmarshall 4y ago
If you want to take a middle ground, so you can get some funding without the pressure of high-powered VCs you could look at something like Calm Fund: https://calmfund.com/
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by rowanajmarshall 4y ago
> In a shrinking population, are individual people worse off Yes. A shrinking population means an ever-smaller number of workers need to support increasing numbers of retirees. If you can work that out, then you've still got a small
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by rowanajmarshall 4y ago
> Something has deeply deeply changed in society for a fertility rate to go from 6 to 0.8 in 60 years, the living memory of a single life. Industrialisation. The UK began industrialising in the mid-to-late 1700s. Western Europe and North
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by rowanajmarshall 4y ago
When I've cycled to work and gone for drinks afterwards, I'll leave my bike at the office and pick it up the next day, using public transport to get there.
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by rowanajmarshall 4y ago
> It takes some effort, but it's not particularly difficult if you know and understand how to communicate effectively over a remote medium So I've got zero doubt you _can_ do that, I did over lockdown. But if we make socialisin
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by rowanajmarshall 4y ago
> Inhabitants of dense, large cities like Paris or New York are famously considered generally rude Eh, I moved from a rural farming town to inner London. People in dense cities aren't rude, they're busy. If anything, city peopl
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by rowanajmarshall 4y ago
This is where picking a bike that suits your climate/circumstances come in. I commute on a bike (at least, if I'm not going out after work) in London. I have a foldable Brompton bike fitted with an e-bike conversion kit from Swytc
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by rowanajmarshall 4y ago
This, but "commutable to London" covers a very large area, and you can still get cheap(ish) housing there. If you're in a town an hour away from London, daily commuting is uncomfortable, but doing it once a fortnight for a ni
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by rowanajmarshall 4y ago
Property taxes dissuade development, because the higher the value of that specific property the higher the tax. Land value taxes encourage development because the tax is levied on the _unimproved_ value of the land, so you're incentivi
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TikTok employees complain of ‘kill list’ aimed at forcing out London staff(ft.com)
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by rowanajmarshall 4y ago
> It's nowhere near as strong as chilli sauce, for example. I dunno about that, I can slather stuff in a strong chilli sauce and can happily eat up to Madras curries (vindaloo with some discomfort) but English mustard _kills_ me.
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by rowanajmarshall 4y ago
Yes, quite a lot more efficient. You can call it ridiculous, but we're incredibly good at efficiently shipping things.
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by rowanajmarshall 4y ago
> What pisses me off is people complaining about my local, free-range meat consumption while chomping on fruit and grain grown in more temperate countries and flown here. Not sure if you're being serious here, but the _extreme_ vast
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by rowanajmarshall 4y ago
It's only bland if your idea of good food is lots of spices. The incredible umami depth of a beef dripping gravy, the intense burn of an English mustard, or the creamy tang of a good mashed potato with butter and sour cream, sprinkled
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by rowanajmarshall 4y ago
> the average engineer can't buy a house within 20km radius of world's top billionaires Although before WFH (and maybe even afterwards), the world's top billionaires were insisting engineers live within 20km of them so the
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by rowanajmarshall 4y ago
> that's a 9% tax on their salary every month forever Well, 9% of your salary above £28k, and wiped 30 years after your first payment. In any case, it means no-one is too poor to study at tertiary level (recognising that there will
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by rowanajmarshall 4y ago
> > In other words, and paradoxically, work in labor-intensive jobs will be the last to be automated. This I'm a little suspicious of, because of all tasks human did throughout history, labour-intensive stuff has _always_ been au
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by rowanajmarshall 4y ago
> OpenAI estimates that Codex (what powers Github’s Copilot) can already complete 37% of coding tasks. This makes me a bit suspicious of the article. Obviously this is just one developers experience now. I've been using Copilot for
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by rowanajmarshall 4y ago
Solar isn't a great idea in Germany anyway, but wind farms don't take much land, because you can use it for other things. It's pretty common here in the UK to have livestock or crops in the same fields as wind turbines.
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I grew up in Ceredigion, you'd better make good use of it :)
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by rowanajmarshall 4y ago
> whatever means necessary to weaken $ and help Europe, rest of world I might be misunderstanding something here, but wouldn't a weak dollar strengthen the US economy (in terms of exports) relative to other peer economies (e.g. Euro
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by rowanajmarshall 4y ago
The UK handles this quite well, the same author as this post also wrote this: https://twitter.com/GergelyOrosz/status/1511394247500566533
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by rowanajmarshall 4y ago
This sounds about right. On a fixed lease, the landlord generally can't kick you out. But when a fixed-lease ends, unless it's explicitly renewed, it automatically becomes a month-to-month lease which can be ended by the tenant wi
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by rowanajmarshall 4y ago
I got the _best_ multi-adapter charger at AWS Summit London thanks to my cert.
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by rowanajmarshall 4y ago
To be fair Germany isn't especially sunny or even _that_ windy. Somewhere like Colorado or Morocco is far more reliable for renewables. Maybe not to the point of baseload, but enough to plan for. So location is really important here.
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It's this: https://startupgenome.com/report/gser2022

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