rowanajmarshall

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by rowanajmarshall 5y ago
That isn't what inflation measures. That's what life expectancy measures.
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by rowanajmarshall 5y ago
But more land and fewer workers means less starvation and malnutrition, which were major concerns back then, effectively raising the living standard. When the primary source of wealth is land, you can only have so many workers until all the
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by rowanajmarshall 5y ago
I find that's true in specialised subs, but not wider ones. Like, if you're looking for a good coffee grinder, r/coffee will only recommend the top-end stuff, but if you search in something r/AskReddit you get more &#x27
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by rowanajmarshall 5y ago
It's basically a local maxima problem. You optimise for what seems best at the time, not what will be optimal over a longer period of time.
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by rowanajmarshall 5y ago
Maybe try somewhere like Scotland, especially the Highlands? You'll get similar-ish weather and nature, but you'll speak the language and it'll be easier to work remote for London companies.
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by rowanajmarshall 5y ago
> It is also always helpful to remember to treat US not as a country but as an association of countries under a single flag and currency. But is this materially any different to other federations, like Australia, Germany, and Canada (who
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by rowanajmarshall 5y ago
> London, Tokyo, New York and pretty much every other major metropolis has problems akin to the Bay Area I've never lived in the Bay Area/SF so I can't comment on the problems there, but I have lived in London for the past
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by rowanajmarshall 5y ago
> A reasonable parent knows that Alexa's main function is to look things up on the internet. Well, it's what Amazon would like Alexa to be for. For me, and everyone I know, its a podcast/music player plus timer and weather
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How to Think: The Skill You’ve Never Been Taught(fs.blog)
277 points by rowanajmarshall 5y ago|132 comments
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by rowanajmarshall 5y ago
That's me :) I got into riding e-bikes around London when the first lockdown kicked in, got my own (non-electric) bike a few months later. A few days ago (just as I left to see family!) my e-bike conversion kit arrived, and I'm SO
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by rowanajmarshall 5y ago
It's bad PR that they delete inactive account with games at all, but they did it anyway.
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by rowanajmarshall 5y ago
> often requiring giving long account and routing numbers that many of us were told not to give out. It also takes several days to process, and sometimes has fees of $25-30 I get there probably isn't a single answer to this, BUT WHY
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by rowanajmarshall 5y ago
Surely inflation can also be caused by a rapid decrease in the quantity of goods e.g. production moved to weaponry in wartime, blockades, natural disasters, strikes, pandemic shutdowns? Same money, chasing fewer goods.
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by rowanajmarshall 5y ago
> I'm sceptical of these "Silicon X" top-down projects which don't seem to have a great history (cf eg Silicon Roundabout); I don't know how much the government helped with this, but the UK has one of the largest
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What Is a Bitcoin Worth?(bankunderground.co.uk)
1 points by rowanajmarshall 5y ago|0 comments
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by rowanajmarshall 5y ago
That's not far from London, a pretty dense city as they go, but also one that just about, technically speaking, counts as a forest thanks to the number of trees [1]. I live in one of the densest boroughs of London, on a main road, and
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by rowanajmarshall 5y ago
As someone from bumfuck nowhere currently living in a megacity, there's more to it than that. Cultural events for one; the difference between a 20 minute train home and a 7 hour drive is pretty significant. Job availability is another
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by rowanajmarshall 5y ago
> Basically, I think the US is likely the best for generational family mobility. I have seen this story many times with immigrants What makes you think this doesn't happen so much in other countries?
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by rowanajmarshall 5y ago
> they use a point system... that never actually checks for employability Well, they both give major points if you've got a job offer so I wouldn't say that. But right now (COVID aside) I could apply to Australia, get my visa a
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by rowanajmarshall 5y ago
> USA is relatively easy to migrate to compared to basically anywhere in western Europe, UK, Canada, Japan, or South Korea I dunno about that, as a professional developer in the UK it's way easier to immigrate to Canada or Austra
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by rowanajmarshall 5y ago
tl;dr version: https://sifted.eu/articles/european-tech-2021-atomico/
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The State of European Tech 2021(stateofeuropeantech.com)
1 points by rowanajmarshall 5y ago|1 comments
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by rowanajmarshall 5y ago
This is looking pretty good for Europe: 98 new unicorns (albeit _very_ unevenly distributed), huge amounts of new funding, and even starting to approach the US.
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by rowanajmarshall 5y ago
There was this chap about 150 years ago, wrote about the alienation from labour caused by breaking down jobs into tiny, mindless motions that slowly eat away at your sense of self. This stuff isn't new.