tommy5dollar

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by tommy5dollar 2y ago
I don't think "state funded" is the important part to take away from the piece, it's a shortage of infrastructure in general, both state and private, in part due to incredibly restrictive rules. These days you can easily
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by tommy5dollar 2y ago
This doesn't really seem relevant since no one is disputing whether the UK as a whole has enough space for more houses. The relevant comparisons are Paris vs London and then the various 2nd tier cities in the countries. Paris has a MUC
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by tommy5dollar 2y ago
Transport projects seem to be particularly expensive these days in Anglo countries compared to European countries. For instance, we currently have a planned short tunnel in the UK (under the Thames but not in London itself) where the actual
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by tommy5dollar 3y ago
It seems foolish to say we can never do anything that makes the life of the poor better just because it also helps the non-poor
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by tommy5dollar 3y ago
Well, it sounds like you could come up with a set of useful heuristics, like living next door to the property. It feels intrinsically pretty cheems to just say "this sounds tricky so we shouldn't bother" when the existing sys
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by tommy5dollar 3y ago
It seems useful to identify the right problem. It's better to know you just need the right compiler than the think the issue is something else as you can then work on building the right compiler. Obviously democracy should be limited t
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by tommy5dollar 3y ago
The UK is one of the Western democracies without the protections you're talking about (no written constitution, no ability to bind future parliaments, law passed by a simple majority of parliamentarians, first-past-the-post and strong
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by tommy5dollar 3y ago
Huh? The impoverished residents of the estate voted to have it "destroyed" (from which they would personally gain) but it was rich elites that blocked it because it's a vote winner in the wider community to be viewed as anti-
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by tommy5dollar 3y ago
The benefit of this proposal is that it pits property owners against each other. It might be in the interests of property owners as a class to not build in order to see values increase but the greed of individual owners will lead to some cr
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by tommy5dollar 4y ago
In the time you've spent arguing about Vercel on here you could have actually tried it out and then you'd actually have your own opinion based on genuine experience. I've used AWS Lambda professionally for years, Vercel is a
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by tommy5dollar 4y ago
There's just a cookie prompt and then a newsletter sign-up a little later? I don't think there's any constant bombardment, if there is for you I'm interested to know more.
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by tommy5dollar 5y ago
Crapification of stuff is good, you don't need a pair of jeans that lasts 400 years that you pass down to your grandchildren and most people don't want to save up for years (or take out financial products) to "invest" in
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by tommy5dollar 7y ago
They use RBS as a routing bank for international payments, so obviously they've had meetings with them
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by tommy5dollar 9y ago
I'd recommend Tide... they've not done much recently but it seems they were setup with only £2m initial funding and they've just secured another £14m on top so I'd expect them to start releasing new features soon.
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by tommy5dollar 9y ago
Been using it for about 6 months with Serverless for Node API endpoints and it's great so far! The only negatives are: - cold start is slow, especially from within a VPC - debugging/logging can be a pain - giving a function more m