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Malcolm Sparrow in the streets, Stafford Beer in the sheets. Once I wrote about fraud and its detection; currently writing about the industrialisation of decision making in general
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Some people just seem to metabolize it differently, I regularly sit down with a nice cup of coffee to help me get to sleep
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Absolutely agree although strangely the selection is almost completely unrepresentative of Larry Graham's bass playing
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it's actually quite good although even I can't raise sufficient levels of arrogance to think I could persuade Alan of anything. Pythagoras would have had a tough time with that one if he'd happened to take against hypotenuses.
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tbf sprouts have changed a hell of a lot over that time (new varieties are much less sulfuric)
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Always crashing in the same car
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And too many of those think "and the way I could get one is if they built a Deano estate the size of Cardiff somewhere near Kingston, a thing that the free market definitely wants to provide and is only being prevented from building by the 1947 Act".
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... because Zone 6 metroland is not really any closer a substitute in terms of amenity for central London than Luton or Walsall, and if you're just using it to stack up horrific commutes then you're not actually affecting like-for-like housing costs very much.
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I think this is an interesting debate (albeit not really one I have a strong view about) because it acknowledges that if you want to keep on densifying London then you have to actually do things people will notice, deregulating the green belt is not going to move the dial and nor will golf courses
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It would make a huge difference if city living was priced as a consumption good for its amenity value, rather than as a capital good because of its status as a necessary input for doing most kinds of high paid job.
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rolling my own CPI-adjusted private sector rent measure (for England) suggests a lot of it was recovering the pandemic fall
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physical supply of housing is definitely a much less important factor, if it exists at all outside particular bottleneck markets medium.com/@ian.mulheir...
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Also remote working but yeah
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I am more of a techno optimist, in that I think the best solutions involve making location less important
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Financialization is the real villain; more things are acting like assets, so ownership becomes more important than earnings
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... in that it's not possible for kids today to buy property at the bottom of the Lawson bust and enjoy two decades of falling mortgage rates. One generation can't take apart in another generation's bull market)
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I think people overestimate the extent to which this has anything to do with the economy or policy and underestimate the extent to which it's financial market movements. (These are genuinely unequally distributed between generation...
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Graffiti Bridge
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I think you've done that based on an annuity calculator, but obviously those show the income as of retirement date for a given capital sum while the majority of pensioners are considerably older than retirement date?
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It's art in the same way that the notification ping on my phone is music; in a really technical sense yes it is but in any real world situation where you were considering it as art, that would be a sign you were doing something you shouldn't.
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god I hate it when policies of immiserating the periphery return to the metropole
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I now want there to be a non-RTGS social network, where the takes are batched and netted before being sent to me 24 hours later.
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chess, like comedy, does have the unusual property that it is a form of art where the question of whether a performance was successful or not is an objective fact
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I spent half of last week arguing "is a stablecoin a bank" and came away with the overpowering sense "nobody is confused about what it actually does so arguing about the applicability of a specific magic word is kind of pointless"
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I still can't remember if the joke about that film was "the biggest c**t Manchester played by the second biggest c**t in Manchester" or vice versa
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"which is to say, the normal kind"
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Using the word "subsidies" instead of "spaceships" also works
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biggest value add was always the second call of the day on a complicated set of results. (First call was always to the pitch)
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strong suspicion that what they actually care about are the people who reply mixed race on surveys
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You could probably have got some decent imported cheese for what that lot cost
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I would actually guess that what he wants is the economy **and culture** of present day London with the demographics of Penzance. Just with visible minorities not being so visible so he doesn't need to feel awkward about them
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What he really means is that he wants the economy of London with the demographics of Penzance and it is very definitely someone else's job to say how you could do that.
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"by traditional majority culture, I mean people like me and my friends, not quite all my friends obviously, although I like those ones I don't mean them, although I suppose I do really NO HOW DARE YOU"
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I don't know, and yet at the same time ... we do kind of know, don't we
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And the band played youtu.be/JU5LMG3WFBw?...
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I used to care but now don't because I am too old! (I also hate live music and have tried to avoid it for the last three decades since I stopped playing it because I realized it was annoying me as well as the audience)
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Welcome to iron maiden fandom, you can pick up your six special commemorative colored vinyl additions with additional cloth patch over by the door
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The strange one to me is that the Happy Mondays and Bros were exact contemporaries, even though one of them seems pretty 90s but the other quintessentially 80s.