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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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The point is that the USA is not able (or willing, or both) to provide a venue for talks to go forward in the absence of hostilities.
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Basically not understanding that people went to where the accommodation was cheap in order to do their startups, rather than being some magic about Shoreditch specifically. The policy failure is that the idea of them going to Birmingham or Sheffield to do tech just does not compute.
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To be honest I'm not going to excuse it because that is a clearly biased writeup of an equally semi attached academic passport
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Limited space for military bases in the Bronx?
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I think the simple fact that she is an obviously more effective legislator would tend to count in her favor.
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It wasn't but it's a good point; quite possible that all the individuals want a different outcome but the structure is set up to produce gerontocracy
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boring
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For what it's worth, the very same model of male pampering was the basis of the fortune of Geo. F Trumper of Mayfair, descended from a German refugee family (a fortune which was sadly diminished by the time one of its grandsons married into a Welsh family)
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btw I would not rely on that asterisk to protect you if he reads that tweet
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Rory Sutherland uses them as an example of product innovation, saying that absolutely nobody in the 1990s was saying "I kind of like my barber, but I wish he would flick some burning methylated spirits in my ears"
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as a money laundering industry guy, people often talk about them to me and I just find myself saying have you walked past one? It is just not true in the majority of cases that they are anything other than surprisingly busy.
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Absolutely enraging that a political movement managed to combine a slogan that nobody could misinterpret except in bad faith (BLM) with one that was incredibly difficult to interpret in a non idiotic manner (DTP)
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umm you do understand that the podcast is his job
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It's just sensible aeronautic industry practice! With exceptions we are all aware of, people don't throw away all safety precautions just because they have developed powered flight
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"hahaha but in fact that proposition is demonstrably true". Seriously, unless you know me and have built up credibility from other interactions you are very definitely going to get blocked for that one
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... then you really did only get it right by chance. And I have a cross check against this assessment because this analysis seems to lead lots of people to believe the demonstrably false proposition that there is no difference between the democrat and republican party.
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ethnically WASP, but according to "Empire of Dust", religiously fundamentalist Catholic
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I wrote something about 20 years ago which concluded "at the end of the day you have to give actuaries credit for the fact they've been in charge of something important for 300 years and not blown it up; neither bankers nor socialists can make the same claim"
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My official point of view is that stable coins are "mmfs, minus all the properties which justified regulating mmfs differently from banks"
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Absolutely the only reason the banks haven't done something like this is that they don't want to cannibalize their extremely profitable payments franchise. If that goes up the wall anyway then they will.
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Basically the problem is that if you use a non-parametric approach you can't deal with anything that's never happened before and if you use a parametric approach you can't deal with anything that doesn't fit the distribution. So you just make it good faith estimate and add a margin of safety
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As I said to Martien Lubberink when the RBNZ changed a risk standard, "a 100-year risk is defined as the kind of event that happens roughly once every 12 years, while a 200-year risk is defined as the kind of event that happens roughly once every 12 years"
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don't make the mistake of confusing "corporate rock" with "corporation pop"
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"Indie is the British word for college rock, while pop is the British word for soda"
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It's been in service for less than 15 years though
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Haha these crazy Americans, this reads like someone who has never been to a pub in his life!
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Philomena Cunk
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If only there was someone in that room full of Californian journalists who recognized him and could confirm his identity
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She keeps trying to phone the people whose job it is to do this but for some reason the line is always engaged
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So do prime ministers!
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Not on streaming services unfortunately, but "Photograph" from her CMT Crossroads appearance with Def Leppard
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Probably counting the swings from the last election and this by-election seat wasn't up last time?
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What, and leave show business?