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[gravelly voiceover] he was just a young man, from Nantucket

The universe is a four dimensional logistics sphere with a hub at every point in space and time and whose surface is nowhere

It appears to be specifically agglomeration of GSK employees that the market is prepared to pay for

For a place with an acute shortage of space, Cambridge does seem to keep on attracting large research operations from elsewhere

The best aerospace company of ten years ago, which is currently in the middle of a Boeing 747 size bet-the-company exercise

People are always surprised by this. But most government spending is on things that provide measurable benefits to individual households (pensions and other transfers, healthcare, education etc.) and this is mostly funded by taxes paid by households. What should we expect the figure to be?

These things are all decided by the framing effects; nobody ever actually offers you a gamble like this so nobody has good intuitions about what it would make sense to do. tbh it was a good day for economics when we tacitly agreed to give up trying to understand risk aversion

yours

I saw someone claiming that compasses would stop working, as if there was any great difference between a needle that points north-south and a needle that points south-north

The bit where you're wondering who the secret killer might possibly be, then someone says "I might not have mentioned this before, but I'm a really devout Catholic"

That is what he also assumed for the first couple of days of the scandal! (Quite possibly because he was) But NatWest said different - I guess this is why they downgraded him to an ordinary account rather than chucking him completely.

It was a bit of a technical point for the political specialists to get their heads round; I wish I'd have written about it at the time

The very interesting thing is that for a couple of days he was working on the assumption that they had cut him for one reason and going on about the PEP rules, then had to pivot really quickly when he discovered they had just cut him for being unprofitable rather than having found anything

This has at times been macroeconomically significant for other countries; a lot of the problems of Sicily can be traced to turning over a huge part of their agricultural industry to producing lemons and limes for what they thought would be permanent demand from the royal navy

It's basically a crisps retailer with a bar and some gambling machines

They basically are and it basically is; the thing about a company like JDW which operates on super fine margins though is that you can point to almost anything and say "that, that's the whole profit"

Me, exposing students to ideas and attitudes they disagree with: Hahaha! Fuck yeah! Me, when the students disagree with the attitudes and ideas: well this sucks. what the fuck.

If the Odyssey was all that good, Iron Maiden would have written a ten minute song based on it.

It’s by no means the worst thing going on here, but imagine flying eight thousand miles to live in another country and calling millions of people who are actually from there “traitors”

Yer da' wears nonce goggles.