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For example, it is a big clue that the diagram is sufficient to pose the question despite not being drawn to scale.

It would however be much more obvious after some courses than others.

It’s on a par with weekend paper quizzes or Wordle. A lower bar than the Times crossword.

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Steam Elephant @steamelephant.bsky.social · Jun 21

GCSE maths would include everything you need to know and once you have the solution you can explain it to a 12 year old.

The answer is nice but it is the kind of question that is much easier when you can assume there is a nice answer.

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Steam Elephant @steamelephant.bsky.social · May 30

Is there reason to believe things would be done differently if happened again?

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Steam Elephant @steamelephant.bsky.social · May 17

It’s a pretty good example for the areas where concrete policy interventions to improve infrastructure and investment are concerned.

Steam Elephant @steamelephant.bsky.social · May 17

The manifest failure of the system is a symptom of the difficulty of setting up a system that neither manages decline as Ofwat has nor lets companies charge the reservation price of water.

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Steam Elephant @steamelephant.bsky.social · May 17

“Just” here applies to a key part of the problem and of the financial engineering. “Operates” might be better than “works”. That setup transfers investment risk to the regulator and the customers and experience lead to low trust and confidence decision making.

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Steam Elephant @steamelephant.bsky.social · May 15

How does a lab leak work in the miasma theory of disease?

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Simon McGarr @tupped.bsky.social · May 15

“Expecting someone to have [one new thoughtful opinion] per week, let alone per day, is unrealistic. Worse, it depletes their intellectual resources, turning them into opinion machines, wandering through the world looking for things to publicly have opinions about.“

David Quinn, Shirley Temple, and The Milkman’s Cheery Whistle

www.tuppenceworth.ie

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Steam Elephant @steamelephant.bsky.social · May 1

From his TBI bio:

Ben leads our work on reimagining government for the 21st century, and has co-authored TBI’s New National Purpose series with Tony Blair and William Hague. He has also worked to develop TBI’s partnership with satellite internet service Starlink.

Steam Elephant @steamelephant.bsky.social · Apr 22

He also wants to replace capital gains and income taxes with tariffs, so there is a lot of cakeism in the mix.

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Steam Elephant @steamelephant.bsky.social · Apr 18

Or, apparently so: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Mitu Gulati on Whether Trump Could Restructure US Debt

An expert in sovereign bond law thinks it could be done.

www.bloomberg.com

Steam Elephant @steamelephant.bsky.social · Apr 18

The Mar-a-Lago Accord: www.hudsonbaycapital.com/documents/FG...

www.hudsonbaycapital.com

Steam Elephant @steamelephant.bsky.social · Mar 18

“Imagine you love so much being governed” vs “Imagine you love being governed so much”?

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Steam Elephant @steamelephant.bsky.social · Mar 18

Went the day well? Phrasing suggests a non-anglophone inspiration.

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Steam Elephant @steamelephant.bsky.social · Feb 7

Vance's spat with Rory Stewart about loving thy neighbour and interpretation of "ordo amoris" looks like a higher weight on the utility of those closer to you. Long-termist EA fans get excited about interstellar futures because they don't and more is better. Musk and would be Martians echo that.

Steam Elephant @steamelephant.bsky.social · Feb 7

When their utilitarianism values the possibility of vast interstellar human populations above the entire current population of Earth and concludes that getting to Mars is more urgent than preventing malaria?
Musk and Vance may be on different sides on this.

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Joanna Bagniewska @joannabagniewska.com · Feb 7

Hardly new info, but BSky should know:

Warsaw's water quality is monitored by eight clams with magnets attached to their shells. If contamination in the water causes the clams to close, the magnets trigger an alarm and shut off the city's water supply.
Thank you, little guardian molluscs.

🧪🌏🚰

A clam with a spring attached to the shell. The spring has a magnet placed above a sensor.

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