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Daily (or not) ramblings about whatever piqued my interest that day
If you were to draw a dependency graph of Britain’s problems, all the arrows will be pointing at the planning permission system. Mental.
HS2 was forced to spend £100m building a bat tunnel despite the fact there's "no evidence, by the way, that high speed trains interfere with bats." theguardian.com/uk-news/2024/n…
Interesting read that goes some way towards explaining why China does not face the same inflation problem that western countries have faced over the past few years. Ultimately, it boils down to supply and demand. carnegieendowment.org/posts/2024/08/…
Currently reading about DDD (Domain Driven Design). Love the emphasis on rigurous domain language being used consistently in communication and in code. I’ve spent an unfortunate amount of time in my career decrypting misnomers in legacy codebases.
The fractured land hypothesis: Why China is Unified but Europe is not cepr.org/voxeu/columns/… # via @cepr_org
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The fractured land hypothesis: Why China is Unified but Europe is not
Western Europe is characterised by politically fragmented states, while China is dominated by political centralisation. A leading explanation for this divergence is the ‘fractured land’ hypothesis,...
If you live in the UK and ever took out insurance you might’ve heard of Lloyd’s of London. How did it start? It started in 1688 in a coffee house owned by Edward Lloyd. Merchants and shipowners would meet there to hear the latest shipping news and obtain marine insurance.
We all love a G&T once in a while but few know its origin. Tonic contains quinine which is effective in preventing malaria. Malaria was a big problem for colonialists in the 18th century. Hence they started drinking tonic and as this was quite bitter they just mixed it with gin.
The Roman emperors often debased their currency, the denarius. This meant that they were reducing the amount of silver each coin contained so that they can make…more coins. Ancient quantitative easing?
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