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30mph changing to 20mph makes a huge difference to journey time... And london drivers hate it to the point most of them ignore it.

Doesn't work on mobile :(

In the UK, I've helped run some of the ninja bookshop crawls. There are usually guided routes that take you through independent bookshops - they are always interesting and great fo…

what is stopping you from buying and reading books on cryptography, number theory, security protocols etc?

why couldn't you? of course you can

This is just the age old question of nominalism vs realism

https://www.michalpaszkiewicz.co.uk/blog/ I have worked in transport for over 5 years in software and have read most of the technical books in the internal London Underground libra…

If you try driving in Italy like you do in the UK, people will use their horn. Then you will understand.

That's what organisational transformations are for

Not true at all. If you have tech skills, you will never run out of job opportunities in the UK

have some compassion and screw the rules

Britain runs 20% of Europe's rail journeys. It has the least accidents and deaths of passengers and staff. It is considered the most improved rail network year on year since 1997. …

I work for Transport for London and I advise people to use citymapper rather than the official TfL tools.

An alternative take here: https://www.michalpaszkiewicz.co.uk/blog/reviewnapocs/index....

While more infrastructure will indeed just create new wardrop equilibriums (and potentially sometimes make things worse - see Braess' paradox), banning cars is also a bad idea. Fra…

WebAssembly?

I wrote a post that explains this as well, including a playable game with cards (uses js) https://www.michalpaszkiewicz.co.uk/blog/montyhallexplained/...

1. Has no support from central london residents and 2. Sadiq Khan has already tried to Pedestrianise Oxford Street, but was blocked by parliament. 3. There are cycle lanes and cycl…

They certainly get different results - but as I said, I don't know the intricacies of their system

Agreed - I've had similar issues when renting a big van - I was directed through streets where I didn't comply with width restrictions

I don't know what happens under their hood, but I know for sure they source some data from third parties. Makes sense to, considering TfL provides a lot of data - e.g. live bus tim…

Transport for London Tech Lead here. In London, we have been collaborating with google waze - we provide them with information at the local level. Streets that waze should not use …

For Polish speakers, I highly recommend this book: https://www.ccpress.pl/produkt/Dowody_ontologiczne._W_900._r... It has multiple formalisations of both Anselm's and Gaunilo's arg…

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For those who enjoy Wittgenstein, I highly recommend the works of one his greatest students - Elizabeth Anscombe. Possibly one of the most prominent women philosophers of all time.…