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I don't think "state funded" is the important part to take away from the piece, it's a shortage of infrastructure in general, both state and private, in part due to incredibly rest…

This doesn't really seem relevant since no one is disputing whether the UK as a whole has enough space for more houses. The relevant comparisons are Paris vs London and then the va…

Transport projects seem to be particularly expensive these days in Anglo countries compared to European countries. For instance, we currently have a planned short tunnel in the UK …

It seems foolish to say we can never do anything that makes the life of the poor better just because it also helps the non-poor

Well, it sounds like you could come up with a set of useful heuristics, like living next door to the property. It feels intrinsically pretty cheems to just say "this sounds tricky …

It seems useful to identify the right problem. It's better to know you just need the right compiler than the think the issue is something else as you can then work on building the …

The UK is one of the Western democracies without the protections you're talking about (no written constitution, no ability to bind future parliaments, law passed by a simple majori…

Huh? The impoverished residents of the estate voted to have it "destroyed" (from which they would personally gain) but it was rich elites that blocked it because it's a vote winner…

The benefit of this proposal is that it pits property owners against each other. It might be in the interests of property owners as a class to not build in order to see values incr…

In the time you've spent arguing about Vercel on here you could have actually tried it out and then you'd actually have your own opinion based on genuine experience. I've used AWS …

There's just a cookie prompt and then a newsletter sign-up a little later? I don't think there's any constant bombardment, if there is for you I'm interested to know more.

Crapification of stuff is good, you don't need a pair of jeans that lasts 400 years that you pass down to your grandchildren and most people don't want to save up for years (or tak…

They use RBS as a routing bank for international payments, so obviously they've had meetings with them

I'd recommend Tide... they've not done much recently but it seems they were setup with only £2m initial funding and they've just secured another £14m on top so I'd expect them to s…

Been using it for about 6 months with Serverless for Node API endpoints and it's great so far! The only negatives are: - cold start is slow, especially from within a VPC - debuggin…