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Isn’t this uncomfortably close to the premise of the Matrix?

https://www.ubs.com/global/en/media/display-page-ndp/en-2026... Seems to substantially disagree that the average person in the U.K. is worse off than the average person in the U.S.…

The ask was not how to make money, it was how to hedge. I’d argue that it is very normal for hedging to be giving up expected value in return for a reduction in volatility of retur…

https://www.cityoflondon.gov.uk/about-us/voting-elections/bu... Gives more details on the ability of companies to vote in City of London elections.

Compare the prices vs a Neo… 1499 usd for the cheapest clamshell! https://www.ibook-clamshell.com/index.php/en/model-overview

A certain type of modern day artist voraciously consumes art in order to develop its taste, skill and style. More so than ever in history. The names of these artists are less tradi…

The Lamb and Flag has faced previous financial challenges. It in fact closed temporarily in the pandemic due to UK law preventing their then owner / operator, St John’s College, a …

Ironic. In Korea sofas would often bypass the corridor by way of a ladder lift (which can be scarily high). https://centers.ibs.re.kr/html/living_en/housing/moving2.htm...

Median wealth per adult in the UK is 176k. In the US it is only 124k. Source: UBS Global Wealth Report 2025 Of course US does has a much higher mean wealth…

UK and DE appear to use different punctuality metrics with a train being late after 3 minutes in the UK but 6 in DE. Latest punctuality figures for UK are 84.8% and DE 88.1%. Makin…

Tangentially, Fleet Street has some other space invaders in the form of a plaque. https://www.londonremembers.com/memorials/4-st-dunstan-s-cou...

A topical piece from the BBC… https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cy7vdvl2531o

“Only a fool breaks the two second rule.” It’s a UK thing: https://www.gov.uk/government/news/national-highways-urges-d...

For further confusion, ‘London’ does not exist at all as a well defined entity and the UK has no de jure capital.

> I'm from the UK originally. No need to go as far as California for penguins! https://www.royalparks.org.uk/visit/parks/st-jamess-park/pel...

‘Simple’ bugs get a bit more expensive than this… https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knight_Capital_Group#2012_st... 440m usd

England is just one example of a country of native English speakers who use dd/mm/yyyy.

Authorization and forbidding are both explicit actions. Unauthorized refers to the absence of authorisation. ‘Unauthorized use is forbidden’ means ‘all use must have explicit permi…

Particularly with snakes… https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perverse_incentive

A story about reverse engineering the Micro Machines v3 format to create an editor… http://bradders.org/MMs/ (not my work)

These days you can get passive ‘waste water heat recovery’ systems that sit beneath a bath or shower tray - warming your inbound cold water with your outflow, so you use less new h…

English remains an official language in the Republic of Ireland and Malta.

In some businesses selling earlier at a higher price is also acceptable. It’s only the delivery that is later (or indeed concurrent).

Weird or not, it happens in spot foreign exchange. For example, if there’s a US holiday on a Friday then EUR/USD trades conducted on the Wednesday and Thursday would both typically…