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One factor is that London is so much larger than the next biggest city (approx 9million vs 1.1 million).

It's much harder to justify (and pay for) these kind of infrastructure projects in small cities.

For me it's a combination of how people talk about others 'below' their class, and how much social mixing between the classes there is - but I realise that this is very hard to measure. Just my 2c having lived in UK, Europe, and US.

As a Brit, I’d agree that classicism is bad here, and it feels worse than the US. However, much of Europe is the same. E.g. France.

|> For those not familiar with UK media, The Guardian (better known as The Grauniad due to the frequency of spelling mistakes in its pages) is a very left-leaning paper.

It’s left of centre, but not ‘very left’.

And ‘The Grauniad’ is a very niche term - I’ve never heard it used in conversation, and have only ever seen it used in Private Eye.

Journey is a great example of a narrative game which doesn’t use verbal communication.

620 according to McDonalds. 220 calories for small fries, and 400 for a McChicken.

https://www.mcdonalds.com/us/en-us/product/small-french-frie...

Small fries and a chicken sandwich wouldn’t count as a full meal for me, and I’m fairly skinny.

The author might be saving money, but they’re also probably going hungry.

You can’t transform the area and expect it to remain cheap.

I lived in the Olympic Village for 3 years and they did a great job:

- lovely park

- completely pedestrianised

- good, and still relatively affordable, apartments

Feels like a success to me.

Apologies for self-promotion, but I’m building the exact product you describe:

- project focused

- GitHub style discussion threads

- slightly more powerful tasks than Basecamp

- simple/minimal design

Currently in closed beta (macroapp.io) however you can drop me an email james@macroapp.io and I can give you access.

They don’t specify what the headline means and I can’t see a link to the survey questions or data. Feels like an ad rather than true research.

Interestingly Jim Keller spoke about this on (I believe) the Lex Friedman podcast.

He said something along the lines of 'Most people are pattern matchers, they are good at applying known patterns to problems they face. However, the best people know when to pattern match, and, also, when to go deep and apply first principles thinking.'

He then cited Elon Musk as a great example of this.

The relevant clue there is ‘he finally’. The ‘finally’ is the part that hints at only taking the last letter of ‘he’.

Cryptic crosswords in the UK often have hidden prepositions and clues like this.

Ah yes. Although that doesn’t seem to be new either? Of course if something is completely off (bedroom missing) they have to give you a refund for the remainder of the time.

Yes. I think it’s just a rebranding of the current offering.

As I understand it, Aircover is for cancellations by the host, it wouldn’t apply for the scenario you describe.

Aircover seems a rebranding of the current policy? They already give a refund if the host cancels (as you would expect). And they already have discretion to find you alternative accommodation (although they never have for me).

It’s still useless if your long term stay is cancelled at the last minute as it’s often impossible to find a replacement for a comparable price.

This is the risk with using Airbnb for long term stays - last minute cancellations can (and do) happen.

How many days did they reimburse you for? The OP is talking about 29+ day stays.

If your long term stay is cancelled a few days before it can be pretty much impossible to find an alternative. On both occasions that this has happened to me, Airbnb has offered only a $100 voucher.

The reality is long term stay on Airbnb is a risky bet. Still often worth the risk, but something to be aware of.

No. They may give you a voucher, however for us the voucher was only $100 (so far less than the additional cost of rebooking at the last minute) and secondly, the voucher had restrictions on which bookings you could use it on, and it expired within a month. I.e. It’s fairly useless.

The main risk with this is that the host cancels at the last minute.

Happened to me twice for long term stays (e.g. cancelling 2 days before start date) and it can completely ruin your plans.

I read these kind of blog posts, but honestly, it’s hard to have too much sympathy. This guy presumably earned millions out of working at AirBnB, is staggeringly rich compared to most people, and he could have left at any time for another job.

Boris is letting Nadine Dorries do what she wants as a thank you for her unswerving loyalty. It's incredible someone so incompetent and frankly, stupid, is a cabinet minister.

Minor adjustment.

When following this kind of approach I typically define the criteria before the solutions. This reduces the chance of adding bias to your criteria.

As an individual traveler, not much has changed. You always had to do border control as the UK is not part of Schengen.

However, I imagine things have changed for freight traffic through the tunnel.

Rolls Royce are developing small nuclear reactors. Doesn’t rely on foreign tech or contractors.

For me, this isn’t an issue of feedback, it’s an issue of culture. Does the company do the right thing?

Wise does this properly which makes me trust them straight away.

Edit. Don’t want to come off too harsh, just saying the cookie approach doesn’t help me trust the company compared to the main competitor.

I think the point is that it might not have occurred naturally in this case.

Whilst the messaging here is chilling, I don’t think E2E will be banned in the UK. Not least because journalists and MPs use it everyday in signal and WhatsApp.

Another question to ask - who lost most of the ETH in the first place? Could some of this be VCs paying themselves back and shoring up their investment in Solana at the same time?

At least in London, this has been a problem for 20-30 years. For most young people, buying a house is becoming an impossibility.

Supply is increasing, but slowly, and there's a limit on how dense people want to have the city.

Demand side looks like the better area to focus. Reducing population would help significantly, combined with taxes/disincentives on second home ownership and vacant properties.

Unfortunately these policies are unpopular with governing parties because:

a) the politicians own property (and often more than one) b) older people vote, and they tend to be doing well out of the situation

I see a lot of right wing VC folk on twitter calling for massive derugulation of the housing market to grow supply. However, I think there's a strong case to be made that housing and land are different from other parts of the market. People want green space, they don't want high rise everywhere. You cannot (for the most part) make new land.

So, I agree that this problem won't be solved for 20+ years. Declining population is probably our best bet to improve the situation. And of course, young people will move to cheaper areas, particularly when they start families.

For starting new projects it does 'just work'. Super simple to set up and maintain.

Yes, it might not work as well when you start to get more traffic, but for getting setup I have no complaints (aside from this downtime!).