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It's different if you did Vs the guy who made the rules. When you make the rules you should be following them.

I agree completely with the sentiment of your comment.

But I wouldn't hold Theresa May up too highly.

Here is Theresa May deleting her 2009 blog post with her strong opposition to the 3rd runway at Heathrow...

https://www.tmay.co.uk/news?page=31

After she reversed her decision as Prime Minister betraying her electorate who are under the flight path.

https://web.archive.org/web/20111007162146/http://www.tmay.c...

This is the now missing article:

https://web.archive.org/web/20130103045701/http://www.tmay.c...

But none of these things are happening in US, you have double the cost of healthcare for a lower life expectancy than countries of comparable living standards who have universal healthcare.

What's going wrong with the system of perfect competition with insurance companies?

Interesting.

My take has been that they have taken a conservative action with regards to the virus, I've seen locking down as a way for the government to slow down time to try and work out what is going on before then taking a more considered point of view.

There was so much confusion in mid March about what would happen and lockdowns seem to have slowed things down a bit to get a clear head about what the path through is going to be like and I hope they don't rush their next decisions as there are so many things that are still not known.

In the future these current decisions could be wrong and will be wrong, I'm hoping that they aren't badly wrong but who knows... It seems to be considered on what mainstream scientific consensus but that's been wrong before but I feel it's the best we have given the situation.

I wonder if this is the majority view? I hear it often but it's not something I feel (disclosure: I have one child).

I certainly think in terms of leaving the world better for all living things rather than for my children (although I guess they would benefit).

I personally feel shame that I am a part of the destruction of this world which in turn motivates me to want to make it better.

This is something that has grown as I have aged, I feel now that I'm older I can see things in the longer term and I can see how long it takes to make change and make it stick.

What would be a better course of action to take in this crisis? Would you have preferred for your elected leaders to not have taken the consensus expert view?

Or do you think the consensus view of experts is not agreed upon currently?

Sorry could you please out the connection between lockdowns in wealthy countries and starvation? I missed that in my reading?

May I kindly ask, why do you feel the need to jump out and defend the human species as also being good in the face of what is described in the article?

I am genuinely interested in understanding what motivates this reaction.

It was only stolen 100-200 years ago. It had survived for 2000-4000 years... I'm not sure your argument holds weight.

And was criminalised after world war 2, so its proceeds from a historical crime.

It's not 'just' ancient artefacts.

There are also indigenous australian remains and artefacts stolen and refused to be returned.

Stolen up into the mid 20th century.

I see, which is might help explain breeder reactors are so few.

Thank you I learnt something

I read there was 200years of nuclear (https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-long-will-glo...) but I can't find a source for your figures? Could you point me in the right direction?

Please be careful... Investigate these claims more fully than Wikipedia, these claims can be exaggerated / out of context

Would it though? What's the lead time on training nuclear engineers, construction companies etc to start building reactors again. UK and European projects have gone massively over time and over budget.

I mean maybe US, Europe and China can do this but can the rest of the world?

I'm no expert on the area however, it's not wilderness area, this is the channel coast, the navy has a firing range next to Lulworth Cove and there is a stack of rusting wrecks just off the coastal path... people just don't like the aesthetics for less than rational reasons but each to their own.

This is true, the car park has a ramp system that is all in one corner of the car park but I guess most places make you drive to the other side to go up one

In multi-level car parks I believe people overestimate vertical distance and underestimate horizontal.

In the carpark I park in, I often just speed down to the level where there first begins to be car spaces and I can often get much closer to the stairs which lead back up to the exit on the ground floor.

Extra vertical distance is only 4-5m but saved horizontal distance can be 50m.

This sounds a lot like feudalism!

The Lord having a duty to his peasants to protect parts of the land and pay for its upkeep.

It is a tad ironic, that I have been "flippant" and "disrespectful" to your argument (not you, mind you, unless you are your argument) you wrote out in 1 minute with minimal thought.

Yet at the same time, you can't see how you have been "flippant" and "disrespectful" to the complicated issues (with real people who are affected by this) you pulled together in your 2 paragraph comment.

Ignoring all detail when there have been 10000s of academic books written trying to explain and understand these issues from all viewpoints.

Flippant - you summarised a whole series of complicated issues in two small paragraphs which demonstrated flippancy conflating very different issues.

Disrespectful - these complicated issues involve people who have been and continue to be disadvantaged by these issues, your flippancy is disrespectful.

Conflating a rich family's claim to their medieval land holdings with the above mentioned struggles is totally flippant and disrespectful.

His reply is fair however, criticism relies on someone evaluating one's arguments rather than blurbing out a stock reply. There was no engagement there within those critical comments.

Yes precisely, if things become systematic then there is no avoiding the new reality.

I am no expert on real estate I used to be a property accountant at an international commercial property company and so used to compute out growth rates on rent and valuations for owners.

I do find WW's business model difficult to follow, there maybe something I fail to appreciate, I guess time will tell.

Well, you have forgone rent you could have collected from a different tenant and reduced the quality of the tenant you have accepted.

So for an investor who looks at your rent roll, they will see that you have an increased rent arrears and they will value your asset at a reduced rate.

And as the sibling comment has mentioned, if you discount up front you haven't received any money.

Or worse still you provide a rent incentive in the case of a capex fitout and are now left with an office fit out a future tenant may or may not want but you have spent significant amounts of money on.

Yes and No. Part of the No answer is that as an real estate investment company your building's worth is effectively present value of future rent, so sometimes it's better to preserve the valuation of your building rather than set a new market rent which will negatively affect your building valuation which in turn affects the cost of financing your building etc etc etc

So you get an extra $1m in rent but it now costs you an additional $2m in interest costs financing your building and your share price (or the building capital valuation) has now dropped 15%.

Sorry totally simplified example...

I always understand it to be missing the word actually:

"yes, actually no"

"no, actually yes"

Isn't that how Texas became part of the US?

It is good for a nation to explore it's past no matter what might turn up.

It's far worse to uncritically examine our ancestors behaviour.