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Samuel Pepys describes the 17th Century equivalent of smartphone addiction. (Incidentally the watch cost £14).
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Speed is a dubious measure here. Lithuanian rail download speeds were about 4 Mbps in my experience, but the service is steady as a rock.
Lots of replies questioned whether German internet speeds on trains really was any better than the U.K. Here’s the evidence. Embarrassing for us. The government’s new initiative is welcome but there’s so much ground to make up.
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May 17
We're Buffering Britain, and we're going to fix the country's phone signal. Join us.
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The mystery aside, this is an egregious chart crime. Not only is it using a line chart for bucketed data, the buckets are different sizes but equally spaced along the x-axis.
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A former Group Product Manager at Google Search explained why Google invested so heavily in hotel search.
It was about the money in distribution.
"distribution margins in the hotel industry are very high, on the order of 20% to 30%. So if you do a long weekend in Manhattan that costs $1,000 and you book through Expedia, Expedia is making $200 or $300 on that transaction."
That margin is why hotels got prioritised... and why eventually turned big partners against Google.
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Jun 14
Please join @BufferingBrit to help pressure the phone companies.
Jun 14
We don’t know how bad we’ve got it. @TomTugendhat’s right: Britain’s phone signal is a national embarrassment that’s holding us back. We need a planning system that lets us build the telecoms infrastructure we need.
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FirstGroup even set up a company called EvoRail to deliver 5G speeds to trains via the line side infrastructure- however the Department for Transport scuppered it saying it was too expensive with no value. Private sector was willing to invest, just no backing.
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That link 404'd for me. I searched and found this.
news.lehigh.edu/ugly-fashion…
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One thing that confuses me here. Mobile phone networks presumably have tons of data on the precise locations where motorists and train passengers lose signal and are cut-off. Yet nothing ever improves.
Jun 14
Don’t pretend this is temporary. This is universal. It’s constant. I’ve spoken to your teams about it in Kent for years and you do nothing.
The signal has got worse but your prices have gone up. @O2 is the worst for signal.
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Jun 14
Don’t pretend this is temporary. This is universal. It’s constant. I’ve spoken to your teams about it in Kent for years and you do nothing.
The signal has got worse but your prices have gone up. @O2 is the worst for signal.
Hi there, 👋
We're sorry to hear your signal has been so unreliable recently. We understand how frustrating that is when you’re just trying to stay connected.
Signal can sometimes be affected even when coverage looks strong, for example, (cont) bit.ly/3RZ7Ttp
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In his new book, Mr Morris writes: ‘A very different story than the one set out in court is emerging and it is important this story is told, both to right a possible miscarriage of justice and to highlight that serious mistakes made in the management and care of infants may not have been properly addressed.’ After interviewing more than 60 specialists for Reasonable Doubt: Examining The Case Of Lucy Letby, investigative author Christopher Morris raises questions about controversial claims that Letby poisoned the babies with insulin.
Pre order Christopher Morris book on Amazon here
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Here's a good deal for all the petrol heads out there. You agree to replace all cars with electric cars if we agree to replace all trains with steam trains!
A steam engine is functionally beautiful in a way that a petrol engine really isn't.
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The idea that this Big Boy was rotting in a parking lot in Pomona, CA for six decades until Union Pacific rebuilt every component to get it working again is actually awe inspiring.
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Or to put it another way, a tulip bubble doesn't really matter, since tulips are not really essential to life. Nobody has ever told me I need to get on the tulip ladder.
By contrast, housing is completely the opposite of tulips.
But it should also be understood that taxing a house value is a way to keep investment capital out of housing supply. Housing is a basic human need and in Britain particularly, land is a scarce resource. It is not like the US where land is plentiful. So for societal good in Britain, property value tax should be a counterweight to house price inflation, an impetus to build more and a sanction against the misuse and lack of use of land. The multipliers for over ownership, and under use should be stringent and punative and act as a moral sanction.
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Fable isn't the first.
In 1999 the department of defense blocked exports of the PowerMac G4 for crossing the 1 gigaflop threshold.
Steve Jobs turned it into an ad.
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This principle applied across the British state would fix 90% of stuff.
Bring back professional judgement wherever its been replaced with formulaic process.
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