Well, Duncan is case in point - just bought his on Kindle having consciously avoided the hardback. Actually find it quite vexing waiting for the paperback.
So is it just a kind of price discrimination? Want it early, you're going to have to pay the silly price?
Ditto, checking out until next week.
Last night I decided to wallow in a lot of JS Bach after the result. Other non-football pursuits are available
Is this Chip War guy?
Yes to all that, but also he could be:
Stupid
Easily led by the lads/groupthink
Ignorant of history and politics
All good things in a Senator!
I'm not sure that this is that niche!
(Or at least I've certainly put that to my students!)
"thanks to measures in this budget the west will be saved by the end of the forecast period, as projected by the Office of West-Saving Responsibility. We will however allow some portion of the west to not be saved, but only for investment"
Like, good for those like yourself who are getting great use from LLMs (not me yet, but maybe I'm just slow/not in right job), but what would really help my life overall would be an automated laundry system/robot and there's little prospect of that at the moment
People on here were talking yesterday about AI maybe creating *increased* jobs, and if that happens aren't you going to Baumol your way to more personal services problems?
Ah, but those dependency ratios are only partly pensions etc, and partly real resources, so the contradiction is only indirect. Productivity boom would free up people to work in care etc, but that might still not be that attractive.
When we get the AI-enhanced care robots, then we'll be talking
Amongst all the other nonsense, have they not got a response already?! This decision was not beyond the wit of man to predict at least as a possibility. Or is the arrogance so deep they really hadn't considered losing?
Yeah, but you guys would have your kids play with Legos, so people in glass houses...
"we need space for 8 horns and 3 harps!
Sorry, I meant the new coffee machine and stand mixer"
Plus nobody would have got planning permission for that moon anyway; all that night-time light pollution
Festina lente
I often think this - not just fought over, but fluid. Just wasn't that big a deal (obviously eased by status/money) to just go and live somewhere else.
Look at Romeo who gets effectively banished to a whole other (city)state!
Peas though
That's pretty good
Well be touched in this house, so if it takes a little cornflake why not
At the stadium last night Paul Coyte read out the game is about glory quote as it was Blanchflower's 100 year anniversary (under remarked upon?)
The look on his face and the tone of irony in his voice...
...when you've lost the hype man you know it's over
Sounds like my (our?) toddlers moving a toy around and a piece falls out
"We just moved the head coach role to a different box and in the process TF became detached"
Though as many have commented the rot wasn't just with TF...
"working through various possible contingency plans"
As far as I'm concerned that means you didn't have a contingency plan
You see some replies out there acting as if people are just drinking ethanol
And a lot of the scolds out there (often American) seem to reduce alcoholic drinks to merely alcohol (partly to reinforce, or maybe because of, the addicted-to-a-substance angle).
Disregading the tipsyness, wine is just nice! It's a complex, enjoyable (and culturally significant) drink!
Mostly irrelevant and sorry to be that guy side issue: you've possibly done a two Naomis thing there with Jonathans Chait and Haidt
Surely reinforces its image as a precious, valuable possession?
Quite interesting how the AI slides from a claim about real stagnation to a different (afaik roughly true) claim in the second sentence about distribution.
Just like the real people you have to battle on this... it's learned to bait & switch or motte & bailey, whatever you want to call it
Very excited for my quadrennial obsession to be reignited
Still think Ed Miliband is one of the better fits for those criteria, but possibly because of 2 he both might not want it, and the oppositional press (Mail etc) already despises him for it (net zero). Plus issues of returning where once failed
Took me two cycles to notice but I enjoy that the same photo has some mysterious smoke in the background, as if it's just returned after sorting out a neighbourly dispute about Mr Johnson's permission-less extension
True, but so does 4 - obviously presidential is a way away, but what decided it last time was what, 100,000 or so votes?
Might not need too much successful vote suppression to make a difference
(Though prob not for a possible blue wave midterm)
Looking forward to the sea being rendered the colour of a nice pinot noir
No, maybe a Cabernet
No, Xinomavro, that's the one
...a headline that I find inherently "huh, what's going on here, this is initially bizarre" but the students are mostly "why is he waffling on about donkeys?!"
