Dan Davies

Jerry Markham in my book "The History Of Commodity Futures Trading" I emphasized how standardisation of contract terms is absolutely essential.

Some bozo: at last we have created futures markets based on absolutely anything you write on a website, like in the book "Nothing Matters LOL!"

Bearer shares! I seem to remember a lawyer telling me something like "it is blah blah blah to create bearer securities since the blah blah act of blah blah"

JUICR

BAHAHAHAHA

Nigel Lawson's is good

💯. It's like catching a cricket ball, you either have to go for it with complete commitment to the bit, or you are best off not bothering.

That's not even a person, it's not the Discourse Of The Year award. If they were doing it properly the way to do this ragebait would be to say "person of the year is chat GPT", and I bet that was the original idea before someone decided they didn't want to offend Grok or Gemini

Best way!

Just realised you can sing "pas demandé" to the tune of the European anthem

this is off piste - but if you are in London, the pottery studio I hang out at is holding its open day in Stoke Newington. I am not selling or displaying works but a lot of great potters are. And there opportunities to try wheel throwing and raku firing (great fun and requiring no prior experience)

Always nervous about personality cults in banking tbh...

Everyone wants to be the strangest case on the ward

In what way did we ask

n'a pas demandé, hat nicht fragen, no pregunté, non ho chiesto.

In Switzerland? In this economy?

I should just set up a bot to quote tweet this account with the words "about to be eaten"

One of the things about "the font is woke" is that they clearly have run out DEI copper wiring to rip out of the walls so they're just searching for literally anything to claim as a victory

There's just no end to that prick

2010, "British jobs for British workers"

If someone has finally admitted they were wasting my time I am going to believe them

I thought not so long ago you wanted people to not be unserious? There is actual evidence about whether this strategy works, compared to you just saying things are potty
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It is not ad hominem! "You are visibly not solving this problem and therefore your solutions do not work" is perfectly sensible reasoning from evidence to conclusion.

What's unserious is the idea that we should ignore our lying eyes and believe that Labour knows what it's doing.

seeing like an earthworm data and ricardo

data ethics shows up in the oddest places, even below the ground backofmind.substack.com/p/seeing-lik...

Oooof

The trouble is that labour is also middle class, as is every political party because this is a middle-class country. Any Labour MP who tries to go "actually elderly care work is really dignified and something I might choose to do", except Nadia Whittome, is likely to come across as a phony.

It's not illegitimate, it's just wrong! The prime minister is unpopular because he is failing to tackle these issues, which means he is not a good person to ask about them and shouldn't expect to get much of a hearing from European leaders who are doing better.

Martian-Inspired Tripod Walking Robot Generates Its Own Gaits Why don't animals have three legs? This robot is trying to figure it out

This is interesting spectrum.ieee.org/martian-insp...

to be honest I don't think this responds to my post. Why do you think this is "the correct response"? Why do you think you're in a position to judge what the correct response is and why would European leaders take your advice? The Labour Party is at 18% in the polls and its leader even lower