omurphyevans

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by omurphyevans 9y ago
It's not saying that. It's pointing our how London is very much the emblem of a modern, integrated, multicultural city, and this is bound to change. It doesn't say it'll fall into the sea. It wonders how such a city migh
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by omurphyevans 9y ago
London voted overwhelmingly against Brexit, but will this change as Brexit continues. Quite a lot about how it feels different, about how London is a multicultural hub, about how migrants are thinking about leaving, about how London will ch
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by omurphyevans 9y ago
What about the brains who never moved now moving away? I am British and have lived here for nearly 40 years. I'm currently looking at an Irish passport (Irish wife) or maybe France. My taxes and know how will be better put to use somew
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by omurphyevans 10y ago
The Peter Dinklage bit annoys me, as this is precisely the issue - survivorship bias. I happen to have a few actor friends. All talented, harder working than me, and dedicated to their craft. And no-one is interviewing them because they hav
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by omurphyevans 10y ago
There's a more specific example of this - in the Netherlands for years before 1939 they had a wide ranging census and an excellent civil service. On that census was an option for religion. The Nazi's took the census records and th
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by omurphyevans 10y ago
Senior Infrastructure specialist, big bank, 14 years, £450 a day, annualises to about £110k
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by omurphyevans 10y ago
I remember the auction - it delayed the intro of 4G as the big players had spent so much money on the auction that they had to sweat their 3G assets to try to recoup their costs. It worked for the govt - it certainly didn't for the cus
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by omurphyevans 10y ago
You do. You're in the top 10% of the country: http://www.ifs.org.uk/wheredoyoufitin/
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by omurphyevans 10y ago
The classic hedge fund used to be able to find niches in the market where they could make money - and the good ones used to be able to do it well. They could do things other money managers couldn't - short stocks (i.e. hedging against
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by omurphyevans 10y ago
No, it's predicated on exponential growth, of which Moore's law was one small part...
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by omurphyevans 10y ago
You're confusing knowledge and application of that knowledge in a personal situation. A cosmologist may know all about the orbit of the planets but still say 'The sun rose this morning'.
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by omurphyevans 11y ago
When given positive other life experiences, rats do not prefer cocaine to food. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rat_Park
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by omurphyevans 11y ago
There was a recent This American Life episodes about this. Apparently the best way to raise poor black children's scores is to remove segregation, but white communities don't want it: http://www.thisamericanlife.org&#x2
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by omurphyevans 11y ago
It's possibly because your original downvoted comment was a vague hit out at 'the man' castigating the establishment and placing this trader in the same bracket as Madoff. It had no facts, no real argument, was unspecific, ad
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by omurphyevans 11y ago
There's a v amusing sketch about Crufts and the rise of the dog show by John Finnemore: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jG0BGqOKer8 I've tried to talk friends out of getting problem breeds such as bulldogs, consi
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by omurphyevans 12y ago
I do this at Xmas - since my parents split acrimoniously, it was too difficult to do a 'family' holiday. So I see both a weekend around Xmas, then have friends over for Xmas - other people with split families, Aussies and Kiwis wh
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by omurphyevans 12y ago
Just a tiny nitpick - Arendt was a woman - Hannah Arendt to be more precise.
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by omurphyevans 12y ago
Until recently I thought I had a serious sleep issue - perhaps apnea. I would be tired during the day, and by mid-afternoon almost asleep at my desk. I would even feel my brain shutting down while people were discussing things with me. I&#x