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The government should stop worrying about the Daily Mail Test

You can't fix the Civil Service by penny-pinching

yesterday 3 votes
Odds and Ends #65: Everything is about everything

Plus why Britain can't build things... except for the Lower Thames Crossing, apparently.

2 days ago 3 votes
The Lower Thames Crossing, getting mad at boomers and the scourge of Everythingism

Plus we're 18,000 homes closer to the, er, 1.5 million homes target

3 days ago 5 votes
How the government can raise taxes – and get away with it

It's time to treat Trump like the crisis he is

4 days ago 7 votes
Listen: How the YIMBYs won

My event with Anya Martin (with a brief cameo from Chris Curtis MP!)

a week ago 9 votes

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The Rapture

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16 hours ago 1 votes
This student made his own odds with a DIY slot machine

Today’s digital slot machines are anything but “fair,” in the way that most of us understand that word. There is tight regulation in most places, but the machines can still adjust their odds of payout in order to maintain a specific profit margin. If the machine thinks it has paid out too many wins recently, […] The post This student made his own odds with a DIY slot machine appeared first on Arduino Blog.

18 hours ago 1 votes
Peanut butter toast

You never know what moments have staying power until they hit you.

45 minutes ago 1 votes
The government should stop worrying about the Daily Mail Test

You can't fix the Civil Service by penny-pinching

yesterday 3 votes
Benchmarks from M2 Pro to M4 Pro

Long story short, I picked up a new MacBook Pro this week. I got the M4 Pro version with the higher core count and 1TB of internal storage. It's the exact same model in the lineup as the M2 Pro I've been using for the last

2 days ago 2 votes