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Bureaucracies grow. That’s what they do! Parkinson’s law in action. And they aren’t cheap to run.
Here's what out-of-control bureaucracy looks like. The Green card application today (all those pages on the left) v. 2003 (those 4 pages on the right). Understand this: We got no new laws during this time. We just got new bureaucrats cato.org/blog/uscis-has…
A Rolls Royce Small Modular Reactor is 81 hours of NHS spending.
Rolls-Royce's small modular reactor (SMR) programme - the numbers: ▪️ Three new factories ▪️ 40,000 British jobs ▪️ £52bn economic benefit ▪️ 80% of components built in UK ▪️ £250bn export potential As part of its commitment to maximise UK involvement in its ground-breaking…
It cost £297m to produce the Lower Thames Crossing's 359,866 page long planning application. That's more than it cost Norway to build the world's longest road tunnel. The Department for Transport was meant to decide whether to approve it today. Instead, we got another delay.
This is a great move and a damning indictment of our state regulatory systems which should be leading not following theguardian.com/education/2024…
Complex systems with well meaning people product stupid outcomes. Read the two extracts!
“It shouldn’t be possible to build a giant rocket faster than the paper can move from one desk to another”. We definitely haven’t cracked regulatory systems and I think that’s behind a lot of poor outcomes for state provided (or governed) services.
🚨 MUSK: “The next fight of Starship is ready to fly. We are waiting on regulatory approval 🤦♂️. It shouldn’t be possible to build a giant rocket faster than the paper can move from one desk to another.” 😂 💀
First mover advantage only counts for so much.
🚨Okay let’s do this! BUNNY VS MONKEY: The Great Big Glitch is the TENTH book in the series, it’s not out till OCTOBER, but I have one super advance copy to send to a BVM fan to read earlier than anyone else! 💖All you have to do is share this tweet. Winner chosen Mon 22nd 🤞🤞🤞
What is it about formal leadership which inhibits honesty like this? So refreshing.
Wow, here’s Neil Kinnock on George Galloway after hearing Galloway lost his Rochdale seat to Labour. #GeneralElection2024
The world most expensive painting, the Mona Lisa is valued at £678.15 million, or just 33 hours of NHS spending.
Every 9 weeks, the NHS spends the equivalent of the cost to build Hinkley Point C.
Let's have a look at who built the specific production facilities of Stankomash: “BVK” Foundry - Gruppo Cividale S.p.A. (Italy) “Konar - Cimolai” - Cimolai S.p.A. (Italy) “Transneft Oil Pumps” - Pompe S.p.A. (Italy) “Kornet” - Nickelage line provided by Kanigen (Japan)
The most common 4-digit PINs from an analysis of 3.4 million leaked PINs. #dataviz source: reddit.com/r/dataisbeauti…
From The Anxious Generation by Jonathan Haidt: There are four reforms that are so important that would provide a foundation for healthier childhood on the digital age: - No smartphones before high school. - No social media before 16. - Phone-free schools. - Far more…
I’m only 53 but 3 things come to mind: 1) “It never gets easier, you only go faster”—Things never slow down, they only change so don’t wait for “someday” to build a great, sustainable life. This is one thing my wife & I got right. 2) It’s critical to maintain what I call “The…
Prominent academic brings forward (a) studies and charts showing one thing is causing a second, bad thing, and (b) corresponding urgent policy reforms. The 5 big questions to ask: 1. Your field is crippled by a vicious replication crisis; 50%+ and maybe even 70% of your field's…
This is amazing. A still running, now largely deserted, online game space from the last century. Some die hards remain: a text to speech only ex intel officer. Elsewhere there is evidence of a PC that hasn’t been switched off for 24 years.. awesome find @vxunderground!
Loving Denis Villeneuve’s adaptation of Dune
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