jamiegreen

Don’t underestimate the ass covering.

I recon 60% of management consulting work is just to ass cover for a director with no conviction

I wish there was less ad hominum in this article " group of highly privileged white men" and more depth on the actual counterarguments.

Incredible it has taken this long

I don't think it's revolutionary. They simply seem to have focused the role on what's important for them.

I think it is nice to have a kitchen if it’s more than a few days.

But the chores are a bit much sometimes

This seems more a problem in how this specific public transport is run, than with public transport in general.

Yeah I fully agree doing this is super hard in practice. If you want it, for sure that can be a great place to start!

Also, although “make something people want” is pretty simple, still people forget it all the time (Including me btw). So it’s as much a self reminder as anything!

God Save the King

Britain does have a constitution

The road deaths surprise me the most , as most American roads are big and straight and most British roads are small and squiggly!

If one company pays more voluntarily, it's unlikely the head of that company will remain there very long!

Same. Brush 3 times daily, never really floss. Not sure about the benefits, but my dentist doesn't complain. Then again, this is Britain.

Does anyone know if they work in old houses?

We have a stone house built in ~1800. We have upgraded with insulation in the floors, walls ceiling, but of course it is still fairly draughty if it is windy.

It's damn expensive to heat, and have considered an air source heat pump, but always thought that it wasn't really a good idea for old houses.

it really does

I'm not sure if you are being intentionally condescending but you are coming across that way. I am going to assume good intention here.

I am not that familiar with the 'end use ' of paying for stuff directly, maybe you can't in Moldova.

Even if you can't pay for things directly, there are plenty of relevant uses. Simply using USDC can be a great store of value for people if their currency is collapsing. See lebanon, turkey, egypt, sri lanka etc.

Then if things get really bad, having some crypto could be very useful again if/when you have to flee the country. There are so many stories of Russians and Ukranians that left and were not able to take any of their currency. Here is just one example: https://www.cnbc.com/2022/03/23/ukrainian-flees-to-poland-wi...

Pointing out these real use cases is not 'harping on', in some cases this tech has saved people from terrible situations.

It never mattered if you live in a country with a stable currency and access to modern financial services. If that is you, you are in a very small minority of the world population. For the rest of the world, there seems to be some value...

https://blog.chainalysis.com/reports/2021-global-crypto-adop...