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Sep 14 • 7 tweets • 3 min read
A juxtaposition for the purists.
That'll explain why I can't log in then.
Cool, cool, cool, cool, cool.
If railway engineers did #opendata. It would look like this.
Sadly it's too hard for me. I give up. I'll use the 2019 timetable. It won't make much difference.
Got around this with advice from @travelling_wolf but now I see that new versions of NaPTAN are missing Latitudes and Longitudes for some railway station. Which is,... not going to produce a good GTFS file.
Wow. Yet more "you must sign in for data" stuff from UK national organisations.

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Sep 16
The economic convergence of the EU, one aspect of which is shown nicely in the FT today, is great news. I think that we should ask why similar convergence doesn't seem to happen in the UK, especially since it has happened within many countries such as Germany, Netherlands, etc...
The FT piece is about population inequality. So it's not the same as regional inequality (which I'm more interested in). But the two interact. Led by mostly US celebrity economists there's a view that the superstar cities will inevitably pull away, leaving the rest behind.
But it just doesn't seem to happen in "the West" except in the UK and maybe in France. When I've looked at the numbers it doesn't even really seem to happen in the USA. In most of the West we see convergence, often as poorer places take advantage of lower costs to thrive.
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Is Silicon Valley particularly good at building diverse software company teams?
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If a banker earns a huge bonus (thus reducing the profit of the bank) and pays tax properly on it (I assume they would) then that feels like everyone is winning. The downside I suppose is if it encourages risky behaviour since we guarantee the banks. ft.com/content/e5dac8…
I am also very relaxed about a new UK government getting rid of sugar taxes and fat taxes and plastic straw bans. I'm not sure if they're planning that. But I think it would be fine.
While we're on "neoliberal" policies that I'm fine with. I really would simplify VAT enormously. Yes that means bringing back "the hated tampon tax" and putting VAT on kids shoes and essential food.
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"so there's a concept in computer science called Metcalf's law, the formula is x^2 and x^2 is the formula that gets you the classic exponential curve" > thing is,... I know Marc Andreessen knows that's wrong. But I'm still considering rage-quitting this podcast episode.
I've decided to get over myself and continue. It's fine.
And now we're onto soft climate change denial, continually saying that climate change science is complex. Complex, complex, complex, complex. As with most appeals to complexity,..... a waste of my time. Bye.
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A lot of people dunk on Tom because of his brand rather than really engaging with what he's said or written. And of course he's getting that here too. But I think it's a good point, worth engaging with properly. In many ways it's a "well what could we have achieved?" question.
New Labour were in power from 1997 to 2010. Thirteen years. Major had, it seems to me, steered the UK away from the worst of Thatcherism, so there was less to fix, and it still took Blair three years to get in, get set, and really get started. Then 2008 happened. So seven years.
What have the Tories had? 2010 was coalition. The Tory cope is that Lib Dems held them back and they had to "clean up Labour's mess". I find the former somewhat convincing, Metro Mayors are a major achievement and to wait to 2015. The latter? Not convinced. Brown had done well.
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