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Ditto in the UK.

I didn't say it would be decent, just that it might make financial sense.

building a worse version of AWS just so that it is "European" makes no financial sense

Unless it becomes necessary because of EU regulation?

More likely United I'd say

Funny to see Marmite on a menu for a (presumably) fancy NYC restaurant https://pudding.cool/2026/06/menu-story/assets/menus/474586....

That's a fair point, it would be more interesting to compare the salary to equivalent, family-owned private companies (although I'm sure most of them don't disclose that sort of thing).

Her salary of £421 million in 2020 was 50% higher than it was in 2019, and higher than all FTSE 100 Index CEOs combined.

Ah I see, I wasn't aware of the Cash ISA change too, thanks.

Wasn't it something like a 3-4% reduction in private school pupil numbers? And some of those would have ended up homeschooled rather than state.

I think they're clamping down on cash held in Stocks and Shares ISAs, not Cash ISAs.

True, but it avoids any unknowns when the office manager is organising a senior leadership lunch meeting. "Nobody ever got fired for buying Pret".

Recommend Corning Museum of Glass (upstate NY) for similar reasons. Really awesome.

The main reason humanity hasn't meaningfully started expanding into space is because it used to cost $54,000 to get a liter of water into space.

Am I naive in thinking that we haven't expanded into space because we don't need to? What's the benefit?

I guess it's a bit like the nuclear deterrent. The threat of them raising prices or refusing to sell to other countries might be enough.

It's been downhill since FB removed pokes.

Ursa will probably be gone in 10 years

Or worse, absorbed by one of the big manufacturers.

I mean, the Hay Festival is in Wales. You don't have to be in America to be affected.

Can you go up without going to the restaurant?

I wonder if it’d also related to the reduced length of time that people stay in a job now? Why invest in training a junior if they’ll move jobs as soon as they reach mid-level.

Wouldn't the Purosangue be the competitor though?

Does Ferrari have the same "relationship requirements" as other high-end manufacturers? I.e. to get the latest and greatest ICE sports case, you'll need to buy one of these first.

How much of that comes right back to the government, in the form of tax income?

Are these the kind you could DIY-install on a balcony for example?

Smoking on airplanes is the one that just seemed like an accident waiting to happen. And yet there were (relatively) few incidents caused by cigarettes.

IMO purely people management (1:1s, promotions, goal-setting, staffing/resourcing, involvement in hiring).

Interesting. I'd define all of those tasks as the job of a team/tech lead, rather than a manager. I've worked at places where the same person did both roles, and it was not always a great mix.

To be fair they did win the Fastest Pit Stop Award last season https://www.formula1.com/en/latest/article/2025-dhl-fastest-...

I wonder if that will remain the case. The input costs for farming are increasing (seed, fertiliser, energy), the output is becoming less predictable (flood, drought) and the grants from DEFRA which are meant to smooth things out have dried up somewhat since Brexit. If farmers are offered a guaranteed income for a field, I suspect they'd take it.

I think that's what Small Modular Reactors (SMR) are hoping to improve? At least the time to build.

Any tariffs on imported tractors? My gut says yes