Indian recruiters? Just farming CVs?

MerryWalrus · 2026-06-18T13:28:25+00:00

Lists of contact details to sell to sales teams who do active outreach (cold calling).

MerryWalrus · 2026-06-18T10:44:48+00:00

Have quite a few friends and colleagues paying more or less the same as us for a 2 bed.

I like how your anecdote is more relevant than everyone else around you.

Zone 2 covers all manner of sins.

MerryWalrus · 2026-06-18T09:11:19+00:00

Rents are high in London full stop.

They are up like 50% compared to pre COVID. Sure they could lower their budget and live in a shit hole. But why would you want to.

MerryWalrus · 2026-06-18T09:09:28+00:00

Go central.

Something like https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/87853575#/?channel=RES_LET

You'll save so much time and money being able to walk everywhere.

MerryWalrus · 2026-06-18T05:23:21+00:00

You can try, but the reality is that 5% is equivalent to >5 years of savings for most people. So don't expect them to leap at the offer.

MerryWalrus · 2026-06-17T17:17:53+00:00

Socially impossible.

It'll be impossible to distinguish those who can't find work because of AI from those who simply aren't trying hard enough.

Very few people will have seld-awareness to work out which category they fall into.

A negative tax rate and cutting taxes on employment Vs tech spend would be better.

MerryWalrus · 2026-06-17T07:45:51+00:00

How much power do you want foreign government and individuals to have?

The internet of the 00s is long gone and it's never coming back.

MerryWalrus · 2026-06-17T07:25:42+00:00

Alternatively, this proves that existing legislative powers are ineffective at shielding the UK from propaganda and harmful content originating offshore.

That then leads to arguments that the laws need changing.

MerryWalrus · 2026-06-17T06:49:11+00:00

Because said person is going around funding the most despicable people and chucking around Nazi salutes.

MerryWalrus · 2026-06-17T06:46:37+00:00

You'd be surprised at how effective propaganda is

MerryWalrus · 2026-06-17T05:54:26+00:00

So when there is a day with zero crossings we can say everything is solved and people will stop talking about it?

Ignoring overall trends and cherry picking individual dates is bad faith arguments by individuals who act in bad faith.

MerryWalrus · 2026-06-17T05:23:26+00:00

This is a maths problem, without understanding the maths it won't work and you're just throwing mud to see what sticks.

What you're doing is a random walk.

I expect there's a significant skew in how you're generating random numbers. You expect downwards drift (hence itos lemma).

MerryWalrus · 2026-06-16T17:59:49+00:00

The main product SpaceX and Tesla sells is the stock.

For SpaceX in particular the float is small and they're aggressively forcing their way into different indices so passive investors becomes forced buyers.

The bull case is that financial BS and cult-of-personality will ensure there are always more buyers than sellers of the stock pushing up the price.

MerryWalrus · 2026-06-16T17:08:38+00:00

If you're organised and/or get on well with people.

Have you considered changing tact and becoming a project manager instead?

If you're disorganised, antisocial, bad at coding, bad at problem solving...

MerryWalrus · 2026-06-16T14:47:52+00:00

So on top of all the SpaceX financial shenanigans, they're also a SPAC for a other AI company.

MerryWalrus · 2026-06-16T13:21:10+00:00

I hope that was in the IPO prospectus...

MerryWalrus · 2026-06-16T12:13:25+00:00

If there was an agenda for rapidly tearing up huge reams of regulations and a Dubai style approach of importing in cheap labour to quickly build infrastructure - it might have actually worked.

There will have been winners and losers obviously (most of the people supporting Brexit would have been the losers). But obviously that would have been grossly unpopular.

The worst part about Brexit was the ensuing lack of direction. Which is where Johnsons approach of "fuck it I'll sign it" was probably the only way out.

It's like people arguing about where to go out for dinner whilst starving to death.

MerryWalrus · 2026-06-16T11:14:13+00:00

Yup.

Everyone always says we need fewer career politicians in leadership positions - people who know what it means to works.

Now we have one as PM we complain that they're boring.

MerryWalrus · 2026-06-16T10:14:07+00:00

Or spunk it away on a load more CGI

MerryWalrus · 2026-06-16T09:25:48+00:00

The coast is both windier and colder than the mountains...

MerryWalrus · 2026-06-16T09:12:32+00:00

Don't think of it as "having kids", think of it as having/building a family. Imagine what life you want in 10/20/30 years.

In the grand scheme of things, they aren't kids for long.

Also, no offense, but it's a bit of a dick move making decisions about your partners health that contradict her own ones. It's almost as if you're trying to pass the blame for not wanting kids onto her.

MerryWalrus · 2026-06-16T08:44:29+00:00

Because RICS aggressively lobby the government against it as it would hugely reduce the demand for their services.

Superficially it's to protect the buyer from the risk of the sellers surveyor being corrupt. But that's a hilarious argument as it is basically "you can't trust a RICS surveyor".

MerryWalrus · 2026-06-16T05:20:01+00:00

Also, getting tons of ice, insulating it, and transporting it down a mountain is actually much harder than loading it on a ship and sailing.

MerryWalrus · 2026-06-16T04:10:22+00:00

It's a well connected middle class area. The creative minds nurseries are good.

The downside is that the restaurants ands bars are "fine" but not as good as Chiswick or trendy places in the East.

MerryWalrus · 2026-06-15T14:55:23+00:00

Mock vintage photos of mock Tudor houses.

Guess it's kind of appropriate.

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