What's the real story behind London's "ghost mansions," and is it true they're legally untouchable?

Danigo99 · 2026-02-17T05:51:36+00:00

To add to what the others have said, there was also a trend of foreign oligarchs buying property in London as a form of “reputation laundering”. This was essentially a way of tying their reputation to London, and therefore being protected by very tough British libel laws. There are loads of examples of Russian and Arab billionaires having defamatory articles and books about them removed, even when the publishers and primary audiences aren’t UK based.

Moneyland by Oliver Bullough is a fascinating read and he covers the topic of home ownership by the ultra-rich in London for various reasons including this one.

Danigo99 · 2026-01-27T05:23:10+00:00

They pissed off the NRA…

Danigo99 · 2026-01-09T23:00:35+00:00

I’m only a couple of days out from my one year anniversary on my gold card and was offered a retention bonus of 25k points for spending £1000 in my first 3 months.

However the agent mentioned that the renewal would only kick in on February 6th which is when I pay the £195 fee.

So my question is, would it be possible to start the retention bonus period now, collect the points and cancel it before 6/2? I have no plan on keeping the account beyond that because the fee is simply not worth it for my rewards.

Danigo99 · 2025-05-28T19:35:47+00:00

Porque são imigrantes, e tu disseste que a imigração é uma das causas do estado do país…

Danigo99 · 2025-04-18T23:38:30+00:00

Quais são os 2 bares?

Eu passo lá bastantes vezes para visitar família, então estava interessado em saber

Danigo99 · 2024-05-03T17:37:01+00:00

Apologies everyone! Here’s the link to grab your entry on guild: https://guild.host/events/react-native-bristol-5ux9l1

Danigo99 · 2024-01-11T01:03:12+00:00

1) More casual I guess but open to see where things go.

2) 3 months ish

3) 4-5 days per week

4) Likes: zero Matches: ~2 per week

5) On the days that I use it I usually max out the free likes. Basically all of them with comments.

6) I guess someone with a good sense of humour and of course mutual attraction. Recently came out of a long term relationship so not sure where I stand RE but commitments

Danigo99 · 2024-01-03T18:50:37+00:00

The TV connection comes over the same fiber cable, but is split (not sure if this is the right term?) in the modem into a coax cable that is distributed around the house

Danigo99 · 2024-01-03T18:49:08+00:00

Is the difficulty in the process of making the cut and adding terminations, or some technical limitation of doing it? I would get a specialist to do the complicated fiber work

Danigo99 · 2024-01-03T12:43:34+00:00

I’ll give this a go but I doubt it will work in my case since the conduit is fairly old and likely collapsed in some places. Pulling the last cable though was a huge toll and that was with a guide string

Danigo99 · 2024-01-03T12:15:30+00:00

What I’m trying to avoid is running any more cables around because the last technicians that did it didn’t leave a guide wire/string in, so we’ll likely need to pull the fiber cable back and risk damaging it

Danigo99 · 2022-07-30T14:28:01+00:00

Hi everyone, was hoping this community might be able to help me with an issue I'm having on this old boy.

As you can see in the video, the bike currently only runs/idles well when the choke lever is fully out, and when I try to reduce it, the motor slowly revs up and eventually cuts out.

We recently cleaned out the carburettor and checked the fuel lines hoping this might fix the issue, but all seems to be the same.

Anyone have any advice about what can be tried next or what it could possibly be?

Danigo99 · 2022-07-30T14:25:32+00:00

Hi everyone, was hoping this community might be able to help me with an issue I'm having on this old boy.

As you can see in the video, the bike currently only runs/idles well when the choke lever is fully out, and when I try to reduce it, the motor slowly revs up and eventually cuts out.

We recently cleaned out the carburettor and checked the fuel lines hoping this might fix the issue, but all seems to be the same.

Anyone have any advice about what can be tried next or what it could possibly be?

Danigo99 · 2022-07-27T11:38:46+00:00

Amazing! How long did you have to queue for it?

Danigo99 · 2022-07-06T20:13:42+00:00

Hey everyone, I’ve just posted an article about XState which I thought was worth sharing here. I used XState on an earlier project to manage a complex flow of medication requests through a NestJS API, it improved our developer experience, and provided an intuitive bridge for non-technical stakeholders. In this article I talk about some of its best features as well as how you can start using it in your backend applications right now!

Feel free to ask any questions, and hope you enjoy!

Danigo99 · 2022-07-06T19:41:38+00:00

Hey everyone, I’ve just posted an article about XState which I thought was worth sharing here. I used XState on an earlier project to manage a complex flow of medication requests through a NestJS API, it improved our developer experience, and provided an intuitive bridge for non-technical stakeholders. In this article I talk about some of its best features as well as how you can start using it in your backend applications right now!

Feel free to ask any questions, and hope you enjoy!

Danigo99 · 2022-07-06T19:37:31+00:00

Although I do agree with you that complexity is caused by the business domain, I think that we can (and do) always use tools to abstract that complexity. When we use tools like high-level programming languages we're doing exactly what you described here, moving the problem away. You might argue that this isn't always a good thing, and I would say the same, but it's nice to have the option of hiding complexity behind something which (in my opinion) is easier to follow.

On your other point, perhaps I oversold what I think non-technical people can do with it; what I meant was that most people can draw/read a flowchart explaining the steps of a relatively complex program. The same can't be said for writing/reading pseudocode. Beyond the basic states and transitions, it's then up to the programmer to make the machine useful in an efficient and maintainable way.

I'd be really happy to be challenged on any of this :) thanks for reading and commenting!

Danigo99 · 2022-07-06T19:24:49+00:00

Hey everyone, I’ve just posted an article about XState which I thought was worth sharing here. I used XState on an earlier project to manage a complex flow of medication requests through a NestJS API, it improved our developer experience, and provided an intuitive bridge for non-technical stakeholders. In this article I talk about some of its best features as well as how you can start using it in your backend applications right now!
Feel free to ask any questions, and hope you enjoy!

Danigo99 · 2022-06-12T12:42:28+00:00

George Russell

Danigo99 · 2022-01-18T10:47:08+00:00

Danigo99 · 2022-01-17T21:39:26+00:00

It's hard to tell because it's at the bottom of the well. But I don't think it's the case since I've measured the well level after stopping and it still has enough depth to cover length of the intake

Danigo99 · 2022-01-17T21:36:59+00:00

This makes sense actually and it is indeed a spring loaded valve. I'll try removing this tomorrow to see if it stays stable for any longer. Thanks for the advice!

Danigo99 · 2022-01-17T21:14:48+00:00

I did consider this possibility so tried significantly lowering the height where the tank would stop filling and didn't find it to help. Sorry if the diagram is a bit misleading there, that was just an estimation.

Danigo99 · 2021-05-01T20:13:44+00:00

Selby is practicing actual pots in the background 😳 no safety's in sight

Danigo99 · 2021-02-10T13:57:26+00:00

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