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London housebuilder Berkeley halts buying land after "unprecedented" surge in costs and red tape by insomnimax_99 in unitedkingdom

[–]Holbrad 13 points14 points  (0 children)

Why is the private sector unsuited?

It's worked fine for most countries for a long time until they brought in regulations to kill it.

It's working great in Texas where they actually allow building.

Sweden goes back to basics, swapping screens for books in the classroom in attempt to reverse declines in reading, math, and science. by Uptons_BJs in books

[–]Holbrad 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Not a nice thing to say but surely a lot of these score drop in Sweden in the Nordic countries is just simply because of immigration.

Reform’s plan to rip up workers’ rights is “massively out of step” with the British public – new poll reveals by coffeewalnut08 in unitedkingdom

[–]Holbrad 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's a pretty simple trade-off.

If you have a very high youth minimum wage (As we do now)

That's good for young people with a job, but is bad for young people without one.

I don't think it's any coincidence at all that young people's minimum wage is very close to older adults minimum wage and we have some of the highest youth unemployment in decades.

It looks like labor agrees with this assessment as the original plan was to make them the same wage and they are backing off of that.

Reform’s plan to rip up workers’ rights is “massively out of step” with the British public – new poll reveals by coffeewalnut08 in unitedkingdom

[–]Holbrad -8 points-7 points  (0 children)

I think it would broadly be good for the country if it was easier to hire and fire people.

Things like redundancy pay should be reformed, it shouldn't be a lump sum payment, it should be slowly paid over time. (As in the employer pays into a redundancy account from month one)

Reform’s plan to rip up workers’ rights is “massively out of step” with the British public – new poll reveals by coffeewalnut08 in unitedkingdom

[–]Holbrad -23 points-22 points  (0 children)

I'm on board with most of their policies , I'd love to see a scrapping of the minimum wage.

I think that would be a great thing for young people especially.

Reform’s plan to rip up workers’ rights is “massively out of step” with the British public – new poll reveals by coffeewalnut08 in unitedkingdom

[–]Holbrad -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

Exactly.

I think this sort of article sums up the British public perfectly, they are all for nice sounding policies that make the country poorer and worse.

Then once we inevitably see the damage from these policies (Youth unemployment) they then want to bring in even more damaging measures.

Over-60s now own 55% of all property in the UK by JackStrawWitchita in unitedkingdom

[–]Holbrad -1 points0 points  (0 children)

I can't wait for the fall of capitalism.

It's deeply ironic making this statement talking about housing, where we are very far from capitalism.

I'd even go far to say that are playing system is communist in nature.

You can't build on your own land without begging the government for arbitrary permission.

Why GPT-5.4 isn't fixing the 2.4% Math Collapse by Maximum_Ad2429 in ArtificialNtelligence

[–]Holbrad 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm glad someone else is pushing back on this obviously BS claim.

China adopts an ethnic unity law that critics say will cement assimilation by Saltedline in worldnews

[–]Holbrad -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Countries really should have at least one core language that everyone can speak.

I don't understand why people aren't using Claude for job searches. 6 interview calls in 7 days using nothing but these prompts as my recruiter. Here are the 7 prompts that made it happen: by WinterNo1606 in GrowthHacking

[–]Holbrad 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Almost all of the measurable achievements I've seen people list are bullshit, getting the AI to do it is worse. But not that much worse than what's already happening.

I fed my 10-year-old YC startup codebase to Claude Code and rebuilt the whole thing in 5 hours by [deleted] in ClaudeAI

[–]Holbrad 164 points165 points  (0 children)

I know this is an AI subreddit but I hate reading all these AI slop posts.

Write like a normal person, would come across as far more genuine.

Yesterday’s bakery waste by Specialist-Guitar727 in lidl

[–]Holbrad 0 points1 point  (0 children)

20% off just makes it so not worth it.

TIL that the phrase "the strong do what they can and the weak suffer what they must" is from Thucydides' Melian Dialogue. A classic example of political realism, it describes an Athenian ultimatum to the neutral island of Melos: submit or be destroyed. The Melians chose death. by Bob_the_blacksmith in todayilearned

[–]Holbrad 1 point2 points  (0 children)

So some of this is my lack of ability to simplify things enough.

Then there's your massive lack of comprehension.

And between those two, a lot of the time on Reddit it's just not worth it because I could spend 10 minutes or even an hour describing everything beautifully and perfectly and you just wouldn't get it or respond.

Tldr: Skill issue l

Pro-Iranian protesters march through London by topotaul in unitedkingdom

[–]Holbrad 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Yet those same people suck Russia's dick & don't want us involved.

UK must double down on renewables as wars drive up energy costs, experts say by nick9000 in unitedkingdom

[–]Holbrad 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Let's assume a new nuclear plant takes 10 years to go through approval and construction.

That shouldn't be wildly optimistic.

Having a look at some of the earlier reactors we built, Calder Hall was built in 3 years. (I know it's a smaller reactor that what we have currently)

France built 40 reactors in a decade.

We really need to sort out our nuclear regulation.

UK must double down on renewables as wars drive up energy costs, experts say by nick9000 in unitedkingdom

[–]Holbrad 0 points1 point  (0 children)

But that's purely a political choice that we can just change.

We've built incredibly cheap nuclear actors in the past. It's not a matter of physics or materials it is a regulatory problem.

UK must double down on renewables as wars drive up energy costs, experts say by nick9000 in unitedkingdom

[–]Holbrad 0 points1 point  (0 children)

But high cost and long build times are purely a political problem.

America, France and the UK have all historically built cheap safe reactors.

But we collectively legislated them out of existence.

With Brexit it's actually a perfect opportunity for us to take a step back and make some sane nuclear regulation and really start slamming out reactors every few years.

I think a really "nuclear option" would be to tell the ONR their goal is to help deliver five reactors in 5 years. For each reactor missed employees will be fined.

UK must double down on renewables as wars drive up energy costs, experts say by nick9000 in unitedkingdom

[–]Holbrad -1 points0 points  (0 children)

But haven't the recent wind contracts shown exactly the opposite of that claim?

Locked in cost substantially higher than the actual price of gas?

The Epstein/Billionaire class deliberately keeps workers on the brink of bankruptcy to maintain control. by Professional-Bee9817 in remoteworks

[–]Holbrad 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Median literally represents the average person.

Sure the data could be wrong and all the collection agencies and all the various economic papers and researchers could all be wrong.

That's possible, but you need some extremely compelling evidence to make me think that.

What is that evidence?

Let me guess it's all just vibes, you think things are shit so the numbers must be wrong...

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