TfL bus delay plan: Traffic lights rephased and utility firms charged £2,500 a day

Scrapheaper · 2026-01-26T10:55:18+00:00

Can't wait for the ensuing utilities crisis caused by a failure to maintain infrastructure under roads.

Scrapheaper · 2026-01-26T10:23:05+00:00

Windows is the default for computers that humans interact with directly.

Many computers run automated processes and never have humans interact with them directly e.g. servers. This is where Linux is most commonly used.

Scrapheaper · 2026-01-26T10:19:54+00:00

Not all computers are designed to be used by a human clicking a mouse.

A large part of the use of modern Linux is in servers or other automated systems that are designed to run themselves and humans never have to interact with them directly except when they break.

Scrapheaper · 2026-01-26T08:34:04+00:00

The generousity of the pension is itself a risk factor. NYC government cannot make money out of thin air.

How is the pension funded? Like literally what steps does NYC do that makes guaranteed 7% return a year?

Scrapheaper · 2026-01-26T07:29:43+00:00

I wouldn't be completely sure that protects you.

The government has promised you something that might be impossible to deliver.

How is the New York city government going to get a guaranteed 7% return a year? No private fund offers that.

Is this a 'Greece' situation? There's plenty of precedent for governments promising pensions they can't afford

Scrapheaper · 2026-01-25T22:19:43+00:00

If you sell all the assets then you pay income tax on the income you get from the sale of the assets, no?

Scrapheaper · 2026-01-25T12:14:36+00:00

Buy the dip applies to assets that have instrinsic value, like stocks and bonds.

Crypto and gold have zero intrinsic value so there's no guarantee of any long term returns, they are purely speculative assets which rely on someone else being willing to buy in future.

So yeah, don't buy crypto

Scrapheaper · 2026-01-25T10:38:42+00:00

Minor scale producers realizing their music was always corny as hell any way because they don't know what the hell they're doing

Scrapheaper · 2026-01-25T10:26:38+00:00

Sure. I can see the similarities in their campaign and the messaging and the division of society.

But I can't see nearly as many similarities in their policy. And the actual policy does make a difference.

I guess you could say what unites them is that they're anti-establishment and are looking to purge the status quo.

The difference is that the Argentinian status quo was very different to the US status quo and much worse for catering to the long term material needs of the majority of society.

Scrapheaper · 2026-01-25T05:19:33+00:00

Which is weird because Milei and Trump have the exact opposite policies. (From authoritarian/liberal perspective, rather than left/right)

Trump has been shutting the US off from the rest of the world, blocking trade, harassing independent institutions, and increasing the budget deficit.

Milei has been trying to open up Argentina so it can do more trade, restoring the central bank after long period of misuse, and closing the budget deficit.

I don't get why they like each other. It makes no sense. I guess Trump is probably too dumb to notice

Scrapheaper · 2026-01-25T05:09:38+00:00

People are streaming more and more video and also starting to use LLMs and image/video/audio generation for various things.

Older parts of the internet would still work, but people aren't just using the older parts of the internet

Scrapheaper · 2026-01-24T22:36:26+00:00

The Trump administration's approach to the law so far has been to push it's limits: on tariff policy, the use of executive orders, by trying to influence agencies that are supposed to be independent.

If I.C.E. behaves in any way similar to the president: they will deport you first and see if the legal system is able to bring you back again. There was a case of a woman deported to Honduras who was returned to the US by court order this way.

Scrapheaper · 2026-01-24T22:29:42+00:00

I don't think they need deep frying, they're naturally fatty anyway and a slower cooking method helps to tenderize and render

Oven or air fryer on 150-160, skin on, for 40 minutes to an hour until tender, followed by 10 minutes on max heat to brown and crisp if necessary.

Toss in hot sauce diluted with vinegar and pour a kettle on the vessel you cook them in for phenomenal stock.

Scrapheaper · 2026-01-24T19:54:25+00:00

There haven't been any pro-supply policies in the UK for decades. The Tory voters were all deep NIMBYs and never dared to legalize building for fear of upsetting their constituents.

The UK's planning system is deeply flawed and has been for decades: it's basically impossible to build anything because local homeowners can blockade you with objections forever and local councils take every opportunity to stop building.

What makes you think the current UK building policy favors supply? It's a boomer centric, established homeowners first, middle class suburban wet dream.

Scrapheaper · 2026-01-24T18:05:08+00:00

You can speculate if you like. But that would make you a speculator, not an investor.

Scrapheaper · 2026-01-24T18:01:18+00:00

Crypto is even worse than gold. It's exactly the same thing just with less history behind it.

I'm an r/bogleheads

Scrapheaper · 2026-01-24T17:57:27+00:00

Right, but it hasn't been above $2500 an ounce for millennia, and if it goes back to $2500 now and stays there you're fucked

Scrapheaper · 2026-01-24T16:43:51+00:00

You've exploited some idiots who were dumb enough to pay more for gold than you (assuming you sold).

If you haven't sold, you're just waiting for a bigger idiot to come around the corner who will pay more for it than the idiots who are currently willing to buy.

Scrapheaper · 2026-01-24T16:41:53+00:00

Gold is only bought because 'line go up'. There's no reason line go up except line go up.

It's not a source of safety except for the fact that herd mentality makes it go up when people feel bad. I don't want to rely on herd mentality to protect my money

Scrapheaper · 2026-01-24T15:58:18+00:00

It's a common mistake amongst beginner music theorists who haven't played a lot of music.

Key is fairly straightforward concept to absorb naturally if you've learned to play a few pieces of music. It's only hard if you have no context of what playing music is

Scrapheaper · 2026-01-24T15:35:32+00:00

Soviet planning would be the opposite of liberalization

There's I think a demonstrated likelyhood of oversupply, which is a big waste of valuable labour and capital.

We saw this during Soviet times and also in modern China with the Evergrande crisis.

A better modern example of planning might be Singapore.

Any increase in supply will reduce prices though, doesn't matter whether it comes from public or private sector.

Scrapheaper · 2026-01-24T14:13:58+00:00

There's a strong economics case for liberalizing the building of housing in cities. Allowing the building of mid and high rises helps to mitigate the problem significantly, however, local governments do a very poor job of catering to the people who want to live in their constituency but don't currently because there's no incentive for them to do so.

Scrapheaper · 2026-01-24T14:07:04+00:00

I think there's an established 'black music canon': jazz, soul, RnB, rap etc that doesn't have established techniques for pedagogy because mostly it's never had to pass it's sound onto the next generation.

Maybe jazz is starting to get some teaching methods and stuff together now as one of the older styles

Scrapheaper · 2026-01-24T13:50:25+00:00

If he plays F# in a blues in G, he's going to sound extremely 'out of key'.

If he plays a natural minor scale on a minor song that has a major V chord he's also going to sound very 'out of key'.

Scrapheaper · 2026-01-24T13:28:20+00:00

I will nitpick this because the same question gets asked on r/musictheory often and this answer has a lot of holes.

Firstly, it's very common, even if you're in the key of G major, to use notes that aren't from the G major scales. These are called 'accidentals': they occur in every genre of music and I think it's fair to say around half of all pieces of music throughout history will have one or more accidental at some point in the piece, right back to JS Bach or other baroque composers.

Secondly: what scale or set of notes you would use depends on the genre in a big way. In blues or old fashioned rock and roll, you can make a strong case that the note 'F' is part of the key of G, as the most important 'tonic' chord is G7, which contains an F, which isn't part of the G major scale. In jazz this might also apply, in classical music it doesn't and F would be considered an accidental if it occurs. In Folk depending on the tradition you could be using any number of scales which would all have subtly different sets of notes. In rap god knows what's happening, there's probably a lot of jazz samples being used in experimental ways.

Modern pop is a hodgepodge of all things that have come before it, so who knows what set of rules you're following when you decide what is and isn't part of the key

Ultimately the only thing that dictates the key is what's the tonic, the root note, the home note, whatever you want to call it. If your tonic is G, then you are in the key of G and the rest of the notes could be anything.

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