Michael Dnes @MichaelDnes1
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It’s not just Germans. Some time I’ll tell the story of how we nearly savaged the southern side of Oxford to pieces because of ‘the rules’. Great thread though
It’s not just Germans. Some time I’ll tell the story of how we nearly savaged the southern side of Oxford to pieces because of ‘the rules’. Great thread though
A very wise assessment (though would we expect anything less?) In particular the question of whether we even have a privatised railway to begin with nowadays. I know at least one person who could claim he renationalised it in 2020.
A very wise assessment (though would we expect anything less?) In particular the question of whether we even have a privatised railway to begin with nowadays. I know at least one person who could claim he renationalised it in 2020.
This is true. And as the problems worsen, the patchwork solutions come to submerge all that was good with the original model. Even Michelangelo’s David would look like Frankenstein’s monster by this route.
This is true. And as the problems worsen, the patchwork solutions come to submerge all that was good with the original model. Even Michelangelo’s David would look like Frankenstein’s monster by this route.
Take a look at how the number of federal regulations and policies governing research at universities has dramatically increased over the years. This adding an enormous cost of doing research. (Source COGR)
The Second Staircase Rules impact assessment is out. Benefits (net present value): £9.1 million Costs: £2.68 BILLION So the govt's own cost-benefit analysis says the costs of these rules would be *294* times greater than the benefits.
Speaking as the person who put this scheme in the roads programme, I would describe this as spookily well-informed. (Wasn’t me squire)
Speaking as the person who put this scheme in the roads programme, I would describe this as spookily well-informed. (Wasn’t me squire)
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All these experiments in utopian living invariably end up spontaneously regenerating the lessons of Hobbes and refuting those of Rousseau
Love that the protestors independently discovered border control and police. They’re about a week away from reinventing the IDF from first principles
@MichaelDnes1 I'd also argue that giving companies long term leases to run trains isn't privatisation either (though the rolling stock leasing is private and isn't going to be effected)
The over-riding need is for an arms-length body, a BR 2.0, to take over running of the network from DfT, a government department should not be micro-managing a railway. And it probably needs to be more command/control than mere guiding mind.
I'm old enough to remember BR putting fares up above inflation, and we even sometimes ran trains late (yes, really). People complained about the same things then and thought privatisation would fix it, that they complain about *now* and think nationalisation will fix it.
In other words, the government specifies everything, pays for everything, all fares revenue goes to the Treasury, with private operators paid 1-2% management fee to run things. So the network is already nationalised in all but name, just (mostly) delivered by private contractors.
In fact, I once shared a taxi with Adrian Shooter & bitterly regret not asking him (as head of Chiltern before & after privatisation) whether there was a snowball's chance in hell BR could have done what he did. I assumed the answer was so obviously 'no' it was a stupid question!
Difficult to prove the conterfactual, but would BR have had resources to carry out Chiltern's Evergreen projects? BR modernised & doubled service, Chiltern quadrupled it & made it 100mph. Suspect we'd still have the 1990 75mph service, 2 trains/hour to Risboro', 1/hour beyond.
People always post that one US marine with the skateboard and never the 1909 Swedish infantryman with pedal powered inline skates
And there's going to have be some pretty deep soul searching in the UK I fear about why we weren't there despite playing really key roles and having big opportunities at every big step of transformation in computing. Fumbled it. :/
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🚨🚨 UK planning system now officially so bad it is being satirised by American bloggers. 🚨🚨 Scott Alexander on the money again.
Not my photos but relics of a bygone age here. The signing strategy for the London Ringways would have been fascinating to see.
Don’t get me wrong: there’s a lot to love about Europe and living there. But when you’re trying to pull off something that hasn’t been done before, a business culture that emphasizes risk over opportunities and structure over results is like what xenon does to a nuclear reactor.
Spending 24 hours in Silicon Valley has already recharged me with enough optimism to survive another 4 months of European pessimism.
The glazing of this house is around 33% of its floor area. However, new regulations in Part O §1 allow maximum glazing of 11-18%. So *half to two thirds* of these windows would be blocked up. Do the British people really need their Government to protect them from this building?
In the ICE era, there were ~28 car-producing countries that produced the vast majority of cars. In the EV era b/c cars are less complex in some ways, more will/should produce their own cars. This shifts leverage in value chain to key component, software + tools cos.
In America the vast majority of the price of housing comes from hard-to-cut build costs - for most of the country. But in superstar metros without space to sprawl land costs (ie a scarcity of permissions) rise to predominate. construction-physics.com/p/what-makes-h…
Britain should reclaim an area the size of Wales from Dogger Bank, the area of the North Sea where the sea is only 15-40m deep. We could do it for less than £100bn modelthinking.substack.com/p/a-new-atlant…
@MichaelDnes1 Good thread, thanks. If electrifying entire lines is hard, can we install a minimal amount of battery storage to cover the gaps? Surely most of the energy is required when accelerating away from a station. This might be an entirely ridiculous idea, I fully admit.
@MichaelDnes1 I’ll take that as a compliment on my powers of observation!
The UK has a deep state and it's the planning system. If you can't build dense housing in the North London Business Park then you've made it illegal to build dense housing. London has the worst housing crisis in the world. The current planning system should be utterly abolished
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