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Truss now favourite to be PM after next election – politicalbetting.com
Truss now favourite to be PM after next election – politicalbetting.com
On this I think that punters have got this wrong because the challenge facing the Tories at the next election is so great that it is hard to see how they can stay in power unless they secure an overall majority.
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The Palace would take extensive soundings before inviting anyone to form a government.
You don't just get an automatic go by merely having most seats.
Impartial advice to those hoping for a Starmer win: stop contributing to such appallingly low public expectations for Truss. Because if as is pretty likely, she exceeds them, then she'll be a shoe-in for a majority win even if she's not very good.
It's not like she's proposing to replace the entire army with Lyon's Maid ice cream sellers or give state funerals to every Terry O'Terrorist that blows himself up, like Jezza wanted to. Do you see what I did there?
For the first time, my front teeth don't have a gap and I rather like it. I've got to practise smiling now
1.11 Liz Truss 90%
9.6 Rishi Sunak 10%
Next Conservative leader
1.11 Liz Truss 90%
9.6 Rishi Sunak 10%
Having the Queen (or King) traipse into Parliament and spout off what their government will and won't do at length, followed by Parliament voting that they bloody well won't do owt of the sort, would be a huge embarrassment.
So. They will invite whoever has enough MP's pledged to support (or at least abstain) for it to pass.
Failing that they won't ask anyone at all till they do.
Google maps and SatNavs are good for getting to a postcode. W3W for finding a specific door when you get there.
Possibly for lost hikers too where you need to describe an exact grid reference, but any serious hiker should know how to do it with an OS map too for the same reasons.
Sadly he wasn't interested in a 3 for 1 deal on the others.
The rules are important here - see:
"The incumbent PM will be settled as the winner if they successfully form a new government (which may not require the specific invitation [from the monarch] above)."
(For the avoidance of doubt: the pipeline goes through western Ukraine, entering from Belarus.)
Mustn't let war interfere too much with business!
https://youtu.be/8Lz36kLYid0 ?
That's somewhat less than a C+S deal to keep the show on the road.
And if an incumbent fails to pass a QS then I don't think they've technically formed a new government at all. Merely the old one would have fallen. That's how I would read it anyway.
Also, one of the scariest moments in a young man’s life. I had to do it by formally translated letter.
https://twitter.com/RedfieldWilton/status/1557036631089205248?s=20&t=E4nSPQvSkHsFuqfEGIxsVw
The applications of this are near-infinite
I would absolutely invest in this company this afternoon. The worst that can happen to them now, to my mind, is that they get bought out for £££ by Big Tech. The best is that they turn into a mega-unicorn all by themselves
Trouble is you can't invest, I don't think. They recently did some crowdfunding looking for £1m and they got £8m. Totally oversubscribed
Tooth gappers of the world unite! You have nothing to lose but your ability to spit with your teeth clenched!
1886, 1892 and 1923 are when a QS has been voted down.
It's not impossible, of course, but it's a five horse race.
He really put in the hours
"He grabbed a dictionary and began the painstaking process of copying every word into an Excel spreadsheet and assigning each one a score out of ten for its suitability for use within the app, with common, easy to spell words given the highest marks and trickier, rarer words given lower ratings. “I did it every day for six months. It makes you notice how long the dictionary actually is,” he says. “I was living on my friend’s sofa at the time. And he was certainly confused. But I think he also admired my persistence.”"
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/can-what3words-revolutionise-the-way-we-navigate-the-world-tt0706nnv
This company is going to EXPLODE
///enormous.party.windows
I predict that W3W isn't just going to make loads of money, it will soon become a entire meme-set, a subculture, a trove of tropes
It's genuinely hard to pick a winner from the five. Sainz has also been performing well, though he's had his share of bad luck too. Russell's doing very well in his first Mercedes season, and while Perez's form has dipped lately he's also put in some very impressive performances.
After 17 years on PB I have come to realise this was faulty advice.
But the mind boggles at how many different ways it could be used
eg when I was in Tbilisi I loved ordering yummy Georgian food on the various food apps. Like Glovo
But I was living down the ramshackle if picturesque streets of the Old City, on Alexander Dumas Street 83C, and the delivery guys could NEVER find it, because of poor mapping and duplicate street names and much else. I always had to go out into the streets and hunt them down by calling the delivery guy - a pain
If they'd had this app then bingo, Problem completely solved. I could simply have told them to come to my front door at ///exposing.cherry.maps (that's the real W3W address)
Brilliant
Mind blowing technology Or you could have used literally any other mapping app that shares links.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4PPRh9ZunmI
This app is... less good than the hype
Liquidity?
I have often remarked that we on here are arguably the geekiest of political geeks and we fight like rats in a sack over how any particular political event might turn out.
The idea that a random on bf "knows" more is ludicrous.
Which was easy, as we got on fine.
And, as above, it was tell rather than ask.
I do suddenly feel somewhat disconnected from Vanessa Paradis and Kemi, though..
51°30'28.7"N 0°09'39.8"W
51.507980, -0.161044
Great. And the pin is..... where? Did you drop it right? Are you sure?
Whereas I can say "meet me at /// you.are.moronic" and that's all they need to know. Three words which define one precise three metre square anywhere in the world
I can easily remember you.are.moronic and not just because you actually are moronic
If I was doing this:
A few days to come up with an algorithm to separate words into easy and difficult (or steal someone else's), then a few minutes to run it on a free spellchecker dictionary. Next problem please.
4 words, not 3, because you can then use 2 words for the latitude and 2 words for the longitude, and thus maintain a geographic link.
Assign each word a number which can technically be decoded to lat/long without an app. Make sure adjacent numbers aren't similar words. You can thus extend it easily to a 6 word code for more accuracy if you really want. 1000 words for 3 digits would seem about right.
Of course, you wouldn't then need a copyrightable algorithm to generate the phrase, but hey.
That surely would violate any number of laws of physics.
I know because I wrote it
You can access dictionaries online. With a python script I daresay. And then you can use a Soundex function to work out which ones sound similar, and how many characters they differ by, etc.
Why would you do that by hand? By hand?
But if I open google maps on my phone and stare at my screen I can't immediately see where it says "share" as per @Alistair's link upthread for the PC version.
(I don't work there anymore)
Sometimes, huge changes can and do happen.
Even with a 100 seat majority, there's every chance the Conservatives can lose the next election.
What do you think of w3w?
1. The DUP can be bought. Its just, the price went up.
2. The challenge facing Labour is the Tories got an 80 seat majority at the last election. And in much of that majority, the trend is not Labour's friend.
3. Labour are a dismal void, bereft of any alternative postures that remotely enthuse the voters. Embodied by their leader.
On her showing so far, the Tories could be on hands and knees begging Wallace to take over from Truss in a coronation this winter. Hope I'm wrong (as I vote for Rishi), but there is a material risk the voters will hate her by then.
I agree it's not fantastic UI design, I assume they've A/B tested it though
51°30'28.7"N 0°09'39.8"W
51.507980, -0.161044
with
Apple.Banana.Marrow
for the GUI.
So, how are they doing?
DHL have adopted it:
https://www.enterprisetimes.co.uk/2022/04/07/dhl-partners-with-what3words-for-uk-parcel-app/
As we know, all the carmakers want to use it:
https://www.axios.com/2022/05/05/carmakers-adopt-what3words-app-for-voice-navigation
Taxi companies are using it:
https://www.taxi-point.co.uk/post/taxi-despatch-firm-sherlock-partners-with-what3words
The Queen uses it to report fires:
"The team took to Instagram to plead with visitors over a safety matter, writing: "The Royal Parkland still remains very dry after the hot weather. Please remain vigilant when visiting, report a fire immediately, we would also encourage visitors to download 'what3words' app to help with locations. Please do not BBQ and take home any rubbish to help reduce the risk."
https://www.hellomagazine.com/homes/20220808147614/the-queen-home-sandringham-safety-warning-fires/
Ecommerce deliveries:
https://edelivery.net/2022/08/gfs-partners-what3words/
McKinsey calls it "the future of navigation"
https://www.mckinsey.com/industries/automotive-and-assembly/our-insights/the-future-of-navigation-in-a-digitized-world-an-interview-with-what3wordss-clare-jones
Missing hikers in Ontario are using it:
https://globalnews.ca/news/9006869/missing-hikers-located-ontario-what3words/
Local listings are using it:
https://www.marketingtechnews.net/news/2022/jun/21/yext-aims-to-give-customers-control-over-location-data-with-what3words/
The Germans have invested €60m
https://tech.eu/2022/05/24/german-media-pool-backs-what3words-with-eur80-million-media-volume-for-geolocation-solution/
Not bad for a company that is basically just a shittier version of an old Ordnance Survey map and a pencil
In general I've found the experience of using Google Maps has got worse recently. The interface is getting too cluttered and has too many context-specific functions with no quick way to get back to the default view.
For 20 years the elephant in the satnav room has been that postcodes are hopelessly non granular for driving in the country, I was an hour late for a lunch the other day trying to track down a farmhouse in the South Hams. At one fell swoop this invention abolishes that problem and takes 95% out of the separate problem of relaying number coordinates by voice. It's not perfect, but after 20 years we'll reject perfect amd settle for eyepoppingly adequate.
Here's another imperfection to keep you happy: if you take exposing.cherry.maps you can swap the terminal s s around without fooling it, but it doesn't recognise cherries as cognate with cherry, so exposings.cherrys.maps auto suggests right, exposing.cherries.maps is hopeless. But that is fixable without renaming squares.
I use w3w a lot when I am out and about in the country(side) because you can be in a small layby in an unknown part of the country and w3w it and be able to find that layby again several hours later.
Just that it is endearing that you should just have only now discovered it.
Never previously considered myself bleeding edge before but then you pop up.
So thanks.
https://twitter.com/ChrisJBakke/status/1556791928238342152
The funniest transfer of wealth in modern times is the SoftBank Vision fund which took $100 billion in Saudi oil money and gave it to founders who were “reimagining salad delivery” and building coupon apps for dogs that required $2B in funding...
..I spent 3 years as the head of product at a company that was building DTC toothpaste for rabbits and I just paid off my $4m beach house.
Thanks, Masa!
I recall a major news story around some tricky weather during the Official Mountain Marathon a few years back. The usual frothing in the media about people being unprepared, shouldn't be allowed etc. In reality ALL entrants experienced, had the kit, made the right choices (abandon and get to shelter, or tough it out etc) and there was not real drama.
What three words is most help for twunks who go walking with a road atlas in flip flops.
So what? That doesn't mean I have to buy into the hype.
In my example, I wouldn't be worth sixty trillion because it is surely too trivial to copyright.