I volunteer as a subject to the sub-study - the amount of money required to induce amnesia. (View Post)

Kings Cross was gentrified by expelling most of the existing population - poor people who rented. The process by which it was done was quite brutal and grotesque. Of note is that it was quite a black… (View Post)

34 years IIRC. They decided 10,000 years was too dark. (View Post)

When he first went into finance, mathematics for pricing was in its infancy. Epstein was moderately good at maths. Probably, at first, he used his brains. But as the maths component rose, he was outc… (View Post)

It's also about stability - over throw the King and you have full scale civil war. Get the King to reduce headcount on his First Minister, and it's a bit like an election - things change, b… (View Post)