Ask any Brit who’s lived abroad in an OECD country. The two worst systems are the UK and US, at either extreme. Pretty much anything else is better than the NHS, but it does require sufficient capaci… (View Post)

Did they get overloaded, as everyone for whom Facebook was down decided to talk to an imaginary friend instead? (View Post)

A good thread of analysis of the Russian corporate debt markets https://x.com/evgen1232007/status/1866949203127308788 TL:DR it’s getting close to the point where the defaults start happening. Very cl… (View Post)

The new Starlink “Direct to cell” service will also be a great way of picking up and precisely locating thousands of mobile phones in remote places anywhere on Earth, even if they’re not connecting t… (View Post)

Was wondering how long this one would take to come up! Yes, having sex with a 17-year-old, even when consentual, is illegal in loads of places. Also, criminal justice works differently in different c… (View Post)