by Tom | Apr 8, 2009 | Business, Reading
Long read, but worthwhile. My take outs: our financial models aren’t necessarily built to simulate the scale of depression we are currently in, as we haven’t experienced one for as long as the models have existed. Spending (and therefore national debt) is...
by Tom | Apr 7, 2009 | Personal
I’m on the register and carry a card. Sign up: you know you should.
by Tom | Apr 6, 2009 | Personal, Science
More depressing reading from bad science. The thing that gets my goat at the moment is reporting numbers without context and trend (7,000 bad things happening could be really bad, or it could be part of a 25m cohort in which case it isn’t too bad) or large...
by Tom | Apr 6, 2009 | Business
Interesting thoughts on price sensitivity and scaling of online properties: Assume for example that a service serves photos (like Flickr), and that the hosting, bandwidth and distribution costs, fully loaded, are c $0.10 per month ($1.20 per year) per person. For 100...
by Tom | Apr 4, 2009 | Reading
Funny seeing such violence on streets I walk down regularly. That said, a lot of the people (not all) who were fighting look like they wanted a fight. Also, the RBS computer people were three protesters surrounded by load of paparazzi, not real people.
