People knock Bitcoin as only useful for money laundering, buying drugs, and allowing the most annoying person you went to school with to be vindicated by their speculative bets on it. So I guess it's cool we can now also add 'enabling North Korea to boost its economy by 20% in a single hack'.

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Yeah - my intention wasn’t to suggest that they have been well-led, just that I don’t think that “the problems of being a terminus” are ones that they would tackle if they were well-run elsewhere.

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The tidbit about the hotdogs stand is news to me after 18 years.

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Me too. I could quibble with bits. But it's mostly right about the contrast. My feeling about Brixton gentrification is it's better to have huge contrasts than have banlieues. Better some tax base, maybe better mixed schools, some govt effort.

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Thanks Rob!

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