Dom @fundamentalgroup.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Listening to the Schnittke viola concerto at Usher hall last friday was truly an amazing experience. I can't stop thinking about that piece of music even now. 000
Dom @fundamentalgroup.bsky.social · 15/09/2026The UK has autoenrollment and mandatory employer contributions to private pensions something that neither France, Germany or Italy have. 001
Dom @fundamentalgroup.bsky.social · 12/09/2026Imo the net result of this £72m is just endless headlines about how Reform staff went on an office Ski trip to the alps or had an office Christmas party at the Ritz . . 001
Reposted by DomSam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 08/09/2026New PISA data out England is now top ten in all three areas (reading, maths, science) and the second highest performing country outside of east Asia (after Estonia). This is a huge public policy success. 451038253
Dom @fundamentalgroup.bsky.social · 24/08/2026This website had 10% more applicants per job and yet the number of jobs has apparently fallen by 50% nationally? 040
Dom @fundamentalgroup.bsky.social · 24/08/2026You'd think the author would be able to look at these stats and instantly know the rest of the article is BS, but clearly not. 220
Dom @fundamentalgroup.bsky.social · 24/08/2026Erm this story is about people asking the council for permission to sell them as residential homes not holiday homes and the council refusing to allow this. 000
Dom @fundamentalgroup.bsky.social · 24/08/2026I suspect the council wants to keep them as holiday homes so it can continue collecting the higher penalty rates of council tax. 000
Dom @fundamentalgroup.bsky.social · 23/08/2026No one wants to build housing in Lincolnshire anyways. 000
Reposted by DomIsaiah Bishop @isaiahbishop.bsky.social · 19/08/2026"if there was a cure to cancer they wouldnt sell it to you, to sell you chemo instead" (actual market): holy fuck these guys mightve cured melanoma BUY BUY BUY 241827361
Dom @fundamentalgroup.bsky.social · 19/08/2026I assume he is jsut proposing a cap on the price of UK generated oil and gas. Given that virtually all of the profit goes to the treasury anyways (78%) this would essentially a giant subsidy for consumer gas consumption, due to the foregone tax. 100
Dom @fundamentalgroup.bsky.social · 09/08/2026In general idk why you think you know more about this than an Oxford maths professor who is talking about his own subject matter expertise. 010
Dom @fundamentalgroup.bsky.social · 09/08/2026We are talking about Jentzen for p-adic groups. That article is about something different. 110
Reposted by DomRafferty @rafferty-bs.bsky.social · 08/08/2026The British planning culture creates horrors you couldn't imagine 1329281
Dom @fundamentalgroup.bsky.social · 08/08/2026Tell me this is completely useless. www.linkedin.com/posts/dan-ci...linkedin.comJantzen filtration | Dan Ciubotaru | 48 commentsAI in Maths, a case study that shook me to my core. On Monday, mostly in jest, I started a GPT 5.6 session, asking it to prove the Jantzen conjecture for affine Hecke algebras. This is a fairly major ... 100
Dom @fundamentalgroup.bsky.social · 06/08/2026Anyone who still thinks that AI is just autocomplete needs to have a look at what is happening in pure maths right now. 000
Reposted by DomChris Dillow @chrisdillow.bsky.social · 28/07/2026If this had been policy in the 70s (as it partly was), towns would have produced lots of mining engineers & metallurgists just before pits & steelworks closed. As the yanks say, you should skate to where the puck's going, not to where it is. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...theguardian.comBurnham to tell schools in England to adapt teaching to local business needsPM wants curriculums for students aged 14 and above to be more responsive to local jobs market 1023783
Reposted by DomDuncan Weldon @duncanweldon.bsky.social · 28/07/2026I know it goes against the new emphasis on “devolution = good”, but I’m quite uncomfortable with the some aspects of the mooted education reforms. New technical education routes for 14+ are a good thing. But I worry that devolving design will disadvantage kids in areas with weaker economies. 111069
Dom @fundamentalgroup.bsky.social · 24/07/2026You can stop most of this with capital controls but then you will genuinely see large falls in the value of domestic UK land + businesses, since foreign investors are no longer willing to buy them as they can't get their money back out. 000
Dom @fundamentalgroup.bsky.social · 24/07/2026Yh people who are subject to the wealth tax will either pay it, switch their assets to exempt asset classes (e.g high end wines or jewelry), emigrate, or sell their assets to fund current consumption. You would probably also expect to see some level of transferring assets to family abroad. 100
Dom @fundamentalgroup.bsky.social · 24/07/2026It's not comparative because foreign investors wouldn't be subject to such a tax and so would still be able to yield 8% from that company. 100
Dom @fundamentalgroup.bsky.social · 23/07/2026I do think that it's valid to ask the "having a net worth higher than x should be illegal/is immoral" crowd this question in earnest not just in jest. 000
Reposted by DomEdward @fornbirkibeinn.bsky.social · 22/07/2026It is an excellent illustration of how factionalism is chiefly beneficial to the most mediocre members of a given faction. 1291
Dom @fundamentalgroup.bsky.social · 08/07/2026As far as I can tell @neweconomics.bsky.social wants the BOE to create money and lend it to banks at near 0%. As this new money will end up as reserves at BOE costing the BOE 3.75% a year, and as the HMT indemnifies any BOE losses surely the cost to HMT is 3.75% a yr and not £0 as the report claims. 000
Dom @fundamentalgroup.bsky.social · 07/07/2026www.bbc.com/news/article...bbc.comHalf of Welsh nursing graduates face unemployment, union warnsTrainees say they are left in the dark and have worked thousands of hours for nothing. 010
Dom @fundamentalgroup.bsky.social · 02/07/2026I assume any that would go under would be from the badly run low productivity tail (I mean they must be badly run given they aren't paying tax). Hence even if it caused a short term hit to the economy it would probably increase the long term growth rate. 100
Dom @fundamentalgroup.bsky.social · 02/07/2026Tbh IMO the bigger issue than investment was the risk of pharma companies simply not launching new drugs in the UK, to protect their margins in the US (due to the US MFN pricing rules). 011
Dom @fundamentalgroup.bsky.social · 01/07/2026Do you know if the companies who were registering as inactive and not filing tax returns were still filing for VAT. It seems odd that the VAT tax gap is falling whilst the small companies tax gap is rising so quickly? 040
Dom @fundamentalgroup.bsky.social · 01/07/2026Giving the DIP an extra £10bn wins a lot fewer votes than using than nationalising Thames Water. 000
Dom @fundamentalgroup.bsky.social · 01/07/2026I don't see why he'd want to chuck it out. If he reopens the DIP he will inevitably need to find even more money, but this way if the DIP is inadequate (which it probably is) then he can just blame that on Starmer and save the cash for non defense spending (i.e things which will win votes). 100
Dom @fundamentalgroup.bsky.social · 30/06/2026I've never seen a mobility scooter actually use the road rather than the pavement (regardless of it's speed). 020
Dom @fundamentalgroup.bsky.social · 30/06/2026Yes the economy is shit, but I wish these criticisms were actually coherent. 000
Dom @fundamentalgroup.bsky.social · 30/06/2026People will respond to reports saying that disposable incomes are falling due to tax rises, by asking "are we surprised the government is unpopular" and then 5 mins later look at a story about the govt cutting road projects to fund it's DIP by saying "why doesn't the govt raise taxes instead". 100
Dom @fundamentalgroup.bsky.social · 29/06/2026I think the people raiding these objections need to clarify how they avoid giving Russia Today "journalists" a free pass to commit espionage under their proposed rules. 110
Dom @fundamentalgroup.bsky.social · 24/06/2026Having said that it's crazy that Microsoft has seemingly made these changes without giving companies the forewarning to implement per user caps. 020
Dom @fundamentalgroup.bsky.social · 24/06/2026Tbh the main effect is that everyone has switched from using the latest Claude opus model available to using cheaper models. I.e I think the main effect of these changes will be to reduce wasteful API calls rather than eliminate usage altogether. 120
Dom @fundamentalgroup.bsky.social · 24/06/2026At the start of this month at my company we found out that Microsoft has changed our github copilot fees to be metered per AI token used. AFAIK our company hasn't imposed any limits on AI token use so I'm honestly not surprised to see all of these stories coming out at once. 120
Reposted by DomTwlldun @twlldun.bsky.social · 21/06/2026My against the grain of Bluesky opinion is that we should be campaigning for the - say - Belfast knife attack to have the same amount of coverage as the Edinburgh knife attacks, and not vice versa. 1854471
Dom @fundamentalgroup.bsky.social · 18/06/2026Probably driven in part by activating non-voters who voted leave. 000
Dom @fundamentalgroup.bsky.social · 18/06/2026OTOH the number of leave voters voting for a right wing party is actually up due to better consolidation of the leave block by right wing parties than of the remaining block by left wing parties 100
Dom @fundamentalgroup.bsky.social · 17/06/2026People are constantly inventing new levels of wanting to be mad at everything 000
