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Still don't know if I'll ever defeat him with the 8 skulls needed for the first daft trophy, or whether I'll ever beat Charon (at all, let alone fulfilling that prophecy), or ... loads of stuff I'll probably never do before Hades 2 is properly out.

It's fairly moreish, but being able to save in any room makes it much easier to put down than some things (say Dead Cells, where the save points are between levels).

Admittedly I usually do badly picking up a run saved part-way through, because I've forgotten the exact combination of boons.

Other things being equal (1), over a sufficiently long period (2), lower fees ought to be the winning factor.

The only questions are:

1. whether things are actually equal (probably yes for trackers but maybe not for actively managed funds)
   
2. whether you're even leaving stuff in there long enough for compounding to dominate
   
3. and whether the interface is really too awful to justify the effort
   
   

Admittedly I'm perhaps biased against Nutmeg because I've spent years working in algorithmic trading and I don't think they're that impressive. There isn't a lot of retail competition that I know of though.

It's obviously intended to sit up on your desk so you can see the sparkly titanium crystals and enjoy the

P R E S T I G E

So that's a Romanian-licensed car, presumably in the UK, quoting a US law...

Sounds like the cycle lane is due to be closed from May to November, which is unfortunate if true.

Styrian pumpkin seed oil is nice for salads, but still costs more than most olive oil to start with (and I probably wouldn't try making a vinaigrette with it).

Probably still counts as niche outside Austria though.

midge top speed

If they can't fly in winds above 6mph you imagine they'll struggle to fly faster than 6mph in still air too.

The government is an arbitrary set of people (not necessarily representatives, since not everywhere is a democracy) that can use the police, courts and army to enforce payment of taxes in its desired currency.

Bitcoin doesn't have an army attached, and with some particularly stupid exceptions you can't use it to pay taxes or settle court fines anywhere.

Although you may be more interested in a currency's ability to buy pizza and/or drugs, they're not generally more important than staying out of prison.

Commodity money has intrinsic value

Often claimed, but not convincing.

Most of gold's "intrinsic" value comes from the fact that there's always someone to sell to who also thinks it has value, just the same as fiat currency.

Its actual intrinsic value as a non-oxidizing conductor is tiny (because you only need very small amounts). Jewellery is fashion, there's nothing intrinsic about that demand. It might be reliable demand, but that's not the same as being intrinsic.

And no debts (ie, tax) that can only be settled with BTC. Unless you've done something extremely unwise involving organized crime, I guess.

Fiat currency has intrinsic value in that the issuing country will let you pay your taxes with it. Since they can enforce payment with violence (ie, imprisonment & confiscation), that's worth something.

Stocks have at least the intrinsic value of the company assets after senior creditors are paid off.

Nutmeg seem to suggest here that the typical fund fees (which are in addition to the management fee they're zeroing for the first year) are 0.21%-0.36%

For comparison VUSA (the S&P 500 ETF offered by Vanguard) charges 0.07%, and 0.2% puts you in the vicinity of their LifeTracker managed funds.

I'm not sure what the point is of having Nutmeg doing algorithmic management of managed funds when they could just buy the stocks or ETFs directly.

Dasani will start trucking in the bottles they filled upstream from the same supply, and auctioning them?

Or they'll sell them at a "reasonable" price but use it to convince people the state can't manage it's own water supply and should privatise it.

Conservative MP says Labour council which has been deliberately starved of cash has failed to repair bridge (in project the government refused to fund so their mayoral candidate could take credit if he won) and should hand it over to TfL, which the government has deliberately starved of cash...

Hammersmith bridge has never had a deck suitable for modern motor traffic, by which I mean the tank-sized SUVs that are now ubiquitous. You could feel the road surface flexing if you were cycling across at the same time as one.

Unfortunately buses aren't any lighter, and when there were bus gates they were continually vandalized anyway.

It's worth whatever someone will pay for it, in principle.

I guess using a SPAC gets around the need to find a bank willing to go on public record as running the placement, and might also avoid any public scrutiny of audited accounts until after he's cashed out.

You don't want to buy new emoji & animated stickers for steam chat !?

Some kind of cosmetics nonsense and because that would cut into Valve's revenues.

Same as the trading card things: it costs them (virtually) nothing, and presumably increases engagement for some particular class of weirdo.

Could also be a loose connection somewhere.

It's also worth checking (as I've done this myself), whether there's a hard power switch on the PSU near the socket, which could have been nudged by accident.

Wouldn't want your delivery driver not to inconvenience the chumps who went there in person.

A single rotating solid mass probably consists of at least two atoms acting on each other with - wait for it - equal and opposite electrostatic forces. Chopping and changing your component definitions doesn't alter anything.

Why would a physical string be taut if you cut the ball off? I don't think that would work in practice.

I agree that the non-tangent component of the ball's momentum is where the centrifugal bit comes from, there's no magic. They're just labelling it "centrifugal" because it acts in that direction.

I think you're missing the mark with the balanced forces though, that's not what the 3rd law means. Equal and opposite forces can also mean two objects accelerating away from each other.

In this case the acceleration on the ball should ultimately match an imperceptible change in the Earth's wobble, communicated from the string, to the post, to the ground.

If one of those forces, say the force exerted by the post on the ground, is not matched in the 3rd law sense - it just means you have a wobbly post.

Happily I only have this struggle with discarded chicken bones, not nappies.

Apart from the one time he got a raw chicken leg that a squirrel had allegedly fished out of a communal bin and then abandoned.

I thought the middle bit of the Wikipedia article was reasonably clear:

In the case of a ball held in circular motion by a string, the centripetal force is the force exerted by the string on the ball. The reactive centrifugal force on the other hand is the force the ball exerts on the string, placing it under tension.

IOW:

1. The second form of Newton's 3rd law is

   mutual actions of two bodies upon each other are always equal, and directed to contrary parts

2. The two bodies are the ball and the string

3. The centripetal force is the string pulling the ball towards the centre of rotation

4. The reactive force is the ball causing the tension in the string

5. Both of those are visible in an inertial reference frame, although the directions are constantly changing

No idea! Maybe. I've only seen this stuff on his blog. If you read it, let me know what you think...