Interesting Links for 02-03-2023

[andrewducker]

1. Steel was already being used in Europe 2,900 years ago

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2. Terry Pratchett on the fantasy genre

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3. Fearful of dating app scams, men in Brazil are taking measures women and the LGBTQ+ community have used for years.

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4. Presidents with Mullets is the kind of thing AI was made for

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5. Early-life stress can disrupt maturation of brain's reward circuits, promoting disorders (in mice)

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6. How to tie beautiful bows

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7. Weirdly it can still be really hard to find shop space, even when the high street is dying

(tags:shops UK rental )

Comments

[danieldwilliam]

Sometimes, sometimes not - depends on the jurisdiction.

What it took me a couple of conversations with commercial property people to understand is that the payoffs are often very long-dated. for example people buy a property in a certain street in the hope that they can later buy the properties either side and that the street will become popular and they they can sell the parcels of land as a block to someone to build a new high-rise. They're not necessarily hugely interested in the rents.

[andrewducker]

That makes a lot of sense.
And certainly does indicate that we should be charging higher council tax charges for empty high-street properties, to make it harder to do that kind of thing long-term.

[channelpenguin]

YUP