Mark Arkinstall

Structural Engineer, passionate about integration of engineering with architecture and great design. Fascinated by economics and the upcoming financial meltdown

[Mark Arkinstall @arkinstrocity]

@LBC you could reduce headphone dodging by requiring devices to have headphone jacks again... wired headphones start at £7... far cheaper than bluetooth headphones

[Mark Arkinstall @arkinstrocity]

@LBC the headphone dodging escalated when headphone jacks were removed from devices... and bluetooth headphones are too expensive.

[Mark Arkinstall @arkinstrocity]

Short video update on my Fibro App which creates Moment-Curvature curves for use in structural analysis. #StructuralEngineering #StructuralAnalysis

[Mark Arkinstall @arkinstrocity]

@LBC electric arc furnaces work by using scrap metal whereas blast furnaces make new steel from raw materials. There is not enough scrap metal to meet steel demand

[Mark Arkinstall @arkinstrocity]

@LBC Tom, what about compensating men who worked 5 years longer !

[Mark Arkinstall @arkinstrocity]

@LBC Ali, the declining birth rate will mean there will be an over supply of housing eventually which will mean house prices will drop unless they start demolishing them to keep prices high !

[Mark Arkinstall @arkinstrocity]

@LBC the guest who just said bournemouth has increased council tax by 47% since 2015 probably knows that is simply 4.99% increase for 8 years...

[Mark Arkinstall @arkinstrocity]

@DavidLammy @LBC David, The big problem with an Electric Arc Furnace is it can make steel from recycled steel but it cannot make new steel from raw materials. You need a blast furnace for that. Blast furnace slag is also used to make low carbon concrete. That will stop.

[Ashley Beauchamp @ashbeauchamp]

Parcel delivery firm DPD have replaced their customer service chat with an AI robot thing. It’s utterly useless at answering any queries, and when asked, it happily produced a poem about how terrible they are as a company. It also swore at me. 😂

[Mark Arkinstall @arkinstrocity]

@lb_southwark Hi, How do I organise parking for a removalist van? Can't see a phone number on your website...

[Mark Arkinstall @arkinstrocity]

@LBC your caller is incorrect. Australia also privatised its water providers...decades ago

[Mark Arkinstall @arkinstrocity]

@JohnCleese The Queen sacked the Australian Prime Minister in 1975. Why can't the King sack the British Prime Minister today? Is it possible?

[Mark Arkinstall @arkinstrocity]

Hey @Yoyotech i am trying to contact you. What is the best way to make contact?

[Mark Arkinstall @arkinstrocity]

@damoslim if you change the % of elements you remove each iteration then that can change the solution, but if the incremental change is small enough it always gets to the same result.

[Mark Arkinstall @arkinstrocity]

Imagine if you started with a solid block... then put some forces on it... then told it where the support points were.... and then nibble away at that block until the optimum structure was formed.... That is what the Nibbler app does that I've been working on. #Engineering

[Mark Arkinstall @arkinstrocity]

@JibbaJabb @LBC i bet you didn't even look up historic debt jubilee... did you...

[Mark Arkinstall @arkinstrocity]

@LBC Tom, one option is a debt jubilee... everyone gets £25k to get through current crisis... including those without mortages... that way nobody is left out. Debt jubilee's were common in days gone by. Google it

[Mark Arkinstall @arkinstrocity]

@JibbaJabb @LBC i agree that personal responsibility of taking out a loan without factoring in much higher interest rates is virtually non-existent today... but that doesn't help solve the issue.

[Mark Arkinstall @arkinstrocity]

@JibbaJabb @LBC before you dismiss it outright, have a look at historic debt jubilees. I agree money printing is bad, but please have a look at effect of historic debt jubilees to reduce system debt while not disadvantaging savers.