Labour focus on an economy that is for business. They think that austerity leads to growth (somehow). They basically sell themselves as neo liberals with a heart, but that heart isn’t in control of much.
Greens as like the Labour of old. They focus on an economy that serves the population. They want to redistribute wealth away from corporations and banking, towards the rest of us, and services for the rest of us.
Generally I think he’s been on the right side of history, but with the current situation I think he’s let his personal ties with Israel through Judaism put him in a bad position.
I don’t think it’s uncommon amongst those in the Jewish community. They’ve been raised in families that saw Israel as reparations after the holocaust. To now acknowledge that “their own people” have turned into the oppressors that they escaped… that’s something many will be unable to accept.
I hear it’s really splitting the British Jewish community.
An RC circuit charging up to some threshold voltage. You can even make it adjustable with a variable resistor.
I was assuming it was disposable (as so many are) and therefore no charging circuit.
A vape is a battery connected to a button connected to a heating coil. You might want a single transistor. You don’t need a software platform.
I’ve been experimenting with agentic coding the past couple of weeks. The task is to write a data scraper for a report file I get out of a commercial tool I have to use for work.
It’s a pain of a format because it’s not written with computer parsing in mind. It’s verbose, contains loads of redundant parts, and doesn’t have good delimiters around data. It’s big too. 500MB uncompressed, so we keep them gzip’d.
All reasons why I don’t want to write the code to do it.
The model identifies the file format without me saying where it came from, but it sits in this loop:
It does this for hours.
The tiny bits of code I’ve actually managed to get out of it are really bad. It’s like the code you’d get back from some race-to-the-bottom offshore software “team” you were forced to work with 10-15 years ago because your boss had found an “amazing opportunity”. In actuality it was somebody’s teenage nepo-hire. Similar adherence to rules and standards too.
I already have a rough data scraper for this file. It’s a couple of hundred lines of python. I wrote it in an afternoon. It’s not great. It doesn’t get everything I want out. However it exists and is usable. This isn’t an intractable task.
Sounds like a good investment if you were paying a price based off today’s value. A terrible one in actuality.
Not Twitter. He only moved the AI over so he could attach it to something that could hide it’s losses (not very well).
Starlink is the part of spaceX making money. Selling a low latency global communications capability is a sound business model. The rocketry part is close to break even. I suspect it could do with a few more launches that weren’t starlink.
It’s xAI that’s tanking the whole thing. Without that SpaceX would be profitable. With it, it’s a trash stock.
I was thinking more Korea, Singapore and Taiwan than China.
If the US gets hit, everywhere gets hit. It’s true, but the further you are from the epicentre the better off you’ll be. Europe doesn’t have AI companies anywhere near the scale of the US, and they’ve been trying to divest themselves from American big tech because of Trump.
Investing in Asian stocks would probably be even better in some ways, but the RAM and flash price collapse that’s probably coming off the back of the US AI pop will hit them hard.
The public seizing the means of production? Why that’s communism!
I find that you feel less threatened by a corporation stunning.
I still find it interesting that people defend companies filming us the whole time. I’d be a lot happier if the response was “Yes, both are shitty. Let’s get rid of both”.
Read the thread. Already did that.
Pensions and other investments, yes.
Not current accounts which was what was at risk in 2008. When the bank goes bust you don’t just lose money. You become unable to do anything financial, like get paid.
Well that’s shady as fuck.
They’re very much not. They have high valuations, but very few employees. Very different to the banks (where the public would lose money) and the car firms (who employed large numbers of workers)
What happens when they go bust?
If he actually drove a review of H1B visas with a view of preferring domestic workers, I expect he’d get support. He just bulldozered into it though, screw the law. Same as everything else.