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- Comment on Trump tariffs result in 10% laptop price hike in U.S. says Acer CEO 1 day ago:
Ok, but this isn’t a betting site, this is an options contract, which given the current price split of 73c:28c is not a good buy (winning isn’t profitable and you’re tying your money up for 2years).
The price however is inline with my statement - that market considers a GOP win a near certainty.
I’ve checked the mainstream betting sites and GOP are solidly odds on (4/6 on through 8/13on) which isnt hugely profitable but I guess it’ll shorten even further
- Comment on Trump tariffs result in 10% laptop price hike in U.S. says Acer CEO 2 days ago:
Oh they won’t stop / block the elections initially they’ll hold that first one & just conveniently get 75+% of the vote like every dictator before him.
I’m happy to put money on it if you can find a market. I’ve been unfortunately right too much, not because I’m smart but because you can literally pull out a history of Nazi rise and map it onto MAGA and the last 10 years. The only hard bit is guessing the timings, not what, just when.
I’d really like you guys to break out of this and prove me wrong
- Comment on Lessons for Britain from Milton Keynes 2 days ago:
Thats an unusual definition. WRT has long meant “with regards to” or “with respect to”
www.oed.com/dictionary/wrt_prep?tl=true
en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/with_regard_to
english-grammar-lessons.com/wrt-meaning/
I can’t quickly find an authoritative source other than OED which is paywalled. But in short it’s an abbreviation that dates back to the 50s
- Comment on Linux's Sole Wireless/WiFi Driver Maintainer Is Stepping Down - Phoronix 3 days ago:
It’s demographics. Linux contributors & maintainers skew heavily to the older end of the spectrum (and, although not relevant to this point, also skew heavily male).
People who can contribute time to a project for free tend to be older because they are financially and career settled by the time they hit 50s. Raising a family tends not to leave a lot of spare time.
- Comment on Trump tariffs result in 10% laptop price hike in U.S. says Acer CEO 3 days ago:
That 10-year time horizon is a very good point. And it’s not likely that the tariff would stick around that long since every four years has a changing administration who can do whatever they please in those regards.
Lol, you guys are hilarious. I keep seeing these comments.
Fascists don’t allow fair elections.
The only way the magats are leaving office is mass insurrection / mass protests & strikes or revolution.
It most certainly won’t happen at the ballot box
- Comment on Sky's the Limit - Russian Influence Operation Doppelgänger Expands to Bluesky - Alliance4Europe 4 days ago:
Yeah, first we need to a bit more traction I think 😁
- Comment on Portable drone jammer uses a Raspberry Pi tactical Software Defined Radio 5 days ago:
Yeah keep it unopened ready for when the shooting starts.
- Comment on VPS provider who ignores DMCA notices 1 week ago:
Yeah illegal stuff and Singapore should never be in the same sentence.
Either move the VPS to being hostex somewhere with no interest in enforcing copyright law (Africa, South America, some parts of Asia like Cambodia, Kazakhstan etc) or put a VPN on the VPS so your IP shows as being somewhere less regulated than SGP
- Comment on Teslas turn toxic as sales crash in Europe and the UK | EV sales in the region are growing, but not for Tesla 2 weeks ago:
While entirely correct, the Irish get very antsy about being included in the British Isles. It’s a “colonial relic” is probably the nicest version. So yes the map is correct from a British pov but not from an Irish one.
- Comment on Teslas turn toxic as sales crash in Europe and the UK | EV sales in the region are growing, but not for Tesla 2 weeks ago:
Solid state is just around the corner in the same way fusion is. Toyota announced in 2010 they’d have it in prod by 2015, then 2018, then 2020, then 2025 then…"real soon now™ "
The MG “may be a semi solid state”
electrek.co/…/new-semi-solid-state-battery-ev-lau…
Which is not quite the same thing.
BYD and CATL who have a good track record of delivery are suggesting 2030
TL;DR
Don’t wait for solid state, the current battery tech is more than adequate for the majority of people. Holding off for something “perfect” that may never arrive when “good enough” is here diesn’t seem logical to me
- Comment on Tesla pulls out all the stops as Cybertruck sales grind to a halt 2 weeks ago:
The target audience is monied tech bro millenials who really wanted a warthog out of Halo.
The problem is that the overlap between tech bros and nazi lovers is definitely not 100%, probably not even 10%.
- Comment on Britain’s prehistoric attitude to drugs isn’t working. Why not learn from Texas? | Simon Jenkins 4 months ago:
Ok, you’ve got me puzzled. What’s a US state named after a UK (or English) queen where cannabis is legal ?
The only female named states I can think of are Georgia, Virginia and Louisiana, none of whom have been Regent.
- Comment on Linda Reynolds failed to offer a ‘basic human response’ after Brittany Higgins’ rape allegations, court told 5 months ago:
What else woukd you expect from a Lib ? Heart and empathy removal is a pre-requisite to join the party.
- Comment on No more 12345: devices with weak passwords to be banned in UK 9 months ago:
I have considerably more characters than 6 at lloyds
- Comment on Bruce Lehrmann raped Brittany Higgins in Parliament House, judge finds on balance of probabilities 10 months ago:
Am lawyer, “beyond reasonable doubt” is for criminal charges. “Balance of probabilities” is for civil cases ie where jail is not a penalty option.
Defamation is civil.
- Comment on Junior doctors in England offer to call off strike if given more time for talks 1 year ago:
The NHS is on its knees due to 14 years of deliberate Tory underfunding and sabotage. Asking for a reasonable wage is not a unreasonable act.
- Comment on PSA: The Docker Snap package on Ubuntu sucks. 1 year ago:
Lol. Yeah that was my reaction to the headline as well. “You did what ?”
- Comment on No excuse for shoplifting because UK's benefits system is very generous, policing minister says 1 year ago:
The French had a cracking solution
- Comment on 13 Feet Ladder 1 year ago:
1ft.io also seems to work and by the branding seems unrelated to 12ft
- Comment on Britain is one of the world’s oldest democracies, but some worry that essential rights and freedoms are under threat 1 year ago:
Under threat ? That boat has already sailed. We no longer have the right to protest
- Comment on King’s estate to transfer £100m into ethical funds after bona vacantia revelations 1 year ago:
What on earth makes you think I’m OK with it ?
- Comment on King’s estate to transfer £100m into ethical funds after bona vacantia revelations 1 year ago:
As per article only in Lancashire and Cornwall. The rest of the UK goes to treasury/exchequer
- Comment on Discussion on Concerns over Auto tl;dr bot 1 year ago:
It has about a 60% usefulness ratio in my opinion but I’d suggest option 2 an auto comment disclaimer that it often leaves relevant stuff out AND to downvote it when the summary isnt useful.
The latter because a) it’s a signal to later readers that the summary is misleading and b) if the maintainer is monitoring (prob not) that’s a clue as to which summaries need to be looked at
- Comment on BMW, Subaru and Porsche drivers ‘more likely to cause a crash’, study finds 1 year ago:
Did you actually read the article? It specifically calls out “overtaking on double white lines” which is ILLEGAL for a very good reason. It’s not calling ordinary overtaking dangerous.
In case you’re unfamiliar with the road rules in UK, Europe where the US has double yellow lines to mark a centre line that is illegal to cross, those lines are white here.
They indicate that it is unsafe to overtake (lack of visibility due to bends etc)
Anyone who overtakes on a double centreline is an utter twat and well deserves to be called dangerous
- Comment on BMW, Subaru and Porsche drivers ‘more likely to cause a crash’, study finds 1 year ago:
I don’t believe the article anywhere tried to claim that buying a BMW turned you from a safe driver into an arsehole did it ? Therefore your causation comment isn’t really apropos.
It’s a clear case of effective marketing selecting a sub demographic: drivers who have self perceptions around their driving and certain innate traits (selfishness, lack of concern for others) will prefer to buy cars that are advertised in a way that boosts their ego or enhances their self perception.
Or to quote an (Aussie) friend of mine "maybe not every BMW owner is an arsehole, but every arsehole I know owns a BMW "
Interesting (to me anyway) anecdotal aside, here in the UK it’s usually Audi drivers who are stereotyped as the aggressive drivers not so much Subaru WRX and BMW owners (source: reddit sub discussions and pub/work conversations, not scientific of course)
- Comment on BMW, Subaru and Porsche drivers ‘more likely to cause a crash’, study finds 1 year ago:
You’d be right. Ram sized trucks literally don’t fit down London streets sized for horses & carriages from centuries ago, they’re very rare here.
- Comment on England to diverge from EU water monitoring standards 1 year ago:
Starmer can’t be worse, I’m just praying he’s at least a little bit better.
- Comment on What did you pay for your democracy sausage? 1 year ago:
Definitely not subsidised in any way. This is roughly equivalent to a US “bake sale” where the school P&C or a sporting organisation sells them as a fundraiser. The govt has zero involvement. It’s purely citizen driven.
Yes they’re usually fairly cheap/low quality snags though
- Comment on Scratch the surface of the Voice results, and a more complicated picture emerges — ABC News 1 year ago:
Great analysis, very readable and a clear message
- Comment on What did you pay for your democracy sausage? 1 year ago:
$3.50 aussie is about $2 US so it is a pretty cheap sausage sandwich