Got to love the builders. Even the EA decels can't stop them.
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As long as you have enough memory (Raspberry Pi 4+) it's a great experince.
It is incredibly user hostile.
Nope. I actually think that if you do scientific research as a company (profit) it may make you less bad/less likely to do fraud compared to academia (non-profit).
Reason is that there are more ways to punish you, employees, board, investors, etc in a profit seeking vehicle, and as a profit seeking vehicle being caught must be part of the profit seeking calculation – in the end, the world of reality/physics will weigh your contribution.
I believe there is evidence that there is more fraudulent scientific research happening in non-profit vehicles/academia. Take for example an area where there are fewer profit seeking companies participating - social sciences. It's dominated by academia. Now look at the replication rate of social sciences.
There is nothing natural about the interest rates policies and stimulus packages from the governments last couple of decades.
Let's see what happens. If only SVB goes belly up, then yes, only SVB was the one that couldn't read the tea leaves of the government's actions. But if SVB is just the first of more banks that will go belly up, then perhaps it is not just an error on SVB's part.
However, sad to see what looks to be another government caused implosion.
- First, via the massive government stimulus COVID19 SVB got enormous amount of deposits in 2020/2021. They have to put that money to work, and the traditional lending it back out was not going to work, the market was already flooded with money from the government. So they sadly locked themselves in those MBSs.
- Then the gov finally reacts to their own stimulus and zero interest rates programs and they rapidly raise interest rates in attempts to lower inflation.
- And as a result, the MBSs that SVB holds are underwater in mark to market. Investments into startups fall, so no more influx of customer deposits into SVB. And finally, due to the difficult market (and VC market), all the startups are drawing down their deposits rapidly through their current burn rate. And SVB ends belly up.
As far as I can tell, all that CA Gov has done is to prohibit any desalination plants from getting built.
This is a warning to Norway and rest of Europe.
These two pipelines have no longer any value to them, nor to EU. However, what does have value are the numerous pipelines from Norway and other countries to EU. And this is where the real treat is. Russia has now shown it is willing to blow up infrastructure outside Ukraine.
Russia is known to have carefully mapped out the gas pipelines from Norway to UK. Remember how Russian oligark luxury ships carefully navigated close to gas pipelines, while the cover was that the oligark was attending Molde jazzfestival? Similar activity observed by Russian fishing ships.
Remember this is extremistan, top 1% of artists earn pretty much all the industry’s revenue.
Not that that is a bad thing, the great people there will leave for better things.
Trust is the key. People can not trust thousands of random companies/developers. Trust is built up over time through a relationship.
Without Apple, most of these transactions would not take place. This trust, App Store etc., has been built up and cannot be transferred automatically to another party.
It's a rabbit hole.
People quickly forget what a tremendous liberation the App Store created for developers.
It's also not about the developers, the success of the App Store comes from Apple's users. They trust the App Store because they trust Apple's curation/privacy/security. That's what has caused this flood of software purchases from consumers. Trust doesn't come cheap.