Seems bad for those GPU backed loans

Oh wow. Time for some AAA rated GPU loans!

It's the eastern european development strategy. Have lower taxes on software engineering to grow that industry.

We already have Airbus Helicopters development and production in that area (Donauwörth).

That was not going where I expected it to go.

Please also account for all the marketing companies on top of the social media game on all platforms kept busy with the AI hype.

We recently had a few submissions about this topic. Most recently Ilyas talk. Further improvement will be a research type problem. This trend was clear for a while already, but is reaching the mainstream now. The billions of dollar spend goes into scaling existing technology. If it doesn't scale anymore and becomes a resarch problem again, rational companies will not continue to invest in this area (at least without the usual research arrangements).

If you live in a country that has consumer protection laws maybe you can get a refund. There is a whole sub-reddit about recovering the money ( https://www.reddit.com/r/starcitizen_refunds/ ).

Do this soon before they run out of money.

(It is just a scam, not a pyramid scheme. E.g. it is perhaps the same as the Tesla full self-driving)

European eID solutions can do some of those (e.g. is over 18). Let's see if usage becomes more wide-spread.

The history as a prosecutor might be a significant advantage in a general election. The anti-police senitment has waned and she can position herself right at the center w.r.t. rule of law.

Anti-police sentiment has not waned among minorities and that is a demographic she would need to capture to win.

Most Black folks want safety in their neighborhoods, period, and that is not possible without police and hence most support it. You don't hear "Defund the Police" anymore because we know how well it worked out.

In Seattle, many police quit or transferred on grounds that they refuse to serve a populace that sought to defund them. Net-net was that police force size and responsiveness dropped.

After this, our Black mayor ran on a campaign of funding the police and won.

What city defunded their police?

We slashed police funding in Portland and decimated the force available (to the point where the 911 response time to a robbery in my building was ~6 hours, local businesses my friends work at have private security for employees to call instead of 911, I've been on hold for the non-emergency police line for over 3 hours on multiple occasions, etc).

Things are swinging back the other direction now, as seen by people like Rene Gonzalez (who ran on re-funding and utilizing police toward the local homeless problems) beating out the incumbent Jo Ann Hardesty (who refused to work with police in almost any capacity) in 2022, and a few more police re-funding votes passed since then.

To play devil's advocate, my city is very police friendly and calling 911 for a non-emergency is a coin toss on whether they actually show up.

None, it's a fantasy

Minorities wanted police reform. They weren't for abolishing the police.

I wouldn't care if this wouldn't impact winner quality. Presumably there are a lot of authors which need discovering (or perhaps not, idk).

But a book like "The Calculating Stars" is just so bad, I'll never trust the Hugo award again.

I really enjoyed "The Calculating Stars". As did apparently many other people.

It's totally normal to dislike some winners, I certainly don't like them all. But that doesn't mean quality is down - it's a matter of taste, after all.

I loved The Calculating Stars.

Books do exist that are objectively bad, but consider that maybe this time - and other times - this is just a matter of taste. (And it's entirely possible that the folks who pick out Hugo winners don't match yours, and that's fine.)

Funnily enough Wise is the only "non-bank" that currently pays me interest on my money voluntarily (that is going to be fun doing taxes for). All other banks are currently forcing me to open new accounts and shuffle the money (triggering god knows what checks each time I do this).

> Netherlands

Yeah, the neo-liberal tax-haven narco-state :)