Quote from: Zoupa on October 08, 2025, 07:57:52 PMIt can. A vindictive landlord could start the snowball effect. "The app" is not an omniscient impartial AI.
Quote from: Admiral Yi on October 08, 2025, 07:46:23 PMLet's rewind and follow the whole sequence of events. Let's also allow for the possibility that every time you take an analogy somewhere else, it sometimes helps to give local reasoning, which may not carry back three steps back to the origin.Quote from: DGuller on October 08, 2025, 07:19:34 PMOne can have many objections to coordinated economic actions. The don't all have to apply to every example of them.
Sure, but you're basing your argument on the basis of analogy. "We object to this, therefore we must object to this." If there are fundamental differences between the things being analogized then it doesn't work.
Quote from: Admiral Yi on October 08, 2025, 07:14:31 PMQuote from: DGuller on October 08, 2025, 07:09:02 PMI don't get your point.
You object to bad references because they have the potential to be based on vindictiveness. This objection can not apply to the rental app.
Quote from: Tamas on October 08, 2025, 05:10:13 PMThis is absolutely dystopian shit:Also the Chicago video. I've said before I think that ICE is lawless and that's not an accident or bad apples. It is the policy. I'd add again that I think this is "American" in the broadest sense - masked paramilitary agents of the state pulling people off the streets, acting on dubious legality etc. I can't help but think of this happening in the rest of the America's in the 20th century fight against Communism and the left and Aime Cesaire's line about how the violence of imperial powers returns to the metropole. How the fascist regimes turned violence and mechanisms of repression onto Europeans that had previously been used by Europeans only on non-Europeans, discretely, imperially. I think Orwell made similar points.
https://www.reddit.com/r/CringeTikToks/s/PNokJGs7RN
A bunch of armed and masked men with no convincing identification thst they are police, put a child into an unmarked civilian car.
Like, the fuck?!
Edit: maybe it's an adult not a child but it only makes marginally less terrifying.
Quote from: DGuller on October 08, 2025, 07:19:34 PMOne can have many objections to coordinated economic actions. The don't all have to apply to every example of them.
Quote from: Josquius on October 06, 2025, 03:38:58 AMI see where you're coming from there. Trouble is with this path the working class get left out which means we head down the far right death spiral.I don't disagree from a political perspective.
We need more of a balance. We need to support this higher education side of things, whilst also opening up opportunities for working people.
QuoteGoing into the mystic dark arts that area way beyond what I can grasp a bit here, but I do wonder if this is related to the talk of introducing a UK-ISA. More stock market than bond market focussed, but it could be turned that way too.So on this, the yield on Japanese 20 year bonds:
But yes. Another part of Japan's incestuousness here.
I'm surprised at this. Not education. But public works seems to be something where Japan spends a tonne.
I wonder whether their system of privatised-but-not-really is masking the numbers here with all that infrastructure officially being private sector spending.
QuoteYeah this solar power in the desert thing is something we really need to see happen on a much bigger scale.To be clear I think it's a bad idea - not so much the Iberian rid as Russian subs and a big wire from Morocco to Devon is a lot to protect. I think we're in a world that is less and less tolerant of the very efficient, the thin stretched networks whether that's supply chains or just-in-time or power infrastructure. We need to be thinking far more about resilience (which in my view also means, largely domestically and democratically controlled) and spare capacity..
Though given recent lessons with the Iberian grid....
QuoteWould be nice. Maybe this RR micro-reactor stuff will lead somewhere.I agree although even that feels like a classic story - British tech developed by a company here. It can't be deployed here because it's drowning in red tape, but going ahead in Czechia and Poland already
QuotePotential for sure.Maybe but I think the way grad recruitment/entry level recruitment works that may not be enough for the cohort that have come up in recent years.
Though with the current wave, I could be wrong, though I really hope I'm not, I do think it has been oversold.
We're kind of at a .com bubble sort of stage where all these grand ideas are firing off but the technology and state of development just isn't there for them yet.
I also think there is a risk for the government in being very gung ho about AI while simultaneously increasing the cost of employing people.
I do think we're going to see a bit of a reversal on the cuts in the short term as more and more companies realise AI isn't delivering the miracles they expected.
QuoteYes, probably so.I'm not so optimistic on any of this
Even assuming a Harris win I do think we were drifting this way as we have been since the end of the cold war- the resurgence of Russia the past decade or two being a bit of a blip that halted things. Though longer term with Russia thrashing itself on the rocks in Ukraine and eating up the last of its power, along with the middle east declining in importance, US interest was firmly heading away.
With Trump though things have sped up and it has become a far more acrimonious split. Less of the idea that there's a collaboration here.
Quote from: Admiral Yi on October 08, 2025, 07:14:31 PMOne can have many objections to coordinated economic actions. The don't all have to apply to every example of them.Quote from: DGuller on October 08, 2025, 07:09:02 PMI don't get your point.
You object to bad references because they have the potential to be based on vindictiveness. This objection can not apply to the rental app.
Quote from: DGuller on October 08, 2025, 07:09:02 PMI don't get your point.
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