Oooooh, can’t wait to see the new features!
[what? there is no new features…?]
Can’t wait to see the new splash screen! 😇

A company that can’t offer a ROI to its stockholders, is a startup that should never be allowed to go public; stick to angel and venture investors instead. Public stocks relying on the hype of “growing quickly”, are a Ponzi scheme through and through.

If we speak of company ages, the argument doesn’t hold either:

• AAPL - 49yr - 0.48%
• MSFT - 50yr - 0.88%
• NVDA - 32yr - 0.04%
• AMZN - 31yr - 0.00%
• GOOG - 27yr - 0.49%
• TSLA - 22yr - 0.00%
• SpaceX - 23yr - not traded

A good chunk of the US market is made up of Ponzi scheme companies. With 401k-s tied to market investments, people are setting themselves up for a very rough awakening.

Meaningful part are the dividend ratios.

The problem with P/E is that, while it’s great to measure business health internally, a company that has great earnings and then decides to “invest in growth” instead of paying dividends, is just a Ponzi scheme as far as investors are concerned: no expectation of returns from the company, only from the hype among other investors.

Is TSLA overvalued? To be generous, let’s compare them to just NASDAQ stocks:

• AAPL - $209 - 0.48% annual dividend
• MSFT - $378 - 0.88%
• NVDA - $115 - 0.04% 🚩
• AMZN - $193 - 0.00% 🚩
• GOOG - $164 - 0.49%
• TSLA - $240 - 0.00% 🚩
• SpaceX - not traded

When your Lemmy client shows you previews of the links…

The bill hasn’t passed yet, we’ll see what amendments get into the final version.

The general downside of this kind of bills, is that they require marking “any amount” of AI-based modification, like for example: using an “AI optimized” curves modifier to adjust a photo, makes the whole thing into “made using AI”.

My phone camera has an AI based detector for focusing on faces, pieces of paper, brightness and color correction… so ALL photos I take with it are automatically “made with AI”, which is BS.

IMHO Melinda changed Gates’s view on the world. As much as her desktop idea was nightmare fuel, they did create a foundation, had some kids together, and that let Gates grow as a person away from Ballmer’s “Developers, Developers, Developers!” culture.

Anyone who plays it right:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Short_(finance)

Bonus points for anyone with insider information.

Which one? It has several.

Whoever the fuck thought it would be a good idea to add a script tag to SVG needs to be put down.

SVG was in part intended as a replacement for Flash, which had animations and interactive graphic elements. The script tag has been there since 2001’s SVG 1.0 🤷

Master class in how to antagonize the most pro-US European country.

Not sure where you get your propaganda from, but I refuse to engage with that whole twisted argumental line. I stand by what I said, I think it was pretty straightforward.

Trump is playing “bully pocker”, his goal is to look good to his bases, whoever that might be at the moment. It’s the game that has worked for him his whole life, and he’s good at it.

What he doesn’t realize, is the world stage is an agreements game, based on trust and good faith, where others can join forces and render anyone at the table irrelevant. He’s trying to bully everyone into doing what he wants like he was in a single-country sandbox, by playing his strong economy and military “cards” in a carrot+stick teasing approach… without realizing those same “cards” are also based on trust and good faith. Both of which he’s been losing at an increasing rate.

I don’t think he will stop teasing and gaslighting everyone around, he doesn’t know how to do anything else. He will just run the US presidency into the ground, while everyone increasingly ignores him.

Putting DRM on CC videos is kind of evil… but also kind of expected of a video platform to do.

In the long run, from a purely economic point of view, it could even make sense for YT to charge users for uploading non-monetized videos. It would destroy even more good faith, but would “make sense” on paper.

The irony is that people still live according to solar time, no matter what the clock says. It’s most notable in Europe, where we use the same time zone from 9W all the way to 30E, or 2.5 solar time zones… but then breakfast, work, and dinner times across different countries, match the solar.

There was a nice graph with all the countries, that I can’t seem to find now, but let this one serve for illustrative purposes:

Nice explanation. For future advances, part of it could be solved by photonics, getting rid of most of the interconnects. Massively parallel simple computations could be carried out on a photonic neuromorphic substrate, making NNs use orders of magnitude less power.

In the age of WFH and ordering stuff online, DST is an anachronism pushed by retailers who worry that not enough people will visit their physical stores after work. Similar to the “8 hours of sleep” pushed by company towns wanting 8-8-8 work shifts.

At least in Europe we have until March 30… and there’s hope it will end in 2026.

They are examples of a simple prompt you can put into an AI, to get similar results.

One is little more than random noise. You can put this comment into an AI prompt, in the presence of a legal witness, and when people start liking the output, say “aha!”.

The second is an automated process of canning food, that the artist used to can his own feces. Yes, they were real, about half the cans have exploded after being exposed in places when the sun would heat them up, which was part of the artist’s plan. Another piece by the same artist is Fiato d’Artista, a balloon blown up and sealed by the artist, that over time has deflated. The “art vs. automation” of both, fall heavily on the automation part.

The last can be generated with a single sentence prompt to any image generating AI.

The interpretation you make up to justify a piece, is independent from the means used to generate it… so you have to choose:

• The interpretation is the art, making all tools a valid option, including AI.
• The piece itself has to embody some interpretation, making the examples into “not art”.

There is no “safe” store of value, it always depends on demand; there is no single item with a constant demand. One would think that air, water, food, housing, etc. should be always in demand… but reality is showing how people are willing to sacrifice those for something else all the time.

Bitcoin transfers cost pennies on the Lightning Network. An argument can be made, that SEPA transfers cost exactly 0… also an argument can be made, that SEPA didn’t go all the way down to 0, until cheap crypto transfers became a thing. But SEPA is an Euro thing.

China, I think the powerhouse of an economy that it has will make it awfully enticing for investment orgs

China has a 100% intervened market, there is exactly 0% security that any investment won’t go to 0 in an instant, by decree. There is a reason why Chinese people invested 30% of GDP in the housing market, allowing scammers to build ghost towns they never planned on completing… and then it all went crashing down.

The US sees the Euro as a competitor of the Dollar; for the US to buy a strategic reserve of EUR, it would definitely mean recognizing defeat.

They don’t need them anymore.

• Before: Phone bot farm
• Now: Manus AI