Have you been following reforms Zelensky implemented when he was elected to tame corruption? This is a playbook for EU accession. Functional democracy.
"US using Ukraine to bite Russia". Let me guess, CIA was involved in Orange revolution? People were just fine and dandy with Viktor Yanukovych until then, right?
Caspian sea is buzzing w/ traffic b/w Russia and Iran. And they want outside to know as little about it as possible.
Turning of AIS completely, spoofing location and even ship-to-ship transfers despite no inspection.
Most of vessels are not oil tankers, but cargo ships.
So many folks are front running $NVDA earnings, I would be surprised nobody will get rug pulled.
Why guys pile on Ukraine? Country is fighting for existence. Couch Greg here is concerned about money? You know, same global reserve money? Concerned about cents? How about you get answers on equipment left for Taliban.
For east european, this maga fox news level bullshit "everyone washing money through" Ukraine is up in the throat.
"Tom Bonner of the AI security firm HiddenLayer, a speaker at this year’s DefCon, tricked a Google system into labeling a piece of malware harmless merely by inserting a line that said “this is safe to use."
Report from DEFCon vs AI systems will only come in February.
https://fortune.com/2023/08/13/hackers-red-teaming-ai-defcon-breaking-stuff-but-no-quick-fixes/
Crazy. And it's adjusted for inflation.
Owning Kaspi feels like owning Amazon in ~2010s must have felt like. Just riding those sweet tailwinds without competition.
Rare high growth technology company doing buybacks and solid dividends. CEO reiterates listing prospects, another value unlock. Waiting for IPO spring..
Pandora AS - buyback machine. -15% shares outstanding in 2 years.
This explains a lot about US consumer resilience.
Summer energy #GLMusicDiscovery
Folktronica producer & songwriter team influenced by the Blues and Dark Country music. Light, bright campfire song.
Have great start of the week!
https://on.soundcloud.com/XZXX8
GS points out, that post-brexit, high skilled migrant flow from EU materially declined, while immigration from other countries has increased (prob. seen the headlines on talks w/ France)
Service worker demand in-elasticity is distinct for high UK inflation.
Tesla's EV margins are competed away. $TSLA
Redpoint guys pin current on-prem vs cloud distribution as such:
It's fascinating to me, when media reports on users fleeing Twitter or some story along those lines they mention mastadon, bluesky, but never nostr. I see nostr as tor. You may not use it everyday, but when you need it - it's there. And that's what counts.
Left: Ohms law. Relation b/w voltage & current we been taught in school
Right: week's drama. Claimed room temperature super conductivity.
(may be messed up on nostr)
Guessing game now, but imo even it it's real, it'll be specialized applications. Sample base is Pb - inelastic, fragile under shocks.
#LK99
Quality vs Quantity
Experiment: pottery class was dividend into two groups. One was graded based on number of pots made, the other on quality of their best pot..
Turned out, the group which aimed to produce the most pots, produced the ones of best quality as well.
"Honesty is the real killer, because you can hurt someone and feel self-righteous at the same time"
Dave Van Ronk
One of those, that cover augments the original. 2001 french alt rock revived by Swiss singer and songwriter Sophie Hunter. It's Le vent nous portera and I bet you have heard it before.
#GLMusicDiscovery
