The entire spirit of Neoliberal Capitalism is that Regulations and Enforcement of Regulations are bad for business and shouldn’t be done.

This guys’ take is pretty much just a continuation of the takes of lots of publicly celebrated CEOs of the last 4 decades.

You could.

It just makes the design more complex (there’s at least one extra nasty corner case I can think of) and generally doesn’t add that much a performance improvement vs “run every 30 minutes”, to be worth it, IMHO.

It’s like people are trying to outsource the “figure things out” part of the process to the automated parrot which is the LLM.

It only makes sense if it was checking for it being daytime (i.e. after sunrise and before sunset) which you cannot do in cron, rather than check for a specific hour.

Even then, using an LLM is about the stupidest way imaginable to do it since it’s not as if “when is it sunrise/sunset at a specific latitude and longitude and day of the year” can’t just be calculated with a formula or looked up in a table of values - its not as if the sunrise and sunset hours given latitude, longitude and day of the year change from year to year.

Every accusation [is] a confession

That is indeed something which has been very visibly and very often proven, again and again and again, in the last couple of years.

I reckon it was always so, but we just forgot it during the period after WWII and the ressurging of the far-right.

The “funny” thing is that anybody thinking that a mere 5 years ago would have been deemed a conspiracy nutter.

So are you disputing the fact that historicallly European Royal families have had a lot of inbreeding due to Royals mainly marrying Royals, or that specific fact is not one you care about?

Why do you care?

Do you know any of them? Are they your mates? Do you get paid for it?

Paper gold would suffer from the exact same problem as all other fiat currencies - it would be entirely backed by trust on somebody or some institution and hence could collapse if that trust was abused, same as it seems to be happening with the USD as the US Administration abuses the trust placed in them which amongst other things backs the value of that currency.

The thing with actual physical Gold is that one can’t just print more of it and after millennia its stores are spread out all over the World thus there’s no one single major owner, so its pretty hard to manipulate (the closest to it, funny enough, is manipulating Gold Futures - i.e. paper - though that only seems to work for inducing short-term market movements that end up naturally corrected).

IMHO people would be better of spreading their savings across a basket of geographical locations and currencies than using paper gold.

Are you disputing the historical factoid I pointed out, or are you doubling down on being insulted in the name of a person you’ve never personally met in your life?

Back when I lived in Britain, in the run-up to and during the Leave Referendum I felt that the country wasn’t really a safe place to keep investments and moved almost all of my savings out of the British Pound.

In the week following the results of the referendum coming out, the value of the British Pound went down around 20% against other major currencies.

So simply by having those savings outside that currency, not counting any investment gains I was spared a 1/5 loss of my savings.

I seems to me the USD is very much in such a situation, possibly much worse if it loses its status as a Reserve Currency.

Yeah, Gold price in EUR right now is well above the all-time-peak from 2 weeks ago.

He’s a reliable source for the goldbugs point of view.

I’ve been ridding Gold (of all things) since a bit after the 2008 Crash because after having been in Tech for the Tech crash and then right in the middle of Finance for the Finance crash - in Lehman Brothers, no less - and seen the “shove the problems under the carpet” non-solution for the latter, I became a firm believer than we were bound for a new Depression in the West.

Generally Gold, which has almost no industrial uses, works like a currency which does not rely on people trusting a country and its Economy like present day currencies do, so it tends to go up when countries are badly managed and their Economies start breaking - kind of an ultimate shelter for one’s savings when you can’t even trust the management of large countries and the value of their currencies.

Long story short, after a peak after the 2008 Crash, then a few years of a dip and a decade of slow increase in price, Gold has started taking off about 3 years ago and the speed of price increase has been going up every year (in 2024 it went up about 23%, in 2025 it went up 65%)

Given the political situation in mainly the US (but also in part Europe, as well as Europe’s continued excessive Economic entwining with the US not to mention all manner of laws in Europe that really just benefit US interests, especially around Intellectual Property, which partly tie us down to the success of those US companies), the many financial bubbles all over the place (most notably real-estate and stocks in global terms, plus AI mainly in the US) and we not having yet reached anywhere near the levels of economic pain seen in the 2008 Crash, I expect there’s still a lot to go in terms of Economic-pain and hence a lot to go in terms of Gold price increases until it reaches a peak. Certainly if the USD stops being a Reserve Currency, things are going to get crazy all around, making Gold even more attractive during that transition period.

That said the total value of all Gold mined ever is around $28 trillion (or it was 2 weeks ago, it’s more now), so less than merely the US public debt, so don’t really expect it to somehow replace the dollar or anything like it - it’s really just a Financial asset that goes up in times of political, economic and even societal crisis.

Well, there used to be a lot of cousins marrying cousins and such in European royal families, because Royals married Royals from other countries and over the generations pretty much everybody in Royal Families in Europe ended up being related in some way to everybody else, but I do hope the modern age with the end of arranged marriages and a much bigger tendency to marry outside the family has lessened if not outright eliminated that situation.

That said, I was making what should be an obvious joke anchored on that little historical factoid about European Royal Families, which you seem to have taken seriously and somehow felt insulted by in the name of a person I doubt very much you have ever met.

That’s two seconds more than I’m willing to spend looking up a member of a royal family, any royal family.

Also used to use the tram like everybody else, back in the day.

Meanwhile in the UK there are actually laws just for the Royal Family, like the one that temporary closes parts of the airspace for the Royal Family Helicopter to pass through.

Mind you, this is far from the only way in which The Netherlands has a far, FAR, FAR more egalitarian spirit at all levels of society and laws than Britain, and I say this as somebody who has lived in both countries.

Trump is making sure the US will be behind the rest of the World in the first big Technological Revolution of the XXI century.

In theory it does make sense to have someone who can veto everything on behalf of the state if the government goes weapons grade guano.

In Democratic countries which have a President but not a Presidential System (so, like Germany and Portugal, and unlike the US and France) that’s basically the entirety of the power of the President.

Personally I vastly prefer a figurehead President who has at most limited to power to dissolve parliament (for when, as you say, “the government goes weapons grade guano”) which gets actually chosen on a vote and kicked out if he or she turns out to be worse than they seemed before getting the position.

From the places I lived in, I above all detested the Constitutional Monarchy in Britain, with the Royal being filthy rich and a cornerstone of a web of patronage that was part of, if not most of, the reason why the country has massive class division and discrimination by European standards. My experience in The Netherlands was nowhere as bad, though.

Does that guy reflect the Norwegian version of having “breeding” or is it more a case of too much inbreeding?