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Just buy the stock or buy a mutual fund which invests in IT, AI, Tech what have you. Sooner or later they will probably also be included in the general index funds.

Exactly. Once they have enough float and has had enough time for actual price discovery they'll be included in index funds like any other large cap stock.

This. This a risk stance where they want to see the performance in 3-6 months. I have no doubt hundreds of funds will buy in but the major index needs to be sure it’s not going to drag down the entire stack with its inclusion.

Exactly. That's what the index funds would have had to do as well.

But if you can have more 4th gen aircrafts and have easier support and maintenance so that you can keep them flying, then that might more than outweigh the 5th gen aircrafts possible superiority.

A 5th gen aircraft on the ground is not very useful. It's easier to bomb out 100 aircraft than 400 aircraft. A 5th gen aircraft, disabled remotely via software is not very useful.


Yep I don't disagree, especially with your last point


Is go shopping in malls what kids should do?


It'd be better if there were better 3rd spaces, sure, but hanging out at the mall with friends is still better than sitting at home watching reels


there is hardly anything kids can do in China, one of the main reasons why I moved away after my kid was born (besides dangerous toxic food and air)

while here in Europe I have within 10 minutes walk like 3-5 playgrounds for kids to play, in China I would have 0 even if we walked for half an hour, there are literally no playgrounds for kids at all, you will find exercise equipment for adults/old people in parks, but NOTHING for children and then they are surprised why people don't have kids in China

the fun with kids in China is meant to go to mall, pay fee for some amusement park and let kids play there, same with any other kid oriented facility, come, pay ticket so kid can play, but no public playgrounds, heck it's even difficult to find public football/basketball playgrounds, again in Europe I have at least 2-3 basketball courts around 10 minutes walk from home, in China impossible

been there last summer already with bigger kids and they had literally nothing to do when visiting in-laws in their miniscule 600-900K town (Beijing suburbs), we found some kids amusement park in walking distance at the end of trip, but nothing to do anywhere, they could walk to park where there was nothing to do for kids, so only time they could do something interesting was walking around Beijing, checking sights, maybe playing pingpong


Same, although we left before our kid was born due to Beijing's pollution level at the time (it is better now, but still bad).

We found stuff to do last year when we visited Beijing, but we were closer to center city and ya, no playgrounds outside of a few higher end apartment communities. We have a trip planned this summer but the kid is spending 2 weeks in a Chengdu summer camp that is pretty activity loaded.


I spent so much time hanging out at the mall in middle school. My friends and I would play in the arcade, wander around exploring book stores, game stores, walk around and bump into other people. Then we would make a collect call to one of our parents and give the name “come pick us up” before hanging up real quick to avoid charges.

It was a good time. The arcade especially because if you were good at a game you could keep playing without putting in more money, so we got really good. You can’t do that with arcade games now.


Far better to be out on your bike, exploring a wood, climbing trees, and possibly disturbing a very grumpy badger.

The mall - breathing plastic fumes, looking at overpriced plastic toys, summoning your parents for your every whim.

I know which I'd want for my kids, should I have any (too old & ill now).


It's not a choice between A and B. Right now we're predominantly going with C - you have little direct contact with friends, you have no mall, you exist primarily on social media developing mental illness through all the algorithmic maladies and the ones associated with constant social performance. Or D - isolated entirely from anyone but parents, socialized secondhand through media/games.


We did that too, but the mall was also a good time.

Since we couldn't drive, parents had to drop us off and then eventually come pick us up again.


> the mall was also a good time.

Oh well, not for me. I am/was a UK project manager who spent far too much time in the malls around Princeton NJ, where we were working. I had no choice because I don't drive, so I depended on bossing my lead developer about to get me places (sometimes worked) - and god how she could shop. I just prayed that the malls would have a bar - mostly not. But I would still hate malls for their horrible atmosphere.


Might be a different experience in a smaller town.


Infomaniak and infomaniak.com is definitely not a scam. I have used them for email, calendar, cloud storage and domain names for over 10 years. I have not used them for servers/VPS.

Overall I'm very happy with them. They are probably not the cheapest however. And again, it's definitely not a scam.

Why not simply ask them about the pricing and why it didn't match the expected price.

EDIT: And just to complete my answer, for web hosting I recommend hetzner.com, they are low cost and solid and based in Europe. For office related stuff such as email, drive, calendar I recommend Infomaniak, basically as an alternative to Microsoft's/Google's office type software.


Does "creative" mean that you are creative at coming up with ideas or does it mean that you are artistic and can create stuff?

I suppose it is more the latter, and it's the artistic people who create stuff who will suffer. The ones coming up with ideas, but previously couldn't create becasuse they lacked skill might win thanks to AI.

Coming up with ideas is easy, creating and putting in the effort is hard (until we had AI).

Probably the value of created stuff will go down rapidly because there will be so much of it.


Quite frankly, today there is no need to look anywhere else than a pure electric car. No point to buy an ICE with battery + electric motor. It just adds complexity and makes it expensive to service. The newly released EVs today are so good and have fantastic range.


Unless you travel a lot and live in hotels for months at a time, like I do. Granted, that's not horribly common but there are still legitimate reasons to want an ICE.


You probably have to look at the whole picture. Having part of the energy generation from nuclear probably makes the total cheaper than having no nuclear. Even if nuclear maybe is the most expensive.

Not having enough energy or having it cut off by a neighbour is very expensive.


That is not the case. Grid modelers always land on renewables being cheaper. Except for the cases when the studies start with "assuming cheap and fast to build nuclear power".

https://www.pv-magazine.com/2026/04/17/new-metric-shows-rene...


That is not the case. There are LCOLC, LFSCOE and others which land on renewables being way more expensive. Even without your made up claim about "assuming cheap and fast to build nuclear power".


Which are extremely simplified metrics.

Like the LFSCOE study is only using one source of renewables through all weather together with 2020 data on battery costs.

Which is why I linked a recent full system analysis. With Danish data so a vastly harder problem than a place with abundant solar. So tell me what they missed.

They even tilted the study heavily towards nuclear power and assumed that the nuclear costs are 40% lower than Flamanville 3 and 70% lower than Hinkley Point C while modeling solar as 20% more expensive.

Still finding that renewables are vastly cheaper when it comes to meeting a real grid load.


you should be very careful with 'papers' written by people that stayed at the core of Danish antinuclear movement like Henrik Lund (famous “for me, nuclear power is not a dream. It’s a nightmare. My dream is renewable energy”, but there are more interesting turns there, including EnergyPLAN which was criticized a lot for it's nonsense assumptions which I can bet is used here too. It was so severe that the issue was addressed in a peer reviewed publication https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S030626192... ) and a paper that includes frauds like jacobson in citations. These two are famous for citation rings and both are public antinuclear activists.

I can bet they have very "optimistic" estimations for Hydrogen and gas firming on top of the most evident issues adressed in peer review


I do notice that you are talking about past papers rather than this current one.

You also link another of the typical studies desperately trying to shove new built nuclear power into contention.

It looks like this: ”If we assume nuclear power is cheap and fast to build”.

Do the same for renewables and storage and the comparison becomes even more lopsided.


I talked about current one too.

I've linked not a "typical studie" but a peer reviewed correction to the mistakes of the original paper.

Ironically we already know the answer about speed. Check out how TWh/y of clean power evolved in Denmark vs UAE with Barakah built by Korea


In which the peer review presents numbers that’s a fraction of all modern western nuclear power while not giving renewables the same benefit.

> Check out how TWh/y of clean power evolved in Denmark vs UAE with Barakah built by Korea

This tells me you are entirely out of your depth.

You do realize that what we care about are cumulative emissions? You also have to compare it by grid size.

The shining beacon in UAE you lift have a horrendous gCO2/kWh of 468 while Denmark sits at 114. Starting at 650.

Calling that what UAE achieved a success means you don’t care about decarbonization, only trillions in handouts to your pet technology.


You can inspect how that paper was peer reviewed by pointing out what was wrong with it) To me it's wild how people are defending nonsense written by frauds like Lund and Jacobson, both heavy antinuclear proponents that treat hydrogen as some dirt cheap power firming option

The discussion was about speed anyway. UAE achieved higher TWh of clean power than both Denmark and Portugal in less time, as simple as that - this is undeniable

The statement about "handouts of trillions to pet technology" shows you just don't care about emissions, you hate nuclear. Per IPEX nuclear gets 15x less subsidies vs renewables in EU. Germany spent on EEG alone double the cost of entire french nuclear fleet, the gap getting wider. From this year transmission will be subsidized too because DE households have highest prices in EU, close to Denmark. But i guess subsidies for your favorite technology are fine and for the rest it's absolute evil.

Saying that UAE didn't achieve success with it's Barakah is either delusion or willingness to ignore reality.


You do realize that you went completely off the rails here?

I still haven't seen you levy a single factual criticism to the methodology in the paper I linked. It is just you lashing out.

Again you don't care about cumulative emissions, or the grid size.

https://imgur.com/a/09DMS72

And this is the graphs if you assume that renewables never become perfect:

https://imgur.com/a/WrLUrwK

You do realize based on these graphs that every investment in nuclear power just leads to more emissions?

Now lets talk about your TWh per year figure, comparing apples to oranges. UAEs grid is 184 TWh. Why didnt UAE do like Germany and deployed 196 TWh renewabels in that time and completely decarbonize their grid?

Are you realize how absolutely stupid you sound trying to compare TWh per year figures without referencing the grid size?


> something you know like SSN/tax id/password

How can you equal an SSN/Tax id with a password? The SSN/Tax id is more or less public knowledge while a password is not.


I have a year ago switched from Ubuntu to Fedora and I like it. Clean and stable. Uses Flatpak. I'm using Fedora Workstation which is the default, but Fedora KDE Plasma seems to be nice as well if you want to have more configuration options available directly in the GUI. And the layout is more Windows like with start button menu etc for people coming from the Windows side.


If they normally have 6 weeks left, then that would mean they replenish as usual. If they normally have say 30 weeks left, then I guess they have some issues.


If they normally have six weeks left, and the spigot is unexpectedly shut off, that's a bit different yeah?

Having six weeks of food in my house is probably plenty. Having six weeks left on my Mars mission when it's a six month trip home, less so.


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