its never acceptable for a policy maker to have any stocks or funds at all.

That's a nonsense leap. If you have a SSN in the US, you already have an ID. If you have a NI and NHS number in the UK, you already have an ID. That's been true for decades. What agencies then choose to do is entirely up for debate. The existence of a database key is not in itself sinister.

I think balcony solar and EVs don't play together. I've got an EV. I'd be interested in plugin solar to cut my normal daytime grid usage, but my car always charges overnight at a rate of 7kW for 7p/kWh, which is so cheap that its hard to see a reasonable payback from solar.

Given that drilling in the North Sea would have zero effect on energy prices - why is this even a topic?

I wonder how much work was created in the future, just so Noah Webster could sell a few more dictionaries. 🤔

Problem with Nuclear is that it is really complicated and expensive and takes a long time to build. Solar + batteries would be cheaper, faster, more resilient to failure and leave less difficult waste.

Fry: Uh, just so we'll know, who's the enemy?
Captain Zapp Brannigan: A valid question! We know nothing about them, their language, their history or what they look like. But we can assume this. They stand for everything we don't stand for.

The things are expensive because they use expensive energy. It doesn't matter whether people can buy them or not. The lack of demand doesn't magically reduce the cost of energy or finance.

I dont understand how dumb the BofE has to be to think that making everything more expensive is a solution to stuff becoming more expensive.

Can we now get rid of the 500 odd lords who were appointed by Boris Johnson?

That is terrible.

Of course not. It's a simple medieval monarch power. It has no place in a democracy.

Software just makes things complicated. I want to know how fast I'm going and how many kWh are left. That's it.

Ditto

Great article. This is why the term Free Speech is so unhelpful. It really matters how the platform us constructed.

Strangely though, none of them mentioned dredging though the works of unpleasant politicians or abstruse philosophers.

Two decades ago maybe. But one decade ago they installed a wannabe King with no regard for laws as president. The never Trump movement existed precisely because the direction of travel was so obvious.

I'd have a look at Numba, assuming the algorithm can be written with simple C-style operations, and and focus on trying to speed it up for a single CPU rather than going down the multiprocessing route.

Sure, if you want your software to behave non-deterministically.

Seems pretty familiar.

Maybe they should replace the board with AI. It would probably do a better job with coming up with a business plan.

They probably get AI to read it for them.

Strangely, tweaking the price doesn't change buying decision based on something unrelated to price.

Wind power does great in storms. Oh wait, that all got cancelled.

Worked for Trump.

At least you didn't threaten to invade the wrong country.

I think you would still be welcome. But one votes for the person, not the policies, so yes, this is what was voted for, especially given what was known about his personality at the time.

Why is any news outlet bothering to report on the ravings of a dementia patient?

You're right. It doesn't matter. He does 11 illegal things before breakfast and the legal world takes 6 years to catch up, by which time there's no legal system left.

Yes, I'm sure that having countries going around taking stuff they feel like by force will be a big plus for security.