Frankly I doubt waymo maliciously and secretly implemented an algorithm to obey most traffic rules yet ignore school buses

Masters degree is from “magister”, meaning director/chief/boss/leader

Magister means teacher and the things I mentioned. See https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/magister#Latin

For a restaurant booking, I like this.

For blob uploads, I’d significantly prefer a fixed format! If I want to automate anything off the back of it it just becomes that few % easier

There’s an easy solution. Don’t fly Ryanair! I’m perfectly happy to take this sacrifice in exchange for cheaper tickets

MD11 has a physical slat lock that won’t fail under hydraulic pressure yeah

Yes

> Overly complex stock markets that produce nothing of value should be abolished. Real people have no need for high level financial concepts like that

This is a pretty huge assumption with no real reasoning. Some substance regarding _why_ “high level financial concepts” produce nothing of value would be useful

> generated nearly €80 million in total benefits to the Irish economy

Approximately 75% of the “benefits” is by the WELLBY framework, which considers each “wellbeing point” to be equivalent to €13,000 a year additional income. This could be a valid metric, but it feels a bit iffy, and without this evaluation it would be a significant cost to the Irish economy, so I do not think this UBI can be considered truly a positive return to the economy

[1] https://assets.gov.ie/static/documents/b87d2659/20250929_BIA... - goto ‘Results’

It’s quite specifically not money printing, because it’s backed by something.

It could be bad sure but it’s not money printing

You're right. It's not really money printing, at least not directly. Only banks can print money.

What these recent deals do is inflate asset prices by making (future) revenues appear higher or perhaps just more certain than they really are.

Assets can be used as collateral for loans. If someone were to use their AMD shares as collateral for a loan at a commercial bank (not a margin loan), that would be money printing and you could print more of it today than before the deal was announced.

> because it’s backed by something

If I finance a car backed by hopes and dreams, I'd be driving real good.

Backed by what?

Ownership in a company.

Compute resources.

So like Bitcoin?

Not the same, since if you buy Bitcoin, you don't have partial ownership of the machines used to mine and also these machines being used for a singular purpose which you cannot change.

It is backed by AMD stockholders, whose stock just got diluted.

It's like in that movie "Social network"

And high end networking gear will always have a buyer, right Nortel?

Lucent agrees: even used, the product will retain 90% of list price because the market has an infinite number of VC-backed buyers.

I’d be willing to bet the number of students that pick a UK university over Oxbridge in the next year will round to 0%. The times rankings mean nothing at this granularity (whereas being top 20 vs top 100 _is_ significant)