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New comment by aussiegreenie in "GLM 5.2 beats Claude in our benchmarks"

aussiegreenie — Sun, 28 Jun 2026 21:36:22 +0000

The Americans may ban the use of the Chinese models in America. But like the Chinese car ban, everyone else will use them.

New comment by aussiegreenie in "Polymarket has flooded social media with deceptive videos by paid creators"

aussiegreenie — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 22:03:23 +0000

So Polymarket did marketing....what a shock.

New comment by aussiegreenie in "SpaceX launches $25B notes offering, source says"

aussiegreenie — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 22:00:41 +0000

I love how the bonds are rated above junk.

New comment by aussiegreenie in "A robot is sprinting towards you. Do you want it running on Claude or Grok?"

aussiegreenie — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 21:22:18 +0000

It is not running on either but Seedance, so who cares?

New comment by aussiegreenie in "Why LLMs still lack taste"

aussiegreenie — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 22:57:53 +0000

Whose taste...

New comment by aussiegreenie in "Apple decided not to roll out Siri in EU after denied request for exemption"

aussiegreenie — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 21:36:19 +0000

When your business model directly breaks the law, and the laws are enforced, it hard to have a business,

New comment by aussiegreenie in "AI Grifters Are Making Anti-Data Center Slop with AI"

aussiegreenie — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 23:06:59 +0000

>AI Grifters Are Making Anti-Data Center Slop With AI

As compared to AI Grifters Are Making Pro-Data Center Slop With AI

New comment by aussiegreenie in "FBI arrests CIA official with $40M in gold bars in his home"

aussiegreenie — Sat, 30 May 2026 00:22:46 +0000

How quickly can we get the movie?

New comment by aussiegreenie in "Anthropic raises $65B in Series H funding at $965B post-money valuation"

aussiegreenie — Sat, 30 May 2026 00:15:48 +0000

The US capital markets are closer to Putin's Russia than to free markets.

Historically, listing rules asked: "How much money did you make last year, and do you fit our standard corporate governance box?"

Today, NASDAQ's rules ask: "Do you have the massive market capitalisation, sufficient institutional public float, and transparent liquidity to ensure fair and orderly trading?"

Here are the obvious ones:

1. Free float - Every company that intended to list was required to have at least 20% free float.

2. Index weights were based on the free float.

3. Time before inclusion into the Indices (min 12 months) now 15 trading days

4. Lockup period - minimum 12 months up to 24 months - not 180 days.

I wish people would understand that if America had a functioning criminal justice system, no one would have heard Elon Musk nor Donald Trump.

New comment by aussiegreenie in "Why Peter Thiel Is Decamping to Argentina"

aussiegreenie — Fri, 29 May 2026 23:04:31 +0000

He already has NZ citizenship.

New comment by aussiegreenie in "'AI washing': firms are scrambling to rebrand themselves as tech-focused"

aussiegreenie — Sun, 24 May 2026 22:17:11 +0000

When I read the title, I thought companies were trying to hide the fact that they are using AI due to backlash.

New comment by aussiegreenie in "The 52-Page Memo That Nearly Destroyed OpenAI: Ilya Sutskever's Deposition"

aussiegreenie — Fri, 15 May 2026 23:01:33 +0000

Yes. Competition is not the goal.

New comment by aussiegreenie in "Poland is now among the 20 largest economies"

aussiegreenie — Sat, 09 May 2026 00:27:41 +0000

>Czechia is richer per capita

This is a very bad measure of anything, especially wealth.

New comment by aussiegreenie in "The truth that haunts the Ramones: 'They sold more T-shirts than records'"

aussiegreenie — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 21:42:41 +0000

I have a 16-year-old daughter, but when she was in Day Care, one of the Chinese kids wore a Ramones t-shirt. I was so surprised that I asked the parents if they had ever heard of the Ramones. They had no idea what I was talking about.

In Australia, Kmart (Kmart is very popular here) sells lots of retro rock t-shirts. Often from tours that occurred in the 1970s eg Elon John 1974 tour or Led Zeppelin etc.

New comment by aussiegreenie in "Polymarket gamblers threaten to kill me over Iran missile story"

aussiegreenie — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 21:00:26 +0000

Australians gamble more than anyone on Earth but the idea that people "invest" huge money, whether or not missiles explode in a country at war is crazy.

It was said Australians would bet on two flies climbing up a wall. But this is madness.

New comment by aussiegreenie in "Writing code is cheap now"

aussiegreenie — Fri, 27 Feb 2026 04:34:27 +0000

Writing code might be cheap, but debugging code is VERY EXPENSIVE.

New comment by aussiegreenie in "A party balloon shut down El Paso International Airport; estimated cost –$573k"

aussiegreenie — Thu, 12 Feb 2026 19:38:29 +0000

Imagine if there had been 99 balloons?

New comment by aussiegreenie in "France Aiming to Replace Zoom, Google Meet, Microsoft Teams, etc."

aussiegreenie — Tue, 27 Jan 2026 02:10:13 +0000

Jit.si supports the EU privacy rules

New comment by aussiegreenie in "Britain's railway privatization was an abject failure"

aussiegreenie — Thu, 13 Nov 2025 19:52:26 +0000

Privatisation of everything is an abject failure.

New comment by aussiegreenie in "Solarpunk is happening in Africa"

aussiegreenie — Thu, 06 Nov 2025 20:43:34 +0000

The figures quoted are way out of date. Solar is already USD 0.11 per Watt and has been for over a year.

Solar is scalable. The cheapest system 10W with a powerbank and phone charger and 3 x 3W LED lights as about USD 20. Next level is more lights and a fan and the high end is a TV and fan powered by solar.