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New comment by dukeyukey in "JetBrains reported a net financial loss first time in its tracked history"

dukeyukey — Tue, 06 Oct 2026 14:27:36 +0000

Their revenue is up, why is them investing more a bad thing?

New comment by dukeyukey in "JetBrains reported a net financial loss first time in its tracked history"

dukeyukey — Tue, 06 Oct 2026 14:27:03 +0000

Why do you think their revenue is up?

New comment by dukeyukey in "California farmers are struggling to sell grapes as demand for wine drops"

dukeyukey — Wed, 30 Sep 2026 10:38:59 +0000

I have a bottle of Niagara icewine downstairs I'm very much looking forward to!

New comment by dukeyukey in "America.gov"

dukeyukey — Tue, 29 Sep 2026 22:47:00 +0000

That's just not true, a flow on gov.uk can involve a lot of pages but they are exceedingly clear and easy to navigate.

New comment by dukeyukey in "California farmers are struggling to sell grapes as demand for wine drops"

dukeyukey — Tue, 29 Sep 2026 19:46:49 +0000

Surely this just means Justworks is your HR team?

New comment by dukeyukey in "California farmers are struggling to sell grapes as demand for wine drops"

dukeyukey — Tue, 29 Sep 2026 09:25:01 +0000

My local Morrisons has a few decent 3.4% ales for £1-£1.25, I am a loyal customer.

New comment by dukeyukey in "California farmers are struggling to sell grapes as demand for wine drops"

dukeyukey — Tue, 29 Sep 2026 09:24:17 +0000

My local supermarket sells 3.4% ales for £1 each, it's fantastic.

New comment by dukeyukey in "ASML says it sold 'absolutely nothing' in Europe in 2026"

dukeyukey — Sun, 27 Sep 2026 15:33:00 +0000

The damage from WW2 to Europe was not limited to bombing and killing, it includes the economic harm inflicted on Eastern Europe in the decades afterwards by the Soviets.

New comment by dukeyukey in "ASML says it sold 'absolutely nothing' in Europe in 2026"

dukeyukey — Sun, 27 Sep 2026 12:56:48 +0000

Europe does build ships, even if East Asia dominates. But the US is abnormally low, like it build less tonnage than Finland.

Not everyone can operate civilian ship fleets, managing a global shipping operation is not a "pick up and do it", it requires some build up.

New comment by dukeyukey in "ASML says it sold 'absolutely nothing' in Europe in 2026"

dukeyukey — Sun, 27 Sep 2026 11:58:19 +0000

> What a weird one to pick. Do you think the US doesn't have massive ports like Europe?

The US has ports. But they don't build civilian ships, and they don't really own ships either. The vast majority of American ocean-going shipping is floated on ships owned by Europeans and built by East Asians

New comment by dukeyukey in "ASML says it sold 'absolutely nothing' in Europe in 2026"

dukeyukey — Sun, 27 Sep 2026 11:55:11 +0000

The rebuilding phase only really got started in the 90s! Integrating the post-communist states was a huge effort that is still arguably going on.

New comment by dukeyukey in "ASML says it sold 'absolutely nothing' in Europe in 2026"

dukeyukey — Sun, 27 Sep 2026 11:53:02 +0000

This is expected though, right? Even in Europe, unless you're a verysmall country, most business you deal with is domestic. Do by default, the largest companies mare going to be in the largest economies. Doesn't mean you can't get lucky every now and again, but you are handicapped by not having a large domestic consumption base protected via political independence.

China and the US are continent-scale megastates. Obviously a mid-sized Atlantic island like the UK, or smallish peninsula like Italy, are not going to compete on scale.

New comment by dukeyukey in "UK military jamming other nations' satellites to defend itself, BBC told"

dukeyukey — Wed, 23 Sep 2026 22:31:04 +0000

I work for a UK fintech that is bank-adjacent, the backend for the apps and the website are the same.

New comment by dukeyukey in "UK military jamming other nations' satellites to defend itself, BBC told"

dukeyukey — Wed, 23 Sep 2026 22:28:19 +0000

I imagine that if all banking apps go down as a result of war then bank websites, credit cards, basically any other digital financial thing will also be down.

New comment by dukeyukey in "UK military jamming other nations' satellites to defend itself, BBC told"

dukeyukey — Wed, 23 Sep 2026 22:25:15 +0000

If banking went down we'd have a hell of a time. It's not like I keep 6 months rent in cash on me.

New comment by dukeyukey in "Italian parliament votes for return to nuclear energy"

dukeyukey — Wed, 23 Sep 2026 22:21:38 +0000

To be fair South Australia is:

* Incredibly sunny

* Incredibly sparely populated

* Functionally winterless

Like it's the perfect setup for solar.

Somewhere like Denmark, Japan, even the US Northeast does not have those.

New comment by dukeyukey in "Italian parliament votes for return to nuclear energy"

dukeyukey — Wed, 23 Sep 2026 20:31:43 +0000

Nuclear fuel is available from lots of countries, including Canada and Australia, plus deposits in Europe that aren't being minted because uranium is very cheap.

Plus you can stockpile it super easy.

New comment by dukeyukey in "Frontier AI on Your Own Hardware"

dukeyukey — Mon, 21 Sep 2026 22:11:06 +0000

I can't speak for the graduate or American market, but I can tell you the market for reasonably experienced software people in London is hot. Loads of hiring and salaries are going up.

New comment by dukeyukey in "What will our economic future look like?"

dukeyukey — Wed, 09 Sep 2026 15:28:06 +0000

Being able to fly at all is a much better passenger experience than not having that choice in the first place. And I'll bet that flying first class today is far better than 50 years ago.

New comment by dukeyukey in "Dutch central bank moves share of gold from U.S., Canada to London"

dukeyukey — Wed, 02 Sep 2026 14:20:40 +0000

Would you put it past Trump to use gold stores as a threat?