Last time I visited Asia it felt like everyone was excited about tech and futurism. I'm from a country that glorifies the past and outsourced manufacturing abroad. People have mobile phones of course but otherwise the nearest city looks fundamentally the same as the nineties!

All those GPUs would make for a pretty awesome holosuite!

The government is manipulating economic data and fooling absolutely nobody. They can try to to hide the truth but the whole basis of markets and democracy is to have access to information. Like the greybeards say, information wants to be free

Ticketb@stard are killing music. Pretty much any ticket through them will cost fifty pounds or more, with the mysterious 'service charge' on top of course.

The UK is seen as a premium offshoring option I guess - having a similar language and outlook as Americans but at half the price. It would be interesting to see whether this headline investment figure is anything out of the ordinary though - a big complaint is that UK businesses lack any ambition beyond reaching a certain size and selling out to American predators

Why is the UK suddenly attractive now when it wasn't a few years ago? The only thing I can think of might be loosened planning laws. Certainly the price of energy is only going up and tax and national insurance have also increased. Perhaps certain other sweeteners were offered by Labour?

It will get worse - instead of Senior Devs checking the code that they wrote the prompts for, they will check the code that was output from prompts that somebody else wrote. Meaning that they have to deal not just with some AI nonsense but potentially the Junior Dev who may have misunderstood the assignment in the first place. I guess unit testing is still a good quality gate but when your programmers' skills are atrophying it makes the entire process more risky

GDP figures tell me that I live in the sixth wealthiest in the world and yet the population seems to be imploding. Maybe GDP isn't the whole picture. It's like judging developers by LOC

The low hanging fruit has already been picked and this is evidence that we broadly have companies that are happy to do what they've always done. Any business process improvements need the sort of expensive consultants and R&D investment that companies might be avoiding in this appalling market

Netflix is full of so-so Korean action movies but everything is fairly recent. I'm guessing Prime has cornered the market in clearance-bin movies, like 80's action or horror. It just surprises me that Netflix has such little content, do you know what I mean! Like very little in the way of horror of more than 5 years old, absolutely nothing in the way of arthouse movies. How much can it cost to licence a 30 year old French classic movie I wonder? Surely must be less than creating absolute crap like Extraction 2?

Is something still a hustle when there's an element of gambling? And is it still a hustle when you need a large amount of capital to make relatively modest gains? Hustle culture is defined by 'the grind' - long hours, multiple jobs etc. it's not just piling tens of thousands of dollars into a trading account

Ironic that much of IT is an attempt to automate the boring stuff and yet by doing so efficiently, we're destroying the ecosystem by removing the base (ie the entry level jobs)

If the unions are only in Western countries, guess what happens to IT jobs....

What other industries offer the same remuneration for often basic education though?

Let me see if I understand this. When none of us have jobs to earn additional tokens, we will instead 'earn' more tokens by gambling? This sounds a bit dystopian to me. If nothing else, AI will be behind every single transaction, there would be no way for the average retail investor to have a true edge, there would only be gambling (and the house always wins of course)