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Who decides when a leader is illegitimate or not?

In this case, the person who decides just said that he wants to control Venezuela's oil.

Invading and kidnapping the leader of a sovreign nation sounds rather illegal to me.

Is it really illegal is nobody has the power to apply that designation?

Absolutely. I declare it so.

There's no such thing as a sovereign dictatorship, that's a contradiction in terms.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sovereign

> The roles of a sovereign vary from monarch, ruler or head of state to head of municipal government or head of a chivalric order. As a result, the word sovereignty has more recently also come to mean independence or autonomy.


Are Loongson powered machines available in the west? Are they only available from Chinese manufacturers?


You can just buy them off AliExpress, I've got myself a 3A6000 board from there - it's an interesting machine, feels much like a (UEFI) PC and is sure faster than any readily available ARM SBC, about the level of Zen1 I'd say.


Interesting, I thought performance was lower than zen 1. I wonder if they'll ever catch up


Labour have dropped to 17% because their left wing has moved to the greens, Libdems and nationalists. Reform support has stopped growing at 25% and that's mainly Tories moving across. The only people that harp on about "two tier Keir" are the extreme right wing loonies.


Absolutely. Labour betrayed their core voters, who are looking for something else, but won't touch Reform UK because they're even more disgusting than the current right-wing Labour-in-name-only government.


No true scotsman


It's always been like this. From the official secrets act where they could jail you just for revealing the date of the office Christmas party to D notices suppressing newspapers from publish stories the government thought were to sensitive. MI5 and MI6 acting totally without accountability, with the government not even acknowledging their existence. If anything, things have started to get more transparent now, with a freedom of information act, actual oversight and accountability for the intelligence services and less government. But the default position of the UK government has always been secrecy and the right to do what they want to protect the country.


To protect the country from a government change?


> But the default position of the UK government has always been secrecy and the right to do what they want to protect the country.

Usually those types are the prime threat to the country.


It's the best deal for both companies. Netflix gets the WB back catalogue and studios to provide high quality content and potentially premium streaming services with HBO. WB gets stable cashflows and a place where their content is needed and their production expertise will help improve the current product. I can easily see a new premium Netflix+ channel with that includes HBO bundled with it.

A win for both companies, Netflix with IP and WB with stability.


Too much money being spent on a technology that isnt ready to do what they're saying it can do. It feels like the 3G era all over again. Billion spent on 3G licences which didnt deliver what they expected it would.


But this time, it’s trillions!

What could possibly go wrong


Berkshire is sitting on nearly $350 billion in cash. One of the ratio's that Buffet uses to measure overvaluation, Wilshire 2000 Market Cap as a % of GDP is at an all time, 220%. Its usually a good indicator of a market top. He's making a few small investments, but he's just waiting until there's more of sell off before heading back in. He's under no pressure to buy anything.


It'll come from the other bubble in financial markets, Private Credit. There have been quite a few bankruptcies and problems emerging there, and they're stepping up to be major funders for the AI capex boom.


APPL is the best bet as it doesnt have any exposure to AI. MSFT has spent a truckload of money on datacentres, if AI doesnt deliver they're going to face a huge drag on earnings because of the overinvestment.


Microsoft has the same struggle as Facebook and Google.

If AI matures into the next big thing, it risks wiping them out of their dominant positions if they don't spend to keep pace.

If it doesn't, then they just blew a bunch of money but are still dominant players, with an existential threat in the rearview.

Given the relative risks, they'd be foolish not to pump some of their cash flow into AI for a few years until the pace settles.


Meta and Alphabet are mostly ads + desperately trying to find other ways to make as much money as ads


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