Andrew Reid

Actually look into the technical differences. Bitcoin is capped, has a maximum number of coins that can ever exist without the protocols being rewritten. Dogecoin is uncapped, but has a 5 billion coin mining limit per year to prevent inflation. Demand for cryptocurrencies only has to increase 5% a year for Dogecoin's value to maintain or increase. Supply and demand. Bitcoin is slow. Transaction rate is very limited. It works best as a commodity, not a VISA replacement for use in supermarkets (unless you're willing to wait hours for your payment to go through). And yet, existing banks cannot create a rival cryptocurrency. Here is a pretty good take on why. https://hackernoon.com/about-bitcoin-what-altcoins-and-shitcoins-dont-seem-to-get-rs53323w

The reddit group is essentially a decentralised democratic hedge fund mostly of normal people, not the rich and mostly not professional traders. Big difference. If AMC's stock rises like Gamespot a lot of people keep their jobs in the cinema business, and a lot of people on Reddit land a huge blow on wall street. I think most people's $100 is worth it to make the moral point and damage the wall street short seller business permanent basis. I would gladly pay $100 to fuck Melvin Capital. It is not an investment. It's a moral issue, and a punt. A gamble, to see if it works. A lot of people coming at it from wrong angle. The fact it doesn't make any kind of responsible financial sense is a moot point. People should definitely not see it as an investment or a short term way to make money for personal gain. That way you get a massive bubble and a lot of people lose their money. The $150 I put into DOGEcoin is a long term gamble. I'll forget about it and see if DOGEcoin hits the news headlines in 5 years or even 10. Or even longer. If not, what have I lost? Not much really. I do agree that if you want an investment (i.e. less risky and stupid) Bitcoin is the better option but it's still very volatile with an uncertain future compared to a sensible portfolio of stocks and shares selected for you by pros. PS - For those in the UK who want to buy Gamespot shares I recommend the online challenger bank app Revolut. Easy and simple.

It is a revolution, 100%. Internet users are controlling the market. Bitcoin is worth $27,000 today. Are you saying that buying at the start of the global recognition of the currency is pointless? Tell that to the millionaires it created. Cryptocurrency is absolutely a revolution and a disruptive technology. 100% agree I thought speculating on worthless stocks was the job of short sellers and hedge funds...

Happy to see these guys lose. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melvin_Capital And there is no excuse for illegal behaviour by the financial establishment and funds - Also this is a great explainer of the week, for people only just reading up on it (like me)... https://imgur.com/a/DCCpuZA

I get the feeling this is different. Coordinated, targeted action. I foresee... trouble.

Is the internet about to crash the markets? https://www.eoshd.com/news/amc-cinema-chain-saved-by-reddit-meme-stock-trading-is-the-internet-about-to-crash-the-markets/ Or do the people stand to win big? Answers on a postcard.. PS - I have bought some DOGEcoin. WOOF!

Micro HDMI input will make it a nice lightweight, if flimsy monitor. Battery life should be decent too. But the price is ludicrous.

It's basically the Xperia 1 II anyway. Not too shabby as a phone, if Android is your thing, but the unique features it has - 12MP camera 1.7" sensor and 3.5mm headphone jack with Hi-Res DAC are bettered on some £500 phones. The Pro Cine app is not great, pretty mushy codec!

30 minute limit due to heat in 8K and 4K/60p 😂 Otherwise looks good. Definitely has the edge on the EOS R5.

You are ill informed my friend. That isn't what it is doing. It also reduces in-camera sharpening to below what is possible with the built in profiles. It is an external profile loaded onto the camera.

Let's find out...

“I don’t think video-focused users are driving the reputation of this new product” Haha. I had a good smile at that comment, but then I realised the missing 4 grand hole in my bank account is still there. Canon exec. Interview: https://www.eoshd.com/news/canons-tsuyoshi-tokura-on-eos-r5-controversy-i-dont-think-video-focused-users-are-driving-the-reputation-of-this-new-product/

Z6 RAW isn't really raw sensor data and it is pixel binned too. The S5 10bit 422 is the more convenient option and will look cleaner, a bit more cinematic too.

Funny you just described brexit

What EU imposed law in particular hindered you the last 30 years, and finally you were freed from on that great day 2 weeks ago, 1st January 2021, and all was well? Answer it...

The point is that we are all capable of believing things which we know to be untrue, and then, when we are finally proved wrong, impudently twisting the facts so as to show that we were right. Intellectually, it is possible to carry on this process for an indefinite time: the only check on it is that sooner or later a false belief bumps up against solid reality, usually on a battlefield. - George Orwell, 1946

Short term it may hit home when our economy does a full on flop to the floor like a big stack of cards and supermarkets run out of fresh produce. Project fear! At what point for a Brexit fanatic does project fear become project real. For younger generations who have grown up making use of the freedoms they were born with (freedom of movement) pretty much immediately, but Project Fucking Facts has even been known to impact the people right at the top and the richest of society - pity them - for project fear has been enough for Boris Johnson's cunt father to get his French passport sorted out and enough of a reality for Rees Mogg to move his business to the EU (Ireland). Apparently man of the people and the enemy of bureaucratic rules everywhere has moved Somerset Capital Management to the EU because Brexit risks a section of its investment prospectus.

Yeah so did I, there was a lot of ideology and feelings wasn't there in the run up to the referendum and very little fact. You had to brush it off and do a character judgement on those advocating for which direction to go. My character judgement on Farage, Gove, Boris, Cummings, Arron Banks, Tice, etc. was that I didn't like them. Unintelligent dilettantes from Eton. Privileged little fixers and opportunists. All middle aged white men with an axe to grind. Probably all racist too. If this puts me into the category of "snobby" then fair enough, it's a label that was pinned on the remain side because we were painted into a corner by people like Farage holding a pint down the pub, and enough people believed it. We are liberal elites apparently!! When a culture turns against intelligent thinkers and well travelled people with an open minded view of foreigners then you know your country has a racism and class problem.

What does a NZ guy know about UK politics... My country founded the NHS. It had a strong social welfare system long before many other countries. That is something to be proud about. Not everything should be left to the private sector and competitive free market capitalism. Unless you want to pay astronomical amounts of money into the pockets of private insurance companies that is. Have you seen the price of health care in the US and Germany? The school meals stuff you are so ill informed about it hurts. This was a campaign by a British footballer to help out during corona times with free food for children, and the government was tasked to come up with a fair scheme. Looks like nearly all the public funds used for it went into the pockets of a dodgy private company. That is not about government spending lacking efficiency... It is about an incompetent, corrupt, borderline criminally negligent Conservative party, the misuse of public funds and an overall party philosophy that favours capitalism over starving children. A functional, competent government that does not run a country into the ground, invests in peoples lives rather than profiteering from them at every opportunity, can actually spend money efficiency and encourage a lot of growth.

Google's trackers for analytics on visitor numbers I will probably likely remove this weekend. With Cloudflare I can keep an eye on traffic demands on the server via their CDN (content delivery network) and save bandwidth too. With every free service like Google there is always an advertising or metrics related catch, i.e. we end up selling them our data. PS If everyone dumped shitty WhatsApp and Messenger, and instead used Signal we could do one on the social networks too. Let's hammer this subversive advertising industry.

New blog post: https://www.eoshd.com/news/which-camera-websites-spy-on-you-each-site-ranked-for-privacy-and-trackers-in-safari-14/

Aside from a small government, the other reason the Tories want devolution is so they can enrich the private sector via less-centralised, less-accountable, easily bribable local government. Some sham of a private company will come along and gobble up the money, making big profits for the Tory cronies involved in it. Look at the sham of the school meal packages recently - supposably £30 for 5 days of food, and what the mums got was £5 of baked beans. Where did the £25 go? This is OUR tax money. We pay our taxes, only for 90% of it to get syphoned off into the pockets of dodgy incompetent private sector Tories.

So red wall voters in the North East have turned to the neo-nazi Conservative party because they are promised a more direct form of democracy and devolved decision making, a Northern power house, a 'charismatic' say it like it is leader in Boris and a way to push back on the globalised Neo-liberal EU... It's a complete sham and a lie. Local airport could have been bought back regardless of Brexit. The upgrade of it could have benefited from EU funds. The railway can be modernised regardless of Brexit. Since most of the infrastructure and rolling stock are German or French however you may need to keep an eye on the supply of spare parts from Jan 1st. Got your defunct steel works, check. Great news. Now you can haemorrhage tax payer's money as well as Thai bank contributions. Investment in transport... again, nothing to do with Brexit whatsoever. Large plot of land for new businesses, new jobs, green energy, offshore wind-farms, etc. again nothing to do with Brexit, in fact the EU would have contributed a lot in terms of green energy, Germany being one of the most prominent countries for that, again not something most people are discussing down the pub but still true, and as for the move away from centralised Westminster London-centric decision-making, one of the reasons for devolution (and soon the break-up of the entire UK, with Scottish independence and 1970s Berlin / Northern Ireland style land border checks with military presence) is that the Tories are in favour of a small government, massive cuts to public spending, cuts to social care, public funding of the BBC and the arts & cinemas, and more things just too numerous to mention here.

So it's clear RISC / ARM architecture is going to be where the next-gen CPUs are, goodbye x86. Would we like to place bets on who will come out top in next-gen CPUs... NVidia Qualcomm Intel AMD Apple Microsoft Samsung Huawei Other Going only off what we know now, for me it has to be Apple due to the best chip designers and most experience with the architecture. Also their sheer competence has been market leading for a long time over Qualcomm. The benchmarks for the latest iPhone and iPad show this to be true. Not only this but Apple have the most optimised OS for ARM. Windows will never be as well optimised or integrated with the range of upcoming ARM next-gen CPUs/GPUs, because it just can't be... it has to support so many different chip configurations and legacy software architectures like DirectX. Samsung will enter the game with a supercharged Exynos chip. Huawei are already quite competitive with Kirin but have issues now due to the US blacklist, that could set them back a few years. Nvidia - well Tegra was always pretty good, I have no doubt they can offer Apple some serious competition especially on the GPU side. Qualcomm - plenty of experience but around 8 years now being beat by Apple. Doesn't look great, does it. Microsoft - no. They will just outsource everything and not bother with proper vertical integration. Windows won't be very optimised, even for their own processors. SQ1 effort shows this to be the case. A ton of catching up to do. Finally AMD and Intel - I rate AMD more highly, but I think both of them have too much investment in x86 architecture holding them back and splitting their focus. Windows will inevitably further slow down whatever they come up with vs Apple. I really cannot see Apple being beaten. MacBook Pro 16" with M1X or M2 may be one of the most future proof buys you will ever make. I am going to jump at it when it comes out.

This is exactly the way the EU works. If we don't like our MEPs, we un-elect them. I am no fan of overreach when it comes to centralised governments. No fan of that at all. I do agree the government should be directly representative of the people. That's why a coalition is a better representation of a nation. They work together, bridge divides, compromise. This is also why the EU was set up. It was not built to revive the monopolies of Germany, France, etc. and crush British industry. It was set up to prevent war in Europe and further cross border collaboration. There are hundreds of examples of this collaboration in the UK. Big state-funded EU projects and infrastructure we take for granted. Scientific communities and joint projects, the free flow of EU talent into the country's creative sector, in filmmaking, music, video game development, plus a hell of a lot more. Who would want to come to us now? All those easy to use privileges have been taken away and replaced with an inflexible Tory points based immigration system. It is now more bureaucratic, more uncertain, and more red tape for businesses too. If you directly elect every leader and every official you leave your democracy wide open to popularism and knee jerk reactions by the general public, based on misinformation and social media bullshit. There has to be some stability and some form of steady government. As far as I know the President is a revolving role switching between countries. What in particular did the previous EU commission president do to so hinder the UK anyway? Specifically? Especially not now we have left. Voluntarily given up our voice in Europe which could be have been used to positively reform it and increase our share of the pie. And that UK democracy with 8 layers stays the same regardless of whether we are in the EU or not. Dominic Cummings basically wanted to rip it all up and basically have a dictatorship at the top with no checks and balance. He wanted to abolish most of the civil service for starters. Wish you would though. I am still waiting for all the specific advantages for me to be communicated by somebody on the Leave side but as usual it's just a load of hot air about taking back control! I am no fan of so-called liberal elites either but if it is unaccountable, unelected elitism that's the enemy, voting Tory is about the maximum you can do to further it and that kind of cronyism. Recently the Tories got battered over the free school meals bullshit and their response has been to get a crony company to distribute free meals to parents, claim they're worth £30 when actually they receive about £5 worth of shit food to last them nearly a full week of schooling. Whilst the company involved creams off the profit.