12/10/2024
Here's our news blog for December. We'll just put two categories here this time, NEW PRODUCTS and ECONOMICS (since so many people are doing investing these days). ... The other categories are on the website LandAndSeaJournal.
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PRODUCTS
Gary Vaynerchuk on the rise of live social shopping: It will disrupt multiple industries
China’s Gold Scams Soar: Soil Inside Gold Bracelets, Steel Wires Sold as Gold, Even by Top Brands
I Built a 4 Axis 3D Printer Unlike Anything You’ve Seen
Almost one step away from what 3d printers could be, which is where both extruder and bed are gyrable.
Orion Glasses: Our Future
Will the spy glasses succeed this time in society, or will creepy, intrusive people get punched for wearing them agian, because people don't want to be recorded in restaurants, bathrooms, waterparks, libraries, parks, on dates, wherever?
Is it legal to wear these into bathrooms? How about any space where exists an expectation of privacy?
LimX Dynamics Launches First Wheeled Quadruped Robot W1
LilyGo T5 S3 Pro - EXCLUSIVE FIRST LOOK!!!
How Shopping Malls Are Being Transformed Into Apartments In The U.S.
Malls new lease on life: Apartments
Take a look at Australia's first mobile drug checking machine
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ECONOMICS
Tipped off: Exposing where your tips really go | Marketplace
Microsoft Bitcoin Strategy - A Presentation by Michael Saylor
‘An asset without counterparty risk.’
What Happens When ALL 21 Million Bitcoin Are Mined? | Michael Saylor
The overflow energy (from natural resource energy) can be just not used, or could be used to mine bitcoin. Solar and wind grids, they will pay people to take the energy, Saylor said.
Will Bitcoin be banned, copied, or hacked? Does Bitcoin represent sound engineering, ethics, and economics? Saylor. It's difficult to know in only a couple of years. It's not the first such attempt.
Sha256 hashing. Running on a lot of expensive hardware, decentralized, people all over the world running nodes, cost billions every year. Not CPU or GPU that could be attacked by people who have more CPU (Microsoft) or by AI data centers.
The best argument against Bitcoin is if you have a better monetary network, because then all the smart money would use it. Bitcoin currently has electricity power, computer hash power, $700b investment economic power, political power 100ks of people.
People sell their weak assets to buy their strong assets (Bitcoin is being bought).
As the network gets bigger, it becomes more conservative, stable. It's harder to make any decision about the network (limitations) the larger the network gets.
Could Elon Musk Really Buy a Country? Examining the Gambia Proposal.
Is this an AI podcast?
Flexport CEO: Companies already shifting imports to West Coast as another possible port strike looms
Intel Replaces Gelsinger With Two Interim Co-CEOs
China Manufacturing is a HUGE mistake! (In 2023...)
Uniqlo's Parent Company Sees Shares Drop Over Xinjiang Remarks
Everyone has given up on the idea of investing outside of America, says Rockefeller’s Ruchir Sharma
Elon Musk's record $56bn pay deal rejected for second time | BBC News
El Salvador government has 6200 bitcoin, Tesla has 10k. Saylor has 18k. The Ukraine government has 46k. UK government has 61k. China government has 190k. US government has 210k (seized legally). Microstrategy has 250k. BlackRock has 450k. Binance has 640k. Satoshi has/had 1,100,000 bitcoin.
Tesla recently transferred all its bitcoin to unknown wallets. Some speculated that this was in order to sell it.
Musk has said he personally doesn't own any bitcoin investments.
Rise in 'reservation ghosting' hits NYC restaurants
China's 'She Economy' providing welcome boostーNHK WORLD-JAPAN NEWS
Mexican Authorities Raid Chinese Yiwu Mall, Confiscate 260,000 Fake Items Valued at $3.6 Million
OpenAI rolls out full o1 model
12 Days of Shipmas.
Nice shots of Altman with his new team. Lol. What kind of obedient sycophant must you be to work there now?
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Coca Cola receives ‘big backlash’ over new AI generated Christmas advertisement
Will that Jaguar ad be the peak for that sort of thing? for a storied British brand.
Ramaswamy says DOGE will scrutinize Rivian loan and CHIPS Act awards
the 7zip rabbit hole goes extremely deep. (1000's of crashes)
Koreans still pay utilities on top of this.
Because a long time ago, banks didn't offer good interest rates, so people found other ways. Jeonse is like you pay, for example, $50k USD equivalent to the landlord for 2 years rent. At the end of 2 years, you get $50k back, as long as he didn't go bankrupt. During that time, he uses the money to make investments or whatever. Years ago 70% of people in Seoul did it but now, due partially to increased scams and non-repayments, only 40% chose to do this rather than select a regular-rent apartment.
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