Why crypto will not die

From Kaiko Research via Zerohedge: “On Monday, Hong Kong made its intentions clear to open the door to crypto trading for retail. Reports claim that China is quietly encouraging the move, using Hong Kong as a testing ground for what safe crypto trading might look like. The Hong Kong Securities and Futures Commission (SFC) outlined … Read more

And on the Pedestal These Words Appeared

My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings Look upon my works and despair. So basically labor want to reform the entire immigration system to make it even more fast-tracked, more facilitating to migrants and even easier to rort. You won’t even need to rort it, because it’ll be so easy to migrate to Australia after … Read more

Australia is a fine country.

Only the red countries or regions on the map mandate bicycle helmets by law and enforce them with fines. Australia’s laws on this are not “world class”, “progressive” or even reasonable. They are just one of many symptoms of an overly powerful public health and safety bureaucracy and a polity that is either well conditioned … Read more

ChatGPT: Novelist?

As the old saying goes: How do you eat an Elephant? One bite at a time. In the same way if you break up writing a novel into small enough tasks chatGPT will happily write it for you. Conveniently it is also really good at creating those tasks for you. The developers actively discourage such … Read more