You vill live in ze pod. You vill own everything. Und you vill be unhappy
https://someunpleasant.substack.com/p/far-and-wide
https://stacker.news/items/1301245
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Brexit lowered UK GDP 6–8%, investment 12–18%, and employment,productivity 3–4%
https://www.nber.org/system/files/working_papers/w34459/w34459.pdf
https://stacker.news/items/1297528
What's the first thing you think of when hearing "AI's impact on the economy"?
A: AI as a risk to the job market
B: giant opportunity for cheap, high quality and abundant consumer products
https://stacker.news/items/1297396
Who is OpenAI’s auditor?
https://www.ft.com/content/3cff198e-25e5-481a-bd34-e26941e1d12d?utm_social_post_id=581308953&utm_social_handle_id=18949452

> Who is its auditor? It’s a simple question, which ought to have a simple answer.
> Most public companies in OpenAI’s notional market cap weight class are audited by one of the Big Four: Deloitte, EY, KPMG or PwC. At the lower end of large-cap US stocks, names like Grant Thornton or BDO creep in.
> OpenAI’s auditor is not disclosed. Now, as a private company, it is under no obligation to release this information — but it’s not trivial. The lack of information has left several people we’ve spoken to on Wall Street a bit confused.
https://stacker.news/items/1287012
Mooom economists arguing about using central banks for central planning again
https://www.lse.ac.uk/granthaminstitute/publication/revisiting-central-bank-independence-for-the-climate-era-insights-from-the-peoples-bank-of-china/
https://stacker.news/items/1286009
How Close Are We to Solid-State Batteries?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uspSYVssGXU
https://stacker.news/items/1281240
The Credit-Card Rule That Powers Rewards Cards Just Got Broken
https://www.wsj.com/finance/visa-mastercard-reach-settlement-with-merchants-to-lower-fees-c5fde9b7
> Premium credit-card users are in for a big surprise: Their JPMorgan Chase Sapphire Reserve, and many other rewards cards, could soon be rejected by merchants.
> No longer would merchants have to “honor all cards,” instead they can reject credit cards that charge merchants bigger fees for each transaction, a concession Visa, Mastercard and banks have balked at for ages
Looking forward to chaos at the Walmarts :)
https://stacker.news/items/1279954
Peter Thiel: Capitalism Isn’t Working for Young People
https://www.thefp.com/p/peter-thiel-capitalism-isnt-working-for-young-people
https://stacker.news/items/1277814
Blood test that detects 50 types of cancer. I tried it.
https://eu.usatoday.com/story/life/health-wellness/2025/11/05/galleri-early-cancer-detection-blood-test/87009742007/
https://stacker.news/items/1275725
OpenAI pirated large numbers of books
https://news.bloomberglaw.com/ip-law/openai-risks-billions-as-court-weighs-privilege-in-copyright-row
> OpenAI pirated large numbers of books and used them to train models.
> OpenAI then deleted the dataset with the pirated books, and employees sent each other messages about doing so.
> A lawsuit could now force the company to pay $150,000 per book, adding up to billions in damages.
https://stacker.news/items/1274720
They stole my work. I tried to find them
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CFJIVBJYY9M
https://stacker.news/items/1268533
The Age of Laser Warfare Has Begun
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8VLovd9bS5U
https://stacker.news/items/1266113
Gold Still Matters More Than You Think
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JMObz0Dgq7M
https://stacker.news/items/1264247
NordVPN denies using trackers but the App reveals a different story
https://www.kuketz-blog.de/nordvpn-bestreitet-den-einsatz-von-trackern-doch-ein-app-mitschnitt-zeigt-ein-anderes-bild/
https://stacker.news/items/1262021
Driverless Waymos Set to Deliver DoorDash Orders in Phoenix
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-10-16/driverless-waymos-set-to-deliver-doordash-orders-in-phoenix?taid=68f0eeb076f6a10001748d22&utm_campaign=trueanthem&utm_content=business&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter
https://stacker.news/items/1257358
What is your overall personal storage capacity?
Add up all the hard drives, phones, laptop, desktop, nas, raspberry pi, external HDDs etc. How much storage capacity do you have.
Only your personal capacity. Custodial cloud services don't count. You employers server or work laptop don't count. Shared devices with family neither.
https://stacker.news/items/1256645
War Photographer Breaks Down His Essential Camera Kit
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4JgaSjzGkJ0
https://stacker.news/items/1255289
Tariffs Are Way Up. Interest on Debt Tops $1 Trillion. And DOGE Didn’t Do Much.
https://www.wsj.com/economy/federal-budget-fiscal-2025-e8d21595?mod=economy_trendingnow_article_pos1
https://stacker.news/items/1254197
The Original Sin of Computing...that no one can fix
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fu3laL5VYdM
https://stacker.news/items/1251696