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[hazl] 19/10/2019 14:35

A GOOD HISTORICAL REFRESHER if anybody's interested.

[hazl] 12/10/2019 21:32

Philosopher Marshall McLuhan once said that art is a “distant early warning system.” As such, artists need to be at the centre of AI development, and the humanities will take on a renewed relevance and importance in the service of fostering creative mindsets, systems thinking, and mental elasticity.

The ethical frameworks for AI might benefit, from a social justice standpoint, from embedding such notions as Peter Singer’s “effective altruism” (ensuring global fairness in the relief of poverty), to John Rawl’s “veil of ignorance” (ensuring genuine equality of opportunity and eliminating barriers to social mobility), to Susan Moller Okin’s feminist modifications to liberal theories of justice, as just a few potential examples.

[hazl] 04/10/2019 10:48

MTRO??


my own notes for mtro from various sources

The Q3 update was positive and the business is expanding.
"Q3Highlights
Deposits from customers up £955m, 10% quarter-on-quarter to £10.8b ($14.4b), whilst the cost of deposits reduced from 53bp in Q2 2017 to 50bp in Q3 2017.
Lending up £858m, 11% quarter-on-quarter to £8.6b ($11.5b) and a 1% increase in the loan to deposit ratio to 80%.
Underlying profit before tax[1] at £7.2m, a 77% increase from £4.0m in Q2 2017. Year to date underlying profit before tax [1] is £13.2m versus £12.4m loss 2016
A record quarterly growth of 79,000 customer accounts to 1,124,000, up 33% year-on-year.

CPV METRO INVESTMENT 9.12%
2. Spruce House Partnership 6.77%
3. Acacia Partners 4.17%
4. M Immersion Capital
5. Vanguard Group Inc
6. Odey Asset Management Group Ltd
7. PERSHING & CO NEW YORK
8. Wasatch Advisors Inc
9. TOLL FAMILY
10. Carmignac Gestion
11. ABGRANDKIDS
12. Prescott Associates
13. 683 Capital Management
14. Hill Vernon
15. Davis Selected Advisers
16. MARSHALL WACE
17. M Legal & General Group
18. JEFFERIES & CO SEGREGATED ACCT
19. P Phoenician Capital
20. MOUSSERENA
21. Willett Advisors
22. BlackRock
23. ENA Investment Capital
24. M Interactive Investor Trading
25. JPMorgan Chase
Successful cash placing of 8m ordinary shares in July raising gross proceeds of £278m at no discount to market price.
We celebrated our seventh birthday and the opening of our 50th store in Peterborough"

[hazl] 19/9/2019 07:49

Fast-growing VIPKid, based in Beijing, is backed by investors including venture-capital firm Sequoia Capital and retired basketball star Kobe Bryant. Through the service, some 70,000 teachers living in the U.S., Canada and elsewhere give online English lessons to more than 600,000 children, aged four to 15 and living primarily in China.

[hazl] 15/9/2019 17:58

'In England in 1381, a peasant revolt erupted, precipitated by the third poll tax in four years. The peasants wanted abolition of the old bonds, the right to commute services to rent, and riddance of all the restrictions heaped up by the Statute of Laborers.

However, none of the insurrections were successful. The leaders were hanged and the uprisings suppressed. They were unsuccessful, because they were merely rebelling against the symptoms of the crisis without any concept of its cause or of an alternative organization of society.

Today, the labor movement is similarly faced with an effort on the part of the financial oligarchy to lower its standard of living and deny it the right to organize and to strike. In the United States, despite its history of trade union organizations and labor legislation dating from the 1930’s, workers are being fired and blacklisted for organizing unions, and striking workers can now be permanently replaced by strikebreakers. In the last three decades, the percentage of American workers organized into unions has declined from over one-third to only 17 percent, which decline has only recently begun to be reversed, under the new leadership of the A.F.L.-C.I.O.

Unfortunately, thus far, today’s labor movement has failed to learn the lessons of universal history. Like the incipient labor movement of the Fourteenth century, it lacks a program for reorganization of the bankrupt financial system, and for global and national economic reconstruction.'



Part of an interesting post by RDLAING
RDLaing - 13 Apr 2009 - 16:55:32 - 1042 of 3778 BIRD FLU F'ING URGENT READ - NWO


Having lent loads of money to you, they now believe that they can get you to kill each other (and not them)so they can lend more money, and call in the debt senior to equity, ie seize assets secured thereon from your bankrupt descendants once they have killed you.



A Not So Distant Mirror
The Lessons of the Fourteenth-Century
New Dark Age
by William F. Wertz, Jr.

From FIDELIO, Volume VII, No. 3 - FALL 1998

Please note: Footnotes and illustrations are not included online.
they are available in the Fall 1998 Fidelio. Click here to order'

[hazl] 04/9/2019 15:53

Got a few HNG.
HAWKWING.

[hazl] 20/8/2019 18:48

The global economy is about to collapse into a depression worse than that of the 1930s, and its roots are deeper than trade wars, this according to Gerald Celente, publisher of The Trends Journal.
“It’s one big scam, it’s ready to blow apart, it has almost nothing to do with trade wars and tariffs,” Celente told Kitco News.
The “Greatest Depression,” as Celente calls it, will likely strike after the 2020 presidential election, he said.

[hazl] 19/8/2019 14:19

Bidstack Group plc (AIM: BIDS.L), the in-game advertising group, is pleased to announce a new collaboration with Epic Games, Inc.'s Unreal Engine, enabling video game developers to monetise their titles by creating advertising space within their currently live and soon-to-be-launched games, via a new Bidstack plugin.

The Unreal Engine is a complete suite of video game creation tools developed by Epic Games, the video game and software development company behind some of the biggest titles in video games including Fortnite, Rocket League and Gears of War.

[hazl] 09/8/2019 10:06

Proactive researchToday 08:08