Mini stocks were traditionally used as way to invest in asset as a security. But currently with all the ETFs that are backed with physical asset itself, I'd choose that way.
Holding asset yourself (gold) causes logistical issues and massive buy/sell split on your side, but it has some advantages too.
Prices of investments will also go down - stocks certainly, although precious metals were traditionally recession proof, we've never had such a bull run on gold/silver in anticipation of recession. My guess is that it won't hold - I've heard that jewelers already refuse to take precious metals at anything near market value.
Yeah, as a SWE I just got sufficient money to pay my expenses AND have some to invest quite recently (about 2/1 months ago), but I basically froze the money instead of investing because everything seems overvalued and about to fall (even silver and gold).
Be careful, I would not stay 100% invested or 100% uninvested. The market can remain in an Everything bubble for far longer than we expect (see: since 2008). It can be a lot harder psychologically to get back -into- the market when you're totally out because of sunk cost fallacy (thinking, I gotta wait just a little longer and this thing will finally crash).
I would argue that parts of the economy should (hopefully) remain healthy. I mean, AI bubble or not, people need medicine, food, internet access, energy, ... . Invest in that.
Also (not a financial advisor), when a crash occur there is a so called "flight for quality" where people move money they made by cashing out the assets to stable (A+ assets). So look for companies that have solid financials and can weather the storm.
Finally, diversify not only on the industry, but also geographically. EU, Swiss, Asian. I personally stay a bit away from emerging markets stuff as I don't have enough knowledge to make informed decisions (I don't even consider Emerging Market ETFs which should be run by SMEs).
Exactly. To Google, wanting to use a domain other than Gmail is a strong signal that they can probably shake you down for a few bucks a month. Sure it’s just $7 for most of these people and they probably only have 1-2 accounts. But multiplied by how many million people they saw using this feature it could be worth it to Google. Plus also ending the infra cost of fetching.
For those of us who were just using the feature to aggregate mail from other email addresses like an old Yahoo account or something, I doubt Google cares about it, they even probably kind of liked it that you’re viewing their ads instead of the other guys, but they probably don’t matter enough.
There are quite a few competitors in this space, trying to figure the best way about this. I've been recently playing with the Jentic MCP server[0] that seems to do it quite cleanly and appears to be entirely free for regular usage.
I used langchain in one project and I do regret choosing it over just writing everything over direct API. I feel their pain.
It had advantage of having standardized API, so I could switch local LLM to OpenAI and just compare results in a heartbeat, but when I wanted anything out of ordinary (ie. get logprobs), there was just no way.
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Vehicle by definition can't be connected to the house constantly. I can imagine this lowers need for house battery size, but not need for it's existence.
House power consumption is very random.
There is typically good connectivity between houses. That means even if your EV isn't home, the other EV's in your street can send your house a lot of energy.
Unfortunately anti-islanding rules from power companies generally disallow you using the power lines between your house and a neighbours while the grid connection is disconnected elsewhere.
These rules could be adjusted though - although it would take a lot of systems design work to ensure power system stability and re-synchronizability even with every possible combination of islands.
It's more about safety than reconnection: when repairing lines, it's much more manageable to "lock and tag out" the upstream side than all the distributed generation, especially in emergencies.
Any lines being worked on will be shorted (ie. all conductors joined together and to ground).
As long as that is always done, islanding doesn't present any human safety concerns.
That is normally done anyway, because plenty of utility breakers will automatically try to reconnect every few minutes (allowing some grid scale failures to repair themselves with no human involvement).
But when the vehicle is connected, the user is typically at home. So there's a convenient relation there.
House power consumption is random because it's not designed to be predictable. It's trivial to have a washing machine and heating that prioritize energy consumption whenever the EV is connected, or grid energy is affordable.
Unless you have more than one person in the house…
But in general, yeah, when you _need_ the battery, maybe you just need to figure out that you don't need to drive that day/hour.
The other advantage of a car, is that it would allow you to bring in power "from the outside", go to somewhere where the grid is still working, charge up, then come back. Of course, you'd hope to be back on power before this was needed!
Holding asset yourself (gold) causes logistical issues and massive buy/sell split on your side, but it has some advantages too.