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If anyone is going to get it right - I'd bet on the expo team. They know these sharp edges and have been building for them for years.

What APIs do you use for this?


For flights, SerpApi (to get Google Flights data) in combination with seats.aero pro. I use data from those services with a MILP library where I provide various travel and cost constraints. Runs periodically and notifies me of any good deals. I don't know if my setup actually does much more than the more expensive paid services already out there, but I can at least customize it a lot more to my liking to avoid a lot of manual search effort.


Ok I agree that de-banking is not a good thing overall from a political perspective.

But in this case, it seems fairly clear that A/I was providing services to organizations listed as Terrorist Organizations by the US, UK, and Canada. Seems like the best way around this is... don't do business with terrorists? I'd understand more if these were ONLY deemed by the US, but this is an international group.


> it seems fairly clear that A/I was providing services to organizations listed as Terrorist Organizations by the US, UK, and Canada

Let's take the UK as example. The organisation mentioned, Palestine Action, was indeed banned under terrorism laws. But on 13 February 2026, the UK High Court has ruled that the ban of Palestine Action under terrorism legislation is unlawful [1]. Why is that ‘fairly clear’ then?

[1] https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c8x90q9nyzyt



It's still not "fairly clear".


Yep for sure, don't view that as me agreeing with the ruling!


Reminds me of when Cloudflare used to provide DDOS protection for ISIS and Al-Qaeda linked websites, Matthew Prince used to defend it by saying providing services is not an endorsement https://www.theregister.com/off-prem/2015/11/18/cloudflare-c...


Because anything the US, UK, and Canada doesn’t like becomes terrorism, including (for Palestine Action in the UK) retroactively. It’s not something the US should be able to decide for the world.


> listed as Terrorist Organizations by the US

Given that the US governement consider that you are a terrorist if you are not a facist, any good person is considered a terrorist by the US government. UK being the US ball licking state, same.

I don't know which org hosted by A/I is considered terrorist by Canada but I'd like to have sources of actual terrorist attacks perpetuated by these org if they really exist before going deeper in that discussion. Most government now use terrorist word for orgs that act in a total peaceful way. Chaining yourself to a tree might be stupid, but it is not bringing terror anywhere for example yet many gov now label environmental activists as terrorists to discredite them and continue destroying the climate out of greed.


Is Italy in that list?


> Seems like the best way around this is... don't do business with terrorists?

Do you do any business with the US government? Potentially even supporting them financially through taxes? Why are you doing business with terrorists?


> it seems fairly clear that A/I was providing services to organizations listed as Terrorist Organizations by the US, UK, and Canada.

It isn't fairly clear, there's no due process, there are no proofs or clues, only Trump's and Shideler's word on that.


This has to be fake... or similar.

Their CMO's bio lists "20,000 'qualified' quantum AI contacts on linkedin" as the SECOND line in his bio.

"Business Management by ESADE. Co-Founder and CMO of Multiverse Computing. President, “barcelonaqbit-bqb”, 20,000 “qualified” quantum AI contacts on LinkedIn. VP of the AMETIC Innovation..."


Isn't this standard in Europe? There exists a layer of well-connected and impenetrable managerial class, shielded by a glass ceiling. The entire company is BS, and they use some folks with clout and credentials to access grants and handouts (or whatever inscrutable financial reasons). They often sell products to each others' companies or big Euro vendors.

Even if this fits the spirit of corruption, I'm not sure it fits the spirit of it. They certainly aren't there to build a product or provide valuable expertise, but taxes and salaries are paid, people go to conferences, they might even build something, but its a giant LARP. Don't expect to get rewarded or recognized for solid engineering.

I'm sure if you worked for a mid-sized Euro firm, you know what I'm talking about.


What is the 28% failure rate, is that from the removal of strong typing? Love the idea!


It was basically an independent study by scalekit where they tried connecting an AI agent to GitHub. They tested methods through CLI and MCP and in MCPs, 28% (7/25) there were TCP connection timeout errors. It was mainly the time gap in remote server responding which led to this.


Dude there is nothing "far right" about him.

Way too broad a brush to paint with. If we want to retain any sort of liberal democracy we need to stop with the rhetoric that "if you're not as far in X direction as I am, you must be on the other side". Its destroying the democratic party.

I'm a staunch democrat, and this is just sad to see. Progressive and centrist should both be able to coexist. We should be able to call out ineffective policies within our own movement without being called far right radicals.


Tan does not believe in equal franchise.


Dude he's decrying "Marxists" online. The dog whistle can't be any louder, it's hurting my ears already.


This has been tried multiple times actually via ISAs and other instruments. Immediately inverts to adverse selection - eg the students who are going for a more lucrative option don't want to participate.

That said, the letter here wasn't about undergrad or expensive college - its about the federal government stripping funding for research for political reasons. Sad. We should be investing in US research capabilities. And like it or not, our research universities are pretty freaking good at... research.


We used to build great big crazy things too, lots via research universities due to vast federal and defense research.

That has changed. It should be reinstated. Cut red tape, get back into the business of taking (literal) moonshots as a government.


The CRDT enables eventual consistency on these schema updates, so a new field will be eventually consistent


This seems to miss the plot on so, so many points. Not worth a read if you came to the comment section first.

Doesn't even discuss open-source when a key point its making is "tech is built on the backs of others".


Tech here can refer to many things. Given the context stated in the article (and literally the title) I think it’s clear the author is talking about SV elites which by definition excludes most of the open source community. And no, a tech company releasing open source code doesn’t amount to much in the face of the firehouse of cash they print. But you should just stick your head back in the sand, it’ll feel better.


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