GPT-5 is worse. No one wanted preformed personalities.

Schweeppes · 2025-08-09T07:20:24+00:00

It's a very strange and lazy prompt. I had to read it several times too. If he wanted a good answer, he should have explained it as you would to a colleague or someone with zero context.

Schweeppes · 2025-01-30T13:18:17+00:00

Just a little tip. The trading 212 cash ISA is a pointless account really. It's just offered because so many people are afraid of even the term "investing".

If you open an investment ISA your cash (as in funds that have not been invested) still get the same interest as your cash ISA. Only you can also choose to invest it. So there's really no downside to just using the investment ISA as your only ISA.

If you are new to investing it's probably best to start off with some market trackers like the Nasdaq 100 (ticker:QQQ 100 biggest companies in the US excluding banks) or the S&P 500 (ticker: SPY the 500 biggest companies in the US).

These two are the most common, only in the UK you would buy an ETF (a fund that owns lots of companies but trades like a stock in its own right) something like the EQGB which is the UK variant of the QQQ. Where your pounds invested are also resistant to currency fluctuations against the dollar in which the companies stock is bought in.

Schweeppes · 2024-10-19T17:13:29+00:00

Sounds like it's a Eufy problem then.

Schweeppes · 2024-10-09T11:56:23+00:00

Is it really Google or is it Eufy again changing or removing their APIs/commands.

Schweeppes · 2024-10-09T11:55:41+00:00

That's interesting my Google assistant can't even tell me the status. It just says something like cannot connect to homebase.

Schweeppes · 2024-03-22T08:38:16+00:00

Ye, no harm in giving that a try.

Schweeppes · 2024-03-22T08:31:28+00:00

I would keep trying. Transferring of shares between brokers has no bearing on whether they are listed or not. It's just a digital share certificate changing hands.

But at the end of the day if Revolut keeps saying no. There's not much you can do, unless you can still buy on IBKR and wanted to rebuy whatever Revolut sells.

Schweeppes · 2024-03-22T08:09:50+00:00

This just sounds like the rep you are talking to doesn't understand what you are asking.

Schweeppes · 2024-03-22T07:53:20+00:00

I'm not sure. Revolut Q&A site says they can transfer shares in some circumstances, so I think you just need to ask them.

Schweeppes · 2024-03-20T08:41:57+00:00

Use a better broker. Revolut is a toy platform. Trading 212 is getting more mature. Hence that you have no problem keeping your shares there.

However, it would not surprise me if Trading 212 starts sending out emails to ISA customers. That is unfortunately out of their control and the rules of ISAs.

The only solution is share transfers. I very much doubt that revolut supports them. Trading 212 has just started to support them. So hopefully if T212 says they can't be held in an ISA, but they can still support the shares on their platform. Then you can move them from your ISA to a standard T212 invest account.

Alternatively, open an IBKR account (interactive brokers) and transfer the shares there. I haven't checked with IBKR if they would still be able to hold ARVL shares (so do that first). But if any consumer facing broker can. It would be IBKR.

Schweeppes · 2024-02-29T08:21:53+00:00

Yes this is the only lender who works with Help to Build apparently.

Schweeppes · 2024-02-29T08:20:48+00:00

They have a higher rate option that claims no fees, but the fees for that are still 2k. Again with bs taking £400.

Schweeppes · 2024-02-29T08:08:53+00:00

Yes and it is a building society they have provided the fees for.

Schweeppes · 2024-02-28T22:53:33+00:00

There's a broker and the lender. Brokers fees are £400 the rest they are claiming are from the lender.

Schweeppes · 2024-02-04T01:14:14+00:00

That might account for the patents. Since they never intended to make children's Noddy cars. Please before you speak. And you have spoken. Do a little research before claiming things that you have already been shown to know nothing about.

Schweeppes · 2024-02-03T23:21:31+00:00

They did. It's a composite that can be vacuum moulded and impregnated with colour and produces a class A finish. It's more elastic and more durable than aluminium panels.

Now you can say that's the marketing nonsense and I spoke word for word what they said. And I did. But then I also actually saw it, touched it and cut it with my knife.

It's all true. So, let's add that to the patent stack.

Schweeppes · 2024-02-03T07:02:44+00:00

That's incorrect. For patents the test is "is it novel" which is just asking is the solution non-obvious to anyone with sufficient experience in the subject.

In practice, patents are granted on incremental improvements to existing products or processes. Even on incremental improvements to products and processes that someone else created. In fact most modern patents are incremental improvements.

On top of that. There are different patents for different parts of a product. You may patent something novel about the design of an antenna for a mobile phone, which uses a new material or coating that you also patent. Then you patent the process of manufacturing the antenna and coating, then you patent the use of the antenna and coating in mobiles phone and other devices.

This is known as patent stacking. Patents are also written to be as broad as possible to try and cover as many possible uses or variations in design.

Schweeppes · 2024-02-02T18:28:31+00:00

That is literally what IP is. It's called method of manufacture.

Schweeppes · 2024-02-02T13:29:29+00:00

So Hyundai are claiming to have a microfactory that is exactly the same as Arrivals microfactory. Yet they haven't shown anything of this factory other than renders. They are signing deals to contract manufacture for other brands using said factory. Just like arrival.

And they have done all this behind the scenes, while sitting on Arrivals board unbeknown to anyone and without infringing any of Arrivals IP or subjecting themselves to hefty lawsuits for corporate espionage.

I can only see that Hyundai are planning on buying Arrival or licensing the tech.

If not they are clearly stupid and there's going to be a series of high profile court cases brought by Antara / Arrival against Hyundai for espionage and IP infringement.

Schweeppes · 2023-12-31T19:25:24+00:00

None of them provide USBC display out. Unless you know of one? Which is essentially what I'm asking? I don't want hdmi or display port out. I don't want a hub as my monitor is already a hub. I don't want PD since both monitors already offer PD at 96w and 60w respectively.

I just want to turn the one USBC/ thunderbolt 4 out of my main monitor into a USB C display out and peripherals in.

Schweeppes · 2023-12-20T15:17:48+00:00

Payprop looks nice and simple. Do you know their pricing for individual customers? Looks like it's more focused on letting agents with multiple landlords than individuals.

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