The new £50 notes will feature Alan Turing (whilst HMG proposes bans on Turing complete computers AND working crypto)

So much for all those Arduinos, much less Raspberry Pi systems. In fact, I think most of the appliances in my home (washer, dryer, refrigerator, microwave, and toaster oven) would be illegal.

On the other hand, this would do wonders for my Microchip stock – I don’t think the lockdown they want is possible for the small, cheap microcontrollers so the 32-bit ones will have a huge spike in sales. Net volumes might be down some but the dollar volume will be way up.

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