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He’s conflating a few things. I don’t think becoming an illiberal democracy is the same thing as becoming a dictatorship. Still sucks for America though.

You need to click through to a half hour video. I can’t be arsed myself.

Do you mean something like the Cracking the Cryptic channel on YouTube? It features a couple of puzzles every day, with a variety of different rulesets.

> He also accused the European Commission of “protectionism” and an “anti-American” attitude. Says someone working for a government that’s just introduced protectionist tariffs. Hy…

I think his point is that death is the default, and that we’ve never been programmed for indefinite life. The only thing he’s selling is a book.

With sports streams you specifically want low lag, don’t you? It’s no fun being spoilered by people cheering (or not) next door.

What has that got to do with this thread? A devaluation's a devaluation, whether you're forced into changing a fixed rate, or have it imposed on you by the markets.

A shame that this is only for opting out of everything. It would be great if I could do something like export DO_NOT_TRACK=ads:personal-usage and have that still allow crash report…

How will China react to this, I wonder.

You sound like Harold Wilson. I don't mean to suggest that the current American devaluation is as large as the UK's 1967 devaluation, at least so far. Just that your reasoning here…

There are no fewer dollars in the US dollar currency area after the sale than before… but those dollars are worth less than before. If capital has not left the area, it has been de…

Would this mean minimum wage workers the world over effectively being paid in dollars rather than their local currency? (Because their salary in local currency would rise and fall …

What was the bigger shake up that happened 50 years ago? And what happens if your phone breaks or runs out of battery at the most inconvenient time? (Trump deports you, I guess, bu…

Cordless phones use the same frequencies as WiFi, so they could be interfering with each other. Or, I dunno. Is your phone using voip?

If you are dependent on imports for half your food supply and I am able to choke off your imports… then it doesn’t matter that you have the knowledge of how to mass produce synthet…

There are many chokepoints. The media/information is one of them. Food, water and energy are others. I expect there are more.

In theory Congress can impeach him for it, but in practice there won’t be the votes to convict him. If there are ever, somehow, the votes to convict him, it’ll be for something wor…

£10k/year for maybe 2days/month of meetings and prep sounds pretty well paid for volunteer work.

That’s true in the long term. In the short term, a sudden drop in house prices causes economic pain (e.g. people trapped by negative equity), and the US has a lot of economic pain …

Maybe some people assume the dishwasher is full, but some people are too lazy to check, and others are just copying everyone else. Ironic that you make assumptions in a post about …

Yeah, at some point it’s just willy waving.

Any reason why China wouldn’t be able to levy an extra 50% on the US? Didn’t think so.

There’s a difference between management knowing that it’s worth paying off tech debt in general, and management knowing that now is the right time to pay off this piece of tech deb…

Sometimes it’s just off topic.

The author’s argument doesn’t apply here, because those are all part of a larger, more diversified country.