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I think the US helped Japan so that they wouldn't start dumping US treasuries to support the yen, making our already bad situation worse. I don't expect it to work as we are sittin…

"not x, but y" emdash through out if you can't be bothered to write it why should I bother to read it?

to modify sinclair: it is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his bonus depends on his not understanding it

Employees reportedly worried CEOs only care about money

the ai writing is so painful, even if the news is good

why weren't you always eating pork then? (I like both, prefer beef usually but buy pork often, dislike how hogs are treated tho compared to cows)

The neat part is that there is no inflation here: you just substituted a worse product for a better one and our friends in the govt call it good.

yeah, it's called inflation, it really sucks for everyone except the people who receive the new money early (mainly the banking system, but also people w/liquid assets + finance ad…

you are falling into the trap of thinking of a house as a maintenance-free place to live

nobody is angry about the hostage crisis

lol yeah ok man

What I mean is that the ability of the domestic economy to produce, with automation, is constrained mainly by demand and raw materials. Producing plastic toys would not make a dent…

economic capacity is effectively infinite at this point, demand and raw inputs are the constraining factors (suggested reading: social credit (canadian not chinese) Not making chea…

I've got an idea, very creative & unconventional: You know how we tried to defeat Vietnam militarily and it was a disaster with all sorts of US service members lives lost, their fa…

yeah, i'm familiar with the just so stories told to us by economists, but the reality is that by moving the entire supply chain to asia there are huge knock on effects on our own a…

It's been funny watching the slippery slope fallacy fallacy at play w/the supply chain: - We'll only move cheap plastic toys to asia - We'll only move low-value clothing to asia - …

lol I almost included that quote, but the reality is that china isn't communist in any meaningful way

i don't think they view it as a mistake

Maybe we shouldn't have moved the entire supply chain to asia. "we"

Here is my advice to a young person interested in computer science: https://htmx.org/essays/yes-and/ TLDR: - Knowing how to do things with computers will likely remain useful in th…

yes, I caveat that at the end: > Once we have strong AI, maybe the situation changes. But that’s what we’ve got today. However, I am doing research on AI and hypermedia and I'm ske…

Here is how REST came to mean the opposite of REST: https://htmx.org/essays/how-did-rest-come-to-mean-the-opposi... And here is why REST is probably largely pointless in machine-to…

i am now complete anti-gambing and anti-pharma ads