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> When USA do the same, the non-USA dollar holders also take on the cost They don't. If they aren't holding USD or something pegged to it then it is not devalued.

In other words, what I said was correct.

> That is not the same thing because it's real productivity, labor is the only thing in the world that has any real value. Note that I'm strictly discussing this topic using words …

I didn't say Americans aren't living beyond their means. Just that on the face of it they aren't living beyond their means due to their currency's status if that status gives them …

The fact remains that the data we have says the value of US manufacturing is about 50% of that of China. You have your own perceptions of value of course, but that's not how value …

It's not a reserve currency because the US decided it is, it's a reserve currency because everybody else decided it is. They decided that because they decided it was in their own b…

Many countries control their currency and can print money to pay debts, and can control their fiscal and monetary policies to best gain advantage for themselves. And they do. US ca…

No, the meaning of the phrase "living beyond one's means" doesn't go to the unavoidable fact that circumstances change over time. I will one day become infirm and unable to earn mo…

I'm not asking what it's called, I'm asking why that's claimed to be out of their means when it quite clearly is within their means to have this exorbitant privilege, as evidenced …

Even if we take what you wrote as fact, that does not answer how it is living beyond their means if their means includes "providing mainly a financial service, by managing the doll…

> No, it is more like these companies monopolized access to the high income market and exploited this inefficiency. It is similar to buying a stock for $10 then increasing the bid …

> Only on a dollar value basis. Uh, yes. > And that's heavily skewed on how an item's value is calculated. An item's value is calculated according to what it is bought and sold for…

> It gets massive amounts of products and services enabling the US residents live well beyond their means. What does this mean really? That is their means. For a somewhat topical e…

Really? You rm -rf your working trees each evening before you finish, and git clone them from github in the morning? :) I store my code in a completely distributed fashion, often i…

Well it does mean "no modifications" to the hypothesis, hypothesis being about performance of code A and B. Code B' would be a change. It's just semantics, but the point is that th…

> Is that it's literally what us software optimization engineers do. We keep writing optimizations until we find one that is a statistically significant speed-up. I don't think tha…

No, that won't do it. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_semiconductor_fabricat...

That's not evidence though even if we take it as true. You can of course make layers of abstraction or encapsulation without "object oriented" languages.

mitigations=off disables workarounds for bugs or "mis-features" in the CPU that could be exploited to bypass OS security measures. smap is an OS security measure, and so does not g…

I'm not sold on the evidence of much in the way of programming language features from the "object oriented" era. They were pushed by cultish types with little evidence. There was t…

On the other hand it would be a very cheap counter espionage measure if a small stream of such payments was enough to convince China et al that the NSA had not broken encryption.

> The modern version is people who are afraid of Chicago. I thought America has a serious gun problem. Or is it so exaggerated that it is irrational to be afraid of a city that's i…

If qualification, accreditation, integrity is overseen and regulated and handed out by multinational corporations and organizations, owned by and run for billionaires with shady co…

Bin Laden wanted to create a unified Islamic Caliphate uniting Muslims around the world, and overthrowing governments in the Middle East and Arabic world seen as usurpers and puppe…

Really? Musk has offered naming rights of his offspring or personal gain on more than one occasion?