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The Changing World Order

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Re: The Changing World Order

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Post by dforrestwilson »

thedudeabides5 wrote: post #95
dforrestwilson wrote: post #71

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Lots of people seem to believe that Ray Dalio knows anything, with anymore certainty than we do. In financial circles the man is not taken seriously, and allegations of fraud have been whispered for years now. I would be curious to know why anyone believes that Ray Dalio should be taken seriously here?

I’ve worked personally w Ray and can attest he’s the real deal. If the “financial circles” you run with don’t respect $100bn+ AUM, there not really “financial circles,” sorry. If you want to make up your own mind, take a look at their work on debt crises. Sometimes hard to see how it connects to day to day trading, but not the hallmarks of a fraud. https://www.bridgewater.com/big-debt-crises/Principles-For-N... All t…

Thanks appreciate the perspective. What kind of work did you do if you don’t mind saying?

Re: The Changing World Order

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Post by dang »

sremani wrote: post #93
dang wrote: post #59

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Generic dissing of other commenters just adds noise to HN. If you know more than others, why not share some of what you know so we all can learn? (Edit: I originally wrote "one of the worst ways to add noise". That was overkill; it gets worse.)

It is a qualitative analysis done by an enthusiastic amateur (me). You may disagree, and it is perhaps noise. Who knows!

I'm not sure either that I understand this or that my point was clear.

The part of your comment that added information was fine. It would have been better to add even more information, for example if you had macroexpanded "really good" into what specifically is good.

Generic dissing of other commenters is one of the most common tropes that appears here. Repetition, and especially repetition of indignation, are the things that most lower the quality of the site, and therefore most to be avoided.

Re: The Changing World Order

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Post by dang »

seibelj wrote: post #30
cscurmudgeon wrote: post #26

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> The U.S. has allowed the wealth gap to grow to levels that are pretty scary. China has scary levels of wealth gap too. I think it is probably has more. https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/usappblog/2019/04/06/income-inequali... > The U.S. has continued to elect inept and crony politicians who wish to look backward instead of bring the nation forward China is perceived to much more corrupt than the US. It is not even a competit…

It’s amazing that someone who has a deep nuanced view of American politics and critiques the minutia of American current events from the inside, then blindly believes vague propaganda from China (“China united and strong! Great and competent leader!”). Super common perspective from upper-middle class Americans who argue on HN and Reddit. If you don’t live in China, don’t speak Chinese, didn’t grow up in China, have n…

Would you please stop posting flamewar comments to HN? You have a good point here, and this way of making it just makes everything worse.

We've had to ask you this kind of thing many times:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22781294

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22543721

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22343386

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21740392

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19010638

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17822100

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20805021

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21667959

... and that's just for starters. Would you please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and use HN as intended from now on? I appreciate the good comments you make here and don't want to ban you, and at the same time, there is a problem.

Re: The Changing World Order

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Post by seibelj »

dang wrote: post #113
seibelj wrote: post #30

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It’s amazing that someone who has a deep nuanced view of American politics and critiques the minutia of American current events from the inside, then blindly believes vague propaganda from China (“China united and strong! Great and competent leader!”). Super common perspective from upper-middle class Americans who argue on HN and Reddit. If you don’t live in China, don’t speak Chinese, didn’t grow up in China, have n…

Would you please stop posting flamewar comments to HN? You have a good point here, and this way of making it just makes everything worse. We've had to ask you this kind of thing many times: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22781294 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22543721 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22343386 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21740392 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19010638…

Was the problem the class component? I thought it was relevant because there is a monoculture on HN and Reddit, and most of the readers likely identified with that.

Re: The Changing World Order

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Post by namenotrequired »

_iyig wrote: post #50
seibelj wrote: post #25

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I’m just not impressed by what he writes about in regards to “universal principles of world history”. His credentials don’t make me assume everything he writes is true and what he writes is long winded and obvious.

Glad it's not just me. I'm halfway through reading the linked post, and it seems like he hasn't yet gotten to the point.

It's the introductory chapter of a book.

Re: The Changing World Order

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Post by namenotrequired »

jarsbe wrote: post #55
adaisadais wrote: post #22

“The slow one now will later be fast / for the times they are a Changin’” -Bob Dylan Loved reading “Principles” by Dalio. Great read. I find it apparent that the U.S. is declining while China is in a prime position to reach new heights. The U.S. greatest competitive advantage has been culture which is quickly being copied by the new middle class in China. The U.S. has allowed the wealth gap to grow to levels that are…

> The U.S. greatest competitive advantage has been culture I'd argue it's being the global reserve currency not culture.

According to the article,being global reserve currency is a the result, not cause, of having competitive advantages

Re: The Changing World Order

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Post by dang »

seibelj wrote: post #114
dang wrote: post #113

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Would you please stop posting flamewar comments to HN? You have a good point here, and this way of making it just makes everything worse. We've had to ask you this kind of thing many times: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22781294 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22543721 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22343386 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21740392 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19010638…

Was the problem the class component? I thought it was relevant because there is a monoculture on HN and Reddit, and most of the readers likely identified with that.

Only insofar as it's part of a putdown package. Really it's the combination of pejorative language (especially when personal), outright insults ("blindly believes vague propaganda"), putdowns ("super common perspective from [etc.]"), aggressive argumentativeness (your last sentence). The whole deal.

I'd be careful about perceptions like "there is a monoculture on HN and Reddit". Trying to pin down anything concrete about that is really slippery. Such perceptions are notoriously in the eye of the beholder, meaning we tend to create them without realizing it's we who are creating them, and it leads us to do battle with our own demons. Large statistical clouds like HN (let alone Reddit) furnish tons of material to craft demons with, far more than we need. That makes the pictures extremely convincing—with enough degrees of freedom you can fit any curve to any picture.

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https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22098687

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