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Nothing so rational, I'm sure. Tariffing Canada was already insane and he didn't care.
Your point exactly - why didn't he do the same to the EU?
Hopefully we'll see non-US tech salaries increase due to its importance.
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I don't think people realize how much of the world runs off of excel, especially the financial world. Excel still "supports" buggy issues from versions in the 1990s as to not break financial models. IBM mainframes do the same thing with COBOL because modernizing core code means having to notify and test all the downstream users that have their own code to deal with the legacy issues in the current stack. I was once e…
I know what you mean, but now you're talking about a very niche market. Finance, which uses Excel or spreadsheets since 90s. You can't replace these, I agree. But for other uses of Excel, I can say it can be easily exchanged. This is why I used 99.99% percent, but not more nines. The remaining "three nines" are the niches you're talking about. It's like how we say "Nah, it's a small set of matrices. just 2 , 3000x300…
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They don't remove posts that discuss European tech sovereignty. It was probably flagged by the community instead.
This feature has definitely been abused by fans of the current US administration. Anything close to being critical gets flagged and needs manual intervention to be brought back.
Called it, again . Data sovereignty is the true trend of the next decade. Not Quantum, not AI, but the new multi-pole world order divesting from Americentric technologies and back into the sort of locally-grown economies that children of the Cold War would be familiar with. Local vendors serving local needs with a focus on regional, not global, scale and service. Us Cassandra types have been screaming for years that…
European Union decided to sing EU–Mercosur Association Agreement, which will make European agriculture unable to sustain in comming years. As a result in case of war, sea routes blockade or Mercosur teaming up with Russia (what is happening anyway) Europeans will die from starvation.
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I don't think people realize how much of the world runs off of excel, especially the financial world. Excel still "supports" buggy issues from versions in the 1990s as to not break financial models. IBM mainframes do the same thing with COBOL because modernizing core code means having to notify and test all the downstream users that have their own code to deal with the legacy issues in the current stack. I was once e…
I know what you mean, but now you're talking about a very niche market. Finance, which uses Excel or spreadsheets since 90s. You can't replace these, I agree. But for other uses of Excel, I can say it can be easily exchanged. This is why I used 99.99% percent, but not more nines. The remaining "three nines" are the niches you're talking about. It's like how we say "Nah, it's a small set of matrices. just 2 , 3000x300…
It's true I'm not a spreadsheet power user - but not many people are.
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Making more stuff in the countries with the cheapest costs also means that people in those countries are being lifted out of poverty. China's GDP per capita went from ~350USD in 1990 to 12.500USD in 2023 and similar growth happened for India, Bangladesh and lots of other poorer countries. Globalization brought affordable goods to wealthy nations and better living standards to poorer nations. In addition, closer trade…
Meanwhile people in the West are being dropped into poverty. The environmental costs of globalisation are (literally) horrific. And a surprising amount of it is useless makework - disposable "fashion", faddy toys, and shoddy consumer goods that break after a couple of years. As for lowering the risk of armed conflict - how's that working out for everyone?
As for " lowering the risk of armed conflict - how's that working out for everyone?" - pretty well, thank you. Deaths in armed conflicts have massively decreased since the 1980s with most of them originating from local wars in Africa prior to 2022. (see https://ourworldindata.org/war-and-peace) - the Ukraine conflict is a return of exactly the kind of imperialist expansion that we've seen in the leadup to World War 1 which happens when isolated countries with territorial ambitions seek to expand.
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Just google 'percentage of GDP driven by government spending' for your country of choice. This is some of the most basic and widely available economic data that exists. https://www.imf.org/external/datamapper/exp@FPP/USA/FRA/JPN/... (edited my original comment to include the source as well)
Common source, great! First, you seems to conflate "free markets" (Whatever free means here?) with decentralized spending. How does that make sense? And more importantly: If we can agree that a democracy ought to be an aspiration for a society, and a functioning democracy requires some minimum level of equality, how will you ensure that under your "free market"?
Definitionally, non-government spending is market activity (controlled by each market participant, so decentralized).
I would question why this data upsets you so much instead of trying to shoot the messenger.