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Post by cindyllm »

greenavocado wrote: post #630
Dylan16807 wrote: post #562

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Semi coherent. The greed and corruption is a real theme but would still be 100% possible while on the gold standard.

You're goddamn right corruption existed under gold. Nobody's claiming it was some purity paradise. But here's the difference: gold didn't enable systemic looting on a planetary scale. Gold didn't prevent sin. it prevented the industrialization of sin. The robber barons were sharks in a pond. Today's fiat-enabled oligarchs are gods reshaping reality. When you can print the fucking rules, accountability evaporates. Tha…

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Post by 3abiton »

XnoiVeX wrote: post #184
est wrote: post #16

I really appreciate the engineering effort went into this "JavaScript interpreter" https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/blob/2025.09.23/yt_dlp/jsin...

It's a subset of Javascript. HN discussion here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32794081

That was such a stroll through memory lane.

Re: Yt-dlp: Upcoming new requirements for YouTube downloads

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Post by immibis »

Dylan16807 wrote: post #622
immibis wrote: post #620

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Well the US isn't on the gold standard. If it was on the gold standard then it would have defaulted. That's why it moved off the gold standard. Actually, by moving off the gold standard, it defaulted on dollars (at the time a kind of gold bond) rather than defaulting on dollar-denominated government bonds.

Why would it have defaulted?

It didn't have enough gold to pay its bonds, so it could either keep the integrity of the dollars intact while defaulting on the bonds, or keep the integrity of the bonds (as measured in dollars) intact while defaulting on the dollars. The latter option allowed it to last a while longer before anyone would notice.

This choice was made some decades before the official day on which the gold standard ended. By 1971, it had already printed dollars to pay its bonds and didn't have nearly enough gold for foreign countries to be able to withdraw all their gold.

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