dave4420

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by dave4420 1y ago
He’s conflating a few things. I don’t think becoming an illiberal democracy is the same thing as becoming a dictatorship. Still sucks for America though.
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by dave4420 1y ago
You need to click through to a half hour video. I can’t be arsed myself.
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by dave4420 1y ago
Do you mean something like the Cracking the Cryptic channel on YouTube? It features a couple of puzzles every day, with a variety of different rulesets.
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by dave4420 1y ago
> He also accused the European Commission of “protectionism” and an “anti-American” attitude. Says someone working for a government that’s just introduced protectionist tariffs. Hypocrites.
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by dave4420 1y ago
I think his point is that death is the default, and that we’ve never been programmed for indefinite life. The only thing he’s selling is a book.
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by dave4420 1y ago
With sports streams you specifically want low lag, don’t you? It’s no fun being spoilered by people cheering (or not) next door.
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by dave4420 1y ago
What has that got to do with this thread? A devaluation's a devaluation, whether you're forced into changing a fixed rate, or have it imposed on you by the markets.
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by dave4420 1y ago
A shame that this is only for opting out of everything. It would be great if I could do something like export DO_NOT_TRACK=ads:personal-usage and have that still allow crash reporting and anonymous usage statistics, while denying n
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by dave4420 1y ago
How will China react to this, I wonder.
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by dave4420 1y ago
You sound like Harold Wilson. I don't mean to suggest that the current American devaluation is as large as the UK's 1967 devaluation, at least so far. Just that your reasoning here is wrong: when your currency falls, that has a do
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by dave4420 1y ago
There are no fewer dollars in the US dollar currency area after the sale than before… but those dollars are worth less than before. If capital has not left the area, it has been destroyed. That’s not to say that the US economy is inevitably
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by dave4420 1y ago
Would this mean minimum wage workers the world over effectively being paid in dollars rather than their local currency? (Because their salary in local currency would rise and fall with the dollar.) Or would wages be reset, say, annually bas
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by dave4420 1y ago
What was the bigger shake up that happened 50 years ago? And what happens if your phone breaks or runs out of battery at the most inconvenient time? (Trump deports you, I guess, but what about everywhere else?)
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by dave4420 1y ago
Cordless phones use the same frequencies as WiFi, so they could be interfering with each other. Or, I dunno. Is your phone using voip?
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by dave4420 1y ago
If you are dependent on imports for half your food supply and I am able to choke off your imports… then it doesn’t matter that you have the knowledge of how to mass produce synthetic meat for cheap, a chunky proportion of your population wi
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by dave4420 1y ago
There are many chokepoints. The media/information is one of them. Food, water and energy are others. I expect there are more.
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by dave4420 1y ago
In theory Congress can impeach him for it, but in practice there won’t be the votes to convict him. If there are ever, somehow, the votes to convict him, it’ll be for something worse. After his term ends… I don’t know whether the law says t
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by dave4420 1y ago
£10k/year for maybe 2days/month of meetings and prep sounds pretty well paid for volunteer work.
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by dave4420 1y ago
That’s true in the long term. In the short term, a sudden drop in house prices causes economic pain (e.g. people trapped by negative equity), and the US has a lot of economic pain about to hit it already. I’m kind of sceptical that the scen
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by dave4420 1y ago
Maybe some people assume the dishwasher is full, but some people are too lazy to check, and others are just copying everyone else. Ironic that you make assumptions in a post about people making assumptions.
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by dave4420 1y ago
Yeah, at some point it’s just willy waving.
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by dave4420 1y ago
Any reason why China wouldn’t be able to levy an extra 50% on the US? Didn’t think so.
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by dave4420 1y ago
There’s a difference between management knowing that it’s worth paying off tech debt in general, and management knowing that now is the right time to pay off this piece of tech debt in particular. Why pay off tech debt A and not tech debt B
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by dave4420 1y ago
Sometimes it’s just off topic.
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by dave4420 1y ago
The author’s argument doesn’t apply here, because those are all part of a larger, more diversified country.
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by dave4420 1y ago
It would be more on brand for Trump to cut interest rates himself. (I know he doesn’t have the power, legally. He doesn’t care.)
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by dave4420 1y ago
So much cloud stuff, and software. TV shows and music recordings. And Hollywood. Weaponry, military and civilian aircraft, and servicing. Pharmaceuticals. That’s just off the top of my head.
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by dave4420 1y ago
What consequence would a lying politician face, if they refused to retract their lie and the court found they were lying? Worth noting that this process gives politicians a license to lie during the last week before an election.
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by dave4420 1y ago
Courts already have the power to fine and jail people. The problem is not the power. The problem is the politicisation.
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by dave4420 1y ago
What’s “FAFO”?

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