starspangled

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by starspangled 1y ago
> 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.
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by starspangled 1y ago
In other words, what I said was correct.
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by starspangled 1y ago
> 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 in the way you'd find them defined in a re
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by starspangled 1y ago
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 some means to buy more. OP just didn&#x2
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by starspangled 1y ago
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 is actually calculated. The same as people who perceive
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by starspangled 1y ago
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 best interest to trade in and maintain reserves of
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by starspangled 1y ago
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 can do some things more, bigger, longer, etc., for various rea
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by starspangled 1y ago
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 money, that does not mean I'm current
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by starspangled 1y ago
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 by the fact that they have exorbitant pr
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by starspangled 1y ago
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 dollar".
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by starspangled 1y ago
> 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 ask spread to sell it for $100. Okay so we have this scen
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by starspangled 1y ago
> 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. That's how value is determined.
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by starspangled 1y ago
> 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 example, people of Australia get access to cheap medicat
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by starspangled 1y ago
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 in several places on different local devices (laptop, build s
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by starspangled 1y ago
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 the article wasn't saying the same th
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by starspangled 1y ago
> 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 that is what it is saying. It is saying you would
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by starspangled 1y ago
No, that won't do it. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_semiconductor_fabricat...
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by starspangled 1y ago
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.
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by starspangled 1y ago
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 get disabled by mitigations=off. smap can be pretty
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by starspangled 1y ago
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 this assertion that all these things were wond
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by starspangled 1y ago
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.
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by starspangled 1y ago
> 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 in or around the top 10 highest rates of gun homicide
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by starspangled 1y ago
If qualification, accreditation, integrity is overseen and regulated and handed out by multinational corporations and organizations, owned by and run for billionaires with shady connections and hidden backroom deals among governments, burea
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by starspangled 1y ago
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 puppets of the west and zionists. I don't think he particula
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by starspangled 1y ago
Really? Musk has offered naming rights of his offspring or personal gain on more than one occasion?
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by starspangled 1y ago
Well gentlemen, we will always remember this as the day we almost caught Donald J. Trump, again.
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by starspangled 1y ago
Ignore politics entirely maybe, but people who are tired of hearing the exact same extremist reductive opinions over and over again everywhere aren't necessarily ignoring politics. Yes we know it's all because conservatives are fa
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by starspangled 1y ago
Selling shovels in a gold rush.
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by starspangled 1y ago
> The thing that sets us apart from other animals is that we're able to control fire. There is some suggestion that other animals can control fire. https://indianapublicmedia.org/amomentofscience/fire-not-jus...
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by starspangled 1y ago
> What's your point equating welfare spending to healthcare spending? I'm not equating the spending, only the costs. > To suggest that we fund welfare more instead of putting more money in to healthcare? I'm not suggest

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