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That is very much a false dichotomy. Your german products are of good quality but largely overvalued and this shows when Trump threatens with tariffs ;). There

That is very much a false dichotomy. Your german products are of good quality but largely overvalued and this shows when Trump threatens with tariffs ;). There is actually very little that makes as much money for the germans and is not directly connected to a field where german companies have a specific monopoly. I hope you are joking right now and know how borrowing public and private money works.

mpweiher 8y ago
LOL. You have to threaten tariffs when you can't compete. And yes, unlike you, I do know how borrowing money works: the US is currently borrowing half a trillion dollars per year from foreign sources, net.
- dang 8y ago
  Would you please stop using HN for flamewars? It's totally not ok, and you've done it a lot and we've had to warn you about it repeatedly. You've posted many awesome things to Hacker News so we'd hate to ban you, but protecting the site from flames is more important. This is a problem we need you to fix. Please read and follow https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and help take care of this place instead of helping to wreck it. I'm sure you wouldn't fuel flames in a forest or a garden, so please don't fuel them here.
  - mpweiher 8y ago
    Sorry, I don't "use" HN for flamewars. And just to be sure I checked several pages worth of my comments just now, after all I could be misremembering. I also don't recall being "warned" about this "repeatedly". I do try to correct gross misinformation. With facts and figures.
    - dang 8y ago
      The most recent moderation reply is here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16288896 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16288896. If it doesn't read like a warning, that's out of politeness and respect for your positive contributions to HN. It's true that your most recent history doesn't contain ideological flamewar (not counting this nationalistic spat), which is great. Nonetheless it has noticeably been a problem in the past, and your comments still sometimes contain uncivil swipes that need to be edited out.

mpweiher 8y ago

LOL. You have to threaten tariffs when you can't compete. And yes, unlike you, I do know how borrowing money works: the US is currently borrowing half a trillion dollars per year from foreign sources, net.

dang 8y ago
Would you please stop using HN for flamewars? It's totally not ok, and you've done it a lot and we've had to warn you about it repeatedly. You've posted many awesome things to Hacker News so we'd hate to ban you, but protecting the site from flames is more important. This is a problem we need you to fix. Please read and follow https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and help take care of this place instead of helping to wreck it. I'm sure you wouldn't fuel flames in a forest or a garden, so please don't fuel them here.
- mpweiher 8y ago
  Sorry, I don't "use" HN for flamewars. And just to be sure I checked several pages worth of my comments just now, after all I could be misremembering. I also don't recall being "warned" about this "repeatedly". I do try to correct gross misinformation. With facts and figures.
  - dang 8y ago
    The most recent moderation reply is here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16288896 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16288896. If it doesn't read like a warning, that's out of politeness and respect for your positive contributions to HN. It's true that your most recent history doesn't contain ideological flamewar (not counting this nationalistic spat), which is great. Nonetheless it has noticeably been a problem in the past, and your comments still sometimes contain uncivil swipes that need to be edited out.