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Given a certain President's thin skin, and inclinations toward dramatic and confrontational behavior - if the Europeans actually wanted their gold back, it shou

Given a certain President's thin skin, and inclinations toward dramatic and confrontational behavior - if the Europeans actually wanted their gold back, it should have been done very quietly. Probably with obfuscated paperwork, or other shell games or smokescreens.

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aebtebeten 9mo ago
Germans. We (also European) thankfully already got our gold back.
- gsf_emergency_6 9mo ago
  The dividing line from alephnerdXMeyer https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46733802 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46733802 https://magdamiu.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/13.png https://magdamiu.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/13.png "Frontman" reactions to Carneyism: https://www.linkedin.com/posts/jim-csek-cpa-cma-10118726_this-one-is-a-must-watch-mark-carney-is-activity-7420968179130105857-amoK https://www.linkedin.com/posts/jim-csek-cpa-cma-10118726_thi... (Lagarde= lower upper class?) https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/courageous-carney-vs-demented-donald https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/courageous-carney-vs-deme... https://www.ft.com/content/b4c07b4d-dd15-4a42-b744-ea4b5f6966ee https://www.ft.com/content/b4c07b4d-dd15-4a42-b744-ea4b5f696...
  - aebtebeten 9mo ago
    colorised*: https://imgflip.com/i/aidj8a https://imgflip.com/i/aidj8a (I also think it's remarkable that GR and ES now rate so deep blue; both were literally fascist within my lifetime) upper middle? (went to good schools and even worked before public service, where she is known mostly for what she does) * Goethe, eat your heart out. Colours from 2024 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Economist_Democracy_Index#List_by_country https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Economist_Democracy_Index#...
    - gsf_emergency_6 9mo ago
      Vibe-stats'ing says this could have come from a decision tree (based on how the EDI was evaluated?) (XD) https://blog.dailydoseofds.com/p/how-to-inspect-decision-trees-after https://blog.dailydoseofds.com/p/how-to-inspect-decision-tre... U: https://www.smh.com.au/world/first-among-men-20140210-32amz.html https://www.smh.com.au/world/first-among-men-20140210-32amz.... >At 17, she spent a year as an exchange student at the same posh girls' school in Washington's suburbs that Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis attended
      - aebtebeten 9mo ago
        > note that PCA components are not interpretable If PCA components are not interpretable, but deep artificially-axis-aligned trees are, I think maybe we should reconsider the definition of "interpretable". (see also: curve fitting via thousands of piecewise linear lerps) Then again, we're projecting six dimensions down to two; might be interesting to see if there is a separating plane when the others are taken into account... Note also that Lagarde is inner party, just not upper class — so there's an axis skew there as well. (or is she? "You never know if she personally agrees with what she has been asked to pursue." is clearly middle class, but does it also smack of outer party?) [how many hundred words was this story? and yet it took 7382 lines of html to convey?] EDIT: upon re-reading "Theory and Practice" I think we can comfortably assign Lagarde to the Inner Party. Both Inner and Outer Parties (unlike sociopaths vs clueless) must rely on doublethink, and EG says belief in the Party dicta actually rises as one rises within it (unlike upper vs middle. Then again, even if the initial difference between Inner and Outer is one of exam scores (for which we'd call CMOL inner), she has been an outsider (for l'américaine was not an ENArque), and the practical difference between Inner and Outer seems to be that the former propose and the latter dispose (for which she is clearly not the head but the hands). lagniappe: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_MPtXUeUznY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_MPtXUeUznY
        gsf_emergency_6 9mo ago
        The biggest difference between L and a Kennedy, is that a K in her position is free to act unilaterally== without consulting the other IPs? (which echelon are the Kennedys, how aligned are they to the dicta) Phyker: in what way are emo-x and confrontationality same-same but also different, but still the same? How to rotate in such a 2D space? Asking for a democracy. https://youtube.com/shorts/pN9l-_EuAdM https://youtube.com/shorts/pN9l-_EuAdM Imker question? (Okok I will get back to loA but I realized it was PH I was more interested in hooking after all XD I could swear I've seen that style in a manga https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seven_Pillars_of_Wisdom#/media/File:Revolt_in_the_Desert.jpg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seven_Pillars_of_Wisdom#/media...) E: https://www.amazon.co.jp/T%E3%83%BB-%E3%83%BB%E3%83%AD%E3%83%AC%E3%83%B3%E3%82%B9-%E3%82%A6%E3%82%A3%E3%83%B3%E3%82%B0%E3%82%B9%E3%83%BB%E3%82%B3%E3%83%9F%E3%83%83%E3%82%AF%E6%96%87%E5%BA%AB-%E7%A5%9E%E5%9D%82-%E6%99%BA%E5%AD%90/dp/4403500110 https://www.amazon.co.jp/T%E3%83%BB-%E3%83%BB%E3%83%AD%E3%83... Seems like it was aimed at the shoujo XD
qznc 9mo ago
Gold price is high, so why not just sell it? Meanwhile Germany could silently buy gold at home and let the market handle where it comes from.
- flowerthoughts 9mo ago
  You also need to build the infrastructure to take on 1,000 tons of gold. I doubt that's done in a month. IIRC, London has the biggest storage after NYC, so that's probably where it'll end up in the interrim. Eventually, I'd guess Switzerland will rise to do more gold storage. We're essentially creating the same scenario as WTI vs Brent oil, where gold is partitioned into multiple different products depending on location.
- bell-cot 9mo ago
  At that scale, I'd bet that selling (even if buying at home) would be obvious to professional traders in the gold market. And quickly hit the headlines. Which is exactly the scenario you'd want to avoid, if you were concerned that a certain President might decide that "your" gold, locked in "his" vault, meant that he had you by the bars.
lm28469 9mo ago
Idk man, these things are hilarious, I for one enjoy seeing Trump having toddlers tier meltdown on video every now and then. That's why I keep watching his live speeches, that and in the hope his body finally gives up in glorious 4k 60 fps The more he pushes us away with his deranged tantrums the more independence we are forced to build, it's a win-win really
- mna_ 9mo ago
  He eats McDonalds everyday and does 0 exercise. Imagine how long he'd live if he ate healthy and exercised daily.
  - SilverElfin 9mo ago
    He also only gets a few hours of sleep. I wonder if that’s part of why his behavior is so unhinged.
Havoc 9mo ago
With that idiot a bullshit pretext might have done the trick. "We just want to have it for a bit to polish it to ensure it is shiny. It's a requirement of German law under Saftsack gesetz 35.6"
- microtonal 9mo ago
  "The German Bundespräsident want to add a new gold-plated ballroom to his residence, we have to melt all the gold."
- aebtebeten 9mo ago
  Did you not mean the Goldbarrenglänzungsüberwachungsaufgabenübertragungsgesetz 35.6?

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aebtebeten 9mo ago

Germans. We (also European) thankfully already got our gold back.

gsf_emergency_6 9mo ago
The dividing line from alephnerdXMeyer https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46733802 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46733802 https://magdamiu.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/13.png https://magdamiu.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/13.png "Frontman" reactions to Carneyism: https://www.linkedin.com/posts/jim-csek-cpa-cma-10118726_this-one-is-a-must-watch-mark-carney-is-activity-7420968179130105857-amoK https://www.linkedin.com/posts/jim-csek-cpa-cma-10118726_thi... (Lagarde= lower upper class?) https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/courageous-carney-vs-demented-donald https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/courageous-carney-vs-deme... https://www.ft.com/content/b4c07b4d-dd15-4a42-b744-ea4b5f6966ee https://www.ft.com/content/b4c07b4d-dd15-4a42-b744-ea4b5f696...
- aebtebeten 9mo ago
  colorised*: https://imgflip.com/i/aidj8a https://imgflip.com/i/aidj8a (I also think it's remarkable that GR and ES now rate so deep blue; both were literally fascist within my lifetime) upper middle? (went to good schools and even worked before public service, where she is known mostly for what she does) * Goethe, eat your heart out. Colours from 2024 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Economist_Democracy_Index#List_by_country https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Economist_Democracy_Index#...
  - gsf_emergency_6 9mo ago
    Vibe-stats'ing says this could have come from a decision tree (based on how the EDI was evaluated?) (XD) https://blog.dailydoseofds.com/p/how-to-inspect-decision-trees-after https://blog.dailydoseofds.com/p/how-to-inspect-decision-tre... U: https://www.smh.com.au/world/first-among-men-20140210-32amz.html https://www.smh.com.au/world/first-among-men-20140210-32amz.... >At 17, she spent a year as an exchange student at the same posh girls' school in Washington's suburbs that Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis attended
    - aebtebeten 9mo ago
      > note that PCA components are not interpretable If PCA components are not interpretable, but deep artificially-axis-aligned trees are, I think maybe we should reconsider the definition of "interpretable". (see also: curve fitting via thousands of piecewise linear lerps) Then again, we're projecting six dimensions down to two; might be interesting to see if there is a separating plane when the others are taken into account... Note also that Lagarde is inner party, just not upper class — so there's an axis skew there as well. (or is she? "You never know if she personally agrees with what she has been asked to pursue." is clearly middle class, but does it also smack of outer party?) [how many hundred words was this story? and yet it took 7382 lines of html to convey?] EDIT: upon re-reading "Theory and Practice" I think we can comfortably assign Lagarde to the Inner Party. Both Inner and Outer Parties (unlike sociopaths vs clueless) must rely on doublethink, and EG says belief in the Party dicta actually rises as one rises within it (unlike upper vs middle. Then again, even if the initial difference between Inner and Outer is one of exam scores (for which we'd call CMOL inner), she has been an outsider (for l'américaine was not an ENArque), and the practical difference between Inner and Outer seems to be that the former propose and the latter dispose (for which she is clearly not the head but the hands). lagniappe: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_MPtXUeUznY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_MPtXUeUznY
      - gsf_emergency_6 9mo ago
        The biggest difference between L and a Kennedy, is that a K in her position is free to act unilaterally== without consulting the other IPs? (which echelon are the Kennedys, how aligned are they to the dicta) Phyker: in what way are emo-x and confrontationality same-same but also different, but still the same? How to rotate in such a 2D space? Asking for a democracy. https://youtube.com/shorts/pN9l-_EuAdM https://youtube.com/shorts/pN9l-_EuAdM Imker question? (Okok I will get back to loA but I realized it was PH I was more interested in hooking after all XD I could swear I've seen that style in a manga https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seven_Pillars_of_Wisdom#/media/File:Revolt_in_the_Desert.jpg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seven_Pillars_of_Wisdom#/media...) E: https://www.amazon.co.jp/T%E3%83%BB-%E3%83%BB%E3%83%AD%E3%83%AC%E3%83%B3%E3%82%B9-%E3%82%A6%E3%82%A3%E3%83%B3%E3%82%B0%E3%82%B9%E3%83%BB%E3%82%B3%E3%83%9F%E3%83%83%E3%82%AF%E6%96%87%E5%BA%AB-%E7%A5%9E%E5%9D%82-%E6%99%BA%E5%AD%90/dp/4403500110 https://www.amazon.co.jp/T%E3%83%BB-%E3%83%BB%E3%83%AD%E3%83... Seems like it was aimed at the shoujo XD

qznc 9mo ago

Gold price is high, so why not just sell it? Meanwhile Germany could silently buy gold at home and let the market handle where it comes from.

flowerthoughts 9mo ago
You also need to build the infrastructure to take on 1,000 tons of gold. I doubt that's done in a month. IIRC, London has the biggest storage after NYC, so that's probably where it'll end up in the interrim. Eventually, I'd guess Switzerland will rise to do more gold storage. We're essentially creating the same scenario as WTI vs Brent oil, where gold is partitioned into multiple different products depending on location.
bell-cot 9mo ago
At that scale, I'd bet that selling (even if buying at home) would be obvious to professional traders in the gold market. And quickly hit the headlines. Which is exactly the scenario you'd want to avoid, if you were concerned that a certain President might decide that "your" gold, locked in "his" vault, meant that he had you by the bars.

lm28469 9mo ago

Idk man, these things are hilarious, I for one enjoy seeing Trump having toddlers tier meltdown on video every now and then. That's why I keep watching his live speeches, that and in the hope his body finally gives up in glorious 4k 60 fps The more he pushes us away with his deranged tantrums the more independence we are forced to build, it's a win-win really

mna_ 9mo ago
He eats McDonalds everyday and does 0 exercise. Imagine how long he'd live if he ate healthy and exercised daily.
- SilverElfin 9mo ago
  He also only gets a few hours of sleep. I wonder if that’s part of why his behavior is so unhinged.

Havoc 9mo ago

With that idiot a bullshit pretext might have done the trick. "We just want to have it for a bit to polish it to ensure it is shiny. It's a requirement of German law under Saftsack gesetz 35.6"

microtonal 9mo ago
"The German Bundespräsident want to add a new gold-plated ballroom to his residence, we have to melt all the gold."
aebtebeten 9mo ago
Did you not mean the Goldbarrenglänzungsüberwachungsaufgabenübertragungsgesetz 35.6?