WarmWash

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by WarmWash 10mo ago
Make the US land area ~20% larger. Randomly place 50,000 shoe boxes up and down the entire eastern seaboard. Randomly place 50,000 shoe boxes up and down the entire western seaboard. Send them in straight lines towards the other side of the
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by WarmWash 10mo ago
Europe didn't want a too powerful Europe until Trump. Are you going to look me in the eyes and say that you, and your general Euro brethren, have been pushing for a greater defense budget at the expense of greater social program spendi
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by WarmWash 10mo ago
The EU has a borderline stagnant economy, couldn't defend itself from Russia, facing population collapse, totally whiffed on the tech scene explosion in the last 25 years, now also missing out on AI. European social obligations are exp
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by WarmWash 10mo ago
Are you only talking about open models?
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by WarmWash 10mo ago
People who haven't seen an ad or paid a subscription in 20 years are still trying to figure out why no one listens to their opinion on how to make the internet better. I wouldn't hold my breath...
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by WarmWash 10mo ago
The government acted as if the pandemic was happening in 1990, when everyone either worked in person all the time, or nothing worked. Instead, the golden geese of the American economy (the actual golden geese), simply stayed home and worked
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by WarmWash 10mo ago
Holiday spending was up 6.8% YoY and the highest spending on record. About 67% of GDP comes from consumer spending. It's very unlikely the US doesn't have strong GDP numbers for 2025. K-shaped economy and all that
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by WarmWash 10mo ago
The EU is going to have to (very painfully) grow legs then. The fact that the US provided the majority of weaponry, and half the money to Ukraine should have been shocking wake up call to every European. But instead the vibe seems to be &qu
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by WarmWash 10mo ago
I would say the same on my old accounts too. I rotate accounts annually (it is january). I'm not anyone note worthy or famous, this account and my others are just as generic as any other HN commoner.
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by WarmWash 10mo ago
Trump is a populist president who sees the value of US exports (on the back of blue collar work) being more important than global dollar dominance. This plays hand in hand with his championing of tariffs (foreign goods become more expensive
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by WarmWash 10mo ago
About $1T is traded daily so it's really more a symbolic move.
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by WarmWash 10mo ago
The dollar sucks but everything else is worse.
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by WarmWash 10mo ago
In the US, the government can apply pressure and bargain with companies for favor, but there is no legal requirement of companies agreeing (shy of court orders). Far more than cases of corporate compliance with the government are cases of c