aibot923

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by aibot923 2y ago
The F-35 does work, and is deployed around the world right now including the middle east for the recent houthi operations. National debt is absolutely a problem when interest payments crowd out the rest of your budget. Interest payments cur
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by aibot923 2y ago
Prediction: USA will NEVER put troops on the ground in Taiwan, particularly with the current admin. There is no risk/benefit analysis where fighting a war makes sense for the USA. The USA's posture is a bluff - it's willing t
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by aibot923 2y ago
The interest still needs to be paid. That requires revenue growth, taxes, or printing money. Taxes and printing money makes everyone poorer - the IOUs of yesterday coming due. Japan has had many challenges over the past few decades.
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by aibot923 2y ago
Higher relative debt = higher relative interest payments. Go high enough, interest payments consume the entire federal budget. There is no way out except revenue growth (infeasible without breakthrough productivity improvements), taxation,
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by aibot923 2y ago
It's interesting. Maybe I'm in the bigtech bubble, but to me it looks like there isn't enough work for everyone already. Good projects are few and far between. Most of our effort is keeping the lights on for the stuff built o
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by aibot923 3y ago
Yep. It's not very satisfying, but that's the state of things. I think we should be more honest as an industry about that. Most of the content that prospective SWEs look at has a self-marketing slant that makes things look more in
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by aibot923 3y ago
> You, not a boss, will own the code. Developers can already deploy code on massive infrastructure today, and what do we see? Huge centralization. Why? Because software is free-to-copy winner-takes-most game, where massive economies of s
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by aibot923 3y ago
> Software is still heavily rate-limited by how much of it developers can write Hmm. We have very different experiences here. IME, the vast majority of industry work is understanding, tweaking, and integrating existing software. There is