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by amrocha 2y ago
This creditor/debtor dichotomy is meaningless. It doesn’t change the fact that the debt is owed in dollars and can always be serviced. If foreign investors lose confidence in the US and sell off their treasuries, the central bank can j
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I don’t see how that’s relevant to the macro economics discussion, and I don’t see how Trumps tax cuts for billionaires are going to help you in any way.
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Deflation is bad because it’s literally your economy shrinking. It’s not prices dropping, it’s less spending across the board. Depending on your demographics you end up with huge unemployment numbers or a standard of living for the older ge
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by amrocha 2y ago
Two things: 1. Nobody is losing confidence in the US over debt ratios. Japan’s debt ratio is over 300%, and they’ve had no issues with financing their spending or capital flight. This is a myth that has been proven false. 2. If the private
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by amrocha 2y ago
Barring massive political instability, nobody is ever going to lose confidence in the dollar, regardless of debt ratios. Japan has a debt ratio of over 300%, economists have been predicting a crash and capital flight for decades, but none o
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Japans debt is 300% of their GDP and yet their society seems to work a lot better than the US. Maybe there’s more to economics than debt ratios.
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Infinite free money hacks is literally how fiat currencies work. The government wants the economy to operate at close to full capacity, so it creates money and spends it into the private sector. Eventually that money makes it to individuals
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You’re the one making extraordinary claims, you’re the one that has to substantiate them. What do you think is more likely, that you’re an economic genius and you can see an impending crisis that 50 years worth of economists couldn’t, and t
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The deficit is not a huge problem. If all the deficit hawks literally disappeared tomorrow the country would run more efficiently.
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Complaining about the “national debt” is the clearest sign that someone does not understand economics. What do you think happens if the debt goes up? Do you think the government is gonna go bankrupt? That’s literally not how it works. Do yo
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by amrocha 2y ago
Why should you care if the national debt goes up or down? Why is it bad if it goes up? Do you actually understand the underlying mechanics, or have you just built a lot of eloquent abstractions around the idea of “number go up is bad”?
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by amrocha 2y ago
The original comment implies their “friends” are failures, which i don’t know about you but I wouldn’t say that about any of my friends, and wouldn’t expect any of my friends to say that about me. Pointing that out is not a personal insult.
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Ok, and I know programmers and scientists that used to smoke in college and are just as sharp as ever.
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It literally encouraged drug use through exposure
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Fiat currencies have value because you have to pay your taxes with it. There’s no choosing not to participate.
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Sure, they made money off my work, I don’t mind that. That’s fine. Your analogy about the public park is wrong btw. A better analogy is if someone ran a private park for years where musicians can come and collaborate with each other and e
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by amrocha 2y ago
This is such an incomprehensible take. Every developer has benefited from SO. I’ve contributed to the site exactly because it’s been so good to me. I don’t need money on top of that. The website is the reward. Nobody cares about reputation.
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It’s different people commenting on each post. There’s no “mind virus”.
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You still need to map the real world to the map and actually follow the instructions. It’s the difference between navigating and having a driver navigate for you.
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Page 18 first paragraph, it talks about how ChatGPT users engaged less with the editing process compared to other methods. Sorry, copy and paste isn’t working for some reason.
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If that was the case every scientific paper would be written as socratic dialogue. But it’s not. Because that’s a good format for beginners, but not for science.
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When you’re using a map you’re still navigating, even if you’re just following directions. The act of navigating teaches you spatial awareness regardless of how you got there. AI doesn’t provide directions, it navigates for you. You’re acti
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She. She says she prefers to go by she or they in her essay.
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Why is China your enemy? China couldn’t care less about the US. They’re doing their thing now, and they’ll keep doing their thing when China overtakes the US as the top global power. Why are you so afraid of China? Do you think there will b
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Respect for standing up for what you believe in
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Do I have to adopt the government line of the country I was born in if I want to maintain citizenship? Am I not allowed to think for myself? How exactly is that different from a dictatorship?
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Considering that my country has a history of CIA sponsored coups and election meddling by the US, China definitely has been better to me
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Honestly, I don’t believe China has as much control over TikTok as you claim, and I believe the US government has much higher control over FB than you. So from where I’m standing it’s the same thing. And to give you some perspective, there’
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I think you’re biased if you don’t believe the USA is also doing domestic corporate espionage. Cisco probably has multiple NSA sleeper agents silently inserting backdoors into their routers.
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Why is it bad when China (supposedly) creates propaganda on tiktok but it’s good when the US creates propaganda on facebook? You’re not a government, you’re a person. Either way you’re being manipulated, and the US government definitely doe

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