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by bilbo0s 2y ago
Hmm. The problem is that China holds only 2.6% of US Debt as of February 2025. Can they leverage that small a percentage to make a market move like that? Especially assuming they didn't dedicate all of their holdings to that action?
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by bilbo0s 2y ago
All for it. We should be doing that right now.
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by bilbo0s 2y ago
I'm sure China managed to catch up in some of the fields but I doubt all of them. And if you could guarantee that they'll never catch up in the others, we'd all feel a bit better about the permanency of American superiority
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by bilbo0s 2y ago
Well, I mean, since we threw out the opposition in Congress? I'm thinking we'd better not rely on Congress to put a stop to anything. A simple veto removes that problem. No way what's left of the opposition in Congress comes
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by bilbo0s 2y ago
The breakup of their monopolies is still going to continue You believe that, if it brings you comfort.
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by bilbo0s 2y ago
Even from a practical point of view. Now, however ill-advised, you're in the middle of a trade war. It's probably taking a huge toll on your economy. Are you gonna mess with what are likely the last pillars of what economic stabil
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by bilbo0s 2y ago
This is looking like a good bet at this point. Even if Republicans are removed from office in the next election, the damage is done. Europe simply can't trust in the long term stability of US policy. If Europe cannot trust in it, neith
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by bilbo0s 2y ago
Fair point. I'll allow it. But that doesn't change the fact that there are good people in the US. But good and bad are a bit irrelevant. I believe it was a mistake to go poking Europe with a stick because there are 600 million p
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by bilbo0s 2y ago
The bad news is that 2024 was one of those elections where both candidates were so bad, that the winner didn't even manage to get 50% of the cast votes. https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/statistics/elections/202
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by bilbo0s 2y ago
Airports can manage their own security Um. I'm thinking this comment won't age well.
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by bilbo0s 2y ago
In fairness, there are still nazi rallies all across the country. It's them forcing their freedom of assembly and speech rights on everyone. Doesn't necessarily mean everyone in the US today is a nazi. Even the Trump brigade are m
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by bilbo0s 2y ago
I'll just come out and say it, "crazy" is "interesting" only when the "crazy" is happening to other people. If the "crazy" is gonna happen to you, yeah, that's an entirely different story.
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by bilbo0s 2y ago
Because the components are going to become more expensive? Of course. Do you think you're the only one who wants to source US semiconductor parts? It's supply and demand. Along with some good ole fashioned profiteering.
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by bilbo0s 2y ago
I'm glad someone said it. Tesla is literally one of the most heavily subsidized auto companies in American history.
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by bilbo0s 2y ago
especially because the winner got proper majority of the casted votes This is actually untrue. 2024 was one of those elections where both candidates were so bad, that the winner didn't even need 50% of the cast votes. More and more o
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by bilbo0s 2y ago
all the "low-skill" people would be able to move to the city and find a job That this doesn't work is self-evident. Cities are currently filled with low skilled people. The vast majority of whom find no employment or employ
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by bilbo0s 2y ago
You forgot the part about going from China to Japan and the associated costs. It could be cheaper? Could also be more expensive as well. In any case, if too many people play that game, then it only raises the tariff on Japan. I wouldn&#x2
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by bilbo0s 2y ago
What's the variation in ticketing with respect to different police departments? How about geographic location? Teasing out that data is actually a more fruitful exercise. I don't mean to sound callous at all when I say this, but
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by bilbo0s 2y ago
It kind of says something when it turns out that Volvo, with their old-timey ‘dumb’ safety features, seems to be outperforming all the sexier brands on safety. Maybe focusing on the dumb stuff brings a lot more bang for the buck than the sp
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by bilbo0s 2y ago
There are already open-weight models that match OpenAI's best models (at the time of their release), so the idea that OpenAI would lose something by making its frontier models open-weight doesn't hold up If true, that cuts both
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by bilbo0s 2y ago
Well, that's the other half of the problem. Or the other edge of the sword of easy entrance exams. You get literally tens of thousands of kids that can get that 35 or 36 on the ACT. If you throw in the kids with the 34's it's
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by bilbo0s 2y ago
Goes kind of deeper than that though. How is a college realistically supposed to reject a guy with a clearly qualifying 28 or 29 on the ACT? You're going to have to give a helluv-an explanation for that, because I can guarantee, you do
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by bilbo0s 2y ago
Right. I'm not sure this is fixable? Or maybe there is widespread misunderstanding of the requirements in this scenario? But I also thought the rule was tough enough to require verifying that extra consent? Maybe it's not? Truly c
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by bilbo0s 2y ago
Yeah. Not sure how you collect all the necessary consent clicks without at least two clicks if a third party is involved? Do they get a pass on collecting a consent click for one of the parties? Or do you only ever need the consent for the
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by bilbo0s 2y ago
They have been used extensively for decades while educational outcomes have plummeted which proves the veracity of your claim I'm confused? That seems to prove exactly what I was saying. That if you only allow kids to read the books
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by bilbo0s 2y ago
while educational institutions should stop pushing books which promote the destructive aspects of Hegel's thoughts Well, I mean, you are kind of less educated if you only learn from books that are.. um.. "consistent with scriptu
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by bilbo0s 2y ago
Meh. It's not really cynicism. It's just that people today only care about the next 20 or 30 years. They don't really care if, over the course of the next 200 years, two nations can rebuild from annihilating each other in a n
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by bilbo0s 2y ago
Nah. Just evolutionary biology and psychology. You see an ‘other’.. Assume the worst. That’s worked for hundreds of thousands of years. Millions actually. Everyone does it. Because no one can help doing it. No one who is human anyway.
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by bilbo0s 2y ago
Meh. That’s what’s supposed to happen. The pendulums swing. It’s fairly definite at this point that the buyer’s remorse from trump will cause a swing back to the left. And so on and so forth. If we’re going to insist on living in a two part
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by bilbo0s 2y ago
Um. I don’t know that I would do that if I was a scientist right now.

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