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by dgfitz 1y ago
So how do we fix that? I get Covid was a mess in real time and it was used as a political pawn, which really sucks. Trillions of dollars went into the US economy, and most of the country feels broke. I don’t care how the market did, fuck th
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by dgfitz 1y ago
My only two thoughts there are, China needs to fill that 15% gap, and I don’t know where they’ll do it. China also doesn’t want to sell too many treasuries least it upset their own financial stability in terms of purchasing power for their
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by dgfitz 1y ago
I hear you, and that's a fair point. I just can't reconcile how trillions of dollars came into the economy and over the past few years there were mostly massive layoffs, poor-to-mediocre hiring, stagnant wages, and massive inflati
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by dgfitz 1y ago
Didn't basically everything go up but wages? So we inflated the cost of things by what, 15% or more over the past few years, wages didn't follow. All the savings and free money people had are gone now, it took a while. I don'
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by dgfitz 1y ago
Objectively, it hasn't. The market went nuts right after the election, and tariff day was less than a month ago. I don't have any fait in the current economic policy, but the Q1 numbers don't reflect Q1 as much as they do &#x
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by dgfitz 1y ago
Objectively, the Q1 numbers probably actually reflect the Q3/Q4 2024 state of things, just like the Q2/Q3 numbers will more represent the actual Q1 2025 numbers. It feels like this was the natural progression of stuffing trillions
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by dgfitz 1y ago
I have been under the impression that China has been lying about their GDP for years and years, I thought this was commonly known. I have also been under the impression, for years and years, that it isn't a good idea to speak ill of th
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by dgfitz 1y ago
I'd rather solve that problem than the tariff thing. I was thinking just this morning about the bull-whip effect that never came.
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by dgfitz 1y ago
A and B passed along the tariff costs to C, which passed those costs to D. D now costs more, assuming they pass the delta cost to the consumer. The only delta a customer cares about is the past/current cost of D, which is what amazon w
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by dgfitz 1y ago
> Do you think they'll be paying graphic designers, musicians etc. for now on People generating these things weren't ever going to be customers of those skillsets. Your examples are small business owners basically fucking aroun
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by dgfitz 1y ago
This link doesn’t show me anything useful.
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by dgfitz 1y ago
I think the correct answer in terms of mental health is: as little time as possible. The actual answer is more complicated. Someone who got locked up for 25 years knowingly committing a significant crime might regret it for the majority of
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by dgfitz 1y ago
I have the same result. My only thought was: if my employer paid me for 2 weeks (10 days) of work and this is what popped out the other end, I would be looking for a new employer, this isn’t acceptable where I work.
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by dgfitz 1y ago
> The rich might hate it, and call it "redistribution", which is fine because that's exactly what it is, and what taxes have always been, but this one would redistribute downwards instead of upwards, and incentivize lower
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by dgfitz 1y ago
I believe US farmers export 20% internationally. And most of the farmers I know have told me only a small handful of farmers are in that group of exporters, the biggest players. The "little guy" will be fine.
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by dgfitz 1y ago
I didn't mention impacted, I said important. Is it a bad thing if those giant tech companies come back down to earth? I would argue no. They do not provide value, they extract it, generally, and play shitty games with taxes. What good
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by dgfitz 1y ago
I don't understand why this is important. Maybe if you run an international business? So like, 0.01% of citizens? I actually kind of like that the US is no longer being put on a pedestal. Let someone else have a turn. See how they do,
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by dgfitz 1y ago
s/money/power Money is a means to an end.
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by dgfitz 1y ago
I'm talking actually taking clothes not crafted to be worn inside-out. Take your favorite pair of pants with seams and put them on inside out. Favorite button-down or polo, etc.
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by dgfitz 1y ago
> Especially F-Droid is already widely used, and I would certainly not call it a toy. F-Droid does not publish these statistics. How do you know this?
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by dgfitz 1y ago
I keep waiting for inside-out clothes to be a thing. Hipsters were getting close at one point.
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by dgfitz 2y ago
I only clicked the link because the title didn’t spell out “years” and having clicked the link, I don’t get it at all. I need to click a second link inside the website, hopeful I click the right one?
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by dgfitz 2y ago
This should be the top comment. Turns out ideology can be trumped by emotion.
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by dgfitz 2y ago
I think at this point in my career my goal is to continue to never, ever, work on a public-facing website. 20 years into this foray of a career and I’ve avoided it so far.
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by dgfitz 2y ago
Asthma is a “solved problem” medically, the rest is just rent-seeking.
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by dgfitz 2y ago
It just isn’t a solid thesis at the beginning of the article, and in todays attention-span media consumption narrative, it… serves its purpose?
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by dgfitz 2y ago
Fwiw, I listen to sports talk radio whenever I’m not in meetings or otherwise physically interacting with someone else at work. The actual “news” stopped being productive to read, watch, or listen to when the term “pregnant chads” was coine
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by dgfitz 2y ago
LLMs != AI. I’ll die on this hill. Building products for a non-existent thing is reminiscent of pets.com
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by dgfitz 2y ago
One of these days soon we can all stop calling LLMs “ai” and pretending that agi is a thing. Statistics and a shit language (English) do not an ai system make.
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by dgfitz 2y ago
I think the crazy part is that the math of 46 billion divided by 804,500 is almost 60k/case. Maybe this is also highlighting a different problem.

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