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by hunglee2 1y ago
The US has done this before, more than a few times. In fact, de-globalisation can be traced directly to the GFC, where the US did indeed print billions to bail out US banks and auto, then getting Japan and China to step up and buy UST to re
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US GDP is grossly inflated by 'services' many of which are non-productive, even deleterious to society. Healthcare is probably the best example of this, I believe it is 10-15% of US economy, yet health outcomes for the people can
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appreciate the education
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Indeed true - US is 4% of the global population but 25% of the global consumption, if not more. You can see this via the eyeball test - everything is bigger: cars, houses, even the people. US invented 'overproduction' to smear Chi
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he may have had no choice - there are inherent contradictions in every monetary system - there is a reason they all collapse in the end.
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Nixon broke Bretton Woods by coming off the gold standard, leading to massive expansion of the money supply. Lyn Alden has good analysis of this process https://www.lynalden.com/fraying-petrodollar-system/
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by hunglee2 1y ago
yes indeed - it has been conflated with the decline of US manufacturing. Reality is the most significant export of the US is the USD itself - that is the trade good which everyone must have (at US insistence)
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Internal regs definitely need to go down, but external regs need to go up. EU needs a firewall - it needed it in 2010 and it needs it in 2025. There is no chance for any EU based tech organisation to become competitive with US or Chinese ap
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by hunglee2 1y ago
Using a national currency as the de facto global reserve guarantees a trade deficit for that country. No one else can manufacture USD's, so other countries have to acquire them by shaping their economies to supply goods and services de
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The behavior of LLMs in hiring decisions: Systemic biases in candidate selection(davidrozado.substack.com)
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EU needs MORE regulation, not less - it only needs to be turned outward, rather than inward. Protective barriers against US / China big tech operators is the only way to native European tech companies can grow today. US is totally domi
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The many fallacies of 'AI won't take your job, but someone using AI will'(platforms.substack.com)
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'civilian-military fusion' - not a term you hear anymore
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one positive to emerge from this scandal is that it should cause users to hesitate before accepting grok responses as 'true'. We need the reminder
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Industry and identity: How labor migration reshaped culture in 19C Britai(broadstreet.blog)
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US vs EU rift gives chance German auto can survive / thrive if von de Leyen sees sense and remove EU tariffs on Chinese EV's. Chinese companies have long been happy to do JV's with European manufacturers and manufacture outsi
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price controls are a central pillar of capitalism. Communists are not going to like this EO from the President of the United States
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Google is a US tech company and is not under the jurisdiction of any other government other than the US. We can disagree with the Trump's ridiculous postering but it is beyond the pale for Mexico to bring lawfare to US companies. If th
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No need for 'doubt quotes' Hitler himself modelled his expansionist policies on US 'manifest destiny', which was then and is now a clear assertion of rightful hegemonism. US liberals main issue with Trump is that he is s
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'MAGA Maoism' - isn't a joke, or even an unfair characterisation. All the elements are there - anti-intellectualism, destruction of bureaucracy, attack on state capacity, sidelining of state institutions, blatant illegality,
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Tariffs will be a huge opportunity for laundering - and even outright smuggling - of desired products. It's probably ancient history now for most people on HN but back in the Iron Curtain days, items which were forbidden for the people
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Public education has always been about narrative formation; going to be interesting to monitor how impactful this curriculum is on the students, parental and peer group reinforcement likely to be significant variables
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Trump always hated foreign movies - I remember him disparaging an Academy award winning movie purely because it was non-English language. Wonder what prompted this outburst - the success of Ne Zha 2 (china bad), or No Other Land (can't
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by hunglee2 1y ago
according to MAGA level understanding of the term! But state intervention has had a long history in the US, just memory holed over the past few decades of neoliberalism, as the elites had to maximally exploit the people
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Chinese open source AI is cooking US subscription AI - government intervention is the last resort
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US is descending into fascism - progressive and intentional degradation of state capacity, replaced by 'the leader issuing commands, which governing institutions rubber stamp, whilst for-profit corporations undertake the delivery of se
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> Manufacturing jobs simply have greater wage potential than many jobs in services because they have more room for productivity growth and a higher degree of leverage to win wage demands < the reason why service jobs overtook manufact
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interesting mitigation - what is the prompt?
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Given that the US internet is overwhelming dominant, the base training data for Common Crawl will lead to the gradual Americanisation of global culture - not only linguistic style, but also modes of thinking and hierarchy of values. Chinese
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Xiaomi MiMo(huggingface.co)
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