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by simonh 1y ago
By making the imports needed for domestic production and infrastructure development more expensive through tariffs, before there are domestic alternatives available, and expelling large swathes of the labour force necessary for such constru
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I have family from the Chinese countryside. It’s nowhere near as bad as it was even just a decade ago, but there’s still no comparison.
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Japan? South Korea? Taiwan? Singapore? Saudi and the Gulf States?
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Unfortunately it’s more complicated than that. Take car manufacturing in the US. The country doesn’t make enough steel, copper, etc to supply the industry, so domestic production depends on tariffed imports of these and various specialist c
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by simonh 1y ago
They’ve fallen into the trap Bakunin warned against, that the Party vanguardism and dictatorship of the proletariat model Marx was advocating for would lead to catastrophically authoritarian regimes. Marx eventually had him kicked out of th
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by simonh 1y ago
Why would that happen, if it didn’t happen before the tarrifs?
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About 2m people are employed directly or indirectly in the Ecuadorean banana industry. The total population of Hawaii is only 1.5m. Also you could fit Hawaii in a corner of Ecuador. Unless you turned over all the islands exclusively to bana
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The fundamental question is who gets to start, control, own and grow businesses. Who makes those decisions? If it’s not private citizens, it is government functionaries. The latter has been tried many times. It can just about work, but only
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by simonh 1y ago
That's fair enough, but it's the opposite complaint, that XCode's LLM support is more limited because it is proprietary. That's a perfectly valid and reasonable objection, of course.
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Flip that around. Junior devs in the US earning $100k is the anomaly. The fact this is the case indicates the pipeline for competent developer talent is bottlenecked. Right now is still an amazing time to be in Tech. The fact the industry i
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They both support it via plugins. Xcode doesn’t enable it by default, you need to enable it and sign into an account. It’s not really all that different.
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It’s not baked in, in that sense. You still have to enable it in XCode and link it to a Claude account. It’s basically the same.
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These two questions are not equivalent. Q1: I looked at only one of a pair of two randomly selected children and it was a girl. What is the probability the other I didn’t see is a girl? Q2: I looked at both of two randomly selected children
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by simonh 1y ago
Your example is different in a critical way. These two questions are not equivalent. Q1: I looked at only one of a pair of two randomly selected children and it was a girl. What is the probability the other I didn’t see is a girl? Q2: I loo
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by simonh 1y ago
> One of their best acquisitions ever in my opinion… NeXT? But yes, I completely get what you’re saying, I just couldn’t resist. It was an amazingly long sighted strategic move, for sure.
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When they bought PA Semi the company worked on IBM Power architecture chips. It was very much the team Apple was after, not any one particular technology.
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by simonh 1y ago
Apple has bought startups with various technologies like Anobit, that developed advanced flash memory controllers, and have funded development efforts by partners. For example Apple worked hand in glove with Sharp to develop the tech for th
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It's probably because ethernet and early versions of what became TCP/IP were not originally developed on Unix, and weren't tied to it's paradigms, they were ported to it.
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I'm a Brit born in 66, and growing up I felt that WW2 was recent history. War films were a dominant genre in my early life, we visited the German defences on the French coast while camping as a teenager along with my Grandfather, who s
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by simonh 1y ago
Multiple current, and more significantly former SpaceX engineers have confirmed Musk was the driving force behind the engineering decisions that lead to reusability for Falcon 9. He’s also been very much in the driving seat on engineering f
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He’d also need to persuade everybody involved in the launch guidance, and presumably also the payload development, transfer and integration to commit treason, and for none of them to break silence.
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Since it’s US tax payers money footing the bill, maybe whoever is in charge of spending US tax payers money at the moment? Or maybe whoever is building the vehicle? I’m not sure which is worse.
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by simonh 1y ago
It depends what the minimal needs are, but basically the US has this for chips already. Yes the US only makes older chips, but in fact those are the ones that really matter, that you can’t do without. The ones that are in everything. Howeve
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by simonh 1y ago
So you don't understand how individual people can have an opinion contrary to what 'Hacker News' thought in the past? I participated in those conversations back then, it was a hotly contested issue, even aside from the weird
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So we shouldn’t be impressed by Apple silicon because it also runs in phones? And yes, there are ARM laptops ASUs just brought out a laptop running on the Snapdragon X Plus. Geekbench Single Core 2231 versus the M4 at 3678. I mean, I’m sure
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I don’t know what he’s talking about. I’ve not had a Mac last less than 7 years as a main workhorse, and my 2014 first generation 5k 27” is still going strong as a living room machine. It could still be my daily driver to be honest.
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This isn't the profits of the franchisees, it's the profits of Starbucks.
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If you think the US is consumer capitalism in the raw, visit China. It’s a whole other level.
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This is also how US companies operate in Europe, e.g. Starbucks in Europe paying enormous royalty fees to the US for the name.
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If it’s just extra revenue that implies that, if the manufacturer actually made 2 physically different models, they could just sell the cheaper model at the expensive model price and then charge extra for the upgrade on top of that. In othe

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