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US manufacturing is better than it ever has been by all measures except number of people working in them. This means that there isn't much need for someone to get good at putting a nut on a bolt and other such mindless work that is skilled only in that with a lot of practice you can get really fast as doing it. People who don't want to spend a lot of years in school are thus not doing very well because there isn't much need for people who don't want to use their brain.
I'm literally quoting you:

> "American companies pay VAT in Europe. European companies do not pay VAT in US."

VAT is a significant income stream for the EU. They take that money and re-invest it into their economy in an uncompetitive manner, whilst constantly propping up more anti-competitive regulation (which harms American businesses).
He is making a stink about Covid vaccine requirements during a period where hospitals were overflowing and bodies were being stacked in refrigerated trailers.
He invoked the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA), which gives him the ability to levy tariffs in an “emergency”. There is no actual emergency, of course, but Congress does not have the political will to stop him.
> [...] by being very very good to their users [...]

Helps that they don't have to be very very good to shareholders that don't give a fuck about games and just want money. I'm not really looking forward to find out what happens once Gabe passes on control of the company.
We will not be alive to see it restored to its former glory ever again.
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That only explains part of his behavior. Something peculiar to Trump's mindset is the pervasiveness of zero-sum thinking. There is nothing about growing up spoiled that necessarily creates this mindset; in fact I'd expect the opposite (by which I mean, I wouldn't expect people who are never forcibly confronted with scarcity and zero-sum competition, to be obsessed by scarcity and zero-sum competition).
Americans even in the middle are so much richer than even our "rich world" peers they don't even realize it.

If the UK was a state, it would be poorer than.. Mississippi on a per-capita income basis.

Note UK itself is incredibly unequal, so if you remove London from the UK the per-capita is far far worse than Mississippi.

Now thats before we even get into our continental friends like France, Spain, Italy, etc.
> chatgpt.com/share/67ee890e-b400-800b-ac83-90a61463212

404.

> White House are just using ChatGPT

Likely, Grok? https://grok.com/share/c2hhcmQtMg%3D%3D_e8b4c405-3bb8-4f01-9...
The tariffs might be a bad idea, but this accusation is ridiculous. For a simple methodology like this, it's trivial to prompt engineer a LLM to produce the same response. It doesn't mean that that's how the administration came up with the policy, any more than a LLM getting the same (correct) solution as a student on an assignment means the student used a LLM on that assignment.
Well argued.

Unipolarity has however also seen considerable brutality, in the places the empire cares about (Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya) and the places it doesn't, like Rwanda.

My point was made in frustration at the flippancy of the parent comment. The attitude that "someone has to run the world so it might as well be us" is precisely the source of the misery that the US, and every other empire, has inflicted on the world. It's a justification for untold evil and had to be challenged.

I'd further argue that the war in Ukraine isn't the first interstate territorial land grab, far from it. What else was the War on Terror?

The main characteristic of the (pre-Trump) US empire is that it doesn't incorporate territories, it plants bases and friendly governments. With varying degrees of success.
The price is not for using it, but for serving ads on it. They'd increase the price for ads that target European customers.
It's something I've just recently run into trying to set it up on an Android tablet. The funny thing is they allow it on an iPad. It'd be great if they allowed just any phone or tablet to link to the primary device.
I'd complain but it's been deaf ears for the last 4 years to get them to put gifs back into the desktop app.
"To mhow"

Pronounced exactly as "to meow"
FairTax only addresses regressivity up to the poverty level. Its proponents specifically cite the way it would affect investment and savings, which are the domain of the wealth(y|ier). People earning median household income would face a much greater tax impact than people earning 10x that level, which is precisely what the progressivity of income tax with marginal rates is intended to avoid.
Many universities are more like family offices that operate schools. Columbia is historically one of the biggest slumlords in NYC through their various entities.
The charts point of reference is saying "it got better since the pandemic". Neat, I guess?

Im arguing about your dismissal of "purchasing power". But you seem to not realize that and rely on charts and not the world aroind you.

Given recent news, it's not like data from November matters anyway.
Are you referring to the most studied medicine in human history or the one that saved more lives than any other medicine in human history?
You can install Windows on the Steam Deck if you want.

But calling Windows more free than Linux because you can virtualize Linux is a noteworthy statement alright.
Kavanaugh was put there to put an end to abortions. So, he made his promises not to end them and then he did.
Anarchists don't want a king. Neo-feudalists want to be the king.
I recall in the late 00s, how configuring Linux to run properly on a laptop was a fraught experience. And I won't deny there was a particularly broken installation that made me revert to Windows. But that amount of time spent configuring and fiddling with tutorials found random places online weren't caused by a malicious developer, so I was more than willing to put in the effort.
I don't own one, so mostly just curious, what are some more prominent examples of this?
This is rich. The Universities that caved to student activists engaged in antisemitism and other egregious activities should now fight for their rights to be cowards? Or the Universities that engaged in racist DEI programs are now going to stand on principal?

Give me a break.
Can I interest you in an app that tracks your driving behavior?
For me it was the lack of portability (it's a chunky beast), I just wasn't taking it anywhere because it takes up so much space in your bag. By comparison the switch with it's disconnecting controllers fits in my electronics bag along with a bunch of plugs, chargers and cables and hardly takes up any room, and weighs a decent amount less. Looking forward to a slimmer and narrower V2 though, if it ever materialises.
> but that doesn't mean it is uniform, or the payers and recipients are the same in terms of participation, returns, or even time.

I’m not sure if I’m following, but a (let’s say) 20% cut to the value of an average retiree’s pension account will hurt much _more_ than the same cut to a diversified wealthy person. This is simply because poorer people are affected more by fixed costs. I don’t see where the populist angle comes in. Shouldn’t the populist angle be about targeting the “elite” specifically?
I think Microsoft gets a bit more hate than they deserve here, but the whole Microsoft account thing is actually absurd, to the point it's almost offensive.

Please Microsoft, just let me use a local account on my PC. Either leave this workaround in place, or better yet, just let people make a local account without a workaround. It's pretty clear the demand is there, considering how many posts there are asking/telling about the workarounds.

I can't help but think of the common n-gate phrase: "Microsoft continues the war against it's own users".
Freedom of speech necessarily implies that a group of people might team up and loudly announce that the people they don't agree with are incorrect and immoral and should be ignored or even ostracized. That's the price of freedom of speech, and it's a fair price.

Being annoyed, inconvenienced, or even negatively impacted by the speech acts of others is by design. To throw that out is to make a calculation that without freedom of speech, your perspective will be the natural default without activism to upset it. A dangerous assumption.
A robot dog hiding in bushes for reconnaissance is significantly more energy efficient than letting drones loiter in the air.

Killing people is already a solved problem. Use mortars, call air strikes, send drones, let a heli shoot 30mm rounds, etc.
The TikTok case in US might be a good playbook for the future. Require markets that US based companies have a near monopoly and require them to divest on EU and onshore operations. You solve tech hegemony and tax evasion in no time.
It does mean that you can install games any way you want, and even do things like emulate Switch games.
In "Bruce Almighty" Jim Carrey uses his God powers to move the moon closer to create a more romantic view for his date. If my memory serves correct, the next day we hear briefly on the news about terrible freak flooding over the world.
Caido founder here!

Lots of nice stuff, since we are also in rust I see a lot of similar pattern in our codebase. I think your oneone crate could be split, we would probably be interested to collaborate on an http/2 support. We also have our own internal forgiving parser. It is an interesting thing to build tooling that must intentionally go beyond a spec since you basically have to reimplement all the primitives.
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I feel like that BGP attacks (and outright mistakes) haven't gone away, so I wonder how useful MPIC is these days. Also, hosting companies have been known to MITM their customers connections in order to get valid fake certs.

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I have a first-gen Switch, still in active rotation. My kids are asking me why we don't hack it. My answer has been, what does a hacked Switch do that my Steam Deck doesn't already do, without hacking? I mean, if you're going to sail the seven seas and yo-ho-ho, not that I've been encouraging that, the answer isn't even "Play Switch 1 games", the Steam Deck does that better too! And at least we can't accidentally hook the Switch up to the network and get it banned if it isn't hacked.
"no other anarchist movements recognize them as anarchists."

Once you go down the rabbit whole of trying to define 'anarchist' , there are actually dozens of definitions, and they all argue about who is really anarchist. So, that they don't agree that some other group isn't 'really anarchist', I take it with grain of salt .

These extreme Republicans want to get rid of government. I'm using the highest level gloss over, that No-Government is Anarchism.

I'm sure in reality, humans would re-coalesce up in communes/tribes/feudal groupings, and thus re-form local groups, and is that still Anarchism? At what point of organization do we stop saying something is 'anarchism'. I'm just saying, when the US breaks up because there is no government, it will be anarchy, and that seems to be what Republicans are shooting for..
Yeah, GoG is my other go-to for games. I'm not a big fan of DRM, but I'm OK with DRM that respects me. Valve has never abused the DRM or let it get in my way. I can play offline, I can use multiple computers, I can share games with my family on their computers. All things considered it's pretty respectful of the reality of how people want to experience and share their content.
These are real problems. But they are also loaded questions, if someone asked me these at a party I would view them as looking for confirmation, and not seeking truth. There's nothing wrong with that, but the author's goal is curiosity and truth seeking, and I'm skeptical that most of these questions align with that goal.
It makes sense why Trump's family is investing opportunity into crypto like "American Bitcoin" -- they want to separate themselves from the dollar.
I purchased a battery for my T61 from GHU Electronics a year ago. So far no issues.
yeah valve are scummy on loot boxes, but their steam service is top notch. And they're right, since not only they compete with publishers or f2p live service games, they also compete with pirated service, which can be highly reliable, and free.

Steam is more convenient, reliable, and affordable, so no wonder they can compete with piracy
I am, despite my distrust of code generating LLMs, using one to write a piece of software that I have intended to write for a while, but haven't, thanks to laziness and inertia.

It's interesting, but I'm finding I'm spending a lot of time just figuring out how to describe something to the LLM. A bit less than writing it myself, really, except for the Qt-related stuff, which I've read up on and practiced a bit, but I wouldn't say I'm competent, yet. The generated code is OK and it works the first time, exactly the way I describe it to the LLM. I believe you can easily spot the problem there.

It will take a while to learn how to integrate AI into my workflow, and I can't say it's exactly an enjoyable experience, but I feel like it's something I need to do. I do feel it's a crutch, though.

I will say, there are two areas where it shines so far: writing tests and making me practice my code reviewing.

We'll see how it goes. It's going to take amazing results to ever get me to pay a monthly fee for something running remotely that seems like it should run locally.
(so the US can drop the tariffs on them)

That would require other countries trusting the promises of the current administration, yes? How much credibility does the Orange One have on the world stage?
By looking at where things are made rather than by using hedonic adjustments to multiply up INTC revenue until it hides the problem (or whatever the strategy is today now that INTC is flagging).
extreme libertarian's don't.

Maybe don't put libertarians and feudalist together.
On the face of it that sounds reasonable, but then you look at say China with a 35x population over Canada yet Canadians don't just buy as much from China as vice-versa, they buy CAD$65 billion more. So I don't think the argument that larger countries necessarily have a deficit against their smaller trading partners holds water.

I do agree that this madness will only encourage other countries to conduct their trade elsewhere.
Not if its SaaS, which is where the world has been going for a decade now at least
Well, the oscillator is a Schmitt trigger. The trigger waits for a capacitor to discharge pas a hysteresis point, but uses discrete voltage levels to switch. So, maybe semi-analog?
You could not have designed a more effective version of a “Manchurian Candidate” in my opinion.

In fact, this administration has been so effective and brazen that if you were to try and write this as fiction, the scope and scale of what is occurring would be deemed unbelievable and would require toning down for the audience.
You will never catch me giving my AWS keys to AI agents. I don't need that stress.

> "Sorry Dave", I have made a recommended deployment to your 1 page blog app. It will contain CDN, WAF, 3 Load Balancers and a cross region S3 backup. My cost analysis says you will be billed 200K$ next month.
Yeah, the whole "decapitation strike" talking point betrays a serious bias. It also implies something which no evidence is provided for. The idea that foreign actors got someone elected, then managed to get that person to implement a specific strategy that rapidly destroys the dollar as a reserve currency, all for the benefit of the foreign actor, is quite the stretch.
Aww, that might not have displayed in the reader view. Blaming the author instead of the paywall workaround lol. Sorry.
Does anyone has any good explanation why MS top brass is so thick headed on the topic?
The spectre of a post-IPO Half Life 3 is something which fills me with dread.
Without the Steele dossier, "Krasnov" has seen lots of attention. Now stir that with the absolute bizarro behavior of Trump around Russia/Putin.

There may not be hard evidence of a fire, but there is so much smoke I choke on it.
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> I guess it would be much harder to produce an iOS or Android app because of the vagaries of mobile programming.

on iOS you also need a special entitlement that's only available on specific request and only to known developers, so practically impossible for any open source project to acquire.
Perfidy, Deception, Fraud – How Much Trust Should We Put in a PDF?
> Explorative work becomes quite difficult if the type system is really rigid

Or to put it another way, the ease of programming is correlated with the ease of making undetected mistakes.
Is Bitcoin even a currency? Who spends it? And who keeps it stable?
AdNauseam uses manifest version 2, too, so it will not be supported for long in Chrome / Chromium.
Do people actually believe this? Maybe industrial output according to some cooked up numbers or specific industries.
Besides Fortnite (which is a big hit on mobile/consoles) all those examples hit their stride before steam opened to third parties or early in that period. Others like COD or Minecraft may have started on PC but migrated their main focus to other platforms too.

What stands out to me is that while most studios accept that they've got to pay their tithe to valve in order to succeed on PC, for many it seems to begrudgingly so and where they have the capability they investigate using their own or alternative channels to get a better rate. It's an interesting parallel to Valve's moan around 15 years or so that Microsoft could E.E.E. PC gaming and the linux direction was hedging against that.
>So, according to some people, the fact that there were fewer Steam Machines than PlayStations in the world meant that the project as a whole was a failure.

I mean, there's no metric short nor long term where we call the steam machines a success. It was an experiment and some neat tech (hardware and software) came out of it. Valve is still a business at the end of the day.

But yes, a business that can salvage the good and iterate is apparently 1000x better than what we get nowadays in this late stage capitalism, where something sells millions and the company still cuts back and lays off staff, while milking it to the ground.

>a particular distinguishing virtue they're holding on to is being willing to play the long game and not giving up in the absence of overnight success.

Gabe learned it straight from old school Microsoft. I don't know what happened to Microsoft in that time.
You misunderstood my position so let me put it this way. Putting aside the "save the children" argument, I don't care what a grown adult does and how they feel about themselves. The amount of resources put towards demonizing trans people is if nothing else, an incredible waste of time and money. And adults who live life acting like dragons exist, they are also not bothering anyone so I just leave them alone.
One of the finest laptops I ever had -- in my 30 year history with the form factor -- was an IBM Thinkpad 560Z. It was insanely compact, but powerful enough for my purposes at the time. It had a radical design for the time b/c it had NO removable media on board at all. It shipped with an outboard CD-ROM that I used often enough that it lived on my desk, and an outboard floppy drive that I don't think I used at all.

The shame of it was that a PC of that era had a super short useful life. Now we think nothing of keeping computers for 5 years or more; they're just so powerful that for most regular human tasks, there's no need for the kind of upgrade treadmill that dominated computing 25 years ago. After 3 years, though, the 560Z was almost unusable -- it had a TINY hard drive, and limited RAM. Windows was getting fatter and slower. But the physical computer itself was in GREAT shape -- even after years of heavy travel, it bore none of the crappy wear and tear I'd associate with colleagues' Dells (e.g.) later. I kept it on a shelf for a long time because it was so solid and pleasing that I couldn't bear to part with it despite its basic uselessness.

I didn't realize it at the time, but the 560Z was also my last Windows laptop. Because my job back then was mostly Office docs, and because Win98 was so awful, I shifted to a Mac when the 560 was done, and I've been there ever since.
Because the margin isn’t in food. It’s in franchising (selling a platform and brand) and real estate.
Linux will let you use your computer without a Microsoft account. No tricks required.
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I don't think many throw away their remote controller when the batteries run out. So why do we do that for laptops? Because it makes them 2cm thinner?

I believe this change benefits 100% the companies imposing them, consumers always have a tech-enthusiast around to ask if needs be.
Especially given the luxury lifestyle that even the poorest suburban 20-something American male lives in today. They get to play video games all day and watch any movie at home with any food from around the world that can show up at their doorstep of their parents home at a moments notice. The aristocrats of 150 years ago could NEVER imagine such luxuries.

And Trump expects our population of suburban aristocrats to work hard at factories...
> saying that independent thought leads to one being "moderate" in the way that most people think of that word, is straight up wrong

Agreed. Independent thought usually leads to one being moderate when that person is already living a comfortable life.
Change in voter support for Trump between 2020 and 2024 [graph]
only until someone finds a zeroday in headscale (remember, it never got audited) or until the server running headscale itself gets compromised. Especially in countries where getting a dedicated public IPv4+IPv6 from your ISP is hard-impossible and you‘d have to rely on a server hosted externally (unless you’re large enough to make deals with the ISP) some company hosting your server still retains at minimum physical control over your headscale infra. For why this is a problem, see the recent Oracle cloud breach.
No, I agree with you. My point is that Democrats embraced it in the 1990s as well. So the Republicans who were otherwise liberals but just in the GOP for the cheap foreign labor switched sides.
Because they're thick headed on everything. Remember when Windows 8 came out and Microsoft thought every computer should look and behave like a tablet?
I don't know about the implementation details, but there are a lot of cryptocurrency proof of work algorithms that requires a lot of memory access like Monero's RandomX. Those can't be realistically run on most underpowered devices.
It's on the list. They have to pay 10%
Fondly. It lives on a shelf next to my first phone, an HTC Evo with the slide keyboard
yeah, I'd imagine they are