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That is missing the big picture. The US has a debt & deficit problem. There is no consensus policy on how to deal with it [0] and every slice of the population wants to handle it differently (generally by picking a different slice of the population to bear the burden).

The federal government tried printing money and that was a big contributor to the Biden administration getting voted out. Somewhat unfairly, but oh well. It wasn't working very well and the political appetite isn't there right now to be associated with monetisation.

Reducing the size and scope of government is being debated, but realistically the appetite doesn't seem to be there either.

Now the administration are going to try taxing foreigners. It probably won't go well either.

This is the US political process seeing a major problem and cycling through options to check for alternatives other than raising taxes on a voting constituency. None of the revenue raising ideas have widespread support - they all harm the economy and they're all going to have specific subsets of the population that support them. Pointing out a particular subset isn't particularly useful.

[0] I suspect there is a consensus on the debt part - don't pay it - but that still leaves the deficit to sort out.
> informally, we're all equals, etc. Except in pay.

arguably the most important part. :) 2nd being team and company culture imo.
I have the same question, I'd love to watch the presentations in my own time, but I don't want to sign up for something that will have strict deadlines, as my schedule doesn't allow that.

Does anyone know which kind of the two above this course is? I couldn't find that info.
Maybe that is true in reality, but I think a lot of people overseas have a different viewpoint. If they think it's false, they won't apply.
Yep, people behind Trump are the ones we should pay attention to. They are the ones with long term plans.
I especially liked the comment, "This is Vibe Governing".
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> The effective pair wise tariff rate of these countries is still larger than the US and simply brings it more in line.

^ is, er, not true, though.

They based it on _trade deficits_ (plus some random messing around which resulted in some uninhabited islands with no trade or independent trade policy being assigned a value), not tariffs. Which makes no sense at all.
> Someone's going to run the world, you know.

The entitlement in that statement is jaw-dropping. No, no one needs to run the world.

And I definitely, definitely can compare US actions to Hitler and Stalin. Vietnam alone, over fifty years ago, ignoring everything that's gone on since was 1.4 million deaths, more than Auschwitz, about a third of the Holodomor.

In the 20th century, leaving aside WWI and WWII, America fought its native population, and in Mexico, Cuba, Nicaragua, Haiti, the Dominican Republic, Korea, Puerto Rico, Vietnam, Lao, Indonesia, Lebanon, the Congo, Bolivia, Cambodia, Granada, Libya, Panama, Iran, Iraq, Somalia, and the former Yugoslavia.

These are troops on the ground wars, in the twentieth century alone, which are a matter of public record. We're not even at the War on Terror, small scale secret stuff, or counting the viscous regimes the US has propped up. Or sanctions, or internal repression, lynching, assassinations and the like.

We don't have a body count as the US stopped counting in Vietnam, but I'd wager if we took all the deaths for which the US is directly responsible, it outstrip would outstrip Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union combined by an order of magnitude.

[Breathes]
To the initial point, and speaking from somewhere where one's political views can definitely get one locked up. The (debatable) free speech of Americans means nothing to those not protected by US law, which is most of the world.

The American human rights record may look passable from the inside, but from the outside it's just another monstrous empire.
Brexit and Trump are both proxy wars of subversion, with traitorous support from a cadre of extreme reactionaries in both countries spending huge sums on social and trad media to manipulate public opinion in a self-harming direction.

It's very impressive in its way.

Although the winners won't get to enjoy their victory for long, because climate change is going to roll right over everything over the next few decades.
I would advice caution with that approach. Not only could Linux by itself be "suspicious", a clean OS without any data surely is. Once they have a justification for a deeper search they will find out about the live OS and you will be treated like a terrorist.

A better approach would be to backup your OS and make it available online over SSH/VPN for example. Then install windows or any other default OS on all devices with some amount of believable but not too personal data. Once you are over the boarder wipe all devices and download your real OS and data over the internet to your devices.
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For anyone looking for a good anime, I would recommend Planetes which is about a crew that protects the Earth from space debris.
Oh on that we agree - the damage to US reputation and reliability is already done and it will take decades or a world war to repair it.
The latest browser itself runs fine as well as most old school websites like Hacker News, it's only the "web apps" that run slowly.
Is there really that much skill involved in using LLMs effectively, most of the criticisms I see end up being countered with something along the lines of "you're not using the right model". That implies that much of the skill people talk about is less important than picking the correct model to use (which tend to be the more expensive ones).

And in your LLM future, who will maintain all of the legacy systems that are written in languages the LLMs don't end up assimilating? It's reasonably safe to assume there will be plenty of work left there.
At this point, Trump could hoist the russian flag at the white house and republicans would still turn a blind eye.
And it isn't like we have especially high unemployment right now. There isn't a labor force available to suddenly staff a bunch of factories even if they took zero time and capital to set up.
The _company_ also has to stay competitive to make money.
> That’s how stupid they think their supporters are and how much contempt they have for them.

And, er, based on the response from their supporters, seems like they're not wrong.

The markets, however, will be far less forgiving.
I think you meant to share that link: https://youtu.be/yIsPbysinKw
Well, next to a x220 from 2012, sits my eee-pc 701, from 2008. With no-moving-parts-inside, and "huge" soldered 4Gb ssdisk with arch-32bit. Been around the world (literally), a few times. The touchpad buttons started falling few years ago. i keep putting them back. Rarely used nowadays - but battery still holds about hour+ .. Well made tiny machine.

i guess i am a hoarder? Hate to throw away useful working things..
A lot of paper archives and libraries burned just recently in LA.
It wasn't much of a shotgun wedding. Yes, it was a common enemy/cause during the revolution, but then took years of debate for the constitution and years more for the bill of rights. Over time, we've forced more and more homogeneous (federal) laws. The more laws you pass, the more likely people are affected in the outgroups under the splits you mentioned and it compounds. All the concerns about states rights and small states being less powerful are still concerns for some groups of people today. We've essentially been eroding the initial status quo that had been agreed upon.
EU peace is assured by inter-locking trade within the block. Countries within the EU are gently encouraged to trade essential goods with one another instead of producing them themselves.

This policy dates back to the end of WW2 as an attempt to prevent one country getting too aggressive and hence starting another war.

Since the fall of the wall, Russia was seen as a legitimate trading partner for the block and, in the long term (just as Türkiye), as member of the block.

Hence sourcing fertiliser from Russia was taken to be a strategic positive since it tired Russia to Europe.
That would work of we had viable alternatives (on par with the US offers or as an easy migration). But we don’t really, so if the EU also adds tariffs than we’ll have the same issues the US is going to have. Meaning higher prices for the same offer since we’ll have no other choice but to stick with the US IT offer.

Like other comments said, this could work only if this was long term and everybody bites the bullet until they have a good local alternative to foreign offers with high tariffs. And the chances of having a lower offer as the one you were importing are really high. So, everybody is betting on short term.
So? Let’s not give it too hard to poor Russia?
So there are many other forums available but you recognise that none of them are actually as suited to the kind of discussions we might want? It's very "but we've got Hacker News at home."
Please rewrite HN as an SPA using the most bleeding edge alpha JavaScript frameworks you can find.
> What happen if this CBI maximum happen to be a very low amount?

It shouldn't need to be pointed out that that's deeply unlikely, but I'll point it out anyway.

The available monetary contraction is orders of magnitude larger. Economic conditions where it would be constrained to such a low level would likely be rare and temporary. And, it's generally accepted that direct cash transfers increase spending.
> There is really one ultimate question here: "Is this the best use of our tax dollars?". Not: "Does this feel like the best use of our tax dollars?".

There have been numerous pilot studies, e.g. those listed on https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_basic_income . The problem is that opponents of UBI invariably point out that as only some people received it, and only for a limited time, that it wasn't universal, or that it took place in in some other country, or decades ago, so it doesn't apply in their country, or today.

> Show me how much UBI saves police departments, social welfare services, the health-care system,etc.

Its purpose is to ensure that everyone has their basic financial needs met, not to provide those particular government services.
Everyone in the United States was much more well off in the 50s/60s/70s as they had just won a huge war that left most of their competitors factories completely destroyed. There's no economic boom today.
>But I also wonder what's wrong with other currencies and why they are not used more often.

I think that they are less stable and more controlled by their countries of origin. The US has, relative to the rest of the world, an exceptionally stable political system, little control over the dollar, and a huge economy.
Is there a particular reason you chose to target ninja over other formats?
Now it is 1.4 mln, in future this could be 1000 more, if this will help with overcoming tariffs. Check what happened with Germany export to Kazakhstan in 2022.
I think it's basically reciprocal adjusted for trade deficit, with a floor of 10%.

So obviously you'll end up with 10% on all sorts of places where you actually have a trade surplus and no tarrifs on your goods, or, yes, islands inhabited only by penguins.
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VAT on imports are across the board, as far as consumer goods go.
The Hawk-Dove game is a wise framework to consider. When both are Hawks, both get harmed. When one is a Hawk and the other a Dove, the Dove gets hurt, and the Hawk laughs. I hope both can be Doves, bringing tariffs to zero and making all great again.
I don't think the current US administration understand the EU.

There are some things where I have my doubts about the current actions of the European countries, like rearmament. Will that be dropped the minute a new US administration enters? What the EU does well, like really well, is trade and bureaucracy. It is, in my mind one of the few areas where the EU can absolutely run circles around the US, while managing to protect and isolate itself from the worst fallout. We've already seen this with the current EU tariffs, they are extremely precise and targets Republican votes at almost no cost to EU consumers. I think that will continue, rather than imposing broad tariffs, the EU will target things Trump care about specifically.
The US issues debt in dollars and repays those debts in dollars. The purchasing power of dollars can change due to inflation. If you suddenly increase the global supply of dollars by 2x, dollars that existed prior to the increased supply will be able to purchase less.
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I'd feel a lot better about it if more countries held values of free speech and democracy. If mainland China were like Taiwan, great. Unfortunately I fear those might just end up being viewed as instruments of America's decline.
Of course a lot of the vehicles that would be interesting to the US market are not classified as cars, but as (light) trucks, and have a 25% tariff applied (originally due to a minor tariff "war" in the 1960s around chicken exports). It's just wrong that the US until now has not questioned and acted upon foreign tariffs.
I've been looking for a DEC terminal with Sixel, Tektronix and ReGIS graphics for a while, with zero success. They weren't rare at all - they were a massive success, and, yet, it seems almost all ended up in a recycling facility or an e-waste dumpster. Many other terminals emulated them and expanded on their feature set.
The 'outsourcing' has always been for the benefit of US defence corporations.

There were a number of occasions in the 50s to 70s when the US stepped in directly to neuter world-leading aerospace projects in the UK, forcing the UK to buy from the US instead.

Virtually all of the cost of the UK's Trident deterrent goes to the US.

And it would be unwise to write off the EU, especially now there's a mass exodus of researchers from the US.
> - Fingerprint reader

My mistake.

> That was a conscious design decision, as you're supposed to use swappable expansion cards.

> - SD card slot

Like I said. The laptop itself is very basic (crippleware by Lenovo standards). You have to use USB ports for everything, there are only 3 usable, and also mechanically very weak, not to mention performance, heat inside a closed plastic case, cost, etc.
Climate crisis, trade crisis, space crisis … time for a crisis crisis.
It does nothing with "hostile". For China, yes, but for most other countries tariff is simply ($USA-import - $USA-export)/$USA-import. That simply, numbers are check for many many countries. I'm sure, USA imports a lot of tea from Sri Lanka and some fruits and wood/furniture.

(Freshly made Sri Lankian tea is the best, IMHO! I mean, proper tea, not all these grasses, berries and synthetic aromas which are named "tea" in modern western world).
The United States especially is having a face to face with tribalism - if you live here and you don't see it you are basically blind.

We have parents posting that they are glad their child is dead instead of getting the measles vaccine, an entire pandemic that was ignored and downplayed, an election denied.

These are all simple examples of tribalism - choosing the tribe over ones own self interest and well being. Most sane people don't offer their children up to Baal.
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I'm running a Lenovo Thinkpad, X1 Carbon from a year or so ago and it is, by far, the best Linux Laptop I've ever owned.

Unlike the 4 or so Dell (and Asus) laptops (that came with Linux preinstalled) that preceded this one, it can simultaneously support:

* Bluetooth. Yay!

* Wifi. Yay!

* Sleeps when the lid closes. Yay!

* Stays asleep when in my bag. Yay!

It's also reasonably fast and decently capable, but the not-trying-to-commit-heat-death-suicide-in-my-bag and supporting BOTH Wifi AND Bluetooth at the same time are really the biggest features.
VAT by definition applies to domestic products as well, and is thus not putting foreign sellers at a disadvantage.
For many countries patter look like ($USA-import - $USA-export)/$USA-import.
It's 8.25 on myanimelist.net

Nice!
I was thinking the same. IT is a huge business, the best kind of business right now, the pinnacle of human technology at this point in time. America is the world leader in development, and "exports" of IT. You can't really tariff software, as it's some kind of IP.

On the other hand, much of the "digital infrastructure" is free and open. Perhaps if rival powers put enough effort into sanctioning US effective sales in IT, however that may work, America could lose it all.
> It’s almost like it wasn’t well thought out.

Joke of the month.
My question is more about where the US is then importing from. I assume some goods are more elastic than others. So will the US simply stop buying, or will it shift to buying elsewhere with lower tarrifs?
If it helps anyone, bom-squad.com is a very similar project and the whole site behind it is on github as well. Full disclosure I contributed to this project myself.
Amazon is pretty good at handling VAT and all the import paperwork if it's sold as "Fulfilled by Amazon", regardless if it's the local Amazon site, or the US or Japan sites. I've ordered from all 3.

Even eBay has sorted this out now for orders from the US, with VAT and import fees baked into shipping costs. They give sellers the address for their warehouse in Chicago. eBay then forwards as the seller of record.
10% is the hard minimum, nobody has less than 10%, so ergo 10% is actually the most favourable rate.

Even the UK gets 10% which is truly mad given we have balanced trade and tarrifs (if anything the US tariffed the UK more than they did them).

^So essentially MAX(10%,(imports-exports)/imports)
The next phase is likely geopolitical. Countries will begin negotiating directly with the U.S. administration to secure exemptions or reductions in tariffs.
In effect, it’s the formation of a new American sphere of influence / empire.
When I was in my early 20s in Thailand I hated America under George W Bush. I had a conversation with a Tibetan guy who was on his way to sneak into China to help his village in Tibet which had been invaded back in the 50s, then colonized. He was going to help dig wells.

I said to him: "America is just as bad as China! We're becoming the same thing!" This was during the Iraq war.

He stopped me short. He said, "no you cannot compare them, at all, ever. You don't understand. I went to school at [ivy league college]. America is still a democracy. You have no idea how dangerous it is in China."

He was right. I didn't...I was a spoiled kid with good intentions, and no understanding of how much evil there was in the world. You don't have the reference point of experiencing pure evil either to say what you're saying.
> One final note is that it was never part of the negotiations that I was expected to know or learn Arc, yet somehow in the onboarding process the HN Arc repo has found its way onto my machine, so it feels like the bait and switch is on…

I would love it if you could get the current HN code base into a state that it could be open sourced

I understand the desire to keep certain aspects “secret sauce” to prevent abuse, but surely that could be addressed with some kind of plugin mechanism and then just don’t open source those plugins
> I really wish people would learn to keep emotion out of this topic. There is really one ultimate question here: "Is this the best use of our tax dollars?".

That's what you feel. You've already introduced emotion, by using the highly subjective word "best", and the loaded phrase "our tax dollars."

> Show me how much UBI saves police departments, social welfare services,

And yet, there is more to UBI than savings. It's also proposed as a means to give people more freedom. Your choice to look at savings betrays an emotional attachment to economic value over all else. But that's not the same for everyone.

That said, I do not believe UBI can ever live up to its goals, and can actually create a worse society, even after initial success. That alone makes it subject to speculation and emotion. The effect of UBI simply isn't predictable. Economists can't even predict a moderate crisis when it's about to unfold, let alone the long term consequences of a radical system change.

UBI is hence a political choice, and one that's tied to personal expectations and hope.
avant garde is so 20th century
Tribalism really is the thing one has to individually overcome in order to gain some perspective, then maybe adhere to free thinking, before blooming as a free doer.

For me, it always was a voluntarily long and sinuous and silly and lonely path. It had to be.

An uncertain path as well, and one that was totally worth all the trouble it brought my way.

And as seducing as it is, the reality of crossing path with fellow free thinking/doing individuals always felt like falling for some other tribe.

Because in the end, that's what we do. While not following, we often become leaders of followers. How could it be otherwise is the only question left to answer.
Deliberate self inflicted bigotry, doesn't negate the core system.
Try to give it a shot first on a dedicated partition if you can, then make the switch (IME, I used the old SSD drive for that, then used the 1TB one for daily usage with OCLP).
Pretty smooth for most users apparently. Good luck, keep repairing and maintaining old electronics!
As if current economic structures don’t already entrench powerful players? Lol.

CBI, as outlined in the paper, is funded through monetary contraction; meaning it does not introduce traditional taxation distortions or increase government control over industry.

If anything, UBI/CBI reduces dependence on hierarchical employment structures by providing individuals with a baseline income. This allows more freedom to reject exploitative labor conditions.

Historical evidence suggests that when people receive unconditional income (eg, Alaska’s Permanent Fund Dividend), entrepreneurial activity and workforce participation generally increase.

> institutionalizes the UBI recipients and forever casts their offspring into those economic roles

Poverty traps generally result from means-tested welfare programs, not unconditional income.

Many existing welfare programs disincentivize work because earning more means losing benefits. CBI is not means-tested, so earning more does not reduce benefits. If anything, it provides a safety net that makes risk-taking easier.

Pilot programs in Finland, Canada, and the U.S. show that UBI does not significantly reduce employment. In Kenya, cash transfers increased education rates and business activity among recipients, breaking generational poverty cycles.

If you want to declare things like "every opinion but mine is short sighted", it's generally best practice to demonstrate that you understand the relevant arguments and data.
You have to accept that life is single threaded and you’re not always going to choose the most optimal path.

It’s easy to overthink, but without omniscient info, execute the plan you have.

Regret is tough because it piles up as you age. It’s easy to look back and think “dang, I did a lot of bad moves” while ignoring all the upsides and limited info you had at the time.

In many ways our easy access to info makes you think “just one more search” will make my decision 10x better when in reality it’s a huge super power you should use to drive execution, not the other way around. Think of what an advantage it is to have that much context on the scale of human existence. At least for me, this makes me more optimistic: I make less mistakes than ages before me because I’m relatively better informed. Note: this doesn’t mean the choices are always good, just that I understand them more completely.
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Exactly, we self inflicted these wounds. We aren't that bright, really.
San Marino, obviously.