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Yes, it is a liability, because in exchange for your reserve currency status you are indebting your country. Gradually, as you outsource more and produce less, your country derives more and more of its returns from soft economic assets (financial markets, legal structures, software, pharma, IP, etc.), than hard economic assets (commodities, energy, manufacturing, transportation, logistics, etc.).

In the long run, this hollows out your industrial base, drives income inequality (because labor is devalued when products/soft assets have zero marginal cost of replication), and defangs your country.

Said differently — vertical integration is the key to “innovation” in the abstract. You can see this with BYD.

With the above in mind, let’s say your goal as a country is to develop your industries so you can achieve vertical integration. Soft economic assets are easier to bootstrap once you have hard economic assets. If you lose your hard economic assets and only have soft ones, you are at a strategic disadvantage because your opponent (in this case China), can bootstrap their soft assets relatively quickly. By comparison, it will take you much longer to get your hard assets back (through the mythical process of “reshoring/reindustrialization”).

All that being said, this is not a commentary on the effectiveness of the tariff policy of the Trump administration.
I’ve lost my voice for a few days because I spent a solid eight hours in a row talking developers out of solving already-solved problems.

“No, you don’t need Redis for caching output, we have a CDN already.”

“No, you don’t need to invent authentication tokens yourself, JWT is a downloadable package away.”

“No…”

“No…”

…
Sweet. I know. I even have the $5/mo plan just to keep https://anigram.herokuapp.com/ online :)

Nice to hear about the buildpacks. I use Containerfiles but since switching to Podman and Fedora/RockyLinux I've seen stuff about OpenShift which supports buildpacks. https://github.com/sclorg/s2i-base-container/
> Trump is crashing the T-note yield to refinance $9T (which is how much US debt is going to mature in 2025) at a lower rate

Even if this were intended (unlikely), destroying $6T of notional stock market value so far to save $270b/yr of interest (if 10-year yields drop by 3%, which hasn't happened yet) is a bad trade.
Access to information will cure ignorance.
I think deindustrialization is detrimental to the US. We couldn't even make masks fast enough during the covid. The YouTube video that compares the factory of GM and that of BYD's is just embarrassing. It really shows how far we've fallen. The cost of building anything, including canon shells, is through the roof because we simply don't have the supply chains. And do we really believe that we can keep innovating if we don't actually make things? It's really a pipe dream that our engineers can keep drawing boxes in their cushy offices and believe that Chinese companies won't catch up. On the other hand, it's so sad that successful people like Balaj believe that the US can never reverse the course of deindustrialization. Their reasons are the usual: the US workers are too incompetent compared to the Chinese workers. Our automation is too behind compared to China's. We have lost the know-how of building our supply chain. We may get back manufacturing, but we will lose our seigniorage of a global currency - the US dollar.

What I don't understand is that China was dirt poor 30 years ago and was not a manufacturing powerhouse even 15 years ago. It was the Taiwanese, the Japanese, and the westerners who invested heavily in China and brought them technologies and expertise and bootstrapped the massive manufacturing industries in China. The quality and professionalism of US workers used to be the envy of Chinese people. Since when rebuilding the manufacturing business has become mission impossible? Can we really keep printing money when we make so little stuff? I get that we have great service jobs, but who wants our services if we don't make anything worth servicing? Back in 1917, Allyn Young believed that London would always be the finance center of the world, but we all know what happened later.

I'm not sure if Tarrif will work in the end, but at least it can attract additional investment given that the US is the largest consumer market in the world. Combined that with deregulation (assuming it will be be successful) , at least the US has a shot to bring back the key manufacturing business. And don't we believe actions lead to information? What have we done in the past 15 years to stop our deindustrialization? At least this time our government is trying. For that, I'd like to give them benefit of doubt.
Do those giant corporations employ any Americans?

Are they gonna struggle to feed their families?
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It's already there in the Constitution - Article II, Section 2, Clause 2. Unfortunately other countries chose not to require things in writing and were happy with pinky promises that could be reneged.
I'd like to correct you: wars don't happen when just one of the sides thinks they can win, they happen when BOTH sides think so.

I think that exactly for this reason Europe needs such a vaccine shot, so they stop they can win a war against Russia.
Agreed. It’s very rare to get a group of shareholders to agree that the price of their stock should go down.
In what plane of reality is China isolationist
Actually, that's not what I've found. When I have compared betting sites like Kalshi and Polymarket to the implied probability of Fed rate cuts in the interest rate futures market, I have found them to match up and move in lock step with each other. (I don't work for any of these companies and I don't use the betting sites myself; just stating my observation.)
Good news. It is not all over but:

04/04 19:00UTC - update

The immediate cancellation of the AWS contract was walked back, and the OAR has until july 31st to preserve their data. thanks to everyone who contributed to the emergency scrape, a delay here is good news and just means we have more time to archive. - @sneakers-the-rat
replay attacks are some of the easiest to automate
About a quarter of America (whose vote collectively counts for >50%) will happily suffer if it means that people they don't like suffer slightly more.
It's not 'supposedly'. It's a feature they officially gained just a few crewed flights back. It's a mean of last resort and has to be manually committed to during descend. I assume it may have to cut any remaining or semideployed parachutes.
If you can't give me any words that indicate what kind of crisis the UK is facing, while there's general agreement on 'Trump', 'tariffs', '(especially US) equities', 'the US dollar', 'global recession fears'... then I don't have time for your video recommendation.
it's where you need to know the wrap points of some text given a width of the container. since Canvas does not offer text wrapping, that is one use case, because you have to wrap manually.

my use case is determining the height of a table cell given a specific column width and text that needs to be rendered inside.
Stock is easy to goose back up via QE and/or lower prime rate. Once you lock in those interest rates on debt, though, there's nothing you can do about them. You're also ignoring trade barriers that other countries have, and the fact that we've been offshoring manufacturing capacity for over three decades. What Trump is doing today is what Bernie was advocating in the 00's.
Reversing the actions would require either a 2/3 veto proof majority or Trump realizing he is wrong, both of which will probably take a while...
The president constitutionally doesn’t actually have this authority - the power to set tariffs is supposed to be exclusively the prerogative of the legislature, but Trump declares pro forma emergencies and the Republicans in power aren’t willing to check his power.
Reading the parent's comment I was expecting the UK GDP to have been plunging since Brexit, but that's not the case apparently[0]. Some sectors clearly profited from it, compensating for those who went down the drain.

GDP isn't everything and from the outside the UK feel like in a very bad place, but I wonder what's the metric that really captures that status. Inequalities aren't getting that much wider as well.

https://www.macrotrends.net/global-metrics/countries/gbr/uni...
AFAIK this is one of the first times that a significant downward move in the stock market wasn't also seen in the price of Bitcoin. Usually they're correlated.
> He has handed the democrats the next couple federal elections on a platter.

I dunno, cults are surprisingly sticky, just look at how they've internally whitewashed the January 6th attack on the capitol.

I want to believe you are right, but I've been disappointed repeatedly in the last few years, so I also fear you are wrong.
> In the 90s this was a popular and sensible choice, but not so much in 2025 :)

Infuriatingly, Tcl/Tk (and other things which use Tk) is still light years easier for doing basic GUI programming than anything that exists in 2025.

How the hell can decades have elapsed and Tcl/Tk, Hypercard and VB6 are still vastly better for GUI development than anything we currently have?
Different number of bytes out than in is not an issue. Efficiently translating such constructs in the general case is hard. Imagine what it would look like.
Multi-polarity is the number one cause of war and conflict.
Isn't it obvious that Trump's goal are not these tariffs, but renegotiated trading agreements? But everybody just seems to love to proclaim this the end of US.
> I'm tempted to think (hope? dream?) that the markets and trade will rebound if all this chaos makes American politics swing back

The pump'n'dump scheme against Ukraine will forever change how small countries see the US support for democracy, even if it changes back to the previous status-quo.
This is charitable.
Whoa. All that since Jan 1? Inspiring!
It's too late, these actions have shown how truly fragile and arbitrary USA policy is, and extreme anti-current-rules-based-order views are rampant in USA politics. Policy will be volatile and no multinationals or governments will want to deal with the chaos.
this letter/piece of code is long and convoluted because i could not spend much time on it. had i had more time it would be short and concise.
Ah lol, I just totally missed the joke
I don't think the left has been automatically in favor of tariffs--or at least I'd appreciate evidence for that claim. The complaints about free trade deals that I've seen have tended to be about provisions that treated various labor and environmental regulations as restraints on trade. It's fair to say that left-liberal people are paying more attention to the downsides of tariffs than they were, but I don't think it's a simple reversal of positions.
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Not only launch, you should tell everybody you can to try it out. Launch is the easy part.
>Almost all the trade deficit numbers being thrown around by the US administration don't include trade in services which the US generally has a large surplus.

Then why don’t other countries tax US services? I don’t even hear this from anyone in the media too
"Arbeit macht frei (Work Sets You Free."
Is there any relationship between reserve currency, national security and power projection? https://apnews.com/article/shipbuilding-china-united-states-...

> In only two decades, China has grown to be the dominant player in shipbuilding, claiming more than half of the world’s commercial shipbuilding market, while the U.S. share has fallen to just 0.1%, posing serious economic and national security challenges for the U.S. and its allies, according to a report released Tuesday by the Center for Strategic and International Studies. In 2024 alone, one Chinese shipbuilder constructed more commercial vessels by tonnage than the entire U.S. shipbuilding industry has built since the end of World War II.
I’m from Southern Ohio which was not hit as hard, but I know the attitude well. I call it “rust belt rage.”

I remember during the first Trump election hearing quotes like “I hope he does as much damage as possible” and “I can’t throw a bomb into the White House but I can throw a Trump.” Lots more like that.

The attitude in that region of the country is absolute seething rage. A lot of people from Northern Ohio, Western Pennsylvania, Michigan, etc. would be gleeful if they saw people hanged. It’s that kind of rage.

Imagine what the vibes would be on the West Coast if there was a huge set of policy changes that decimated and liquidated the high tech industries. All those software and engineering jobs just vaporize in a span of 20 years. Places that were once the wealthiest in the country look like failed states and war zones. Everyone who can leave leaves.

Then the media makes you the butt of jokes. Calls you “flyover country.”
> I started wondering if there's a way for citizens to push the issue that these tarrifs are unconstitutional.

Anyone who imports and is assessed a tariff would have personal standing to sue, arguing that the tax is illegal. I think there are some procedural requirements first to e.g. formally complain, but the dispute would eventually get its day in court.

However, these tariffs are being applied at least under a thin veneer of law regarding declared emergencies. It's clearly beyond the intent of the law for Trump to do this, but it's hard to draw a bright line between this and (e.g.) ambitious environmental regulation.
No. It's not obvious that there's any lucid end goal whatsoever.
The next president is going to be Trump. If people don't think that's at least a serious possibity they are extremely deluded about the situation the country is in right now.
Tell me about it. My kid has a chronic condition and we always have better luck being seen immediately by her ped in the US for a flair up.
What about these tariffs would cause the millions/billions of non-paying users to stop using the free service that is facebook?
...or they could've just laid off and gotten even more.

maybe, just maybe, trump and the people around him are actually just crazy and there's no big conspiracy.
Had a bunch of problems trying to host / run this on an internal-only network.
are they unconstitutional? i imagine, like many things, congress has constitutionally saw fit to cede its authority to the executive many many moons ago
I'm pretty sure the violent colonizers who implemented a pre-meditated plan of conquest https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plan_Dalet are those who started the war in this case. "Right of conquest" was not part of international law anymore at that time.

They did not really win either, given that indigenous people, and their descendants, did not yet settle for their complete submission. Unless you call victory as having to hide behind walls and running to shelters every once in a while, and constantly making new enemies by bombing shit out of everyone around you.

As to the fault of the voters for what happened after elections. Yeah, that's easily debatable, given the massive foreign interference into the post-election Palestine's politics and society from occupation, and third countries, and attempts to coopt oposition for violent overthrow of elected government. Also Palestinians did not vote for terrorism, but for "change and reform" at the time http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/4606482.stm
I'm not sure about other intellectual property rights. I do know there's a similar dichotomy for privacy: Americans tend to view it in terms of property rights (ownership of your image, data, etc.) while Europeans view it as a matter of protecting personal dignity. That leads to different decisions: for instance, there's a famous French case of an artist making a nude sketch of a portrait subject, and being unable to sell the sketch because it violated the subject's privacy rights, despite being the owner of the intellectual property.

Peter Baldwin's Copyright Wars is a good overview of the European vs American attitudes to copyright in general.
They do employ Americans! And now they will employ fewer Americans! This is bad!
Very untrue. Major corporations can absorb the damage for a few months without raising their prices, since they have more inventory, bulk discounts, etc.

Small companies are often running nearly paycheck-to-paycheck, which requires them to raise prices immediately, making them completely uncompetitive with the large corporations.

The large corporations know this and are happy to keep their prices low and burn money until the small business competition dies, then they can raise their prices.
> China is isolationist

China is what now? China is the biggest trading partner of something like 70% of all nations in the world!

China is asymmetric and unfair, not "isolated". They disallow imports except in a handful of industries they can't replicate yet. That works for China, because: (1) they are huge, and (2) they remain poor, and thus can do the low wage jobs internally in addition to doing them for the rest of the world.

The US only has advantage #1. Though at this point #2 seems within reach...
What platforms do you typically use?
Describing human intelligences as self-drivers on the highway of progress, one may build the following dictionary with the help of OP's graph

Traffic density -> urban pop. density

Traffic flow -> rate of new ideas productively implemented

Partial observability -> democracy*

Reinforcement learning -> augmenting individual expression

Oxygen/lithium -> money

*Incorporating further insights from OP: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43589398
Care to explain your rationale? Seems like Russia is in no position to invade any NATO country unless the US leaves the alliance. They've proven themselves wholly outclassed in Ukraine, against a much smaller country with refurb gear.
I remember listening to someone who said that the way they’ve been doing this is bizarre, because people are going to expect positive change, and JD Vance’s political future is dependent on it, and they’ve gutted the government and created a completely unfavorable environment to do anything.
Yes, abd this appreciates USD, in turn makes production costs in US high, so the rest of the world doesn't buy what US produces.

It is by itself sustainable though as US doesn't only export produced goods but tech etc which the world wants. A valuable dollar funds this tech, in a sense whole world funds the US trch sector.
Do you think walling their population off from the Internet doesn't qualify?
Whatever, I'm in Canada and decided to cut down all costs. Fully expecting a recession as well as a depression.

We thought about getting a new car, but not going to do that until in a few years when car sellers are begging me to take one. Right now they are so arrogant that they charge high rates and popular cars takes months to deliver. I'm gonna sit for another 3-4 years.

Also decided to remove all travel plans from the near future. Purchases higher than $100 are going to require a stamp from the financial department ($wifie). All purchases re-directed to local second hand market as mu as possible. Thought about buying a MacBook for RE but to hell with it. No new phones, no nothing until something breaks and evaluated by the financial department to be "essential".

Fuck it. I just got a small raise and bonus but feel so insecure. I expect to lose job at any moment.
The US treatment of Ukraine is having a massive impact on how everyone thinks about security.

All the US had to do was supply it's old weapons to Ukraine whilst replenishing it's stock (creating jobs in America) and things would have been fine. Now we're all in a world were Europeans are openly talking about developing nuclear weapons. Taiwan is totally on it's own, and Greenland is worried about being annexed.

There's real trouble coming.
Trump's businesses have repeatedly declared bankruptcy. Don't rule out ineptitude.
China is very far from isolationist. They're making huge investments into other countries with Belt & Road, importing huge amounts of commodities, exporting huge amounts of finished goods. Sure, the domestic market is protected, but it's a long way from North Korean autarky, which seems to be Trump's goal.
As a comparison to Brexit? At what point even momentarily was that in a worse situation, nevermind as an ongoing matter?
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How is that obvious? Why would your 'negotiating stance' be 'give no demands and tariff the entire world, including islands with just penguins, a nonsensical rate?'

I mean sure I guess you can say he's negotiating, in which case I'd like you to admit he's a terrible negotiator.
Although, more accurately it's like "transmissions to live" since it doesn't have anything to do with time, regardless of its original naming.
That is what I believe I also just read... I was just telling my girlfriend that Hackernews is the smarter, tech oriented reddit. Better go fix that.
Eh, OSD 3 just says that derived works must be possible, it doesn't say that you must be able to incorporate third party source code into the derived work. Meanwhile the FSF's definition explicitly calls out this freedom as an essential component of Freedom 1:

> One important way to modify a program is by merging in available free subroutines and modules. If the program's license says that you cannot merge in a suitably licensed existing module—for instance, if it requires you to be the copyright holder of any code you add—then the license is too restrictive to qualify as free.

https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.en.html#four-freedoms
I’m not sure what your sources are but if Bernie Sanders is the left, then he’s been saying the same thing for a long time and continues to. Maybe there’s some nuance to it?

2025
https://www.sanders.senate.gov/press-releases/news-sanders-s...

2011
https://www.sanders.senate.gov/press-releases/senate-speech-...
This is why I’m looking at neovim

As much as I like vscode it’s making me a little uncomfortable being reliant on it
This is the payout difference between perato optimal and minmax solutions. Trust is gone so the sum value to all players is lower overall than it was before. The only thing is the rest of the world still has trust with each other so the ultimate looser is just the US. I just wish that the devastation this is causing could only impact those that caused it but the reality is that those responsible, those that voted for this, won't admit or learn from this, or the hundreds of other devastating acts going on, and will keep inflicting this type of pain. We really did have it all.
They are the least isolationist they have to sell their goods, often by building the roads that carry them.
Well you can and should create multiple coroutine/tasks and then gather them. If you replace cuda with network calls, it’s exactly the same problem. Nothing to do with asyncio.
You've not made any, just assertions.
This is a really exciting development. Can anyone currently using this chime in on working with pyodide/dependency management in this setting?

I imagine that this reduces the iteration time for developing excel integrations. It's unfortunate that direct db queries aren't supported, but I guess that's a wasm/pyodide issue.
I love the analysis but I think this ignores the percussive aspect of the electric guitar.

I am a huge thrash/death/black metal fan and a huge Ligeti/Reich/Ives/Ravel/Debussy fan so I could never call metal harmonically rich.

What to me makes metal is the percussive and melodic aspect combined of distorted, often palm muted for extra percussive effect, guitar strings in 5ths. Harmonically though, it is hard to get more simple.