Can this be used to effectively create R environments? I’m desperate for such a solution.
{renv} is pretty solid, I've been using it in production for years now and have no complaints.
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pupperino commented on High tariffs become 'real' with our first $36K bill blog.adafruit.com/2025/05... · Posted by u/ptorrone
There has been a sustained campaign of propaganda, stoking division and culture wars. There has also been a sustained class warfare and concentration of wealth at the very top as most people can't seem to get ahead. Both political parties sold out their constituents a long time ago and the supreme court has been stacked with several criminally corrupt and treacherous villains.
This is every country, buddy.
pupperino commented on High tariffs become 'real' with our first $36K bill blog.adafruit.com/2025/05... · Posted by u/ptorrone
Right, but that implies that spending is controlled by revenues… when it’s clearly not. That just means higher deficits, threatening a default of US Bonds, which is a worst case scenario for American prosperity.
I'm confident the people pursuing this mad agenda don't know the first thing about US budget laws and think they can just cut spending DOGE-style forever.
pupperino commented on High tariffs become 'real' with our first $36K bill blog.adafruit.com/2025/05... · Posted by u/ptorrone
Right, except that’s self-defeating and won’t work. The idea that we can plausibly generate enough revenue from tariffs to replace the income tax is inherently self-defeating, because if the tariffs work at bringing back manufacturing, we’ll stop imports. If they don’t, we’ll consume significantly less, more people will become poorer, and expenditures will increase as revenues decrease.
Maybe there is an equilibrium in there, but I don’t see it.
Baked in this plan is the idea that the revenue from tariffs will be much smaller than income tax revenues, and therefore that the federal government will also get smaller.
pupperino commented on High tariffs become 'real' with our first $36K bill blog.adafruit.com/2025/05... · Posted by u/ptorrone
I actually moved a bunch of money around after the recovery from April 2nd. I just sat their thinking... wow, short term bonds have a really decent interest rate, and I don't think people are taking seriously the fact that the markets can actually fall apart because business is an incredibly complex, multi-variate process, and right now where just throwing wrenches into the gears for funsies.
I'm not even completely anti-tariff. I just think the way we're going about doing these tariffs is pretty much the opposite way anyone who was trying to bring manufacturing back to the US would do them. Low, clear ratcheting up tariffs are tariffs that allow businesses time to change their strategy without disrupting their income streams. Instead, we're going to bankrupt basically anyone who isn't already a multi-national.
Maybe I'm an idiot and I'm missing something clear, but to me, the reason why the S&P500 and passive investing have been so successful since basically the 1940's is simply that we have had competent, technocratic administrations for the last hundred years. Other countries' markets have not fared so "efficiently."
Again, maybe I'm missing something, but I'm looking at this much more defensively than I did under the first administration. The one thing I can't figure out is the dollar. My brother is obsessed with the "dollar milkshake" theory, whereas it seems clear that we are messing with reserve status and are trying to intentionally weaken the dollar... I just don't know. It doesn't really make much sense what we're doing, and I haven't found anyone who can make an argument that makes sense to me.
As a Latin American, I can't help but buy the American Exceptionalism thesis, and seeing you guys in this situation humanizes you so much. The US has such a strong bureaucracy and high bar for competence that you generally lack the immune system required for detecting con artists and social climbers - at least in politics. Ask a random Argentinian or Brazilian what politicians Trump reminds them of, and you'll get a seemingly endless lists of genuinely stupid, borderline sociopath populists. Follow up with a question on what are the consequences of having arbitrary, ever-changing tariffs on most goods for the purpose of industrialization, and you'll get a laugh, then a sad face.
Import-substitution is bad for econ 101 reasons that most people who have an axe to grind against Dems would've been absolutely capable of grasping only a few years ago. Now, it seems so many are willing to turn off a part of their brains for this short-sighted wishful thinking. "Well, the official narrative is that we're doing this to get manufacturing back, so let's wait and see" is something most people would immediately perceive as bs if a Dem was sitting in the Oval Office. Seeing a politician campaign on a stupid platform, and then getting surprised he actually shoots himself in the foot spending political capital pursuing is also very Latin American.
The good part is that the soon-to-be-coming recession the federal government just fabricated out of thin air is fully self-inflicted, and therefore somewhat easy to fix. The bad part is you have (at least) 4 more years of this lunacy, so it might take a while.
A planned economy has a plan. I doubt that will exist.
A command economy has different elements of the economy ordered around to do what leadership wants.
That seems a lot more likely.
Is this a joke that I'm not getting? "Planned economy" and "command economy" are synonyms.
> Does the US have the required people, in terms of numbers and skills?
For 30 years, IT managers at blue chip US corporations have exploited the H1-B visa program by saying, "No," and then hiring a never-ending stream of barely-capable Java coders from programmer mills in India, take 5 times longer to make an app than it should have taken, get promoted, and leave everyone holding the bag with shitty web app that we all hate because it's too slow, too bloated, and doesn't work like it needs to. And the companies who can't get enough of that bullshit in-house just hire it out to sub-sub-contractors that do the same thing. Can we not invest in our native population and education systems this time around? I'm so tired of the fact that 90% of the IT staff in my Fortune 250 is Indian, and I know people who would be better at their jobs living in my home town. It hurts our community and our country, in the long run, and by the VERY same logic as re-homing our chip production.
Well, those Indians living in the US will have families of their own, and over time become part of the community you claim to be a part of. Very much like your ancestors did, except they likely didn't face the arbitrary constraints on immigration that Indians (and any other nationality) face today.
pupperino commented on Barcelona will eliminate tourist apartments theolivepress.es/spain-ne... · Posted by u/voisin
> get rid of most zoning regulations
"most" is doing a lot of work here. don't forget you probably don't want to live next to an airport, railroad, chemical plant
Well, living near and airport or railroad is priced in, and not really a problem. Chemical plants... A bit of a stretch, isn't it?
pupperino commented on Barcelona will eliminate tourist apartments theolivepress.es/spain-ne... · Posted by u/voisin
Where in Barcelona would you increase density?
https://worldpopulationreview.com/world-cities/barcelona-pop...
from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40752920 ("Barcelona has a 16,000 people per square km density - that’s already one of the highest in Europe.")
Capital moves faster than meat space. To defend the human (affordable housing), you have to regulate. The whole "just build more, I want my AirBnB" argument boggles the mind considering the physical system constraints in play. Easier to just ban AirBnB.
That being said, in the US you can and should absolutely should build more, and basically get rid of most zoning regulations. You'd have a hard time finding anything as touristic and dense as Barcelona in the US.