This could actually be good but instead it just comes across as a coded xenophobic rant. Wasted opportunity!
I missed that bit. What did it say?
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That’s a good point on the nicotine.
I found out that i have ADHD through a process of dealing with a hearing issue - I have something called auditory processing disorder (APD), which means while I have excellent hearing, my brain has difficulty processing speech in high noise environments, especially with multiple people or frequencies that correlate to women. ADHD and autism spectrum disorders are highly correlated with it.
A friend who is an audiologist was out with me at an event and basically spotted the adaptations that I had adopted subconsciously over my life (I’m in my 40s). I then got tested and confirmed. It’s likely a result of many consecutive ear infections I had as a kid.
When reading up on APD, the literature describes stories of various people… and it was like looking back on a story of my life. The ADHD correlation is thought to be related because of the way the brain develops (or doesn’t) in the presence or absence of stimuli.
I say this because it would be easy to dismiss my scenario. By most measurements I’m successful and doing great. But had I known or maybe been treated in the past, certain difficult aspects of my life would have likely been managed better or avoided. Brains are complex, and it’s important not to dismiss that problems that people have.
Pretty sure that's what I have too (and am diagnosed ADHD). I used to complain to my Mum that I couldn't hear what people were saying on the bus back home from school. She took me to get a hearing test and it turns out I have bat-like hearing. I'm just not able to seperate out speech from background noise - noisy restaurants and bars are a nightmare.
This is like an old fashioned Civilization game trade. Taiwan gets a significant ownership in a blue chip US company, TSMC should then take %51 control over intel, and turn it around. The US gets a stronger position with China such that china attacking Taiwan would be like bombing Apple or Google. The USA will go to war over that.
Only the willingness to go to war, stops aggressors. War is terrible and economic competition is the path to peace, but if you can't defend yourself you will get destroyed.
> The US gets a stronger position with China such that china attacking Taiwan would be like bombing Apple or Google. The USA will go to war over that.
If TSMC has effectively transferred their technology to Intel, doesn't this remove a reason for the US to defend Taiwan?
I don't get it. Isn't it like forcing the foreign competitor into buying your only chicken that produces golden eggs. I really don't understand the logic behind this.
Just spitballing - maybe if TSMC had a 49% stake in Intel they'd be incentivised to transfer their chip-making technologies and techniques to Intel, to maximise the value of their (forced) investment?
Ive wanted tp poll HN about how many people actively track usernames.
With IRC its basically part of the task, but every forum i read, its rare that i ever consider whose saying what.
For me it's more a recognition after the fact thing: "Oh that was a good comment who said that? Oh that guy, yeah not surprised."
spangry commented on How Stablecoins Became the Digital Gold Standard haebom.dev/archive?tl=en&... · Posted by u/haebom
> Nothing appoints the dollar a reserve currency, it's use makes master.
Hundreds of US military bases around the world makes sure that no "stupid" leader of some nation makes a decision to switch from US dollar for international trade.
Those who dared to attempt to give up USD for trade, died horrible death like Muammar Gaddafi. It's a direct message to the remaining leaders: "Don't even think about it"
I see you’re being downvoted but I think you’re right.
The US reserve currency system allows the US to tax the world, whenever they print more dollars, via oil price inflation. Anyone without sufficient military power who tries to stop denominating their oil exports in US dollars ends up with freedom and democracy being brought to their country. Saddam Hussein switched to denominating Iraqi oil exports in Euros. Gaddafi tried to establish a pan-African gold-back dinar to denominate African oil exports in. And look how it turned out for them.
It’s a stealth tribute system. If you stop paying your tribute, the empire responds accordingly.
spangry commented on How Stablecoins Became the Digital Gold Standard haebom.dev/archive?tl=en&... · Posted by u/haebom
That would be putting the cart before the horse.
Foreigners sell you things in exchange for your currency, because they want to hold the currency. Once a currency is usable for payment in taxes, it can be analysed like any other commodity.
There are no 'reserve currencies'. Anybody holding a financial asset in a denomination outside its home physical zone area is a 'reserve'. They are operationally no different from hoarding diamonds or gold bars.
There’s one crucial difference - countries can’t print new diamonds or gold bars at will. Whenever the US prints more dollars, it transfers value from hoarders of US dollars to themselves - they’re levying a stealth tax via global oil price inflation. Other countries do not have this ability - if they print more of their own currency it just leads to domestic inflation.
The US can effectively tax the world as long as they use their military power to ensure oil producing countries denominate their oil exports in US dollars.
The reserve currency system is a stealth tribute system.
spangry commented on How Stablecoins Became the Digital Gold Standard haebom.dev/archive?tl=en&... · Posted by u/haebom
Personally I believe that the days of the reserve currencies are close to over, and that they will go away with the going away of the oil trade.
The present situation is one where if one wants oil, which everybody does and has nothing to trade directly with the oil countries, must export something to someone else who either exports or sells something to the oil countries, or who in turn exports or sells something to someone who exports or sells something to the oil countries. I believe that once this ends trade itself will become less important. Today it's mandatory to get oil, but once we don't need oil, the export of goods to acquire dollars to buy oil becomes optional.
Consequently I see the future as one in which people will manufacture what they themselves need or want, instead of what sells abroad.
Won’t the reserve currency simply switch to being “backed” by some other fundamental productive input? And by switch I mean the world’s most militarily powerful country will ensure that countries producing this fundamental input denominate their exports of it in their currency, if they don’t want to risk being “liberated”.
Personally, my money is on semi-conductors. It’s currently sitting at #4 in total international trade value, behind automobiles (which are increasingly reliant on semi-conductor inputs), refined oil, and crude oil.
Certainly casts a new light on contention over Taiwan.
The limits are there to limit corruption.
If managers could set arbitrary salaries, the employees could just agree to cut their manager in on 10% of their raise.
This probably happens outside of government, but it's just the private org who loses money, so it's up to them to stop it. But in the case of the government, it's the taxpayers who lose.
I think that’s right - more discretion creates more room for corruption.
Although there are other ways to limit corruption risk, namely process and transparency. In the Australian government you can pay someone higher than standard pay through an Individual Flexibility Agreement (IFA). But in order to do so there’s a whole process the manager has to go through where they have to justify the higher salary on a limited set of grounds (e.g. higher market value of role) and then get it all signed off by someone higher up the chain.
That’s the process side. On the transparency side you could publish everyone’s salaries and then it becomes obvious when a manger is paying their second cousin way above normal for some strange reason.
I somewhat regret my expensive switch from Linux to MacOS. MacOS is just so weird, it doesn't make any sense to me. For the first time in my life I feel like some tech-illiterate grandpa trying to figure out how to make his blasted computer do stuff.