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New comment by aloha2436 in "Gold overtakes U.S. Treasuries as the largest foreign reserve asset"

aloha2436 — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 05:38:15 +0000

> We'll see if the founders concept of a union of states is worth as much as it was proclaimed to be.

States can't issue their own currency, they're all going wherever the nation goes on this one.

New comment by aloha2436 in "Gold overtakes U.S. Treasuries as the largest foreign reserve asset"

aloha2436 — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 05:21:02 +0000

> More importantly, in the context of this discussion, every president since Bush's first term has had larger deficits than any previous president, regardless of party.

Taking on long term debt at or below the risk free rate _is the point._ It didn't devalue the currency because the global economy was structured around buying that debt. You just need to not jeopardize that second point.

New comment by aloha2436 in "Gold overtakes U.S. Treasuries as the largest foreign reserve asset"

aloha2436 — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 04:43:54 +0000

America was in practice running an empire that collected tribute from the rest of planet earth in exchange for entries in a database denominated in a currency they controlled and that was accepted everywhere. Really the only way it could go wrong is putting it under the control of someone who doesn't understand the kayfabe...

New comment by aloha2436 in "Apple discontinues the Mac Pro"

aloha2436 — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 05:24:06 +0000

> Is there a legit reason why they couldn't make these things upgradeable at all even on a studio machine?

For the SSD, no. For the memory, yes. The memory lives on the same chip as the CPU and the GPU, it's even more tightly bound than just being soldered on. The memory being there has legitimate technical benefits that make it much easier/cheaper for them to reach the extremely high memory bandwidths that they do.

New comment by aloha2436 in "False claims in a widely-cited paper"

aloha2436 — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 02:37:20 +0000

They are insinuating that the consensus you're talking about never existed as you have described it.

New comment by aloha2436 in "Nasdaq's Shame"

aloha2436 — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 04:11:38 +0000

They don't target something else because they wouldn't be an index fund, that's just a passive fund with their own published strategy. Those exist but aren't as popular, the appeal of index funds is that you're just getting "the market" and "the market" is measured by the index. Public indexes are supposed to be lower-cost and less manipulable, but that was before they got large enough to "wag the dog," which is the ultimate point of the article.

New comment by aloha2436 in "Lenovo’s new ThinkPads score 10/10 for repairability"

aloha2436 — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 03:38:17 +0000

Not GP but I'm personally hoping that if I'm inevitably doomed to be exposed to this horseshit every day that it becomes tolerable to read. For world-shaking language-based superintelligences, they can't write to save their very expensive lives.

New comment by aloha2436 in "Welcome (back) to Macintosh"

aloha2436 — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 00:34:34 +0000

> I'm sorry but if your out is linux and windows because you're not happy how stuff doesn't "just work" in the Apple ecosystem boy are you in for a bad surprise.

I think you and GP agree more than you realise, their point seems to be that Apple was worth all the locked down walled garden stuff because at least it "just worked." Now it's a locked down walled garden which _also doesn't work._ Tahoe and iOS 26 are the worst of both worlds.

New comment by aloha2436 in "Zero downtime migrations at petabyte scale (2024)"

aloha2436 — Fri, 20 Feb 2026 04:16:50 +0000

The Visa network is the frontend to a truly staggering number of issuers who also want to maintain a similar level of uptime to support their cardholders wherever they are in the world.

New comment by aloha2436 in "We're no longer attracting top talent: the brain drain killing American science"

aloha2436 — Fri, 20 Feb 2026 00:25:06 +0000

This is, de facto, not really a differentiator any more. Only one of the countries in question asks to see my social media profiles at the border to make sure I'm ideologically appropriate.

New comment by aloha2436 in "The history of C# and TypeScript with Anders Hejlsberg [video]"

aloha2436 — Sun, 01 Feb 2026 09:08:02 +0000

> Rust without the crazy town complexity.

To be clear, the language has a GC then?

New comment by aloha2436 in "Tesla ending Models S and X production"

aloha2436 — Thu, 29 Jan 2026 05:50:00 +0000

The market exists, does it make financial sense to fill it? Are there enough johnfns out there willing to buy enough of them at high enough of a price to justify the mind-boggling capital required, not to mention the opportunity cost?

New comment by aloha2436 in "Tesla ending Models S and X production"

aloha2436 — Thu, 29 Jan 2026 05:42:37 +0000

> Tesla is trying to create self driving taxis to make the rest of the auto industry obsolete.

They are one of many organisations trying to do that and they are not the most successful at it.

New comment by aloha2436 in "You’re not burnt out, you’re existentially starving"

aloha2436 — Mon, 22 Dec 2025 02:16:31 +0000

I think it is pretty reasonable to say that even for those in the continental US the state of the world in 1942 provided much more cause for concern than anything going on right now. At the very least, for a child born then you would be very unsure what kind of world they would end up growing up in.

New comment by aloha2436 in "I wasted years of my life in crypto"

aloha2436 — Mon, 08 Dec 2025 09:25:05 +0000

> It's for doing the things where the existing system fails you, not the things where it works. But it can do those things too.

Only as long as its use for the former doesn't outweigh its use for the latter. Trying to resist a government by using a digital currency is putting the cart before the horse. The dollar is an abstraction and an accounting convenience over the genuine temporal powers of the consensus that issues it.

New comment by aloha2436 in "Zig quits GitHub, says Microsoft's AI obsession has ruined the service"

aloha2436 — Thu, 04 Dec 2025 10:04:14 +0000

> Make sense?

Only if they use it purely as a git SaaS which they don't, it's also an issue tracker and discussion forum. Even PRs aren't strictly a git concept. Given they use all those things and given they're against having AI features built into them, it does not seem ironic to me at all.

New comment by aloha2436 in "React and Remix choose different futures"

aloha2436 — Mon, 01 Dec 2025 22:47:55 +0000

React itself is still the same fundamental product, not something you can say for Remix or Angular.

New comment by aloha2436 in "RuBee"

aloha2436 — Mon, 24 Nov 2025 06:17:57 +0000

The US is the largest market for firearms, so the NRA can use the threat of boycotting a manufacturer within the states to prevent the technology gaining traction elsewhere.

New comment by aloha2436 in "The Lions Operating System"

aloha2436 — Fri, 21 Nov 2025 00:53:51 +0000

Certainly I don't seem to run into as many of them as I'm led to believe exists.

New comment by aloha2436 in "The Lions Operating System"

aloha2436 — Thu, 20 Nov 2025 23:26:56 +0000

I'm trying to picture in my mind a person who is a fan of Rust and somehow against an OS with a formally-verified kernel no matter the language. I'm not having much success.