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New comment by ttyprintk in "Circuit breaker triggered in Japan for stock futures trading"

ttyprintk — Mon, 07 Apr 2025 06:51:19 +0000

In game theory, he’s grim trigger and it shows in multiple ways. I suppose we’ve never seen him forced to play a game in which he’s not allowed to change the rules.

New comment by ttyprintk in "Laura Loomer Is a Warning"

ttyprintk — Mon, 07 Apr 2025 00:58:44 +0000

We are in the phase where influencers are jostling to be the one who controls the black list. Navarro and Musk hissed about it last week, but Loomer has stronger game.

New comment by ttyprintk in "Capital Trades: Tracking Stock Market Transactions of Politicians"

ttyprintk — Mon, 07 Apr 2025 00:53:17 +0000

No, it has a feature where it connects to your brokerage in order to execute the trades. That’s rather involved for me.

Turns out I was wrong and it has been submitted: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42682786

New comment by ttyprintk in "How the Atlantic's Jeffrey Goldberg Got Added to the White House Signal Chat"

ttyprintk — Sun, 06 Apr 2025 23:45:23 +0000

I would say that they oversee the Pentagon and ensure that the military stays in civilian control. In the past, theories from war games percolate through the Joint Chiefs, who meet with SECDEF before presenting options to the President.

I was surprised Hegseth even desired a side channel that had the potential downside that he could accidentally text the coordinates of a carrier. Stuff like that gets Generals relieved immediately.

New comment by ttyprintk in "How the Atlantic's Jeffrey Goldberg Got Added to the White House Signal Chat"

ttyprintk — Sun, 06 Apr 2025 23:34:54 +0000

When not being a Florida politician, Mike Waltz has had this role since the early 2000s (for Cheney) and believes contact fields “get sucked” through invisible series of tubes. He’s never seen a Senate confirmation and I bet never will.

New comment by ttyprintk in "Capital Trades: Tracking Stock Market Transactions of Politicians"

ttyprintk — Sun, 06 Apr 2025 22:56:43 +0000

Oh the product offerings are way ahead of that. Until recently, you could invest in Inverse Jim Cramer. Plenty of passive and active funds for Nancy Pelosi.

New comment by ttyprintk in "Capitol Trades: Tracking Stock Market Transactions of Politicians"

ttyprintk — Sun, 06 Apr 2025 22:53:58 +0000

I haven’t seen Autopilot posted on HN:

joinautopilot.com

New comment by ttyprintk in "Federal cuts disrupt repairs to iconic U.S. trails"

ttyprintk — Sun, 06 Apr 2025 22:43:46 +0000

A lot of Trump supporters would identify the super-rich as the right demographic to pay that.

New comment by ttyprintk in "E.U. Prepares Major Penalties Against X"

ttyprintk — Sun, 06 Apr 2025 22:13:02 +0000

Well, he wants to do business in Germany yet when the cameras are on, he can’t suppress Nazi salutes. He says he wants a trial.

New comment by ttyprintk in "Trump's Tariffs Wipe Out over $6T on Wall Street in Epic Two-Day Rout"

ttyprintk — Sun, 06 Apr 2025 05:40:56 +0000

The first three points:

https://www.foxnews.com/person/r/tanvi-ratna

It’s weird that Congress, the body constitutionally responsible for tariffs and their results, acts like they don’t know about it.

New comment by ttyprintk in "Reciprocal Tariff Calculations"

ttyprintk — Sun, 06 Apr 2025 00:48:18 +0000

Layperson here. How can we tell if progress is made on this? Japan and China are the big owners, and haven’t blinked in recent trade wars.

New comment by ttyprintk in "Reciprocal Tariff Calculations"

ttyprintk — Sun, 06 Apr 2025 00:32:46 +0000

Shibboleth for judgment of an economist’s loyalty.

New comment by ttyprintk in "Nissan eyes shifting Rogue production to U.S. due to tariffs"

ttyprintk — Sat, 05 Apr 2025 19:10:57 +0000

Classical “tariff engineering” also includes a small, hidden pocket on some garments to make them into shirts.

New comment by ttyprintk in "Nissan eyes shifting Rogue production to U.S. due to tariffs"

ttyprintk — Sat, 05 Apr 2025 18:28:27 +0000

Don’t know much about the guy. Nissan has been in Smyrna since 1983.

New comment by ttyprintk in "Nissan eyes shifting Rogue production to U.S. due to tariffs"

ttyprintk — Sat, 05 Apr 2025 18:24:38 +0000

Since Nissan has built the Rogue in Smyrna, TN since 2013, this is a (smart) pattern of stating the status quo in a flattering way.

New comment by ttyprintk in "'The Terror Is Real': An Appalled Tech Industry Is Scared to Criticize Elon Musk"

ttyprintk — Sat, 05 Apr 2025 18:05:52 +0000

> DOGE’s approach is much more of a “private equity play,” said Samuel Hammond, chief economist for the right-leaning tech policy think tank Foundation for American Innovation. “It’s sort of liquidation nation,” he said, referring to the way private equity firms strip companies down for parts. While he said DOGE isn’t “universally praised or condemned” among the conservative technologists he knows, he said more people in those circles are starting to “talk about the DOGE that could have been.”

New comment by ttyprintk in "Musk takes aim at Peter Navarro, disparaging his qualifications in a post on X"

ttyprintk — Sat, 05 Apr 2025 17:52:23 +0000

Trouble in the swamp. This particular friction is between men who want control over who forms the first version of the black list.

New comment by ttyprintk in "iPhones Could Cost Up to $2,300 in the U.S. Due to Tariffs, Analyst Says"

ttyprintk — Sat, 05 Apr 2025 17:41:43 +0000

There are already Trump NFT tokens, those could serve as tariff stamps whenever a phone crosses jurisdictions or during spot checks.

New comment by ttyprintk in "Trump's Tariff Formula Makes No Economic Sense. It's Also Based on an Error"

ttyprintk — Sat, 05 Apr 2025 14:08:57 +0000

I’ve been thinking about your second point. Some speculation:

Assuming that Trump, Musk, and Putin each need something from one of each other. Assuming that the siloviki want to quietly rule Russia.

A mercenary uprising would be convenient cover for Putin to endure exile in, say, the Caribbean. Security by FSB, siloviki split up their rule across Russia, etc. Operating from Guyana, Putin could deprive ESA of access to the French Guiana spaceport, handing it over to Musk.

The entire Caribbean fell into 10% tariffs except for two: Guyana (38%) and Cuba (0%).

New comment by ttyprintk in "Trump's Tariff Formula Makes No Economic Sense. It's Also Based on an Error"

ttyprintk — Sat, 05 Apr 2025 13:18:49 +0000

Under normal circumstances, the chair cannot be removed without cause. And appointments must pass the Senate.

But, fanatics can intimidate and stalk Fed employees, with the executive conveniently withholding law enforcement response.