The idea was soundly rejected because it would have led to rapid post war reconstruction with a loss of American power (they wanted to play at empire).

http://www.sofer.com/blog/keynes-on-the-balance-of-trade.htm...

edit: some links from the world economic forum (in favor of it)

https://www.weforum.org/stories/economic-growth/yanis-varouf...

I've tried those dongles and they are all a huge hassle compared to just having a headphone jack built in.

But here's what I think happens: people with more power can more easily hide their transgressions. So in practice its easier to enforce rules against people with less power.

Second, a known and agreed upon good is really useful when seeking to manipulate people and generate "thought terminating cliches". Certain organizations / groups have gotten really good at taking known good things, and weave in their agenda and propaganda, linking something obvious with something that seems to make sense but actually doesn't.

History is rittled with how a call to ethical behaviour has been abused by the rich and powerful to keep the lower classes down. In Europe the Church used this to extol the virtues of poverty to the poor while selling pardons to the rich.

In China, the richness of Confucian philosophy was distilled down to obey orders from above / filial piety above all else, etc etc.

The fact that bad actors have taken something good and done bad things with them does not take away the value that can be found, it just needs to be on our own terms, and not someone else's.

The attorney general said they wouldn't be pressing charges, and said that private individuals would need to press charges themselves. Source: https://youtu.be/Wst4wPBH-Cg

It seems that now some individuals have pressed charges against Sony.

The problem is that Sony thinks that rule of law is for chumps and has forced arbitration (waiving your right to go to court) unless you opt out by mail or soemthing within 30 days hidden in the modern Iliad terms of service.

So in theory this case could get thrown out due to Sony legally taking away your right to a fair trial.

And if you read the proceedings Sony says that "consumers in the digital age have no expectation of ownership when they buy digital products". Goes to show you the respect some modern companies have for people.

If the lowest layer is hidden, proprietary, there are infinite vectors for state actors to include their desired backdoors.

At least in my experience it's not comparable to suspend + resume in terms of speed.

Think tanks around Europe were celebrating an "end to hostilities". And then WW1 happened. Trade does not prevent war. War is not always a rational consequence or act.

What does prevent war is a good standard of living. Eliminate resentment, and one of the great causes of war is lost.

Whether you need tariffs or not to ensure good standard of living I don't know. But the goal should always be to increase standard of living and uphold justice, tariffs or not.

"As of July 2022, more than 80 UK companies and organisations are recognised as having permanently implemented a four-day working week"

"As 50% of workers claim improved productivity during the period, the Manufacturing Technology Centre (MTC) announced it will permanently provide a four-day workweek to its 820 employees"

I disagree that the fulfillment of this need must beget violence.

If as a culture we de-emphasized dominion over others, de-emphasized reward and punishment, and instead emphasized respect to oneself and others, there would be a lot less violence.

If starlink does something you don't like good luck doing anything about it.

Our transistors are about 30 nm give or take. But we've found new ways of aligning them so that if we had continued using old techniques, the density we get would be "2nm".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2_nm_process

Launch two parallel cases. One against Meta top execs for criminal behavior, the other one as antitrust against Meta for abusing their market position. Two cases at once gives you negotiating power and clearly signals that you're serious about curtailing their influence.

Ideally this results in jail time for Meta execs, but at a minimum divesting them of Whatsapp should be achievable. By the end you should be able to get Meta's businesses operating independently under new leadership.

Even more incredible damage has been in us losing the laws that protect us in the first place. For nigh on 40 years thanks to neoliberal economists influencing policy we have been relaxing corporate and monetary regulation.

This has already provided great gifts to the world, such as enabling the fraud that led to the 2008 housing crisis (who was jailed again?).

When as a country you decide that punishing bad corporate behaviour is a non starter, you get the predictable consequences of increasing, not decreasing bad corporate behaviour.

I bet a large number of them run Google ads.

As such, it is not in Google's best interests to cut them out of search, regardless of how low quality they are.

It is well known that Google and SEO have a wink wink / nudge nudge relationship where Google "hides" its search algorythm, and somehow the websites with the most ads get closer to the top every year.

One of the nice things about flatpak (another contentious topic), is that for GUI apps where it matters I can trivially set whether I want to prefer xwayland vs wayland, and keep compatibility. It's very nice for the few apps that are still xorg hardcoded and with flatseal, or KDE app settings I don't need to mess with setting the environment variables myself.

The fact some people are encountering issues just means that something in the transition wasn't perfect. Given the huge lift involved, it could have been a lot worse. I just wish there was clearer communication and strategies for transition from the wayland folks, and less fearmongering and entrenching from both sides.

AI is being used to dehumanize people's jobs, provide bad customer service, a bunch of people are being fired for dubious benefit, people are being turned into accountability sinks (the AI is in charge of decisions, but the human takes the blame).

If you take a national currency and make it a world reserve currency then the nation that does do has problems with balance of trade, deficits, and mathematically screws themselves over. This is because you currency becomes overvalued compared to those of over countries, meaning your domestic manufacturing has problems competing, among other things.

We already made the mistake of one national currency becoming the world currency post WW2. I hope its not a mistake the world chooses to repeat.