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No, I don't think I'm Going to Go out and change Everything about my Replies.

Except the other digits failed too.

Remember, according to Wikipedia, Benford's law applies to election data in every country except the United States, where the laws of statistics are totally different.

The dollar is not "stronger than ever" if we're experiencing above-target inflation.

The M1 money supply increased by ~600% in the last five years, due to no-reserve banking and enormous money printing during covid, and people still act shocked when there's inflation. It's not because of wage growth, it's not because of "late stage capitalism", it's because of basic supply and demand. Nobody wants to address the elephant in the room that all of this is due to the botched response during covid.

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/M1SL

Mythic shut down recently. Well, technically they still exist on paper, but they're a shell of the former selves. It's a shame, really. Their technology is (was) amazing.

I agree. Let's start with Bill Gates and Larry Fink.

"Foreign" here isn't necessarily tied to citizenship. They can reclassify US citizens as "foreign threats" as they see fit.

Maybe we can redistribute their IQ points as well.

Way to throw identity politics into it.

The treasury takes on debt when it issues bonds, but the Federal Reserve expands the money supply when it buys those bonds. It's a two-step process.

Except it's not, because our interest rates are also in the same range as when their debt crisis began. Greece was fine at those debt levels until their bond yields hit 5%, at which point they entered into a self-reinforcing spiral of insolvency. The Federal Reserve is currently targeting interest rates above 5% to fight inflation.

Geece had to massively increase taxes and implement austerity programs, to say nothing of the EU bailout. Since then, they've been able to survive on low interest rates. Low interest rates which are now gone, as the world is busy fighting inflation.

You're proposing to print away the debt during a period of already high inflation. While you're technically correct that we can avoid default by printing more money, the practical consequences of monetizing the national debt right now, would be catastrophic hyperinflation.

There's a little over $200 billion dollars left in the US treasury right now, we have higher debt-to-GDP than Greece did at the beginning of their sovereign debt crisis, AND we have persistent high inflation. Something has to give. You can't fight inflation and pursue monetary easing at the same time.

Hack the planet! (into tiny pieces and then consume them as fuel)

First question: "read all the questions before answering"

But that's not a question.

The policy solution to men's unrealistic standards for women was to educate them about realistic standards, not to mold women into TV supermodels. With that in mind, is it reasonable to expect the entire population of young men to pull themselves up by their bootstraps to gain several additional inches of height, a high status job, and the magnetic personality of a late night talk show host?

Like I said above, there was a lot of very successful outreach targeting men about their body standards for women. This was meant to address systemic problems with eating disorders, depression, and suicide in the opposite sex. We would simply implement the same outreach aimed at women, with the intent of addressing similar social problems that men are currently facing. If we can have fat acceptance for women, then I'm sure we can manage something along the lines of "short acceptance" for men.

Surely two thirds, and rising, of young men being socially disenfranchised is a societal problem that should be addressed above the individual level, no? In the 2000's there was a lot of public outreach about men's unrealistic standards for women, but we never had the same discussion about women's unrealistic standards for men.

That is extremely disingenuous. Google search is absolutely not AI-enabled in the same manner that ChatGPT and Phind are, and all of their attempts to develop that sort of functionality have crashed and burned.

This reeks of anticompetitive regulatory capture after Google dropped the ball on AI-enabled search.

ctrl+f "regulations"

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This article [1] was written two years ago about the US government trying to pass off chinese spy balloons as UFOs in order to save face. It's shocking how quickly the public took up the UFO narrative, given that there were multiple confirmed spy balloons just 24 hours earlier. The same people wringing their hands over "disinformation" are the ones telling you that it's alien flying saucers and not enemy spy aircraft.

[1] https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/40054/adversary-drones...

I felt this way after participating in patent harvesting sessions at my employer, where they would collect patents from us without ever intending to reduce them to practice (in other words: use them), as well as researching some ideas in my spare time only to find that they were covered by extremely broad non-practiced patents as well.

Petty politics doesn't belong on HN. Please take this to reddit.

I hope you posted this using smoke signals and not a state of the art personal supercomputer.

They should produce more thrust per a given unit of energy than a conventional propeller by eliminating induced drag. Winglets on jet airliners work by the same principle, converting the wingtip vorticity, due to the pressure difference above and below the wing, into an apparent forward thrust.

You must be a very popular manager at the office.

What a relief that we have a democracy and not an oligarchy to prevent bad things like this from happening. Wouldn't that be terrible if we did?