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How are you avoiding full retail prices? Curious since where in western WA state where I live the only alternative to day prices are season passes (and I stopped buying season passes due to climate change. For example: last season at Snoqualmie was absolutely horrible- I skied only 1 day)

I got more news for you: iPhones are made in China. And more astonishing news: US cannot manufacture iPhones.

About Chinese oil imports from Middle East: US cannot stop its Middle East “vassals” from selling oil to China. Not sure what point you’re trying to make…

the GP is not a reductive statement. 40% of Republicans think Trump is doing a great job - right now with all the Iran war, all the inflation. When you realize that 20% of American electorate are lunatics you will see the US political system differently.

I did not mean to be snarky. But still, the proposition that a railroad bankruptcy “led to world war” (direct quote from the article) 40 years later is ridiculous.

I am assuming the rest of article is as well researched as the, rather long and incredibly incorrect, introduction.

Bayesian inference and all....

Re: "This looks to have gotten some dominoes rolling that may have contributed to WW1 " - people who believe this should read some history about beginning of WW1. I recommend starting with "The Guns of August".

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AI is purely a virtual world play. It may (or may not) make it easier to write code, reply to emails or Slack messages or create PowerPoint presentations. In the real world what matters are energy, natural resources and making (manufacturing) things.

AI will not make it easier to build a house, to harvest a corn field, to assemble a car. AI will not improve weather forecasting accuracy- this is already pretty much 99.999% solved. So AI will not improve standards of living.

All this to conclude that China’s standards of living will improve while America’s will stagnate (or worse)

But sure, go ahead and enjoy those AI videos-some of them are even funny.

This situation does not resemble the beginning of WW1. wW1 was caused more or less by an inept leader (the Herman Kaiser Wilhelm) with way too much power.

Putin cannot play the part Wilhelm played in 1914 because Russia has very little power.

Xi Ping cannot play the part Wilhelm played because he is too smart (he is one of the shrewdest and smartest leaders rn). If Xi Ping starts to lose it, then yeah, we may have WW1. Until then this is a very different situation.

If the landlord does that the rent on the listing will be higher by $200, thus turning off potential renters. It is better for the landlord to lead with a smaller rent and tack on charges.

Same business model for restaurants (rely on tips which are not part of the price you see on the menu) and budget airlines.

How much SpaceX stock did you buy? Are you buying this dip?

In C# a dependency graph that automatically updates only the affected dependencies can be implemented using events and/or functors and/or data binding.

I do not understand what is the big deal with Increment. Is it more efficient because it is written in OCaml rather than C#?

US did not occupy the country- they occupied the big cities and a built a huge airbase. Countryside was in Taliban hands for the most part.

US never closed the border with Pakistani - and the talibans retreated in Paki when under attack and then went back in Afghanistan when things calmed down.

In Afghanistan US won as much as it won in Vietnam.

Hmm, US did not destroy the Taliban in Afghanistan. So I do not think US won much in Afghanistan (for ex. bin Laden was killed in Pakistani)

If google would buy GoPro it would close it a couple of years later

Sometimes in Jan 2025 I resolved that the day Trump dies I will buy everyone a drink at my local bar.

In the production of these hotdogs no animals were harmed!

Re: “Do you really think the US military was given orders to control the strait, snd couldn’t?”

Pretty much. I think US military was given the order to make Trump look good, and they couldn’t (Trump looks weak now, which he completely hates)

Hmmm, the US is not able to control the Hormuz strait. Iran decides who goes through it. Yesterday Iran shot at a vessel [0]. We can argue the semantics of “control” but I think this whole debacle showed the limits of US military power.

[0] https://www.npr.org/2026/06/26/nx-s1-5871963/un-agency-pause...

Is there a short snd simple explanation for how these planetary slingshots work? To me the gravity that increases the vehicle speed on the way to the planet will decrease the speed on the way away. Thanks!

As proven so well during this whole debacle in the Hormuz strait.

I think you meant to respond to a different post…

Are you aware that you are saying US devs are making bank in a thread about US devs being laid off >

China owns about 7% of us treasury securities and they stopped buying them I think around 2015L: https://ticdata.treasury.gov/resource-center/data-chart-cent...

A lot of people that work (and thus benefit) from these tech companies are from out of state. Local people have to put up with insane housing costs because of tech work.

In Seattle at least some of the tech work is receding already because of layoffs. Which started to lower housing costs: landlords are starting to give 4 or 6 weeks of free rent.

More of this please.

It was an honest question.

Honest question - how do you know a potential tenant is “leftie type”?

Starbucks HQ moving to Tennessee is not caused by WA state millionaire tax - Burito Boy was hired on August 2024 well before the millionaire tax was even envisioned. Part of his compensation is predicated on these costs savings - and these were part of Burrito Boy’s negotiations before he even signed up his employment contract. So this move has nothing to do with the millionaire tax.

And just to let you know- Starbucks is not that popular in Seattle. They have been closing stores right and left in Seattle to the point where I only know store that is open. Seattle is not missing them that much.

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I actually think billionaire flight is a good thing. Billionaires do not contribute to their community. Sure some tax accountant and some security people will lose their jobs, but this not matter for regular folk.

If nothing else, billionaires flight is a positive thing.

I am hoping all the billionaires leave my Washington state as a result of the millionaire tax - it may become a normal state like Oregon.

The wealth has barely been taxed at all. Wealth comes from holding assets not from labor, and asset ownership is barely taxed:

1. stocks and commercial real estate are allowed to appreciate without taxation (unlike personal residences outside Cali),

2. multinationals wrote for themselves obscure tax rules so they end up paying almost no tax,

3. interest expense for companies and ultra high net worth individuals is subtracted from taxable income (for personal mortgages the interest expense deduction is capped)

4. Rich people organize their assets so estate taxes do not tax their estates when they die and thus their wealth goes to their children.

As you can see wealth is barely taxed.