I think I get your point, but in this particular case they're talking about long-term relationships, not encounters with strangers who may be having bad days.

I have a family member that I had to literally kick out of my house. And I'm using the word correctly; my foot hit his ass and propelled him out the door. I believe that is the sort of thing they're talking about.
And to my point, even though he is directly responsible for all of his problems and has left many ruined lives in his narcissistic wake, and has caused me considerable grief, I guarantee that he would point to my wife and myself as the top hasslers in his life. Followed by his ex-wife, the rest of the family, many coworkers, and whatever poor girl has most recently tried to extricate herself from his sick web of control.

It doesn't look like he is still a major shareholder, unless it's indirectly through one of the institutional investors that own it. https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.wallstreetzen.com%2F...

I think the summary or article is making an unnecessary mess of things. They aren't talking about relative GDP, they're trying and failing to indicate the difference between GDP (production inside the nation's borders), and GNP (including what its citizens produce outside the borders). If my sleepless brain is pulling the info correctly, when TSMC produces Nvidia's chips, that counts towards America's GNP and Taiwan's GDP.

But it may not be. I've already made a few dumb mistakes today.

Come to think of it, I may just be forgetting about GNP and how it differs from GDP.

"roughly three-quarters of AI data center costs go toward computer chips and gear largely manufactured in Asia, and that spending gets subtracted from domestic output because it boosts foreign economies."

Okay, but, those things built in Asia were designed in the US, and that's where the profit largely ends up. Subtract the costs in Asia (payroll, facilities...) from Nvidia's revenue and where should the rest be counted?

I'd expect it to be entirely relative, but also that it wouldn't matter. I'm sure there are plenty of cases where people are hassling their hasslers, with each accurately blaming the other for making them age faster.

I meant "Acronym", not "anagram". Sorry about that.

Can we stop with backfitting projects and legislation into stupid anagrams? "Nuclear Energy Waste Transmutation Optimized Now"? Are you f-ing kidding me? I'd let "N.E.W.T." go, but trying to tack on the inane and worthless "Optimized Now", just makes them look like a-holes.

Does it make sense though? They're taking a class of cost that is always born by the consumer and calling it a subsidy because it isn't born by the producer. For no other good or service is this done. If you pick up food from a restaurant and eat it at home, we don't consider it a subsidy that you threw the packing in your trash that you pay to have picked up.

How the hell did something so absurd come out of the IMF? It's not okay to try and redefine economic costs to make it look like suddenly producers are expected to bear the cost of consumption. That was never the case before and cannot logically be the case now.

By the "logic" of implicit subsidies, someone else should be paying for my trash pickup. Probably Amazon, given how much stuff my wife orders, and the supermarket.

Among the stupid things is when they call VAT an explicit subsidy. And possibly the silliest part is where they claim part of the "subsidy" is the taxes that aren't collected on dealing with the social costs, as if those would somehow be taxable! I'm astonished by the stupidity. I'm also astonished that 100% of people who look at that document don't immediately recognize it as nonsensical.

The supply side bears the costs of production, the demand side pays the costs of consumption. You don't get to shift who bears the costs of consuming one class of good just to make a political argument.

Oh, $115 for 12 months, then "standard rates" apply. What are those standard rates? It doesn't say. Probably more than I'd like

Hmm, sorta. Looks like I pay $99 for Hulu+live+disney+no ads. I also pay whatever else for Paramount through Prime. If I were paying for Peacock and HBO as well, this would save me a few bucks a month. As it stands, it looks like it would cost me maybe $7 more a month, but I'd get some streaming channels that do have things I want to watch.

I'd have to buy another Roku, but that's not too bad.

I'll have to think this over with my wife, but hell we might end up with cable TV again.

Whatever, I'm not the one who wants it both ways. I hope you get a better outcome than you've earned.

So, you didn't notice the words "Socialist Worker's Party" in the name, "National Socialist German Worker's Party"? Hitler was a Socialist. The people in the US who thought he was doing something great were on the left. They even called themselves "Progressives".

And if you'll remember your Marx, you may recall that "State Capitalism" is a stage of... Socialism! The funny bit is that he meant for it to go from Capitalism -> State Capitalism -> Socialism -> Communism, but China went the other way. But still slaughtered millions of innocents. Then a few million more. And then, a few million more.

If Socialism worked, it would work. Capitalism couldn't defeat it if Socialism actually worked. Quashing it wouldn't be possible.
The simple fact is that Socialism is always going to become a totalitarian dictatorship. It can't work at all otherwise. What we saw across the 20th century was Socialism working as intended and as well as it possibly could.

The USSR collapsed because the system doesn't work. The CCP exists as it does because the West was willing to business with them to keep them away from Russia. And China exists as a totalitarian dictatorship teetering on the verge of collapse.

Oh, and Chile is a great example of how South American nations were treated as pawns in the Cold War. How did they end up with a Socialist in charge in the first place? Soviet imperialism.

Oh, so you're basically running a honeypot to catch people searching the internet for low hanging fruit? That's cool and all, but I thought you were using them internally in some way I couldn't entirely fathom (for a home network).

Your setup sounds way more manual than I have time for. I'll just stick with blocking outbound traffic to most nations plus a ton of lists, and running snort on the rest.

Plus, you must burn through drive space like crazy! I'm just thinking about how this conversation we're having is being dumped to a disk for however long. I hope you were able to get your storage cheap.

I am impressed though.