He may still wriggle out of it but it is increasingly looking like Trump has stepped into something that he won't be able to reverse his way out of easily, a one way decision.
It seems like a huge self own but he benefits from an extremely loyal fan base and a militaristic culture that loves rallying around the flag.
Does he even care if his actions hurt the country or global stability at all, so long as his supporters remain unwavering? It seems like he doesn't, so here we are.
There is no plausible stimulus that he might actually care to respond to.
The stepping was done years ago when Epstein got kompromat on him. That's why he ordered this war for no apparent reason. His life is over if he doesn't, his life lasts a few more years if the blackmail is withheld, at the cost of innocent lives.
I don't think that is likely this time. Injecting capital to cover losses doesn't bring back the forward looking valuations so stock prices would remain down anyway. Gov isn't going to fund losses for like Microsoft.
The top 10% will not be left holding the bag. They will get a bailout by the taxpayer in some form or another, like quantitative easing (Fed purchasing) or some national security plan spending trillions. Note almost all members of US Congress, both parties, invests in these stocks heavily.
Airline CEOs, Auto CEOs, Bank CEOs have all done it in the not distant past. Eventually, you have to fly the private jet to Washington and sit at a comittee and beg.
Tech CEOs are not as special as they think they are, one day they too will be there begging, like a dog.
My assumption is that most people on HN are making programmer money. $4 - 5 USD per month is affordable even on a junior engineer’s salary in many parts of the world.
The price per GB isn’t as good as the services you mentioned, but their storage limits are fine for the primary use case — storing a lot of plain text notes.
I’ve also had no problems with it, in contrast with iCloud which has routinely gotten stuck for me.
And if price per GB is what you care most about, use something else. That’s one of the great things about Obsidian.
The plain text thing is more of a feel-good argument than a practical one. If there’s a solid export path, the format isn’t really the issue... what matters is whether the app actually works the way you need it to. At the end of the day, your workflow lives or dies on how the software behaves... not on the file extension.
I managed a few artists in the past. Usually Spotify paid something like $0.0035 per stream but it ranges based on where the listen took place. One artist owned part of their catalog so earned the 100% on those streams. The rest of their catalog was owned by a major label where they were credited 15% of the streaming take (which was slightly higher than the direct rate) towards their unrecouped major label account.
I'd say overall though, streaming can be good for artists. It helps keep them fresh in fans ears (via auto-generated & editorial playlists) and provides a revenue stream for the older stuff that would never be selling in stores or iTunes now.
You value clarity and directness in code. You prefer explicit, step-by-step solutions that are easy to understand and debug, even if they require more lines of code.
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