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Guan Yang @guan.dk · 1h

When the US government wanted to build green energy in the Tennessee Valley, it did not mess with feed-in tariffs. It did it itself.

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Guan Yang @guan.dk · 1h

When the US government needed difficult minerals for the Manhattan Project, it did not mess with tax credits and grants. It built massive facilities at Hanford and Oak Ridge.

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Guan Yang @guan.dk · 1h

Rare earth refining and processing is difficult, capital intensive and not very profitable. In China it can be left to private enterprise with some industrial policy, but in the United States, the more socialist 国情 means that you need the state to get directly involved.

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Karthik Sankaran @rajakorman.bsky.social · 17h

Capitalists of the world unite. You have everything to lose, especially your supply chains.

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Guan Yang @guan.dk · 18h

It’s weird but yes, in the US it has mostly been /ænˈtiːfə/ in recent years

aohsu @aohsusometimesy.bsky.social · 3d

Here are some nerds trying to process the phonological reasons why it might be pronounced one way or the other. But it’s quite obvious to me that fascists prefer the anTEEfa pronunciation. languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=34177

Language Log » Ask Language Log: How to pronounce "Antifa"?

languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu

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Guan Yang @guan.dk · 20h

The Pleco dictionary app is helpful, has a big collection of free and paid dictionaries. Wiktionary also good.

Guan Yang @guan.dk · 21h

France's postal service rolls out croissant-scented stamp 🥐

France's postal service rolls out croissant-scented stamp

France has launched a croissant-scented stamp to celebrate its emblematic flaky pastry, its national postal service, La Poste, announced on Wednesday.

www.france24.com

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Guan Yang @guan.dk · 1d

The interchange is cheap but many payment processors for small retailers charge a blended rate for all cards without any discount for debit. If you really want more debit payments, you can shop around for a different processor, but it’s an additional disincentive to the one you mention.

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Guan Yang @guan.dk · 1d

sfar non puoi la cosa fatta

Guan Yang @guan.dk · 1d

If you showed random fintwit poasts about economic statistics to ChatGPT to break it down, I wonder if it would get it right.

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Guan Yang @guan.dk · 1d

This is bad but it is common in economics and finance social media (and I believe headlines too) to use “GDP” as shorthand for GDP growth, and it’s a bad habit. Same with CPI and PCE, which has the added confusion of PCE vs PCE deflator.

Isaiah Bishop @isaiahbishop.bsky.social · 1d

Hmmm, no i don't think so

Yet according to recent estimates, generative AI now accounts for roughly 40 percent of the United States’ gross domestic product. In other words, if the AI spending boom falls apart, it could take down the entire economy with it.

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Guan Yang @guan.dk · 1d

I hate to say it, but may be time for some game theory.

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Guan Yang @guan.dk · 1d

The French eat lots of horse meat but also get super mad about dog meat. Different history.

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Guan Yang @guan.dk · 1d

To me the weirdest intra-western meat hangup is horse.

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Guan Yang @guan.dk · 1d

More seriously, whether or not you think 10/7 or 9/29 or other measures are a good idea, it’s wild how DC folks see them as the most natural things in the world, never as escalations that might elicit a response or at least complaints.

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Guan Yang @guan.dk · 1d

Our glorious 50% rule

Their barbaric 50% rule

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Guan Yang @guan.dk · 1d

our glorious chip export ban
their barbaric rare earth export ban

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Guan Yang @guan.dk · 1d

There’s the added complication that no US-flagged ship would be used in international trade unless it’s a US government cargo or something else special going on. Nobody flies 🇺🇸 just for fun. But I guess the government contracting rules also allow this.

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Guan Yang @guan.dk · 1d

I’ve been caught

can’t do a spooky display name while still hot @pfish.zone · 1d

what a minute…

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Guan Yang @guan.dk · 1d

I think these answer is that these ships are not Jones Act eligible. But they can be used for US government business between the US and foreign ports. cc: @prestonmui.bsky.social

www.maritime.dot.gov

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Guan Yang @guan.dk · 1d

Wow Tom Hanks has captained two Jones Act compliant ships?

Guan Yang @guan.dk · 1d

It’s part of a fleet that only exists to serve the US government, which requires US-flagged/built ships. The shipowner is Maersk Line, Limited, out of Virginia, which is in turn owned by Maersk in Denmark. (I don’t fully understand why it counts as a US-owned company for these purposes.)

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Guan Yang @guan.dk · 1d

They are used for trade between US ports (which is prohibited cabotage for non-US ships) and would not dock frequently in China. There’s also a merchant fleet that serves the US government itself around the world, and I’m not sure how often they sail to China, but I don’t think it’s a lot.

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Guan Yang @guan.dk · 1d

Maersk Line Limited, the largest US operator, has twenty (20) relatively small vessels.

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Guan Yang @guan.dk · 1d

There’s the ship Tom Hanks was master of.

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