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nic carter @nic_carter · 2026-08-15 13:29neutral

Vance is absolutely right that the dollars strength and our reserve status has contributed to deindustrialization and the hollowing out of middle America, which he famously represents politically - that’s his entire political story and heritage. The doll

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nic carter @nic_carter · 2026-08-15 13:24neutral

It’s funny that people are reacting with shock and horror and exposing themselves as economic illiterates who have never encountered the argument. Read anything by Miran, Pettis, or Alden. Look up the Triffin Dilemma and dollar Dutch disease. Is there a

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nic carter @nic_carter · 2026-08-14 13:29neutral

this is really quite something

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nic carter @nic_carter · 2026-08-14 11:28neutral

Remember, if Anthropic wins and closed source wins, these are the people that will get to write the morality rules for the entire planet.

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nic carter @nic_carter · 2026-08-13 23:27neutral

has anyone done or thought of doing anything like take the very best frontier LLM. put it in a radiation tolerant computer in high earth or lunar orbit powered by solar arrays. give it a simple persistent beacon so it pings earth for the next thousand ye

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nic carter @nic_carter · 2026-08-13 22:43bullish

2018-era Tether Truthers just fell to their knees in a Walmart

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