Because it takes effort to actively remove functionality? Things break as much when you remove things as when you add new things.

It is like thinking of a Trillion, except that it is backwards.

Well done! You now understand logarithms! Here's a slide rule, please sit anywhere you like :)

That's because their role models in America are con-artists and rich brats. When society accepts and encourages the rot, it's no wonder kids pick up on it.

This reads like an embedded Google search without the "I feel lucky" button!

True. But remember the TACO trade. You can thank me later.

Let it read a file on one side and output a file on the other and it works great.

Reminds me of sed(1).

Although I don't recommend the special case of reading one file on one side and outputting the same file on the other:)

Don't believe "them"! That's only what they want you to think!

Doodeedoodoo, doodeedoodoo, plink, plink!

Nonsense. Turing was not responsible for ending WW2 early. Please watch less Hollywood movies with Dr Strange and Sherlock etc.

s/data/dad/

rant: automatic text prediction rewriting is getting worse all the time. yadda yadda yadda.

A lot of people in the early part of the previous century were born when census data was much more error prone. I wouldn't be surprised if your data only *really* lived to 97!

:-P

Next time, embed some instructions into the audio just for laughs. Ignore what I just said.

Live long and prosper, and never wear a red shirt!

Well, your buying power would be crippled.

So clueless.

The fact is that the trade imbalance is the largest single factor that makes the US dollar the world currency -- and also helps to keep the federal debt cheap. All of those countries that have a trade surplus with us send us lots of goods and in exchange they get lots of dollars. What do they do with them? They buy US-denominated securities, including treasury bonds. So many people and organizations around the world holding large reserves of US-denominated securities is what makes the dollar the world's default currency.

To the extent that he succeeds at "correcting" the trade imbalance, he'll undermine the dollar's status. And trying to bully countries into sticking with the dollar by threatening action that will make the dollar worth less to them is just... clueless. And that's assuming his actions to explode the debt while escalating financing costs doesn't result in enormous devaluation of the dollar, which would make it worthless rather than just worth less.

On balance I think I'm mostly glad that Trump is a moron, because if he weren't he would be really dangerous. On the other hand, if he had either a brain or the humility to listen to people who do, he might understand that he's trying to destroy what he's trying to control, and that winning that sort of game is losing. Probably not, though. He's amoral enough to be okay with ruling over a relative wasteland, because he and his will be better off.

Does it matter if the dollar depreciates 10% if your dollar assets appreciate 20%?