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bilbyxon The US dollar’s hegemony is looking fragile

I agreed that it can't be contrasted with China. See http://www.worldfuturefund.org/Reports/Imperialism/usmurder..... If only US can focus on improving the welfare of its people, improving its infrastructures, funding new industries, subsidize education and health, instead of spending so much on futile wars overseas, it would not be in the situation it is in now. Sorry for going off-topic.

bilbyxon The US dollar’s hegemony is looking fragile

Your reply is pretty funny, considering the US has been forcing Americanization onto so many other countries through wars, inciting coups, and training terrorists to do their dirty deeds (this had backfired in the middle-east). Please get some education in history and you'll know who has been the aggressor here.

bilbyxon What do you use your iPad for?

Gave my iPad pro to my son because it wasn't as useful as my PC or laptop. He now use it to read online webtoons and casual gaming.

bilbyxon Later school start times are associated with more sleep and better performance

How about just get kids to go to bed earlier?

bilbyxon Ask HN: Is the Macbook Pro 2019 16-Inch Worth It?

No, because the improved keyboard still sucks. Let's hope they will fix the shallow travel in the next iteration.

bilbyxon Jeff Bezos: I spend my billions on space because we’re destroying Earth

So we can go and destroy another planet? Better to invest billions in teraforming tech and cleanup on Earth. This will benefit all and not just the rich. I also wonder how much carbon emission building and sending rockets to space produces.

bilbyxon Ask HN: What car models do you own and why?

2009 Honda CR-V bought new. I would consider only Honda or Toyota vehicles due to their reliability. Even though a lot of their vehicles are no longer manufactured in Japan, they are still more reliable than other makes.

bilbyxon In Hong Kong, flats really are cheaper when they contain the number 4

174 sounds more like "dying together". How about 54 "not dying"?

bilbyxon Ask HN: What were you doing when you were 20?

I was studying at the UNSW - attended John Lions' Operating System course and met Ken Thompson during his sabbatical visit :) Most of my time was spent hacking UNIX/Networking at Uni, C/C++ and 68000 Assembly on the Amiga at home (loved Fred Fish and Matt Dillon's work). Hacking hardware peripherals designed for other computers to make them work on the Amiga. Also wrote my first C compiler and LISP interpreter then. Discovered TeX/LaTeX and used them for my thesis during my final engineering year later. Discovered magazines such as DDJ, BYTE and journals such as Comms of the ACM, IEEE Transactions, etc. and spent way too much time on level 6 and 7 of the Uni library reading them. Worked at the CSIRO during semester break and wrote an image analysis library in C and displaying in X-Window. Dreamed about having my own Tektronix oscilloscope and logic analyser :)

bilbyxon [dead]

Thanks. I missed that discussion yesterday. I understand the reason now.