He is a successful politician. The party is giant and complex. To me, the biggest factor was his support of wealth taxes, which puts him firmly in a different camp than Biden, Warren and Bloomberg, and caused him to be opposed by everybody with power in the DNC. That is the only "line" they really mean to fall into, and it doesn't even affect the average American.
How do you tell the difference between someone who would suffer a Jeremy Corbyn style catastrophic defeat, and a Keir Starmer who is the PM of the party by the same name but is basically completely different in every other way?
Correct, bernie and corbyn were both well meaning with genuine ideas and were lambasted by the press, opposition and even their own parties to never stand a chance of election. Tulsi had similar issues.
Tulsi Gabbard??? She is completely different, she is an opportunistic cult follower without ideals or ideas of her own. Doesn't really matter much now though.
Agree with the Corbyn analogy, but let's not overstate Starmer's electoral appeal. He got less votes than Corbyn. What got him elected is that tory voters didn't show up to vote because of tory policies.
> You can't put extreme tariffs like 200% and expect prices to come down.
I used to believe this, but the truth is we haven't been able to import food, energy or homes from China for a while. That leaves autos, and it's very hard to predict how auto tariffs would affect inflation, since people have always purchased more expensive cars over cheaper ones, for a variety of reasons. Meanwhile for stuff you and I care about like computers, well most of what you are paying for is software, which is all made here. Services like health care and education are insensitive to tariffs, and since grocery stores have to provide health care to some employees all the same, it affects prices for goods. Home prices rising is supported by both parties, and besides inflation the government basically guarantees market returns but risk free in owner-occupied real estate in this country.
I wish what you were saying were true - that bringing tariffs down to zero would eliminate inflation - but if it were that simple it would have been done already.
Its not just China. Those tariffs he's advocating for are broadly speaking, against all imports[0]
>Trump proposed a 10% tariff on all U.S. imports and a 60% levy on Chinese-made products, which if enacted would affect the entire economy by pushing consumer prices higher and stoking retaliatory levies on American exports. Trump also threatened to impose a 25% tariff on all imports from Mexico.
I'm not arguing that bringing tariffs down to 0 will just magically eliminate inflation. But certainly, and without debate, the tariffs Trump proposes will grossly increase the price of goods for consumers.
Russia has 30 percentage points more tertiary educated people than the US does. 60 versus 30. Huge, huge difference in education levels. Better PISA scores. Better in many OECD measures that relate to measurements of "ignorance." How would George Carlin rate Russia's politicians?
He says on a US made phone and computer, visiting a US website, using a currency tightly correlated to the US dollar, in a country which imports most of its services from the US, and he works in the services sector, or he works making goods which US consumers buy, speaking English out of necessity not just courtesy, in a country with a small defense budget, in a US military alliance, whose defense is ensured by US government institutions.
I’m using a Samsung phone. A lot of the software on my phone (especially the software I paid for with the phone) is made in South Korea. I don’t pay for a lot of apps, but the apps I paid for were made by developers from France, Spain, Japan, Austria/Germany, and the US, one each.
My computers are running Windows, sure, but my most used software would be Firefox, built by people from all over the world. Second place would probably belong to JetBrains Rider, made by a company headquartered in Czechia.
What are the differences in opinions between dstack and SkyPilot? Why should I try dstack first over SkyPilot? Same question could be posed to Modal.
Aren’t you worried about the amount of product development that goes into Kubernetes and its ecosystem? For example, is Keda poorly managed, or does flexible autoscaling require full time attention from a developer? What about democratic-csi? NVIDIA GPU Operator, AMD’s k8s device plugins, Intel’s? Calico versus Cilium?
> What are the differences in opinions between dstack and SkyPilot?
SkyPilot is great. I think there are many tiny details though. At dstack, we try to provide out-of-the-box and more high-level experience.
Examples:
1. Authorization built-into services
2. Dev environments with IDE integration
3. HTTPS out of the box with an ability to set up own domains
4. Projects for team management and resource isolation
5. Hardware metrics tracking
Also, we try to distance from Kubernetes and improve our own orchestrator that natively integrates with cloud providers
> Same question could be posed to Modal.
Modal is great too. Modal's strengths is Python decorators and their focus on cloldstarts/serverless kind of experience.
dstack here is more about flexibility/multi-cloud/on-prem/etc.
For example, I personally prefer being able to run any code with dstack without changing my code. Otehr people may prefer Python decorators.
> Aren’t you worried about the amount of product development that goes into Kubernetes and its ecosystem?
A very good question. I think its both a strength and a weakness of Kubernetes. So far we see that for us it's a lot easier to bring AI-native experience, simplify it, and make it more out of the box.
We of course respect K8S though. But we think the community to deserve options!
> What about democratic-csi?
Haven't seen it yet. Will look into it.
At dstack, we support volumes for both cloud and on-prem.
> NVIDIA GPU Operator, AMD’s k8s device plugins
We aim to support any accelerators out of the box.
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