Hacker News with Generative AI: Globalization

A Trade Breakdown (lynalden.com)
This newsletter issue breaks down the recent trade breakdown (sorry for the pun) and explores some of the nuances of why realigning the global balance of trade is both popular and extremely difficult to do.

Economics, Trade, Politics, Globalization

12 points by alihm 5 days ago | 6 comments

Most of the World Can't Code (ycombinator.com)
Programming is only accessible to those who understand English and the Latin alphabet.

Programming, Accessibility, Language, Globalization

10 points by jayathra 53 days ago | 41 comments

How Trump's tariff chaos is already changing global trade (theverge.com)
The premise was that the side effects and the unintended consequences of globalization since World War II were creating its demise.

Politics, Economics, International Trade, Globalization

16 points by stevenwoo 53 days ago | 4 comments

There are no pure cultures – we have always been global (aeon.co)
In the 1990s, an entire generation was robbed of its historical consciousness by a powerful and seemingly unprecedented tale.

History, Culture, Globalization

40 points by Tomte 119 days ago | 51 comments

A New World Order Is Here, and It Looks a Lot Like Mercantilism (bloomberg.com)
“The crisis was not a failure of the free-market system,” declared George W. Bush in November 2008. “And the answer is not to try to reinvent that system. It is to fix the problems we face, make the reforms we need and move forward with the free markets principles that have delivered prosperity and hope to people across the world.”

Politics, Economics, Globalization

10 points by petethomas 167 days ago | 2 comments

The rise of the U.S., the rise of China (construction-physics.com)
I spend a lot of time reading about manufacturing and its evolution, which means I end up repeatedly reading about the times and places where radical changes in manufacturing were taking place: Britain in the late 18th century, the US in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, Japan in the second half of the 20th century, and (to a lesser extent) China today.

Manufacturing, Economics, Globalization, History, China

140 points by hunglee2 189 days ago | 291 comments

AI and globalisation are shaking up software developers' world (economist.com)
Two big shifts are under way in the world of software development.

Artificial Intelligence, Globalization, Software Development

72 points by belter 222 days ago | 108 comments

The German problem? It's an analogue country in a digital world (theguardian.com)

Germany, Digital Transformation, Analogue Technology, Society, Globalization

34 points by doener 247 days ago | 48 comments

Keeping Value Chains at Home (merics.org)

Supply Chains, Economics, Globalization

4 points by akyuu 270 days ago | 0 comments

Soup Dumpling Index: How prices compare around the world (axios.com)