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by coldpie 7mo ago
Hey at least it's not Yet Another Fucking LLM Article.
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by coldpie 7mo ago
If the government charges the importer $20 and the importer charges me $20, then I am in effect the one who paid the duty. If the refund goes to the importer, and it does not come back to me, then the government and the importer have collu
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by coldpie 7mo ago
UPS is definitely pocketing most of whatever refund they get. And golly gee gosh what a shocker, the company supports Republicans. I'm afraid you've been robbed. > ‘Corporate and industry group political action committees have
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by coldpie 7mo ago
> The government knows exactly who paid what in duties No, they have a record of who handed the money over to the government. This does not tell you who paid the duties. There's going to be a whole lot of Trump toadies & bus
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by coldpie 7mo ago
Yes, you're almost there, just go one step further. Now you've got a big pile of money and no clear rules on where it should go. Who gets to decide where it will go? Given how this administration operates, where do you think it
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by coldpie 7mo ago
Life in prison for every single person working under this administration is the moderate position.
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by coldpie 7mo ago
> It’s a matter of implementation though. How would you refund so many people? This was the point of the tariffs, wasn't it? The White House now has a $130B slush fund to distribute more or less however they want, with no accountabi
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by coldpie 7mo ago
Yet another successful Republican transfer of wealth from the people who do the work (employees) to the people who don't (owners).
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by coldpie 7mo ago
Check out their Razr Plus or Razr Ultra. The external display is 4" and fully functional, and it unfolds into a full-size phablet for when you need that. I'm a small-phone-liker and I've found it to be a great device, I&#x2
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by coldpie 7mo ago
> maybe we could improve the patent system instead? The patent system benefits the uber-wealthy at the expense of everyone else, so no, that won't be happening.
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by coldpie 7mo ago
> I think a system like this could really work well Too bad, it's patented! https://www.eurogamer.net/shadow-of-mordors-brilliant-nemesi... Fuck software patents and every single person who has ever filed one.
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by coldpie 7mo ago
Ads in the AI results, obviously. Google is now the king of the the SEO spam website game: plagiarize the info from others, slap ads on it, and profit. That is the purpose of LLMs: end copyright law, but only for the 5 tech companies wealt
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by coldpie 7mo ago
So... there is a 4" Android phone out there. It's widely available, and from a major manufacturer. It's very usable, and it runs mostly stock Android. I have it, and I like it very much. Brace yourself for the reveal beca
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by coldpie 7mo ago
I hate to say it but honestly, kinda, yeah... I do think that. Has he done anything significant since the early 1990s? All I've known him for since then is wasting a bunch of years spinning wheels at a virtual reality toy company and
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by coldpie 7mo ago
They do make one with a 4" display! I'm a small phone liker. After spending years on an iPhone 13 Mini and wishing it was a little smaller, I got a Motorola Razr Ultra last year and I've been very happy with it. It has a f
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by coldpie 7mo ago
> the exact same could have been said at the start of the industrial revolution The pollution caused by said revolution is currently putting humanity at a serious risk of world war and maybe even extinction so... maybe they had a point?
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by coldpie 8mo ago
The DOJ and the court that heard the case disagree with you https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/department-justice-wins-signi...
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by coldpie 8mo ago
Breaking up monopolies is a requirement for competition & healthy markets. Enforcing anti-trust laws is pro-capitalism, pro-business, and pro-consumer. Imagine how many more tech improvements we would have if Google had to compete for i
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by coldpie 8mo ago
That's monopoly behavior, baby! Break 'em up.
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by coldpie 8mo ago
This is IMO one of the coolest tech stories to ever happen, seriously amazing spycraft & hacking skills, but I haven't been keeping up with new developments from this story since it broke. Last I heard, the best guess at what happ
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by coldpie 8mo ago
Going public is the fastest way to turn a solid, functioning business into a hideous, infinite-growth chasing ghoul that everyone hates. Don't do it.
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by coldpie 8mo ago
At least 3 members of the Supreme Court are among those working under the current admin who need to be serving life sentences in prison.
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by coldpie 8mo ago
Your scepticism is well warranted. That's exactly the playbook Biden chose to follow, and I agree the most likely outcome is the next admin will follow it again. However, I am unfortunately an incurable optimist, and sometimes we Ameri
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by coldpie 8mo ago
I 100% agree. I will never forgive Biden for not putting these traitors behind bars in his first 6 months. He failed at one of his most important sworn duties, protecting the US from its enemies. But, sometimes a groundswell movement really
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by coldpie 8mo ago
If whoever runs in 2028 does not have a concrete plan for investigating & prosecuting every single person who worked under this admin from top to bottom, they are wasting everyone's time. We need to see hundreds of life-in-prison
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by coldpie 8mo ago
> They should’ve allowed an emergency injunction from the outset. That wouldn't have given the opportunity for SCOTUS's financial backers to build up their profits first https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4708
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by coldpie 8mo ago
> My understanding is that there are sufficient laws to ensure competition, but they are not widely enforced. That's correct, the laws exist but it's up to the executive to enforce them. The US has not meaningfully enforced any
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by coldpie 8mo ago
Check out the Feker Alice series of keyboards. The Alice 98 has a full set of function keys & numpad. High quality build, too, I've been very happy with it. The one & only thing I don't like about it is it's missing
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by coldpie 8mo ago
It's an ergonomic keyboard, not a split keyboard, but I have a Feker Alice 98 (highly recommended!) and it's got two B keys, one on either side of the ergonomic divider. Threw me for a loop when I first saw it. I only use the left
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by coldpie 8mo ago
For anyone who comes across this in the future, Ars published an official retraction: https://arstechnica.com/staff/2026/02/editors-note-retractio... And Benj posted an explanation & admitted fault: http

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