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The author of the NOAA section in Project 2025 is nowhere to be found in the new Trump admin AFAICT. If someone knows otherwise, feel free to share. So I am going to believe that this article is alarmist about total privatization and throwi
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Thanks for the info, will keep it in mind.
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Don't know anything about that, but watching a 4 minute battery swap was pretty cool.
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>lower labor cost and government subsidy issues These are the arguments in favor of tariffs on Chinese autos, I understand they cause a disparity, and yes, IMO they are disproportionate.
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2025... https://finance.yahoo.com/news/tesla-joins-legal-battle-agai... >Tesla TSLA has joined BMW and several Chinese manufacturers in challenging EU tariffs on China-made electric vehicles at the Court of Justice
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Well at least we are protecting those automotive union jobs so that the average MSRP can top $50K.
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>You can bet that the 100% tariff on BYD cars in the US isn’t going anywhere with Musk... https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cq55zd2xjreo >Musk opposes US tariffs on Chinese electric cars. "In fact, I wa
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by hnburnsy 2y ago
Watch Out of Spec for reviews of the latest Chinese EV tech including ADAS and battery swapping... https://outofspecstudios.com/ I was floored by what they are producing in China. It is a shame that these cars are not reach
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Several countries have commercialized their weather data to varying degrees. Here are a few examples: United Kingdom: The UK Met Office has a commercial arm that sells weather data and services to businesses. They provide tailored forec
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If you have Pay TV, you are already paying twice for the data when it is delivered via your local news station, national news station, or The Weather Channel. Would be nice if NOAA would make some money providing its data to commercial oper
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Fast Company, quoting Project 2025, really. Anyhoo, PBS said of the un-avowed Project 2025... >Project 2025 would not outright end the National Weather Service. It says the agency “should focus on its data-gathering services,” and “shoul
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This feels like a strawman, I haven't seen any proposal to eliminate or privatize NOAA. Just checking it looks like the un-avowed Project 2025 suggested commercializing the data which seems smart to me. Why let all these billion dollar
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From the YouTube CEO: Our big bets for 2025, TV is now the primary device(blog.youtube)
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The EU Consumer Sales and Guarantees Directive is designed to protect consumers when they purchase goods, including new cars. Here are some key points about the directive as it relates to new car purchases: Legal Guarantee: Consumers ar
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by hnburnsy 2y ago
>That's not really an investigation of Starlink but of the use of Starlink terminals. That won't matter, just like the falsehood that Musk deleted the IRS Direct File program.
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DOGE US Treasury access limited to read only per DC District Court(twitter.com)
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Yeah, it is busy with police... >Mayor Eric Adams attributed the decline in subway crime to a number of factors, including the massive surge of 1,200 additional NYPD officers in the subway system, as well as an additional 300 officers pa
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>Mayor Eric Adams attributed the decline in subway crime to a number of factors, including the massive surge of 1,200 additional NYPD officers in the subway system, as well as an additional 300 officers patrolling overnight trains So whi
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No typo apparently... >Editor's note: This story was corrected at 12:15 p.m., Jan. 17, to clarify that the shrews weigh 2 to 3 grams, according to the researchers' measurements.
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From Reuters... >"In our view, the USPS would require some time to sort out how to execute the new taxes before allowing Chinese packages to arrive in the U.S. again," said Chelsey Tam, a senior equity analyst at Morningstar.
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They can ship via UPS, FedEx, DHL, or shipping container. From the news... >The majority of inbound shipments originating in China come by ocean or air freight, not the mail system.
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Duplicate... https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42933219
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Athlete and celebrity in VC or PE are hired because of the money they can attract from others, which is a type qualification, probably the same reason here.
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>I care that they have no constitutional authority. Opinion article that at least explains some of the authority that DOGE may have. DOGE is operating under U.S. Digital Service which was started by Obama, not congress, with a mission t
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The program was not removed, you can un-sigh.
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The 18F team who works for GSA, is not part of the IRS, and was not the only group that worked on the IRS Direct file program. USDS and Treasury also worked on it.
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>How does removing an easy tax filing solution improve government efficiency? It was not removed.
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The actual story is that Musk claims he deleted a group (18F) that assisted the IRS (among others) with the creation of the tax filing program. The group is (was) part of GSA.
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If AI is outlawed then only outlaws will have AI.
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>President Trump’s “special government employee,” Elon Musk, announced on Monday that he has dissolved the Internal Revenue Service’s free file program, effectively firing the staff who worked on the popular program. Amazing how little i

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