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by jopsen 2y ago
I suspect that trade policy is one of the core competences of the EU. And countries arguing for particular tariff policies and getting cutouts is widespread EU past time.
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by jopsen 2y ago
Even universal tariffs with no exceptions is a problem. Many things cross US/Canada/Mexico border in the process being manufactured. And tariffs will stack up. Many advanced products (tech/chip, etc) are not entirely made in
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A battery trailer might affect the speed limit your allowed to drive. But it would be cool to just rent the extra 500km when needed :)
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by jopsen 2y ago
I doubt it.. I suspect that most of us would trade just as poorly if we knew Q results ahead of the announcement :) Because it maybe up a bit or down a bit, but that's all going to measured relative to assumptions the market has and th
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by jopsen 2y ago
Yes, but what's the rush here? The EU should do what does best: make things boring. If retaliatory tariffs is the way to go, maybe do it the boring way: considered bit by bit, no flashy announcement. Or just make a 10 year deal on LNG
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by jopsen 2y ago
Despite the popular narrative Europe still has a sizeable arms industry. What Europe doesn't is the ability to quickly agree on anything. But when America calls consensus can be reached quickly. At times 40% of the contingent in Afghan
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Wouldn't you be better off buying ships from allies? Nobody does everything.
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by jopsen 2y ago
If only the US had allies. But I guess it's hard to count on them when you're actively threading invasion! A war with China won't be won with manufacturing. It'll be won by having allies. If it actually comes to pass, yo
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by jopsen 2y ago
And hope chain didn't start from lie :)
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It's fun thought, but probably also scary one. The we have any robustness towards propaganda/ads is that we're being bombarded with contradicting arguments. In a society without would be more susceptible to propaganda. Just j
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by jopsen 2y ago
American intel sharing with Ukraine is not a surprise. The US publicly stated invasion was coming, which kind of made it clear that: US was supplying intel.
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How many of them ended up as Cannon fodder in Ukraine?
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The Russians invaded with exterminations lists. People in occupied territories are not safe from the Russians. Rather they became cannon fodder. Surrender was and is probably not an option for Ukraine. Without Western support, what might an
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by jopsen 2y ago
> Trump will ofc lose many of his old-guard GOP supporters if he does that. Are there any left? Trump has undermined the alliance system. That damage can't be easily undone.
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by jopsen 2y ago
Yes, the boring solution is often the best.
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Yeah, isn't this just regressive taxation? How much all the imports are realistically going to be made in the US?
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by jopsen 2y ago
I'd rather trust 5 libraries written in a memory safe language than one written in C. Sure, if the memory safe language comes with a package manager that happens to have postinstall hooks, the picture might be different. But scanning s
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by jopsen 2y ago
Some of this is probably the new Model Y, that people are waiting for. And probably also competition. But the political stuff sure doesn't help. Especially not when want to feel good/green when buying an EV.
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by jopsen 2y ago
> It's 100x safer than any major American city Is it safe to hold up a blank sheet of paper?
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by jopsen 2y ago
Having previously used AWS, I would also say that GCP IAM is much better. Yes, it's a lot less flexible than AWS IAM, but complicated IAM policies with conditions and stuff can be really hard to reason about. Disclosure: my thoughts ar
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by jopsen 2y ago
But an LLM can't be held accountable.. neither can most employees, but we often forget that :)
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by jopsen 2y ago
Yeah, not delivering additional aid for free is one thing. But retracting support is the nuclear option. Figuratively, because you can probably one do it once, so you better pick a good reason for doing it. And literally, because small Euro
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by jopsen 2y ago
> After that, why not Denmark itself ? Hmm, the US welcome to liberate us from sour tax burden. I suspect the invading force will surrender when they see the liabilities :)
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by jopsen 2y ago
In practice it goes both ways... Lots of critical things for the US is made exclusively in Europe. Lots of medicin that people rely on daily would be unavailable if EU/US trade broke down completely.
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I'm not sure Denmark is going to cancel our F35 orders. From a security perspective, it's certainly in our interest to pretend this isn't a big deal. And that everything is normal. But I'm not surprised that our prime mi
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by jopsen 2y ago
I don't think Iran is buying anything that can be turned off. There is no trust between players in the axis of evil.
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by jopsen 2y ago
> Not giving more aid, there is a reasonable argument is not betrayal. Not donating more stuff maybe. But cutting off targeting, intelligence, satellites, and other enablers is pretty much betrayal! Other countries have bought US equipme
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by jopsen 2y ago
Can we trade for California? it doesn't seem like you really want, and we could use a more sunny colony.
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> it’s due to start production in two years at an undecided location in Europe Two years in EV world is a long time.
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There are a lot of regional frameworks within NATO. The US doesn't lead all of them. But some of them are probably just paper (not all). I'd also find it hard to imagine the US not providing enablers like satellite targeting, etc.

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