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by kolanos 1y ago
HW4 is really a game changer. I was absolutely floored by HW4 FSD during a recent test drive. Tesla is accomplishing some truly groundbreaking technical achievements here. But you wouldn't know it through all the Elon Musk noise (pro a
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by kolanos 1y ago
I swiped but your wife didn't match. What gives?
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by kolanos 1y ago
A bit baffled by all the "Why not just use CSS?" comments here. Did we forget how much of a pain CSS still is? For example, I recently made a UI with a series of numbered steps. To the left of each step is a number with a circle a
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by kolanos 1y ago
> I would think the dumber thing is having to create an empty file called __init__.py for a package to register as a package. This hasn't been true since Python 3.3. You no longer need a __init__.py for Python to recognize a module,
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The Tragic Story Behind the Infamous '4 Children for Sale' Photograph (2023)(allthatsinteresting.com)
21 points by kolanos 1y ago|5 comments
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by kolanos 1y ago
> The top 10 softwood lumber producers in the US have a combined capacity of 24.1 billion board feet, representing 50% of the US industry, according to Forisk. > The U.S. imports a significant portion of its softwood lumber from Canad
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by kolanos 1y ago
I see commentary like this frequently in the west, then I read financial analysis like this: > Goldman Sachs in its latest China forecast, reports China's GDP is about to fall off a cliff: the bank now expects China's Q2 GDP gr
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by kolanos 1y ago
While this is true, this changed around 2009. What happened? The Chinese government started heavily subsidizing domestic automakers [0]while continuing the joint venture requirements for foreign automakers, which started in 1979 [1]. These
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by kolanos 1y ago
It's a good thing the United States doesn't depend on China for toilet paper, then. > The United States primarily sources its toilet paper domestically, with about 90% being manufactured within the country.However, a significan
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by kolanos 1y ago
> At least, I imagine the CEOs of GM, Ford, Boeing, etc. might have a thing or two to say about seeing China disappear as a market where they can do business to sell stuff.... They largely weren't doing this anyway due to Chinese ec
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by kolanos 1y ago
I read it would smell like cabbage.
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by kolanos 1y ago
> Their population is declining, ... This can not be overstated. China is on the verge of the largest population collapse in human history. By 2080 China's population will drop by 600 million. If that trend continues, by 2150 China
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by kolanos 2y ago
In other news.... Vietnam Offers to Remove Tariffs on US After Trump’s Action [0] Taiwan eyes zero tariffs with US, pledges more investment [1] [0]: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-04-06/vietnam-o
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by kolanos 2y ago
Imagine calling trade "not both-sidesable". You can't make this stuff up.
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by kolanos 2y ago
The u.S. didn't negotiate protectionist policies against their own exports. Can you cite a single example of this? A more charitable explanation is that the U.S. has been all in on globalization and free trade since the 1970s and the
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by kolanos 2y ago
> Hence sourcing fertiliser from Russia was taken to be a strategic positive since it tired Russia to Europe. And you still defend this as a strategic positive?
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by kolanos 2y ago
What is Tunisia buying from the United States?
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by kolanos 2y ago
> Good faith negotiations with our allies and trading partners that creates a balance of trade and reduces wealth inequality in the west. We can look at a 50+ year history of every major U.S. trade partner increasing their protectionist
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by kolanos 2y ago
Doing this is one of my earliest memories. I think I was 5 or 6. I hadn't even mastered reading yet and I was typing a game into an IBM XT clone (think it was QBasic) one character at a time. Don't think I would have bothered with
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by kolanos 2y ago
For all of Python's faults, being called ugly is the one I'd least expect. Am curious, what language do you consider syntactically "pretty"?
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by kolanos 2y ago
Here is an excellent video on the history of work. In short, the Dutch screwed it up for all of us. [0] [0]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hvk_XylEmLo
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by kolanos 2y ago
> In the end Canada is a net importer of US agricultural products. By far. This hasn't been remotely true since the early 70's.
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by kolanos 2y ago
The video you posted is itself misleading. For example, the video claims that if the United States were to implement reciprocal tariffs in the same form that Canada places upon the United States that Canada would not pay any tariffs either.
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by kolanos 2y ago
Canada has its own agricultural subsidies, in fact they're almost double that of the U.S. [0] > The OECD estimated the subsidy equivalent in 2012 (producer support estimate) in all Canadian agriculture represented 18% of the value o
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by kolanos 2y ago
The United States has a trade deficit of 131.38% for dairy products with Canada. [0] The United States dairy imports from Canada are far from zero, measured in the hundreds of millions. > United States Imports from Canada of Dairy produ
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by kolanos 2y ago
The United States is an agricultural giant. Seems reasonable to start there? But I think you're the one being intellectually dishonest by hiding behind these aggregates. The only reason why Canada's tariffs rates are so low is bec
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by kolanos 2y ago
It seems like a completely misleading "fact check" to me when you actually read the Wikipedia article I linked. > Those high tariffs kick in only after the US has hit a certain Trump-negotiated quantity of tariff-free dairy sal
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by kolanos 2y ago
Max Planck famously said, "A new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die, and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it.&qu
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by kolanos 2y ago
Was curious about this, so checked: > In American checkers, men can jump only forwards; in international draughts and Russian draughts, men can jump both forwards and backwards. [0] [0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki&#x2F
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by kolanos 2y ago
> Now, post Covid I see a hard pivot towards Christianity, but importantly, "traditional" forms of it. Protestant sects are being ignored and Catholicism, or if you are really intense, Orthodoxy seems to be in vogue. I have see

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