reaperman

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by reaperman 2y ago
> The gold to paper ratio in Comex is 300 to 1. I think this says there is 300x as much physical gold as there is gold on paper. Context and common sense indicate the opposite was intended.
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by reaperman 2y ago
I doubt the FCC will be disbanded in a way that prevents any enforcement of anti-jamming rules. But the only thing local hamsters would do is report you to the FCC, so if it were dissolved as GP posits, it wouldn't matter which hams fi
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by reaperman 2y ago
It looks like CME's HQ is near Millennium Park in the center of Chicago, not part of Aurora (CO, IL, OH, IN, MO, NE, NY, or OR).
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by reaperman 2y ago
What is this a reference to?
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by reaperman 2y ago
Someone said physics, it's also very common in engineering. But academically and professionally, I've only seen it with superscript.
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by reaperman 2y ago
There is no way that "15MBs-1" is more clear than "15MB/s", especially in an environment which lacks the ability to give text superscript styling.
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by reaperman 2y ago
https://www.cpsc.gov/
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by reaperman 2y ago
distillate is a noun, not a verb Edit: I love the edit, it's very straightforward now!
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by reaperman 2y ago
I don't understand what relevance the All-In podcast has to this article written by Brian Krebs. Did I miss a reference to it in the article, or is there a non-obvious connection that someone could point out?
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by reaperman 2y ago
Which department/agency maintains the database of who-has-which-clearance?
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by reaperman 2y ago
In this context, "activating" is speech which elicits gut-reaction. Whereas "interesting" is speech which stimulates thoughtfulness.
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by reaperman 2y ago
https://www.reddit.com/r/singularity/comments/1ijbtqf/this_i...
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by reaperman 2y ago
I don't understand your comment. None of it makes any sense. > because politicians pork barrel contracts for their districts and states. > Or possibly politicians attracting investment to their districts for the benefit their vo
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by reaperman 2y ago
Yeah this definitely deserves more upvotes than just mine.
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by reaperman 2y ago
This is (probably?) related to the de minimis exemption, so here is the section of Project 2025 which provides bullet points for dealing with that: - Stop Communist China’s abuse of the so-called de minimis exemption, which allows it to eva
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by reaperman 2y ago
upvoted by poster. BUT - USPS stopped subsidizing Chinese packages back in 2018? https://thehill.com/opinion/finance/418081-usps-is-done-subs... So on the surface, this looks more like corporate welfare to FedEx&#
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by reaperman 2y ago
Wouldn't the bulk freight still be largely un-inspected? Seems like a lot of logistics companies will just offer a lot of LTL where packages will go inside shipping containers and then get reshipped via USPS after getting sorted at the
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by reaperman 2y ago
Just to be clear - if I order $5 of LED's from China, I now have to pay at minimum $37.71 instead of $5?
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by reaperman 2y ago
Ahahahahahahahahahahaha. As someone who works in manufacturing in the USA - we can't keep our domestic factories running, or build new ones, without trade with China. We also can't keep our hospitals running, manufacture vehicles,
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by reaperman 2y ago
Yep. We ship in little bits and bobs from China constantly to keep our enormous manufacturing center running here in the USA. This is going to be horrible for us.
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by reaperman 2y ago
I'm worried more about the prototypes my R&D department is designing in partnership with Chinese contractors and fabrication facilities. We manufacture the final products here in the USA, but a LOT of components we air-mail from Ch
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by reaperman 2y ago
This is going to utterly fuck so many R&D projects at my company. We actually do large-scale manufacturing of industrial valves in the USA. But a lot of our prototyping involves working with Chinese suppliers and getting small batches o
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by reaperman 2y ago
The USA doesn't inspect every package -- almost all current tariffs are on the honor system. They could start by checking every 1 in 10,000 packages and then build up the system until they're spot-checking x in 100. Customs doesn&
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by reaperman 2y ago
What the fuck does this even mean? Is it agreeing with me, arguing I am wrong, or simply stating something related/orthogonal?
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by reaperman 2y ago
Why stop the packages though? Just make the shipper declare a value and let the receiver pay the tariff if they want their package.
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by reaperman 2y ago
If it was China pulling the trigger, USPS wouldn't say "we are suspending acceptance of inbound parcels". It's pretty clear this is a US action.
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by reaperman 2y ago
The 2009 English-language series or the 2015 French-language series? Both share the same title.
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by reaperman 2y ago
My representatives shouldn't need my fucking letters!
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by reaperman 2y ago
I'm glad excavators are "equipment" instead of vehicles...there's a 100% tariff on Chinese EV's.
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by reaperman 2y ago
In terms of copyright law, it's not clear that the model weights are derivative works from the training material. At this time, I think courts would lean towards the weights not being a derivative work. And even if it is a derivative w

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