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by resters 2y ago
Right, tariffs are another word for taxes that penalize importers.
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Exactly, yet the push toward taxpayer-subsidized domestic manufacturing is driven by rust-belt politics.
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Can anyone vouch for the privacy and overall trustworthiness of the team? I really love this concept and want to install it immediately!
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true. It's too bad that greplin's vision hasn't made it into MacOS yet, though spotlight is better than it once was.
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by resters 2y ago
A few points to consider: - Electric vehicles are inherently much cheaper and have way fewer moving parts. Just because an entry level internal combustion vehicle costs $25K doesn't mean an EV has to. But with 100% tariffs it can! - E
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The pandemic was part of it, but a lot of the shortages were related to the trade war started by Trump and the failure of the US collaborate with public health authorities in China to stop the pandemic sooner. From the perspective of Trump,
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That's what I meant by this: > other nations do it so much more effectively China hsa an actual strategy, not just an attempt for politicians to pay lip service and win a few rust belt states. Also, China had a policy for years of d
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by resters 2y ago
Heartless? In my view it is inappropriate for the government to prohibit or tax peaceful, voluntary activity such as trade. The US grew economically due to the interstate commerce clause prohibiting states from imposing tariffs on each oth
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What does "geopolitical independence" mean? The ability to disregard international law? The ability to make war without worrying about the target being a trading partner?
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by resters 2y ago
Uh, having entrenched trade relationships across oceans dramatically reduces the chance of war. Trump launched the tariffs to reduce "dependency" on China because it was the "dependency" that held back the typical rheto
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These are good points. In my view the idea that "making America great" entails illiberal economic policies which benefit a small fraction at the expense of the rest of the population is a non-starter because in my view "great
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by resters 2y ago
only because of the outsized political importance of a few states that happen to specialize in outdated manufacturing technologies and happen to have enough electoral votes that politicians have an incentive to subsidize them. It's a
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Empirical studies show that governments typically do not introduce policies that result in benefits overall, and the costs of those polices are typically higher than if everyone had just paid a tax that was given as welfare to the small num
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by resters 2y ago
All this because Donald Trump claims (contrary to nearly all economists) that forcing companies to manufacture products on US soil is beneficial in some way that he (Trump) feels confident will make America great again. It is so embarr
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by resters 2y ago
You really think it's a success to force Apple to lose money to make US politicians look like they are "doing something" about a world economy that is increasingly leaving the US in the dust? Meanwhile in China, 1000 engineer
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by resters 2y ago
very cool! i was thinking of doing space weather simulation using vocap and a representation of signals in the spatial domain. maybe it could be added.
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by resters 2y ago
Intel could't have done it profitably and chose to lose the business. Intel has been a cash cow business for a while, coasting on its early wins and doomed to be gradually surpassed. For shareholders seeking short and medium term valu
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by resters 2y ago
I pasted in some markdown content with symbolic logic expressions and proof examples and the model said I was violating the terms of service.
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by resters 2y ago
I use the same workflow. It’s taking a while for me to learn to sense when it’s getting off track and I need to start a new chat session in general it’s pretty amazing if given very clear guidance at the right moments.
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by resters 2y ago
I tested o1-preview on some coding stuff I've been using gpt-4o for. I am not impressed. The new, more intentional chain of thought logic is apparently not something it can meaningfully apply to a non-trivial codebase. Sadly I thin
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by resters 2y ago
Very useful! I was just thinking this kind of thing should exist! I would also like to be able to have the LLM know all of the documentation for any dependencies in the same way.
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by resters 2y ago
> I mean, it's not like the CCP isn't doing a superset of the same things... Or a subset! Facebook is also a very effective social credit score if viewed through that lens.
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by resters 2y ago
Notably, Meta's algorithmic feed evolved so rapidly that it had major consequences before they were well understood. 1) FB launched and was able to scale past MySpace by making its feed algorithmic and gracefully degrading the freshnes
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Mostly ?
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by resters 2y ago
> Buttons and knobs in a car are fine, they do not need innovation. I agree. I was using the example of Tesla (Ford also does it) making UX worse.
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by resters 2y ago
Capacitive controls, touch screens, etc., are typically really bad UX. Perhaps we will see more innovation in the hardware space for high quality UX -- digital encoders combined with haptics, pleasing materials, etc. A Tesla is an example o
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This is really good news. Zuck sees the inevitability of it and the dystopian regulatory landscape and decided to go all in. This also has the important effect of neutralizing the critique of US Government AI regulation because it will dem
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Making video games fun does not require anywhere near as much hardware as we typically use in modern systems. I look forward to an eventual return to fun video games.
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It sounds like you listened to rag chewers on 75 and came up with a knee-jerk impression that ham radio is boring. Ham radio is far more than what you observed. I advise that you check out some of the following before you give up on it: - Q
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Any company that inserts itself so heavily into US politics cannot be counted on as a solid engineering organization.

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