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by rtkwe 2y ago
It's a transcript of a conversation after the first two paragraphs.
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by rtkwe 2y ago
When you claim "without human intervention... except for edge cases" and the truth is it's all "edge cases" ie 0% AI. > Saniger raised millions in venture funding by claiming that Nate was able to transact online
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by rtkwe 2y ago
Ah man I remember the RFID hype when the idea was you'd just shop and walk out and the items would all be automatically scanned by an RFID reader and charged. A tough lift in a grocery store but a single source store can build all the
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by rtkwe 2y ago
They look like they were taken separately and composited in later but I don't think they're digital effects beyond compositing them into the shot, rig removal, color matching/grading etc.
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by rtkwe 2y ago
The cases are probably the easiest parts to potentially remake in America, that's mostly machining that can be automated pretty easily we know how to run CNC in the US still, but it's only a tiny part of the picture. What about th
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by rtkwe 2y ago
Have much in the way of sales numbers for that? Smells like a halo product more than a major sales mover.
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by rtkwe 2y ago
It's a mixed bag, quicker reporting doesn't really hurt them specifically until they're required to report them in advance of the trade because any time after it they've already made the sale/purchase so you knowing
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by rtkwe 2y ago
The STOCKS Act requires trade disclosures within 30 days but the penalty is only $200 so in theory it lags at most 30 days and maybe less depending on the whims of the Rep/Senator in question. More info at the link below, there are pre
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by rtkwe 2y ago
Yeah they try to make them perpetual by only spending less than their growth each year but with 52 billion you could afford to draw down a billion or two (2.6 billion would be 5%) and that would fund research for years.
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by rtkwe 2y ago
The university uses it for salaries, financial aid and other operations.
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by rtkwe 2y ago
Harvard's rolling over was particularly annoying, they have a 52 billion dollar endowment! If any university could afford to make a stand and lose funding over it it's Harvard. What's the point of this massive pile of money i
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by rtkwe 2y ago
Even if we did keep the tariffs long enough to reshore there's so many problems: 1) The resulting industries are only viable under the tariff regime so we have to keep it forever or until the production costs somehow equalize. 2) Who&#
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by rtkwe 2y ago
I never know for sure if that's the source or if the bots are just reading the same "Tariffs for Dummies" source the administration is working from.
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by rtkwe 2y ago
Depends a lot on when and how the keys were lost. If the creator(s) were sitting on it thinking they had this cache there's not much reason to mine so if they lost it later, say after home mining with single GPUs became woefully ineffi
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by rtkwe 2y ago
> You’re calling Trump “economically illiterate,” I mean he's gone bankrupt 6 times including managing to bankrupt a casino a business where on average people give you money to get less money in return... He also confuses simple eco
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by rtkwe 2y ago
Companies tend to just take the extra profit instead of keeping their prices lower than their competition for no reason.
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by rtkwe 2y ago
That's the part I just don't get about the pro tariff as reshoring manufacturing argument. That industry only makes sense and will only be profitable in a world where the tariffs are permanent. The Vietnamese textile factories are
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by rtkwe 2y ago
Not 50 times larger which is what it would need to be to supply the current domestic consumption. California only produced 1.94 million gallons of olive oil in 2023, that same year the US used ~98.5 million gallons of olive oil. Even if we
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by rtkwe 2y ago
It is certainly odd there's been nothing from the inventors not even using the vast wealth they have squirreled away. The alternative which is honestly kind of funny is that they lost their keys so can't access the coins and thus
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by rtkwe 2y ago
Exactly and even if it does work to reshore factories (which will take years and we'll just ignore the question of where all the workers for these factories will come from, and that the goods needed for making those factories are also
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by rtkwe 2y ago
Nope my edit was to add the bit I helpfully marked edit to show where the White House had confirmed this was their method while attempting to deny it.
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by rtkwe 2y ago
California produced 1.94 million gallons of olive oil in 2023. That same year the US used ~98.5 million gallons of olive oil. There just isn't enough space to produce that much olive oil in CA much less produce it profitably or in ways
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by rtkwe 2y ago
First we don't import any where near all of Uruguay's exports, in fact we're only about 8% of their actual exports which should tell you this isn't the reason we buy more from them than they do from us. Next that's
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by rtkwe 2y ago
> cheaper labor and laxer environmental regulations So we've exported our worst paying, most environmentally damaging industries? I mean the rivers catching fire was probably exciting but I'm not exactly pining to bring that ba
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by rtkwe 2y ago
You shouldn't put tariffs based on deficits period because it's a brain dead way to think about international trade. The whole idea is flawed from the jump so there's no way to make it rational, it's inherently irrationa
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by rtkwe 2y ago
Consider actual tariffs? A trade deficit isn't a tariff or trade barrier it's just the natural flow of commerce from them selling more stuff than they buy. They're dressing it up like these countries are charging US imports t
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by rtkwe 2y ago
That formula just simplifies to trade_deficit/2*total_imports per country. It doesn't disprove anything it just looks fancier but the two extra terms are constants that simplify to 2. If you do the math it lines up for every count
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by rtkwe 2y ago
They already wouldn't be subject to this tariff if they bought directly from Taiwan. Tariffs only happen when goods cross the border so unless Nvidia's logistics required them to ship into the US to get goods to Europe they should
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by rtkwe 2y ago
For extra sauce on the "they're barely even thinking about this" cake someone figured out where those crazy "Tariff Charged" numbers were coming from, they're taking the trade deficit and dividing by the total
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by rtkwe 2y ago
There was already some antiTesla sentiment brewing, has been for quite a while but once he actually started his chainsaw schtick on the real government sentiment went down hill FAST.

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