t0mpr1c3

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by t0mpr1c3 3mo ago
The US government is literally refunding the tariffs because they were illegal.
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by t0mpr1c3 3mo ago
You're not wrong. But unlike the USA, at least Britons realized Brexit was a mistake. And that Johnson was corrupt and a liar. I am a citizen of both the UK and USA. It is astonishing to me that Trump could be voted back in after attem
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by t0mpr1c3 3mo ago
What you just said makes no sense. How can equities come into existence except via an IPO or similar mechanism? Equities are literally investments in business. Equity is a line in the balance sheet for every corporation.
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by t0mpr1c3 3mo ago
Ignoring foreign patents also played a big part in US industrialization.
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by t0mpr1c3 3mo ago
Ever wondered why everything in the USA contains corn syrup? Because sugar is artificially expensive (roughly double the global price) due to import tariffs that protect US sugar cane farmers.
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by t0mpr1c3 3mo ago
Quite a few members of the OECD have already done so.
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by t0mpr1c3 3mo ago
That is (factually) a giant overstatement, and ignores domestic US politics. It's almost like you believe the US remains interested in promoting free trade. If it did, it wouldn't be levying illegal and constantly changing import
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by t0mpr1c3 3mo ago
The "idea" of Trump's tariffs (if there ever was one) is to subvert the US constitution which places taxation under the control of congress, not the president.
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by t0mpr1c3 3mo ago
Yes.
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by t0mpr1c3 3mo ago
Very cool. I've done TTS on a 32K Arduino but it was pretty croaky. https://youtu.be/ErGDboTpwM0
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by t0mpr1c3 3mo ago
The curse of technology. If people still had to hunt their protein and grind corn by hand, we wouldn't need anti-binge-eating apps.
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by t0mpr1c3 3mo ago
I don't believe it either. This advice has probably never been less true. Perhaps there is just a certain kind of Substack journalist who chooses some dubious piece of conventional wisdom every Sunday to sermonize about.
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by t0mpr1c3 3mo ago
Dude. Here on HN the only Tao we want to hear about is Terence.
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by t0mpr1c3 3mo ago
EU countries are homeshoring their digital stacks as fast as they possibly can, and the reason is precisely because of the pressure that the US government is exerting via its (temporary) dominance in technology.
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by t0mpr1c3 3mo ago
When bald men fight over a comb, you need teeth. That's right: the bald man with nuclear weapons won it back. And as combs go, it was one with considerable geopolitical significance.
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by t0mpr1c3 3mo ago
NATO can and probably would shoot them out of the sky using ballistic missile defence. IIRC Britain has a total of 8 missiles. Britain's obsolete Trident subs are manufactured by Lockheed, so if they fall out with Trump they will lose
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by t0mpr1c3 3mo ago
You'll find Colchester lads undeniably tasty around closing time on a Saturday.
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by t0mpr1c3 3mo ago
Britain's last two territorial conflicts involved the Falklands, and Icelandic fishing ships in the neighborhood of Rockall. I don't recall that third party assistance was required in either dispute, thank you very much. The US th
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by t0mpr1c3 3mo ago
The command and control systems are American. The intelligence network is American. The last time the British military acted without US support was Suez. The UK went in on NATO 100%. France took an entirely different set of conclusions from
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by t0mpr1c3 3mo ago
Ezcept that the shipyards closed in the 1970s.
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by t0mpr1c3 3mo ago
S tier post
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by t0mpr1c3 3mo ago
It still hasn't got all of Donbas. Russia can't even keep what it previously took. Crimea is becoming indefensible.
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by t0mpr1c3 3mo ago
Supply chains are so diversified that self sufficiency is only feasible for countries the size of US and China. Russia has been forced to cannibalize jet planes because sanctions have starved it of spare parts. Even the US Navy gets its shi
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by t0mpr1c3 3mo ago
In fact, during the age of empire Britain exported coal all over the world. That was one resource it did have. Cotton was another matter.
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by t0mpr1c3 3mo ago
Britain didn't run out of coal, it's just in deep seams that are uneconomic to extract compared to strip-mined lignite. Newcastle is proverbially built on top of the stuff. Although renewable energy sources and electric arc furnac
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by t0mpr1c3 3mo ago
Greenspan believed in self regulating markets too. Until 2008.
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by t0mpr1c3 3mo ago
yakshedding? bikeshaving? IDK
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by t0mpr1c3 3mo ago
Markets are regulated precisely to stop manipulation by insiders. Hence the existence of the SEC, insider trading laws, KYC, and so on. That's not an accident. Crypto is shady precisely because these regulations are absent. Exchanges f
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by t0mpr1c3 3mo ago
just don't dunk on Grok, that is punching down too far
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by t0mpr1c3 3mo ago
Oh no. Now we will never identify those millions of dead people that DOGE claimed were receiving social security. At least we cut those wasteful USAID programs to stop children getting HIV.

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