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>> IMHO, that money should be > Should be...? Sorry. Should be used to offset any short-term difficulties caused by tariffs, that occur as part of a longer term plan.
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>> And in the context of massive trade deficits, so what? > I was thinking more in the context of consumer inflation. Countries tend to go back and forth in a tariff war, effectively raising taxes and lowering incomes for their cit
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> The ones who are most hurt by tariffs, most affected by higher prices, are the working class. Perhaps in the short to medium term , the people who had their livelihoods decimated and partially compensated for the decline in their st
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> Well, you can (partially) thank the Jones Act for US ship building being so abysmal. Or you can thank it for there being any shipbuilding left at all. I would like to hear the case for how repealing the Jones Act would strengthen the U
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> To be more clear, I meant that it was typical for foreign governments to impose retaliative tariffs. And in the context of massive trade deficits, so what? IIRC, when the Trump tariffs went into effect, there was a lot written that th
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> "Thief believes everybody steals" The correct analogy for espionage isn't crime. But even taking that framing, if everyone actually does steal, it doesn't do you any good to be naive and deny reality.
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> Can you explain how tariffs are an effective tool against foreign governments subsidizing industries? It has been my understanding that tariffs typically end up being tit-for-tat and relatively zero-sum. They neutralize the subsidy&#x2
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> One thing that I think that frequently eludes people in this discussion is that US manufacturing has pretty much been constantly growing for the past century; just its share of GDP has fallen as other sectors have grown faster. > ..
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> I think it's far more likely that Mossad has infiltrated whatever foreign (non-Israeli) supply chain they were using. Yeah. Wasn't there something in the Snowden leaks about the CIA intercepting servers in-transit to install
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> When theres money on the table you don't have any friends. That's taking it way too far. I think the important factor is the kind of relationship involved, specifically how does a modern corporation like Amazon view its r
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There's not much integrity in being a sucker.
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> It makes sense if one considers the angle of how single-key shortcuts are much more disaster-prone. > ... > Most Mac shortcuts seem to follow this, with those that are single-key by default doing relatively harmless and easily re
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> But they don't make money on clicks, they make it on whales, so they are also going to get rid of pseudo-games that can't get whales to spend more microtransaction money. This video did a very good job of explaining it, to me
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Yuval Noah Harari Takes on AI(washingtonpost.com)
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> Are there studies on productivity vs. # of days in office for white collar workers? Yes, you can cite it as "the CEO's fart."
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> It's going to be great. Bring in people for "in person collaboration" only to have all of them talk to each other on Zoom because every single team is distributed. It just goes to show how executives are either are stupi
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> Amazon is truly the arm pit of software engineering careers. One can only hope this hastens their demise. The only thing that will hasten their demise is if the government rips them a new one (which this Amazon shareholder says it shou
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> i can't believe how out of touch some of these rich corporate execs are, as if everyone's aim in life should be to pour every ounce of their energy to make some massive trillion dollar corporation even richer It might not be
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> There is always more meat for the grinder. You either prefer the environment, or believe you have no better option. Amazon is the only FAANG that regularly reaches out to me with recruiting spam, and I am not located in a sexy tech hub
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Totally off topic HN implementation observation, as of this writing: This post: > 417 points by in_memoriam 17 hours ago | flag | hide | past | favorite | 69 comments in_memoriam's karma (just this post, no comments): > karma: 83
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> apparently I can't link to my favorite "I will write myself a minivan" comic It looks like it's been mirrored in several places, e.g.: https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/488178/wha
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> i'm not just talking about a simple stereotype, though; i'm talking about a whole misogynistic ideology which is so widespread that you have to understand it in order to give any coherency to widely used phrases like 'se
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> well, i was more thinking about a former sex worker, a group which includes many more of your friends and acquaintances than you're likely aware of. People say stuff like that, but I'm skeptical. It probably indicates more ab
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> i suspect they can detect that in a similar way to capchas and "verify you're human by clicking the box". I'm not so sure. IIRC, capchas are pretty much a solved problem, if you don't mind the cost of a little
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> Yip. It's pretty obvious this 'innovation' is just based off training data collected from chain-of-thought prompting by people, ie., the 'big leap forward' is just another dataset of people repairing chatgpt&#x
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> or 'cute guy turns out to have enough of a hangup about your past sex work to not date you' (which apparently doesn't necessarily imply he's not relationship material, though i'd think it ought to) Obviously su
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> Embracing gen AI is absolutely the wrong move for a content creators. People are not paying for visuals and conversations. They are paying for a genuine human to human interaction. If you take away that part, you’re left with worthless
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> I wouldn't say rationalization considering the lack of experience of these teens. Lack of scope in life forbids this imo, hence my adhoc neologism. Can you explain that more? In my mind anyone can rationalize their behavior (&qu
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>> From the perspective of the victim, it doesn’t matter whether the person who just sent their boss the link to their OF > I doubt any boss would open an onlyfans link and if they tried I'd expect the company firewall would b
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> Nowadays pornhub and onlyfans are flooded by wannabee independent performers. Even the most addicted to porn can't possibly follow and keep track of more than a tiny subset of performers. So there is a good chance you can still ha

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