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by ytpete 1y ago
Also this one with even more comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43794284
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by ytpete 1y ago
Do falling prices in crude oil reflect in gas prices as instantly as rising prices in crude oil do though? I think that asymmetry is what the poster was calling out. It lets resellers skim a bit of extra profit off of the volatility, by
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by ytpete 1y ago
It seems narrower than that. Best I can gather from the text of the bill ( https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2025A... ) is it applies to any state laws violated while engaged in: - adv
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Colorado governor vetoes bill requiring sites ban users who violated state law(denver7.com)
5 points by ytpete 1y ago|3 comments
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by ytpete 1y ago
The veto might be overturned by a 2/3 majority of the state legislature though. The bill requires social media platforms to investigate allegations that a user violated state law, to suspend their account while investigating, and perma
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US considering tariff exemptions on auto parts while car companies adjust(thehill.com)
8 points by ytpete 2y ago|0 comments
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by ytpete 2y ago
Missed the one this thread is about, too! - Apr 13 - Lutnick says exemptions going away "in the next month or two"
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by ytpete 2y ago
The advance: scientists mapped all 523 million neural connections in one cubic millimeter of mouse brain tissue – covering a total of over 200,000 brain cells. They did it by very thinly slicing the tissue and photographing each slice at a
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by ytpete 2y ago
On newer Android, holding down power apparently just launches Gemini's AI assistant. You can change it back in settings, or just hold down power + volume up to get to the old menu that has the Lockdown button. (Not to be confused with
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by ytpete 2y ago
Larger discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43634806
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by ytpete 2y ago
Main discussion is at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43634806
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by ytpete 2y ago
Even the gold & silver thing is a different argument: that's essentially saying a country should have a net trade surplus with the rest of the world in aggregate. You can have that while still running deficits with some/many
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by ytpete 2y ago
I agree Congress reasserting power over tariffs (or budget) is not going to give Trump any leverage like that. But I do think he could, and would, try to make a "Reichstag fire" over any kind of mass protest moment. During the BLM
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by ytpete 2y ago
See also his replacement of NAFTA last term with something very similar but a different name.
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by ytpete 2y ago
If we wanted to decouple from China due to fears of war, shouldn't we be keeping tariffs on EU, Canada, Australia, Japan, and Korea very low? We'd want them to stay closely aligned with us as allies, not push them to build stronge
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by ytpete 2y ago
I guess technically they weren't lying, just holding back on disclosing that they already knew a rainy day was coming and it was coming very soon...
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by ytpete 2y ago
In a sense most advertising boils down to publishing lies for money, to some degree or another.
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by ytpete 2y ago
"A concept of a plan," really (sigh)
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by ytpete 2y ago
Dupe of this? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43572947
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by ytpete 2y ago
Depending on how consumer satisfaction surveys are phrased, it totally could be the norm, given this: > Even so, they love the vehicle I.e. if Tesla owners are constantly having maintenance issues but manage to still love their vehicles
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by ytpete 2y ago
An awful lot of business decisions depend on the expected price of the materials and equipment your business needs, and/or what market price you can expect to be able to charge for whatever it is you plan to sell. Tariffs this sweeping
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by ytpete 2y ago
Yet he's already changed the amounts and/or start dates how many times in just a couple of months? It will continue like that because chaos is the nature of his whim-driven presidency. Further, he won't be in power long enoug
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by ytpete 2y ago
> never offered to do the work themselves just demanded it be done for them or they'll keep harassing. I mean if you've worked much in open source, that is pretty much how nearly every feature request and bug report goes unfo
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by ytpete 2y ago
This dying "of Covid" vs "with Covid" debate has long been debunked: https://www.reuters.com/article/world/fact-check-94-of-indiv... TLDR: Those comorbidities are often complications caused by
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by ytpete 2y ago
What did US universities do to "silence all opposing viewpoints" on any issues? Did they kick students out of school because of their viewports? Claw back their financial aid? Get them deported? Physically harm them? I sure don&#x
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by ytpete 2y ago
Or the Cultural Revolution.
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by ytpete 2y ago
This unfortunately didn't age well :-(
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H&M clothing ads to use AI replicas of real fashion models(bbc.com)
3 points by ytpete 2y ago|1 comments
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by ytpete 2y ago
An obvious worry with this is that it's one step closer to not paying models at all, and using entirely synthetic images that aren't based on any real person. But an interesting angle the article points out is that even their curr
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by ytpete 2y ago
Weirdly, this Wayback link is now also a 404. I didn't realize content can retroactively get removed from the archive like that – doesn't that sort of defeat one of its main purposes?

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