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Its the inevitable result when you allow politics to enter a forum. It used to be posts that were overtly political were considered off-topic, but that has become more normalized. …

Yes exactly, if the exporter is not absorbing the cost, and the consumer is not absorbing the cost (for the most part), the importing company must be absorbing the bulk of the cost…

You are getting downvoted quite heavily but I do wonder what percentage of people are growing more and more accustomed to the latter. I say this someone who was dedicated to (neo)v…

How can it be possible that consumers are paying 96% of tariffs that range from 25-100%. Yet inflation has only risen by 0.5 points? Consumption would have to be less than a fifth …

I agree with everything you said, but the news organization's decision to include or not include a quote or speculation from someone is fundamentally a narrative choice. And every …

> most responsible outlets don’t speculate on motives until there’s some evidence of a connection That is simply not true, every single news outlet without fail speculates, uncriti…

Technical point here but opinions are not illegal to have. Besides that your point is missing the fact that you are dealing with outside services that provide a contract for their …

Feels a lot more like the reporter already had a problem with Meta and chose the examples most favorable to their anti-Meta slant to report in the article. Of course on HN we're al…

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Yes there are. It is well documented in other countries such as Venezuela or Argentina and some vendors even prefer cryptocurrency because compared to their national currency it is…

There are multiple countries in the world where issues like hyperinflation have pushed day-to-day transactions to crypto for everyday people.

Technically right is the worst kind of right

I think you are disagreeing.

Comments like this are snarky, shallowly dismissive, and do little to add to a discussion all of which are against HN guidelines.

Some would say we killed the word "engineer" when we started applying it to programmers...

Yea but he’s not exactly going around randomly punching people in the face is he? Lot of moral grandstanding in this thread. He’s a human being and he’s not perfect but some of the…

It’s modern tech sycophancy. Meaningless change that serves no one, but the ones pushing it. They get to say they did something to “fight” some sort of inequality when it’s all jus…

Sure context and audience matters, but even outside of that the article is rather poorly written. This part in particular should really emphasize that she disproved the conjecture,…

Not everyone has mullvad, corporate VPNs can’t be run concurrently with mullvad, not all networks allow a VPN, not all sites can be accessed through a VPN like mullvad, not all cou…

Have you found it has better accuracy or scales with larger models? Or are the improvements, if any, marginal compared to the 3B VLM model?

Sorry, I was definitely snarky in my comments and if I could edit my comments to remove the snark and change the tone I would. However, your "It's great that you're in medical scho…

Since no one wants to explain and you I just got downvoted, Barry James Marshall is ironically an example of EBM and is HIMSELF an active proponent of EBM. He had a biological hypo…

I think you are misunderstanding a couple of things. The label for Cedarcure doesn’t have timed dosing, just says take it during the day. Furthermore this research article would ac…

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Thank you for context.