Still subject to ISP whims, and still just renting the domain name

And renting the Internet access.

> No idea why this thread is so negative

Uhhh MechaHitler?

This

Better financial modeling? Oh boy, who’s ready for quantum dynamic pricing to really squeeze your wallet to the max

There is no such thing as a tariff on exports. Tariffs are specifically an import tax intended to increase domestic demand for domestically produced goods by shifting it away from imported goods

Tariff is just a different name for "tax". You can tax imports, and you can also tax exports. You can also tax anything that moves, or doesn't.

> There is no such thing as a tariff on exports.

That's correct, or at least it was until this week. Did you happen to see the recent announcement where NVidia and AMD are now apparently required to pay 15% of the revenue from GPUs exported to China to the U.S. government? This is apparently GPUs which were, prior to this new 15% payment, "too harmful to our national security" to export to China.

Frankly, I only saw the headlines and haven't looked into it myself yet - mostly because it makes my head hurt trying to even tally the laws, policies and trade agreements doing this would probably violate. So, I'm admittedly unclear on the details but it sure sounds like an "export tariff".

It’s just an export tax. The reason they are trying to call it anything but that is because the constitution specifically prohibits it

or we could describe it by its actual term, extortion. step 1) tell businesses they can no longer export X product because of "national security concerns"; 2) tell businesses the "national security concerns" can be dropped if they pay 15% of sales.

in other words, threaten to put up barriers than agree to take them down for a "fee"; it's exactly what the mafia does

My limited understanding is that this is going to be an offset against the applicable import tariff, not an export tariff.

So, a roundabout way to do the same thing that he's prohibited from doing by the Constitution? Yeah, that sounds totally legit.

The new legal is where you just do what you want and if you get away with it (by hook or by crook) then it was legal.

That was the old legal, too.

Source: lawyer who understands the core element of law is enforceability, but who is not himself a criminal due to quality upbringing

Not correct actually. Checked dictionary, tariff applies to an import or an export.

It just isn't commonly done to apply an export tariff.

I think he meant export taxes or export duties.

> There is no such thing as a tariff on exports

Tell that to Nvidia and AMD

Library funding is being slashed in the US and actively attacked by right wing fundamentalist who view them as “woke socialism”

There is this new fancy thing called "Internet" that makes libraries obsolete.

Internets have free internet and computers. And not all media is on bittorrent yet.

They are. The problem is that people have a problem with that.

The problem is the people who don't like that policy debating it on social media isolated in filter bubbles owned by the rich who benefit from such isolation

We're the adults now but prefer the responsibility of kids still

Anyway, gonna go watch the new Marvel joint.

That’s the neat part, you don’t!

No pings, just people who may decide to shiv or rape you

Nobody gets shivved or raped in the kind of low-security prisons where non-violent criminals go.

It’s more rare sure, but it still happens. Either way my point was that romanticizing prison is a terrible take

> In national politics, Sam is toe to toe with Elon,which is to say, not great, not terrible

That’s quite the stretch, Elon is now PNG with the MAGA crowd and was already reviled by the left

PNG may not be a stretch, but so isn't the purported health of Sam's local ambitions? :)

No, it’s a private for profit corporation.

NASA making their own rockets/spacecraft certainly wouldn't make the government leaner. NASA was always using contractors, but usually NASA was taking a bigger part in the development/operation of rockets/spacecraft. For human spaceflight, that changed with the Commercial Crew Program, with the contracts for the development of the crewed spacecraft that would be designed, produced and operated entirely by commercial companies. SpaceX received $2.6 billion for the development of Dragon, Boeing received $4.2 billion for Starliner. So SpaceX was the cheaper option, and they started operational crewed missions to ISS in 2020. Boeing got much more money, and in 2025 they still don't have an operational spacecraft.

Commercial Crew Program (and also commercial resupply flights to the ISS) started during Obama presidency, so we can thank Obama for commercializing space and making NASA leaner and saving taxpayer dollars.

Yes? With internet access being more prevalent than ever, it is expected that new product categories will have faster adoption. This demonstrates how much faster using ChatGPT and Google as proxies for their respective product categories.

Sure but it doesn't mean anything, how much has the internet grown since Google's inception?

How can it not mean anything that the internet has grown a lot since Google's inception?