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104% tariff sounds scary, but it’s not. China will find $145bn of “premium” goods from other countries, US will try hard to find $440bn of “cheap” goods elsewhere.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_the_largest_trading_partners_of_Chinahttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_balance_of_tradehttps://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c20zd4k6d36ohttps://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c4g2089vznzohttps://tradingeconomics.com/united-states/balance-of-trade US started having trade deficits since 1970s and grew to become the country with largest trade imbalance by far. US imported $440bn from China; China imported $145bn from America....
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“People don’t shoot lasers out of their eyes to drive” is a weak argument

https://www.benzinga.com/25/03/44529187/elon-musk-says-tesla-doesnt-need-lidar-because-people-dont-shoot-lasers-out-of-their-eyes-yet-his-ev-company-quietly-spent-over-2-million-on-the-technology-in-2024-as-china-takes-global-lead Elon Musk having such hate for Lidar is just silly. Might be valid a decade ago when Lidar was overly expensive like any niche technology at the beginning. But...
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Leaking business information is not freedom of speech

https://www.rawstory.com/mark-zuckerberg-leakshttps://www.404media.co/its-total-chaos-internally-at-meta-right-now-employees-protest-zuckerbergs-anti-lgbtq-changes/ You got paid to do a job, the company doesn’t need your agreement to all matters and leaking any information you disagree with isn’t even protest, it’s just sabotage....
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Gensler going back to MIT to teach #AI? Will he repeat what he did with crypto? Fully endorse AI in his lectures, but outlaw it if he ever gets back into public office?

https://decrypt.co/303263/former-sec-chair-gary-gensler-to-go-back-to-school-to-teach-ai Sure, he had the power to slow down crypto adoption at the SEC. But ultimately he failed. When he “lost” to BlackRock and others for the crypto ETFs applications,...
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Not if, but how #China will retaliate? Will they hit #Tesla, #Apple or other successful US firms in China? Or just sell it even cheaper elsewhere?

https://fortune.com/europe/2024/05/15/stellantis-boss-carlos-tavares-biden-100-tariff-chinese-evs-selling-21000-models-europe-leapmotor/ 100% Tariff on Chinese EVs. Will it help the US market by keeping the price up for Americans? EV isn’t well adopted in the US, and trying to keep...
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Banning #Tiktok now is a great idea? Does it solve any real issues?

https://time.com/6952889/tiktok-ban-freedom-of-speech-essay/ https://www.benzinga.com/news/24/03/37763876/forced-sale-or-ban-on-tiktok-will-impact-apple-tesla-operations-in-china-says-top-analyst-gene-munst It’s not actually hard to imagine US banning Tiktok. They have been trying it for a few years and they are likely to get it done eventually. It’s...
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Famed photographer might be mistaking his #AI predictable style as copyright or IP. Maybe all names should be unique trademarks? I just typed “snow leopard portrait by a famous animals photographer” and got similar results

https://petapixel.com/2024/01/24/famed-photographer-shows-how-easy-it-is-to-recreate-his-photos-with-ai/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_content=topic%2Fartificialintelligence AI models have no idea who this guy is. But somehow his style of work is just so predictable. What’s if he had a much wider portfolio? Of all...
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