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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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Tech Startup Tips

Launching a tech startup is an exhilarating journey filled with both opportunity and uncertainty. While no two startups are the same, there are foundational principles that can significantly impact your...
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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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Mac Studio M3 Ultra 512GB is Apple AI play, and selling like hot cakes

https://www.macrumors.com/2025/03/12/mac-studio-with-512gb-ram-delivery-delayhttps://www.reddit.com/r/LocalLLaMA/comments/1j8r2nr/m3_ultra_512gb_does_18ts_with_deepseek_r1_671b_q4/https://x.com/alexocheema/status/1899735281781411907 Whoever says Apple is not focused on AI, you are wrong. Mac Studio M3 Ultra 512GB is the proof of that. A big leap from maximum 196GB RAM of...
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Does it matter if Grok 3 is the best, or not?

https://africa.businessinsider.com/news/elon-musks-grok-3-model-impresses-but-early-reactions-suggest-openai-remains-ahead/https://www.windowscentral.com/software-apps/elon-musk-promised-grok-3-would-be-the-smartest-ai-ever-spoiler-alert-it-wasnthttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E_-EjgX40O4 Grok 3 is out. Elon and his xAI team is claiming that it beats GPT-4o and all other models out there, including an impressive win in Chatbot Arena. But...
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C1 is a milestone for Apple, might hurt Qualcomm, but that’s not the real fight

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-12-06/apple-s-three-year-modem-road-map-company-plans-to-beat-qualcomm-by-2027https://www.androidcentral.com/phones/apples-c1-modem-in-the-iphone-16e-is-proof-that-we-dont-need-qualcomm-for-5ghttps://www.reuters.com/technology/apple-reveals-first-custom-modem-chip-shifting-away-qualcomm-2025-02-19/ Apple isn’t the first one to make their own 5G modems, in fact they are late to the game. Samsung and Huawei both have their own modem chips. Other...
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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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