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
I think he meant export taxes or export duties.
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blktiger commented on I Never Cared Much for Swords. Then I Had to Fight with One thewalrus.ca/i-never-care... · Posted by u/pseudolus
If you want to try sword fighting there are a bunch of ways to do it.
HEMA people are generally very welcoming and probably slightly mad. quite expensive to get into, but great fun.
Fencing is more common, but start out with epee, foil is a big weird as you have right of way, its a training system and it shows, its harder to learn and not as fun. Sabre is for people who like shouting lots, more one hit wonder.
For the eastern styles:
A good Aikido class should start out with weapons, you wont be going full speed as even with wooden sticks, stuff gets dangerous pretty quick.
Korean sword work is going through somewhat of a renaissance, I don't know that much about it though.
If you're doing eastern style sword work, don't be tempted to get a metal sword, you'll never be able to train with it, and they are almost always poor quality. (unless you know what you're doing)
I enjoy Foil _because_ of right of way, it encourages blade work, movement and technique. Without right of way Epee is quite boring to watch because the fencers spend so much time trying to figure out how to hit their opponent without being hit themselves, but the lack of rules makes it easy to learn. Saber kind of has the opposite problem in that it's so fast it's hard to watch and there is very little extended blade work. To each their own though.
This is exactly why I am a huge fan of ember.js
Unfortunatelly it fell behind in popularity mostly due to some unimportant reasons (eg not being able to render 1M rows faster than react) and some important ones (load times), but boy did they build a stable ecosystem! I haven't seen such a commitment to stability and guardrail upgrades to this day on any other piece of front end library.
Ember is one of those frameworks that isn't as "flashy" as the latest and greatest javascript frameworks, but it just keeps quietly working and adopting new techniques from the more popular frameworks on a consistent and easy to follow schedule. They even make upgrading to the latest way of doing things relatively painless by providing scripts to automate many upgrades for you.
> 1. Before removing a feature in a major version, it lands as a deprecation in the previous major. A deprecation is only enabled by default once we have a clearly documented migration strategy that covers the use-cases of the old feature.
> 2. When we ship a new major, the only thing it does it flip deprecations targeting that new major into errors.
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blktiger commented on Boom XB-1 First Supersonic Flight [video] youtube.com/watch?v=-qisI... · Posted by u/rayhaanj
I didn't see any data on the loudness of the sonic boom. Isn't an important part of the idea here to diminish that significantly?
I think you are confusing Boom with NASA’s QUESST project. https://www.nasa.gov/mission/quesst/
blktiger commented on Finland's zero homeless strategy (2021) oecdecoscope.blog/2021/12... · Posted by u/zdw
The housing situation in Canada is insane and is so obviously due to not building enough housing and bringing too many people into the country via immigration. The fact that it costs 1200$/month for a room in a rural area is incredibly damning.
I went to college in Ottawa, and now I live in Austin Texas. It's similar in size, although Austin has been growing more lately. Curiously, they are also both capitols, college towns and they have a river flowing through them.
A major difference is that Austin has a new development with 200-400 unites on every block it seems. Cranes are everywhere downtown, and even in random neighborhoods they have huge new developments. Ottawa has no shortage of land, there's a huge amount of available land to develop in either direction, but they evidently aren't building nearly as much.
The result? I'm looking at 2 bedroom apartments, and they are 1000$ cheaper than they were 3 years ago when I first moved here. Rent has gone down and continues to go down. I'm seeing studio apartments in the middle of the city renting out for 800$ now!
At least some of the difference is that building codes can be a lot more lax in Texas as compared to Canada. It rarely gets as cold, and certainly not for as long.
blktiger commented on Remember That DNA You Gave 23andMe? theatlantic.com/health/ar... · Posted by u/_Microft
23andMe being a Google spin-off I wouldn't be surprised if they do a full sequencing regardless of whether you pay for it or not. At the very least I would expect them to store the samples indefinitely so they can do it once it's economically viable.
As I understand it, full sequencing is a _lot_ more expensive. 23 and me currently shows the genotyping is like $100 while sequencing is $1000. It’s probably too expensive and time consuming for them to sequence everybody’s samples unless they pay for it.
I'm not sure what "SF" means in this context. San Francisco? I can't figure out what you want to say Google Code was for exactly. If Google launches a major project, I find it hard to believe that it's just for fun.
It’s short for Source Forge which is still around technically but a shadow of its former self.
blktiger commented on iPhones will soon be able to stream live video on 911 calls theverge.com/2024/7/24/24... · Posted by u/thunderbong
How much bullshit is there and how often are there consequences for this?
I don’t often read about anyone actually being fined for wrong, unnecessary or petty emergency calls
Local news the other day: a couple in their 60s forgot where they placed their parking ticket and called police which then came by and ordered the attendant to let them drive out for free. No consequences
Did they call the police or 911? There is a big difference between the two.
blktiger commented on M3 Macs: there's more to performance than counting cores eclecticlight.co/2023/11/... · Posted by u/ingve
It's a mixture of several problems:
* TSMC N3B being a bit of a flop (yield issues, too expensive)
* Brain drain from Apple's chip design teams over the last few years
* Tim Cook trying to push the average selling price up to keep revenue growth going in the face of sales declines (e.g. hobbling memory bandwidth, reducing the number of performance cores for M3 Pro)
I don't expect there to be a M1 style generational leap for a long time, expect 2010s Intel style yearly performance gains from here on out.
Weren't all of the new M3 Macs announced the same price as they previously were or lower? Same with the recently announced iPhones? Or am I mis-remembering? Seems like prices not increasing given all the recent inflation are actually a price decrease pretty much across the board not an increase on the average selling price?
Those numbers look scary at first sight, by that doesn't seem like a particularly fast rate of decline I think? IANAP, but a normal fight gets to a cruising altitude of ~35k feet in ~ 10 minutes from ground level I think? So this was not some meteoric plummet.
That being said, obviously there was some serious safety issue, so kudos to the pilot for quickly and safely securing the aircraft
It's pretty fast, but pretty well required because once you lose pressurization you want to get down to a normal pressure level quickly as staying at a high altitude is not particularly comfortable and everyone in the aircraft needs to have supplemental oxygen until you get under 10,000 feet. If anyone doesn't get a mask on they could be in trouble due to lack of oxygen.