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downrightmike commented on Six months into tariffs, businesses have no idea how to price anything   wsj.com/business/retail/t... · Posted by u/JumpCrisscross
jonplackett · 10 hours ago
Don’t really buy this logic.

If you want companies to invest in your country, the tariff has to make doing so make financial sense, and for the long term.

A lot of these tariffs are going on things that would require a whole factory to be built in the USA which doesn’t currently exist at all, and has no supporting infrastructure or workforce.

Companies can’t just decide right now, “oh shit there’s a tariff. Better but it in the USA right away!”

downrightmike · 9 hours ago
Probably some of the uncertainty, and the fact that these tariffs are illegal, so they wouldn't stand long
downrightmike commented on Six months into tariffs, businesses have no idea how to price anything   wsj.com/business/retail/t... · Posted by u/JumpCrisscross
CorrectHorseBat · 10 hours ago
It's not proper use, it's archaic use. Do you also claim bread is meat? A cat is a deer?
downrightmike · 9 hours ago
I split the hair where chickens were men
downrightmike commented on Six months into tariffs, businesses have no idea how to price anything   wsj.com/business/retail/t... · Posted by u/JumpCrisscross
sirnonw · 10 hours ago
Funny how there is a post-it with a password glued to the screen of the computer in the lede image, now in plain sight for thousands of readers.
downrightmike · 10 hours ago
My guess: Ccjacs 2004

Odds are it hasn't been updated for 20+ years

downrightmike commented on There Goes the American Muscle Car   thedispatch.com/article/d... · Posted by u/pluripote
Animats · 2 days ago
Classic muscle cars are obsolete. Most cars today have 0-60 times a 1970s Dodge Challenger could only dream of.[1] Plus, they can now go around corners.

Here's an old movie: "Hot Rod Girl" (1956) [2] The opening scenes are of a real drag strip in Southern California. Technical advice from the San Fernando Drag Strip and the National Hot Rod Association. Accelerations are so low that those things would be obstructing traffic on a freeway onramp today.

[1] https://www.0-60specs.com/dodge/challenger-0-60-times

[2] https://archive.org/details/hot_rod_girl_1956

downrightmike · 2 days ago
You can still have one today, but its a Sunday driver for sure
downrightmike commented on AI adoption linked to 13% decline in jobs for young U.S. workers: study   cnbc.com/2025/08/28/gener... · Posted by u/pseudolus
tonymet · 2 days ago
I see a worrisome trend. On one hand, many of my proto-boomer friends are suffering from age-ism , and memes claim that over-50-year-olds are unemployable. Not 100% fidelity, but there's some truth.

Then I hear about a lot of youngsters struggling to find work, and see articles like this.

Well, who's left? Is there a sweet spot at like 31 that are just cleaning up?

downrightmike · 2 days ago
31 would line up with the post house bubble boom recovery
downrightmike commented on AI adoption linked to 13% decline in jobs for young U.S. workers: study   cnbc.com/2025/08/28/gener... · Posted by u/pseudolus
ArtTimeInvestor · 3 days ago
Every day when I am out in the city, I am amazed by how many jobs we have NOT managed to replace with AI yet.

For example, cashiers. There are still many people spending their lives dragging items over a scanner, reading a number from a screen, holding out their hand for the customer to put money in, and then sorting the coins into boxes.

How hard can it be to automate that?

downrightmike · 2 days ago
Amazon could not do it. They claimed they could, but it was just indians watching the video and tabulating totals overseas
downrightmike commented on AI adoption linked to 13% decline in jobs for young U.S. workers: study   cnbc.com/2025/08/28/gener... · Posted by u/pseudolus
JCM9 · 2 days ago
CEOs citing savings from AI should be able to show higher profits soon. The fact that they’re not means those tall tales are coming home to roost soon.
downrightmike · 2 days ago
Nah, its going to be like when everyone included "bitcoin" in their quarterly reports and the market goes nuts, until it stops

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downrightmike commented on US Intel   stratechery.com/2025/u-s-... · Posted by u/maguay
Panzer04 · 4 days ago
This is just doomerism.

Intel's current chips are "fine" and competitive with AMD chips. If anything, Intel is trying out more things than AMD is.

downrightmike · 2 days ago
"Throw shit at the wall and see what sticks", isn't a top tier business strategy, it is desperate though.

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