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ghufran_syed commented on Is 4chan the perfect Pirate Bay poster child to justify wider UK site-blocking?   torrentfreak.com/uk-govt-... · Posted by u/gloxkiqcza
sailorganymede · 8 days ago
Average Brit here - we do not like this and the way politics here has been so tumultuous has shown the general public are sick of this behaviour too.
ghufran_syed · 8 days ago
and yet they keep voting for blue labour or red labour…
ghufran_syed commented on Exit Tax: Leave Germany before your business gets big   eidel.io/exit-tax-leave-g... · Posted by u/olieidel
psychoslave · 25 days ago
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ghufran_syed · 25 days ago
Perhaps you would apply the same logic to a family car, or the clothing you bought? Should they tax the value of your medical degree when you leave the country?
ghufran_syed commented on Suspending Duty-Free De Minimis Treatment for All Countries   whitehouse.gov/presidenti... · Posted by u/jonbaer
intermerda · a month ago
> In Executive Order 14193 of February 1, 2025 (Imposing Duties To Address the Flow of Illicit Drugs Across Our Northern Border), I declared a national emergency regarding the unusual and extraordinary threat to the safety and security of Americans, including the public health crisis caused by fentanyl and other illicit drugs and the failure of Canada to do more to arrest, seize, detain, or otherwise intercept drug trafficking organizations, other drug and human traffickers, criminals at large, and illicit drugs

Yes, totally normal and not radical at all.

I really don't get why HN posters feel the need to polish a turd.

ghufran_syed · a month ago
could you maybe respond to the point made in the comment you are replying to? If it’s a good idea for all those other countries, why does the idea become a “turd” when america does it? is this some kind of “manifest destiny” (to be dumber than other countries)???
ghufran_syed commented on Suspending Duty-Free De Minimis Treatment for All Countries   whitehouse.gov/presidenti... · Posted by u/jonbaer
burnt-resistor · a month ago
> I do NOT expect an instant resurgence of manufacturing in the US.

It takes several years and lots of money. And investment ain't going to happen without both stability and demand. This merely allows domestic competitors to raise prices to encourage more inflation with a profit-price spiral. Aggregate demand will soften by virtue of increasing prices. Furthermore, trade deficits are stupid metrics to fixate on when fair value (cash and goods) flows in both directions. This is what happens when a stupid, ignorant person is surrounded by even more evil, greedier, manipulative advisors, anointed unitary executive, and allowed to legislate by fiat. (Trump isn't very dangerous or concerning by himself; it's the advisors plus the power given to him to rapidly rubber stamp special interest agendas that are concerning.)

ghufran_syed · a month ago
if it would give domestic manufacturers such great pricing power, then wouldn’t it also encourage foreign manufacturers to manufacture in the US to take advantage of that pricing power? Wouldn’t that be a good thing for the US? and as more manufacturers move to the US, wouldn’t that competition then tend to lower prices?

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ghufran_syed commented on Goodbye to All That – My Resignation from the FBI   lawfaremedia.org/article/... · Posted by u/ruph123
ghufran_syed · 2 months ago
So…they wanted him to take a polygraph interview regarding the nature of his relationship with Peter Strzok, and he resigned instead, did I understand that correctly?
ghufran_syed commented on Abrego Garcia Was Beaten and Tortured in El Salvador Prison, Lawyers Say   nytimes.com/2025/07/02/us... · Posted by u/perihelions
easyThrowaway · 2 months ago
As someone from outside US but who spent some time in LA can't really believe anyone ever took those "second amendment" guys at face value.

It was always the most obvious cover for "say or do something we don't like and we shot you". The current US administration policies were always their end game.

ghufran_syed · 2 months ago
why would this be the case? Taking the 2nd amendment argument to its logical conclusion, wouldn't the speaker also have a firearm?

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ghufran_syed commented on After months of coding with LLMs, I'm going back to using my brain   albertofortin.com/writing... · Posted by u/a7fort
infecto · 4 months ago
You say your stance isn’t all-or-nothing, but your original comment drew a pretty hard line, junior devs who start from scratch and have a high tolerance for bugs get 10x productivity, while experienced devs with high standards and mature setups will likely be slowed down. That framing is exactly the kind of binary thinking that’s making these conversations so unproductive.
ghufran_syed · 4 months ago
I wouldn’t classify this as binary thinking - isnt the comment you are replying just defining boundary conditions? Then those two points don’t define the entire space, but the output there does at least let us infer (but not prove) something about the nature of the “function” between those two points? Where the function f is something like f: experience -> productivity increase?

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