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  • Eric Trump demonstrates in 30 seconds he doesn’t have a clue how tariffs work

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  • The factory gets paid in step #1 (many can accept direct wire transfers or have Hong Kong/Singapore/ or even New York banks). Sometimes a deposit is made to start an order and the final amount is paid to release it from the factory after inspection.

    There are agents who can handle funds on your behalf and when you work with a new factory or it is a super large order, it is common to use a service that will escrow the funds until the goods have been inspected and released.

    Sometimes we even have our own staff monitor the assembly and packaging inside the factory to be sure the quality of parts we ordered are actually going into each piece. This is normal every day in Chinese factories, they know the game.

  • Eric Trump demonstrates in 30 seconds he doesn’t have a clue how tariffs work

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  • Here's how tariffs work (I import stuff from china)

    1. I find a Chinese manufacturer of widgets and negotiate with them. One of their first questions is, what incoterms do I require? I tell them EXW which makes their quotation the easiest to provide.

    EXW means that once the goods are ready, I'll send my shipping agent to go get them and bring them to me in my country.

    1. I call my agent and tell them to get the goods. They ask a lot of questions about the contents of the goods and figure out which HS code to use, which is a classification of what the goods are (such as bicycle tires, or unfinished lumber, or whatever).
    2. The agent prepares an assload of documentation for my shipment. They send a truck to the Chinese warehouse, get the stuff, load it into a container, take it to a shipyard. It's loaded, boat moves to the US, boat is then unloaded, and my container is put into an inspection queue.
    3. The shipping agent forwards the documents about my container, which has not been released, to US customs. US customers decides if they want to manually inspect it or not, and then issues an invoice for the taxes. My agent calls me and says Mr. Nucleative, your customs bill is $9,845.50.

    I pay them, they pay the US customs office. Customs releases my container.

    1. The truck is cleared to pick up my container and drive it to my warehouse.
    2. Now I unload and sell the goods to my customers.

    Did you notice in step #4 that I paid the import tariffs? Now my cost to get the goods to my customers went way up. My margins are pretty thin, so I can't do this business unless I charge my customers more or else I'm running a charity. Now, my customers have to pay me more. That money goes straight to the US government.

    Hypothetically now it's less unattractive to set up a factory in the USA, encouraging more local jobs. But damn, did you know we also need to import rubber, and metal, and machine parts, and cardboard for packaging, and all the other raw supplies either way? The local factories, if there are any, can probably not increase production to meet demand anyways, at least not in a month or two. Does anybody remember what happend when demand outstrips supply?

    There is no rocket science here, just people learning from the wrong people.

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  • The buyer of chrome could make bing the default search engine and re-enable whatever broke Ublock origin (the ad blocker)

    They could also cripple gapps and gmail a bit. It would also be harder for google to unilaterally develop new web standards.

    That would no doubt consternate a few at Google and knee cap them forcing web shit down our throats that only improves their ad business.

  • Bluesky hits 20 million users

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  • Me too but here's one useful function:

    Perhaps you are aware there is an ongoing event, say for example a football game, or an election, or an outage of your email service provider. You go to one of these "scream into the void" social sites, search on the topic, and learn what people are saying about it. Maybe someone knows what's really going on, maybe some of those people have some interesting insights and you engage with them, not unlike you and I are engaging right now. Others can observe, perhaps contribute, and after the event has concluded, everyone goes their own way. Hopefully in the end the interactions are beneficial for all.

  • Donald Trump Has NOT Won a Majority of the Votes Cast for President

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  • Those kind of things have to be done in every single district and costs millions of dollars. Unless there's a probable chance, it's probably better to save the cash and use it for something that could get results in the future

  • Apple's mouse is so bad that Tim Cook prefers using a different brand for work

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  • I think it can also be informative when staff is choosing the competition.

    If the business understands why those products are successful at solving whatever problem the staff is trying to solve, it may help management see either how they've misdefined the problem or screwed up the solution.

    Both are probably good - eat your own dogfood and the competitor's too, haha.

  • Asking the real questions

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  • There was only one, we're all still copying from him or her.

  • Another million users joined Bluesky today – could Bluesky spike spark end of X?

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  • Pretty embarrassing if you're Musk

  • Not my problem sort

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  • Where's this yhwh library, can I install it with pip? Seems like it could have potential for some of my projects.

  • Is Python's tooling incredibly difficult, or am I just stupid?

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  • I've never really spent much time with uv, I'll give it a try. It seems like it takes a few steps out of the process and some guesswork too.

  • Is Python's tooling incredibly difficult, or am I just stupid?

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  • Python developer here. Venv is good, venv is life. Every single project I create starts with

    python3 -m venv venv

    source venv/bin/activate

    pip3 install {everything I need}

    pip3 freeze > requirements.txt

    Now write code!

    Don't forget to update your requirements.txt using pip3 freeze again anytime you add a new library with pip.

    If you installed a lot of packages before starting to develop with virtual environments, some libraries will be in your OS python install and won't be reflected in pip freeze and won't get into your venv. This is the root of all evil. First of all, don't do that. Second, you can force libraries to install into your venv despite them also being in your system by installing like so:

    pip3 install --ignore-installed mypackage

    If you don't change between Linux and windows most libraries will just work between systems, but if you have problems on another system, just recreate the whole venv structure

    rm -rf venv (...make a new venv, activate it) pip3 install -r requirements.txt

    Once you get the hang of this you can make Python behave without a lot of hassle.

    This is a case where a strength can also be a weakness.

  • What features would you like added to Lemmy itself?

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  • Comment type taxonomy:

    -funny -informative -offtopic -redundant

    Etc

    Voters can select a category

    Now I can browse in serious mode, funny mode, etc

  • America's youngest voters become major election liars

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  • I really wonder how they get a representative sample these days. I haven't answered my phone for years and I'm surely not the only one.

    Do they only call, or do they send DMs on TikTok or what?

  • Microsoft fires employees who organized vigil for Palestinians killed in Gaza

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  • And if you work for a company that supports causes you don't agree with... Move on.

  • Feds Say You Don’t Have a Right to Check Out Retro Video Games Like Library Books

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  • I could lend out my old computer with old games installed to somebody else to use, right?

    What if instead i lend my hard drive, is it still the same thing? Or what if I lend out my remote access screen sharing password to my old PC. Still the same?

    Maybe the legal workaround is to game the system here a bit - forget downloading executables which feels a lot like pirating and just lend access to a system that is legally running the original license.

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  • You are correct. Later drives sometimes had a cable select dip switch/pin or different ports on the motherboard.

  • What's the most futuristic piece of tech you can buy for under $100?

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  • Kinda true, how this thing even worked, nobody knows

  • Trump's latest appearances are unhinged, profane, and yes, dangerous.

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  • Dear higher power:

    Please cause this guy to profoundly lose the election so there is absolutely no further attention given and the media networks can finally lay off the stories because all issues have become moot.

    Ramen.

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    Winamp deletes entire GitHub source code repo after a rocky few weeks

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  • Naturally