As an American, I regret to inform you that you're trying to use logic to understand a situation where it seems like logic wasn't used (in terms of the economic impact). These are the same fuckwits that tried to claim a trade deficit is the same as a tariff.
I am unsure why anyone would want to change the trade imbalance when you are arguably the richest country on earth. You have a trade imbalance because you are rich and can buy everything you want.
Nobody in onshoring manufacturing with this level of instability in the finances of this country at this time. Trump changes his mind too often to build billions of dollars worth of factories.
The budget deficit is not the trade deficit. You are not taking on debt when you purchase a foreign good, just like you as an individual don't take on debt when you go to Walmart and exchange money for goods but Walmart doesn't buy anything from you.
The US domestic economy is vastly larger than its foreign trade (which is only 20% of America's GDP), so you can in fact run a persistent trade deficit and a budget surplus at the same time, which the US actually did for a while during the 90s and early 2000s. We need to teach more economics honestly.
Sure, but pointing a financial gun at the heads of your creditors will cause them to immediately cease giving you further loans and start selling off the debt they already hold.
This isn’t some analogy.
This is precisely what just happened!
The bond market imploded and less stupid people forced Trump to backpedal.
He’s a child playing with many-trillion-dollar matters. I wouldn’t trust Trump to split a dinner cheque.
You are assuming manufacturing trade as only income. Services export and IP export are other where USA leads. When Apple sells iPhone in India and China, it gets to bring back the profits to the USA. Same goes for EU paying for Netflix and Disney movies and Google services. Same for McDonalds, Starbucks, Coca Cola and Pepsi. Collectively, US companies make 100s of billions of profits from outside USA. Another perk is being the reserve currency, you print bonds for free, get clothes/toys for that and rest of the world is just holding onto that IOU. Again, trillions of dollars.
Are you confusing the budget deficit with the trade deficit? Is that what all this is about?
I spend far more on restaurants, household services, and vehicle maintenance than those companies pay me. I have a massive trade imbalance with those companies.
But that has nothing to do with whether my household budget is balanced.
Do people really think that making goods more expensive for consumers will somehow produce the funds to support even greater tax cuts for billionaires?
> I spend far more on restaurants, household services, and vehicle maintenance than those companies pay me. I have a massive trade imbalance with those companies.
And if, for example, a sales tax was increased this would motivate you to buy less services, make food at home and learn how to fix your car.
Sure. But at the cost of the time that I currently use to do other things.
Are you moving the argument from conflating budget and trade deficits to saying the United States’ multi-century economic focus on consumer spending is a mistake, and we need to shift to a savings-focused economy like China used to be? I also think that’s wrong, but it has nothing at all to do with the federal government’s budget deficit.
Or are you under the mistaken impression that trade income is the only income the country has?
I'm waiting for the AI apologists to swarm on this post explaining how these are just the results of poorly written prompts, because AI could not make mistakes with proper prompts. Been seeing an increase of this recently on AI-critical content, and it's exhausting.
Sure, with well written prompts you can have some success using AI assistants for things, but also with well-written non-ambiguous prompts you can inexplicably end up with absolute garbage.
Until things become consistent, this sort of generative AI is more akin to a party trick than being able to replace or even supplement junior engineers.
As an "AI apologist", sorry to disappoint but the answer here isn't better prompting: it's code review.
If an LLM spits out code that uses a dependency you aren't familiar with, it's your job to review that dependency before you install it. My lowest effort version of this is to check that it's got a credible commit and release history and evidence that many other people are using it already.
Same as if some stranger opens a PR against your project introducing a new-to-you dependency.
If you don't have the discipline to do good code review, you shouldn't be using AI-assisted programming outside of safe sandbox environments.
(Understanding "safe sandbox environment" is a separate big challenge!)
Haha. That sounds like something Sonnet 3.6 would do, it learned to cheat that way and it's an absolute pain in the ass to make it produce longer outputs.
Maybe it's just me, but it was a bit of a disappointing read when the author decided not to provide any details about what's replacing it. Would have loved to hear a bit more about the decision to move.
Although, considering the author mentioned a loan with a partner maybe they were trying to rebuild it in Google Docs or something so they could more-easily see it together.
The 11,000 may be limited by the suspension system.
So in terms of comparisons I don't think you're wrong, but it might be better to compare it to the F-150 Lightning for more of an apples to apples comparison. The F-150 Lightning Platinum vs Cybetruck AWD is probably the most fair comparison in terms of specs, but the CT is ~$20,000 cheaper
If we compare the F-150 Lightning Lariat with XR Battery to the Cybertruck AWD, because of price:
F-150:
Range: 320mi
Towing: 7,700lbs
Curb Weight: 6,361lbs
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CT:
Range: 340mi
Towing: 11,000lbs
Curb Weight: 6,603lbs
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F-150 Lighting Platinum to CT Cyberbeast, because of price:
I considered the Lightning and I really wanted to like it, but for a truck, I’d still rather have a diesel. I have a 36 gal tank, I can tow 20k+lbs, and I can beat the hell out of it and get it fixed anywhere.
I would love a PHEV truck though. Give me a 30 mile range for just driving it around unloaded and I’ll happily go into diesel mode whenever I have to do real work.
A different comparison would be the following (from the manufacturers sites)
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Ford Lightning Pro: $50K
240 Mile EPA-Est. Range – Standard-Range Battery and RWD171
0-60 MPH in 4.1 seconds - Standard Range Battery\*
Wireless Integration with Apple CarPlay® and Android Auto™
12-inch Touchscreen
Mega Power Frunk
CT Rear-Wheel Drive: $61k
Available in 2025
250 MI. Range (EST.)
6.5 sec. 0-60 mph
very similar ranges and specs, but and CT is 10k more. Also, ships in 2 years.
Interior of a F-150 Platinum is way nicer than anything Tesla has ever made and that's where nearly all the $20,000 goes to (along with Ford's nice margin for a luxury truck).
Trim-to-trim equivalency hard to get since Tesla interiors are so spartan and each company is putting their money in difference places, but it's probably Lariat. Lariat big battery comes to about 76K compared to the true purchase price of 100K for cyberbeast.
It's extremely risky to use MFA via text messages, due to the commonality of SIM swap attacks. Attacker calls your cell phone provider, executes a social engineering attack to authenticate as you, and can now route your phone calls and text messages to a device they own. It's a good idea to avoid SMS/Phone MFA.
If you use a token generator (Google Authenticator, Authy, or the one built into products like 1Password), a shared secret key is used to generate the MFA token. You store this secret in that software, and it uses the current time + that secret key to generate the MFA token.
This is a far better mechanism than the SMS or phone call based approach. And in this mechanism you can store the secret in any software that's able to generate the token using that algorithm.
So as I mentioned in another comment, it's not entirely security theater. If the site enforces that an MFA token is truly one time use, then this can prevent replay attacks of your credentials being used to create a new session.
If someone compromised your password store, then yeah it's all over. But if the compromise happens elsewhere, it can be a useful layer to the security onion.
>I have my password manager and can login with 1 click to all my sites. 2FA is always a pain in the ass and always extra effort on something my password manager already protects me from.
So I think there are a few potential issues with this argument based on assumptions you're making. I'd argue this isn't entirely true because:
1. Many password managers allow you to manually copy the password into your clipboard, which mean you could paste it somewhere that's unsafe / untrusted. Someone could then use this password to authenticate as you. Many sites disallow token reuse, so once used if you accidentally pasted that somewhere as well an attacker couldn't reuse the token.
2. Similarly, if someone has managed to exfiltrate login details you provide without being able to also obtain the session cookie sent back, and the site enforces one time use of MFA tokens, then the MFA token can also avoid a replay attack of your login details.
I'll admit the second one may be a bit contrived, because if they can exfiltrate login details it seems likely they could also just obtain the session cookie. But if said cookie is tied to a certain IP address, then that cookie is useless to them and they wouldn't be able to replay the credentials.
Disregarding the other replies for a moment where they rightfully call out that it wouldn't be radar, wouldn't they still need a publicly available API for this data if they wanted to access it outside of their house (e.g., when at the park)? So at that point, why add the additional complexity if there's already someone sharing ADS-B data to OpenSky for your area?
I have an Android phone with an OTG cable and SDR Touch and ADSB# - that lets me "see" any plane transmitting ADSB signals around me without any need for a network connection.
(I use that as part of my safety setup when flying drones. If I'm out of cellular connection or my iPad running FlightRadar24 fails, I have a backup self contained plane detection system.)
