Here's a list of the actual ships coming in, yes lower the first week of May, but then only down 12% next week, then up 56% (YES 56%! All YOY) the week after (May 18 -24).
Just in case you don't speak native shipping schedules, a deal is almost made with China and so normal shipments are already scheduled in, plus extra to account for the slow weeks.
In case you couldn't follow that, no empty shelves.
It seems like BASIC outlived Pascal. I haven't seen it in use in forever.
"Delphi is a general-purpose programming language and a software product that uses the Delphi dialect of the Object Pascal programming language and provides an integrated development environment (IDE) for rapid application development of desktop, mobile, web, and console software,[3] currently developed and maintained by Embarcadero Technologies.
Delphi's compilers generate native code for Microsoft Windows, macOS, iOS, Android and Linux (x64).[4][5][6]
Delphi was originally developed by Borland as a rapid application development tool for Windows as the successor of Turbo Pascal"
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And there is open source Free Pascal too.
"Free Pascal is a mature, versatile, open source Pascal compiler. It can target many processor architectures: Intel x86 (16 and 32 bit), AMD64/x86-64, PowerPC, PowerPC64, SPARC, SPARC64, ARM, AArch64, MIPS, Motorola 68k, AVR, and the JVM. Supported operating systems include Windows (16/32/64 bit, CE, and native NT), Linux, Mac OS X/iOS/iPhoneSimulator/Darwin, FreeBSD and other BSD flavors, DOS (16 bit, or 32 bit DPMI), OS/2, AIX, Android, Haiku, Nintendo GBA/DS/Wii, AmigaOS, MorphOS, AROS, Atari TOS, and various embedded platforms. Additionally, support for RISC-V (32/64), Xtensa, and Z80 architectures, and for the LLVM compiler infrastructure is available in the development version. Additionally, the Free Pascal team maintains a transpiler for pascal to Javascript called pas2js."
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How many second hand fentanyl deaths have been reported? Because secondhand smoke is estimated at about 48k,
Second hand smoke is observable and also known to be dangerous. You are still conflating two very different things.
It seems like you have latched on to one single issue
You mean I noticed that the fentanyl problem and the cigarette problem are two very different things.
Which part of my "fraudulent straw man" was wrong?
The conflation of cigarettes and fentanyl. Many fentanyl deaths are due to something being unknowingly laced with fentanyl. Ingesting fentanyl is not necessary a willingly taken risk.
Or that you are willing to do it in fidelity to an orange man?
Noting that fentanyl is a genuine crisis is not fidelity to anything other than reality.
I mean sure we can say that but the President disagrees and he has one more than one occasion justified his targeting specifically of Canada and Mexico (who we have/had free trade agreements with, from Trumps first term) because of fentanyl so, not presented as separate.
I believe you are conflating his "universal" 10% tariff, his retaliatory tariffs based on Canadian tariffs or trade policies, and his retaliatory tariffs based on fentanyl. Maybe the fentanyl one is better characterized as border security, including illegal migration as well. The point is there are different families of tariffs.
Do you have anything else?
Garbage in, garbage out. Who knows what you fed ChatGPT. The fact remains I never used the term "gold digger". It is an exaggeration, a twisting of what I actually wrote.
For all we know ChstGPT may have read in between the lines and saw things that were not there just as you did. In other words hallucinated. ChatGPT admits it hallucinates about 40% of the time.
"ChatGPT's hallucination rate varies depending on the specific model and the type of query. While newer models like GPT-4.5 show improvement, they still exhibit hallucinations. For instance, GPT-4.5 had a 37.1% hallucination rate on a SimpleQA test, while a previous study found that 40% of ChatGPT 3.5's cited references were hallucinated. "
It probably gets worse interpreting a subjective conversation.
In case you didn't have your training materials handy I asked ChatGPT what a "straw man" was.
"A "straw man" is a type of logical fallacy where someone misrepresents or oversimplifies another person's argument in order to make it easier to attack or refute. Instead of addressing the actual argument, they attack a distorted version of it—like setting up a flimsy straw figure just to knock it down."
The "gold digger" argument was a straw man.
The term was not misapplied. The "gold digger" argument was not something I claimed, it was a misrepresentation, a twisting. Does this Oxford definition differ from your training material?
A copy and paste into ChatGPT resulted in commentary that ended with this summary:
You came across as
drnb came across as
Interesting trivia. In case you didn't have your training materials handy I asked ChatGPT what a "straw man" was.
"A "straw man" is a type of logical fallacy where someone misrepresents or oversimplifies another person's argument in order to make it easier to attack or refute. Instead of addressing the actual argument, they attack a distorted version of it—like setting up a flimsy straw figure just to knock it down."
The "gold digger" argument was a straw man.
Why would there be more problems? Depends what the various costs and ratios are. But it could be better for them to relocate in order to serve US customers.
Say their components are from China and hit with a 125% tariff into the US, and half their costs are components, and they markup 100%. Tariffs on EU->US are 25%. Tariffs on China->EU are 2.5% (the current rate for "electrical machinery and electronic equipment").
Check out Adafruit's website. They are typically selling components, not so much finished goods. So what you described is sort of what some Chinese companies already tried with Vietnam. Ship from Vietnam to avoid tariffs. That's not working. Vietnam is cracking down on that to avoid becoming a target for addition US sanctions.
The individual negotiations are with nations, not companies
Fair enough, but that leaves the bulk of the work up to companies to find ways to source many of their hundreds or thousands of parts from nations that negotiated better deals. That would be a ton of work, and again it's just easier to keep manufacturing overseas, keep the same supply chain and logistics, and pay the tariffs.
I'm not sure how things are any different. A company asks for bids. Companies in different countries submit bids. Or for commodity parts like those little screws, there are middlemen who supply such things. The suppliers can be asked to provide current tariff charges, assuming they don't do so already.
Not a problem. Have a fixed price tariff in such cases, say $200 per device.
That would be one hell of a tariff for cheap, non-Apple devices. Or would this only target Apple?
Make it whatever dollar amount accomplished the goal best. The point is it does not have to be a percentage.That engineered profits can be worked around.
In reality, at least in Apple's case, what they are fervently working on is shifting manufacturing to India and Vietnam
Yes, neither of which are in the U.S., thereby defeating the alleged purpose of the tariffs.
Nope. The purpose of a Chinese specific tariff is to end Chinese specific abuse. If India or Vietnam are not committing any similar abuse there is no need for a tariff. If they are, then we could have yet another nation specific tariff. The point is, retaliatory tariffs are a tool to combat nation specific abuse.
And if they do it will not resemble 1960s era manufacturing. It will be highly automated, yet that is still an improvement and beneficial. The US auto parts supply chain and assembly is highly automated, nothing like the 1960s, yet it is still beneficial.
If they're not going to create many U.S. jobs, then why is Trump introducing so much pain with these tariffs?
Apple, NViidia, TSMC, etc are saying they are going to create facilities in the US. That doesn't necessarily mean iPhones. The notion that everything has to be made in the US is not what Trump is talking about. That just a false straw man.
I would highly prefer U.S. telecommunications infrastructure and government equipment to be designed and manufactured in the U.S., but so far the tariffs don't seem to place them on any higher level of priority.
Tariffs are just one tool. Trump has prohibited US companies from trading with some sketchy foreign companies.
Which again goes back to my point about parts needing to be imported and thus being subject to tariffs.
A tariff on the small screws used in an iPhone will probably not result in a recognizable difference in an iPhone cost.
The tariffs from Trump's first term are in an absolutely different league from the tariffs of this term. It's the type of shit you can only get away with when you don't have to run for office again.
Actually Trump's use of tariffs is pretty much the same in both terms. They are largely a negotiating tool. Its his crude way of doing things.
When I was in school I would sell my essays to underclassmen who would then rewrite it in their voice and likely sell it to another student after they were done with the class. This is just technology removing that economy. The bots are taking the jobs of poor college students.
I graded essays (and other assignments) when I was a grad student. It wasn't hard to find assignments written by people like you and your co-conspirators.
When I encountered such assignments (that were eerily similar but with different word-choices) I would distribute the grade evenly amongst the similar assignments. So, if there were two such essays worth 80 out of 100, each copy would get 40.
This. Above all, college teaches you how to learn. Because you're going to be doing it for the rest of your life.
The individual negotiations are with nations, not companies
Fair enough, but that leaves the bulk of the work up to companies to find ways to source many of their hundreds or thousands of parts from nations that negotiated better deals. That would be a ton of work, and again it's just easier to keep manufacturing overseas, keep the same supply chain and logistics, and pay the tariffs.
The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing. - Edmund Burke
