38 points ·
How about we charge them $62B to keep NORAD running?
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- Trump says Canada would pay $61B for Golden Dome, but zero as ’51st state’ · 253 points · 59 comments
- Canadian wins 100-km ultramarathon while stopping to breastfeed her baby along the way · 192 points · 9 comments
- The U.S.-U.K. deal shows the trade war is here to stay · 34 points · 1 comments
- Trump’s massive ‘reciprocal’ tariffs upend global trade · 163 points · 18 comments
- Trump says EU must buy $350B of US energy to get tariff relief · 414 points · 134 comments
- Paris Games gender row was product of Russian fake news campaign, IOC's Bach says · 240 points · 13 comments
- Paris Games gender row was product of Russian fake news campaign, IOC's Bach says · 240 points · 13 comments
Comments
11 points ·
This has to be more than just an ultramarathon, because 17 hours for a winner is a long time. A normal marathon is 42km, and takes 3 or so hours for a winner.
Given that this was in Snowdonia, it looks like it was some kind of grueling trail race up a mountain.
5 points ·
there will be serious sand in the gears of global commerce for the foreseeable future.
Or will there? Certainly, serious issues for US trade, but the rest of us can trade with each other just fine. We're already seeing that start to happen.
0 points ·
That number is supposed to be how much of the tariff that the exporter passes through to the importer. Essentially this is a measure of how much the producers lower their profits to lower the price to compensate for the tariffs. In other words how much the producer "pays for" the tariffs.
This factor is "backwards", in that it doesn't represent how much the producer swallows, but how much they pass on to the importer. Trump's calculations assume that the producer only passes on 25% of the tariff price increase, but the experts say the number should be much closer to 95%.
I have to idea what "4" means.
6 points ·
I'm not no sure. 90%+ of these services are commodities and nobody gives a damn who the provider is from a technical perspective. There's no physical component, so it's literally a matter of signing a contract, spinning up a server/service, move the data and point everything to the new service.
And yeah, there are technical issues that come up, and nothing is ever that easy. But think about how fast many, many companies were able to sort that kind stuff out when the had to when COVID hit.
And that's the thing. Cloud service disruption can be an existential crisis, so why would you leave it in the hands of a hostile foreign power?
10 points ·
It's a close call, but I think the IOC just edges out FIFA in overall corruptness.
20 points ·
I got confused about which side not to believe when one of the most corrupt governments on the planet starts mucking with one of the most corrupt organizations on the planet.