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That is client dependent. On rtorrent, there is a separate "off" setting for the speed throttle that means "no throttle" with the result that "zero" actually means "no uploading".

With ublock origin, none of that appears on the site.

> I fail to see the logic of how "other countries" pay the US when the tariffs are paid by the importer and not the other country which is exporting.

The "logic" is/was that this was a lie directed at his "low information supporters" who tend to simply "believe" whatever he tells them without question. Those same supporters would have been very much against having a "tax increase" levied upon them, but so long as he lied to them and told them "the other country pays the tariffs" then they were fooled into not understanding the tariffs were just a tax increase and so were "in support" of the tariffs.

That was the sole logic -- although there have been times when I've seen news blurbs that have made me wonder whether Trump himself actually believes his own lie about "other countries pay us" in regards to tariffs.


Much of that was his lie that "other countries pay the tariffs" that, somehow, a huge number of his supporters swallowed completely.

If the amounts are under the limit you might sue the company who cut those invoices in small claims court for the amounts of the tariff line items on the invoices.

The invoices give you slam dunk evidence that you paid that amount in tariffs, and the supreme court decision says the payment was illegally collected, so seems like an easy win for you.


Paywalled.

Probably unintended but this is a great pun.

Humorously, this fits the topic quite well

Because enough readers upvoted it to cause it to appear there.

Any ideas on that mystery, then? Since you’ve got your finger on the pulse around here.

There's no mystery. The way any story makes the front page is enough users upvote it from the "new" page for it to appear there.

So the answer to the question of "how did it make it there" is exactly what I said, enough upvoted it that it made it to the front page.

As to "why" those folks upvoted it, well, on that I have no idea.


No I already knew you have no idea, that’s no mystery.

16 points in 2 hours?

What can I say, I'm a Billy simp, there's one just behind me as I'm writing this comment and for about a year now I've been forcing myself to buy a new one to put it on the right-side of my current desk (sometimes I'm too lazy for my own good, as in this case). So just seeing Billy in the title and as the actual subject of the blog-post made me upvote the submission, apparently I'm not alone in this.

You <-----> The Point.

If you know where some of them are, you can add the data yourself: https://mapcomplete.org/surveillance

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Maybe you could reach out to Flock directly and ask them to install cameras in your kitchen and bedroom too (for crime reduction reasons).

Enforcement is one way to reduce crime. Another way is to reduce poverty. Which will we choose? One road leads to South Africa. The other, Denmark.

These cameras aren't even enforcement, just surveillance.

I think we all know even with the best technology in the world the police aren't gonna get off their lazy asses if your car gets stolen. This is just a way to burn money.


Can you elaborate upon the kinds of crime reduction that these systems provide?

Isn't it obvious?

> License plate is reported to police associated with a crime.

> Cop looks up plate number

> Flock Camera shows general status and location of that license plate.

> Cops find the car involved with the crime, preventing further criminality.


So they're useless for crimes not involving a reported license plate? Sounds like a pretty worthless marginal gain. The Chinese have done it better since their mass surveillance apparatus isn't contingent on reported license plates, or even the involvement of a vehicle. Start a fight on the street and they'll find you. Is America really this incompetent that they can't match a 10+ year old system?

No, that's just one of the things you can search on.

So what you're saying is that I can report your[1] car as being associated with a crime, and the police will show up wherever you and/or your car is and treat you like a criminal?

I love this for you!

[1] the literal you, as well as the figurative


No, the comment is not saying that. You appear to have invented it.

If you think there's something wrong with my interpretation, then please explain what that is to me. I'm not seeing a problem with it.

(I may, in fact, be an idiot. Help me out here.)


Sure, you made up a bunch of things the comment doesn't say, and then said "so you're saying?". No, they are not saying.

You're just as [un]qualified to interpret the intent of the comment that I replied to as I am myself, comrade.

Neither of us wrote it.


We're policing future crime now?

I think they made a movie about that.


Yes. States are allowed to ignore "summer time" and remain on "standard time" all year round. Arizona is the usual example cited, they do not change the clocks, and remain on standard time year round.

The special auth. from the Fed's is needed to switch to "permanent summer time" (and, possibly advocating for year round "summer time" gives the state politicians cover to do nothing, because "their hands are tied...").


> Oh well, I am in the minority it seems.

Given it one winter season across the solstice and I'd bet a lot of your fellow residents will come around to your viewpoint.


I'm really curious how people will feel about it after experiencing a year of continuous PDT. I expect I'll personally like it, but the polling will be interesting for sure.

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