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  • Does the US charge tariffs on handbags from France?

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  • De minimis was suspended for all imports into US several weeks ago.

  • Does the US charge tariffs on handbags from France?

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  • It's more complicated:

    1. Tariff depends on the country of origin of the handbag - simplifying a bit where it was made, not where it was sent from. E.g. if it was made in Vietnam you are paying tariff for Vietnam even when buying from France.
    2. Country of origin has to be declared (and sometimes documented) by the seller. Not all of them know how to properly do that.
    3. You pay tariffs on full invoice, including shipping costs.
    4. If what you are buying is discounted and both full price and discount amount are on the invoice you might initially be forced to pay tariffs on full price and then fight customs to get a partial refund. This usually happens when the seller is sloppy when filing customs paperwork or just includes an invoice and has customs sort it out.
    5. There will be extra fees for customs brokerage. IDK what the current rates are with major courier companies, but I'd guess $30-60
    6. Once you go over $2500 shipment value it gets more complicated

    Source: handled customs for about 40 shipments from Canada and EU to Amazon warehouses in the USA.

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  • Act like she's gonna do it: get all the paperwork you might need to defend yourself and have extra copies (notarized if possible) deposited with friends and/or a lawyer.

    With that done seriously consider spilling the beans to remove that threat. Btw did you know IRS rewards whistleblowers 10-30% of any evaded taxes they recover and fines for that evasion? Sounds like a great way to fund a vacation...

  • If we are living in a simulation, do you think it is running a FOSS OS/software or a proprietary one?

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  • Given the quality of the simulation I think it's a vibe-coded prototype

  • Czechs agree to buy 44 Leopard tanks from Germany in a $1.6 billion deal

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  • Am I missing something? Korean K2 Black Panther tanks Poland bought were supposed to be the most expensive tanks at $8.5M a piece. This deal is almost 40M euro per tank

  • Trump denies he’s dead

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  • I want a second opinion

  • is there any legitimate use of blockchains?

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  • You can only guarantee the records have not been tampered with if you maintain a full copy of the records to compare. Even if you do have that full copy you will have a problem proving your copy is the correct one. A full crypto-verified ledger solves that.

    If you empower e.g. every change filer (court, notary public) to run a node fudging records becomes effectively impossible.

  • is there any legitimate use of blockchains?

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  • Updates lag 4-6 months after filing, so not 100% solved.

    also you can only guarantee the records have not been tampered with if you maintain a full copy of the records to compare. Even if you do have that full copy you will have a problem proving your copy is the correct one. A full crypto-verified ledger solves that.

    If you empower e.g. every change filer (court, notary public) to run a node fudging records becomes effectively impossible.

  • is there any legitimate use of blockchains?

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  • They already are in most countries. E.g. in Poland land registry is maintained by court system and any changes are made only as a result of court order or a filing made by a notary public, who has a real incentive to check all the documents, because they are on the hook financially for any false filings.

  • is there any legitimate use of blockchains?

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  • Anything that requires a public, immutable database. Land registry would be one example. Notary public for electronic documents would be another.

    You can leverage the majority consensus to create a trusted software build system. Each block would be a package build

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  • Cooking at home was the default for us even when we lived downtown with eating out / delivery accounting for at most 2-3 meals per month, even when we've first met in our early 20s. 20 years later we live outside of the delivery area of everything and we grow most of what we eat.

  • Tomato season, part 2

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  • Around 200 tomato plants, 75 in the greenhouse, the rest outside.

    From my perspective gardening is about constantly being behind and gracefully accepting some losses. I'm very lucky: I work remotely for a company 6 time zones away, so I get to work in the garden before starting work at 3pm. On top of that while I do the literal heavy lifting in the garden my wife is actually putting more time in than me. Despite all that and liberal use of weed barrier and some raised beds we are at best getting close to not being very behind on garden work. Turning half an acre of a meadow into a veggie garden wasn't just ambitious, it was borderline insane ;-)

  • Tomato season, part 2

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  • It's the opposite for me. Cherry tomatoes get tomato blight first and most kinds of heirlooms tend to be the most resilient.

    In the end all of them get blight, no matter what I do, even if I spray with fungicides multiple times. It's the reality of growing tomatoes in 6B zone - summer is short and as it gets colder during the nights the blight takes over. All I can hope for is to harvest as much as possible before that happens.

    At the same time tomatoes in warm and dry (thanks to drip irrigation) greenhouse will remain blight free - I'll be picking the last ones shortly before the first frost outside.

  • Tomato season, part 2

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  • If I manage to find some space in one of the freezers I'm going to freeze a bag to test it this winter - thanks for the suggestion!

    I'll be canning a lot of it as passatas (regular and roasted), pasta and pizza sauces, ketchup - the target this year is 300-350 0.9L (~30oz) jars.

  • Tomato season, part 2

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  • And some more

  • what are in you're top 3 favourite games of all time?

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  • Civilization (the OG dos version)

    Planetside 2

    Warframe

  • What are some assets that depreciate considerably once you purchase/obtain them?

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  • 100% true for the kind of cars you buy to drive.

  • What are some assets that depreciate considerably once you purchase/obtain them?

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  • Generally true, but sometimes you get lucky: I bought a fully loaded Camry in mid 2021, heavily discounted, because it was one of the last previous year model cars they had in the country and at 0% apr for the duration of the 3 year loan. This was right before shortages started and inflation skyrocketed. As a result its value on the used market stayed over what I paid for 3 years and even now it's lost only about 10-15% of the purchase price.

  • Hop update, jail break.

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  • I hope you have them in something that has a bottom - hops roots are crazy long and getting rid of hops once they spread is MUCH harder than any weed I've dealt with.