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So back in April when he first used IEEPA for tariffs the lawsuits hit right away. Plaintiffs argued for an injunction stopping the tariffs until the courts could decide on the legality.

The Trump administration’s counter argument (which prevailed) was an injunction isn’t necessary because the tariffs cause no irreparable damage to the plaintiffs ’since they could always just refund them if they’re found to be illegal’.

Fast forward 10 months and now the administration argues that refunds are so complicated as to be impossible.

I’d say the opposite. DoD will swap out Anthropic in a few months. If the punishment isn’t reversed in court Anthropic could go from being one of the worlds best AI firms to a non player. Given the stakes of the global competition that seems potentially costly.

The issue really isnt whether amthropic is more or less conservative than OpenAI or Xai in terms of what they’ll provide. Someone is going to satisfy the desires of the pentagon.

The issue is the government punishing a company for not bowing to its demands.

1 litre of crude oil contains more hydrogen atoms than 1 litre of pure liquid hydrogen. That sounds impossible, but it’s true.

Pete.

@Tom-K said in Question for Taiwan girl:

Taiwan Girl:
Thank you. It's your and Bach's and other peoples first hand, real life, real world understanding of the political situations that happen around the world that make TNCR the cool place that it is. You are much appreciated.

Big fucking help 89 was with the Minnesota stuff. All he could tell us was the coordinates where the ICE goons killed the Americans.

I’m not. I took him out west for February break (NY schools have two separate week long breaks in the spring semester)

His mom is taking him to visit Chicago, Northwestern, Michigan, and Toronto.

I’ll be in Thailand with my darling bride.

The Department of Obvious Reality observes contract law. And yes, indeed, a technology company can explicitly exclude certain uses of its technology. (In fact there was an example of this in the news just last week).

The remedy for a customer is to switch vendors. Perhaps even a law suit if they think a contract was violated. It ends there. It does not include using government power to punish the company let alone threaten its viability.

Now they tell me. I just booked our flights for spring break.

@xenon said in The Iran War (was Nuclear Program) thread:

Superpower vs superpower, I’m curious if the aircraft carrier is completely obsolete.

What do you do if someone like China sends out a swarm of drones?

EMP weapons?

Ouch.

That reminds me many years ago there was a thread next door about googling your own name and did you show up in the results and if so what page etc (this was back when most people weren’t googlable). Our own Steve Miller just replied. ‘Nope. There’s some guy with a band who gets all the hits.’

Kewl military video.

Funny. Is it all AI? I mean the music and singing?

My understanding is that the government dropped the defense and then resumed it next day.

I don't know much about him but did recognize the name and remembered the eye patch. Probably without the patch I wouldn't have remembered him at all.