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0 pointsEasyMark11mo ago0 comments

I don't think it's LLM, not everthing is AI, just because that's the hot topic of the day. This forumla is too simple, it's essentially 0.5 * (their_portion_of_trade_deficit / total_trade_deficit_with_country) % . It's not complex at all and that formula fits all the % calculated by Trump's board of "liberation" too closely to not be essetially what he and his cronies came up with. Likely one of the DOGGie boys

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monkeyfun11mo ago

But how do you explain an uninhabited semi-independent (as i understand it) island with no trade with the US getting higher tariffs than Australia, the country it's broadly part of?

ethbr111mo ago

Because the intent of the tariffs is to prompt currency exchange rate moves and/or defense deal reevaluation.

Everyone is reacting to this like it's a mystery. The architect literally wrote down the why: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43594549

mikrotikker11mo ago

That island did actually trade with the US as Australia did a couple mil of trade through it for some reason

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