Daniel Quinn

That was remarkably good.

No I’m well aware of how tariffs work. The thing is, given how tightly coupled our economies are, nearly all major US manufacturing is heavily dependent on Canadian exports. Our auto industry alone has a single vehicle traversing the border multiple times. When we impose a counter-tariff, that hurts US industry considerably. Couple this, with the lost good will between the US and it’s biggest trading partner by far, and you’ve got a a massive devaluation of US stock prices due to diversification and boycotts alone.

In other words, the dude’s not wrong that the market hit is massive, he’s just got blinders on around the cause.

Those factors will likely pack more punch in Washington than the $155 billion in counter-tariffs threatened by Canada. To put this number in perspective, it’s a fraction of what American stock markets have lost this week.

That’s a pretty dumb take when you consider that a major cause of those losses is the market factoring in the cost of Canadian retaliatory tariffs.

It’s maddening that this isn’t being discussed in a more official capacity. Doctorow pitched this at least a month ago.

Philosophy Tube recently did a great video on exactly this. It’s on Nebula for those who subscribe.

Don’t stress yourself out too much. It’s the Telegraph, whose journalistic standards are on par with the Toronto Sun.

That’s fair.

This may not be a popular position, but stay with me: most companies don’t need big servers.

I’ve been working in this industry for 25 years, and in my experience, nearly every company I’ve worked with could have hosted all of their internal and external services on consumer hardware and even a cluster of low-power devices like the Raspberry Pi.

The real limiter isn’t hardware, but network access. You can have a massive k8s cluster in your office, but if your network provider flakes out, your business goes away.

So, I would argue that what we really need is colocated network hubs all over the world capable of hosting cheap hardware. Mythic Beasts here in the UK does stuff like this for example, to great effect.

What exactly are you self-hosting that’s gobbling up that much data? I’ve been self-hosting my website for decades and haven’t used that much over all that time let alone in one month.

Most of my bandwidth consumption is from torrents and downloading Steam games, but even that doesn’t get me to even 1tb/month.

Seven Raspberry Pi 4’s and one Pi Zero, mounted on some tile “shelves” inside some IKEA furniture.