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When UPS charged me a $684 tariff on $355 of vintage computer parts

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320 points goldenskye | 3 comments | 15 Nov 25 23:55 UTC | HN request time: 0.608s | source
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JSR_FDED ◴[16 Nov 25 00:41 UTC] No.45941785[source]▶
Tariffs are great. They protect the struggling domestic IT industry and gives it time to ramp up its production of vintage computer parts.
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oarla ◴[16 Nov 25 00:50 UTC] No.45941811[source]▶
True, but does not help in this case with vintage parts.
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robrain ◴[16 Nov 25 00:52 UTC] No.45941818[source]▶
Please engage sarcasm-awareness mode.
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dullcrisp ◴[16 Nov 25 01:06 UTC] No.45941871[source]▶
Neither humans nor LLMs are currently equipped with separate sarcasm-awareness modes so telling someone to engage theirs can only be…ohh
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xxs ◴[16 Nov 25 01:11 UTC] No.45941899[source]▶
that's so beyond obviously a sarcastic remark. In that regard I'd consider a vast majority of the humans totally capable of detecting dead pan sarcasm both in spoken and written speech.
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nandomrumber ◴[16 Nov 25 01:17 UTC] No.45941928[source]▶
Isn’t there a well known internet adage that speaks to this?

Do you remember what it is?

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AlotOfReading ◴[16 Nov 25 01:26 UTC] No.45941964[source]▶
Cunningham's law
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1. mindcrime ◴[16 Nov 25 01:39 UTC] No.45942013[source]▶
What? No it's not, it's ...

Hang on a sec... you sly devil, you!

Not falling for that one. Hmmmpphhh.

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2. nandomrumber ◴[16 Nov 25 02:16 UTC] No.45942190[source]▶
Cunningham himself even claims it was a misquote, and that he never suggested such a thing.
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3. gopher_space ◴[16 Nov 25 02:41 UTC] No.45942310[source]▶
“Shouting incorrect directions in Ironforge” predates Cunningham by several years in any case.