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Comment What about the de minimis exemption change? (Score 1) 166

Does the SC ruling mean that the dropping of the de minimis exemption was invalid as well, and hence reinstated?
Even if it doesn't, eliminating it meant that lots of tariff fees were applied to imports at a changed rate, and those tariff changes were not allowed so need to be refunded.
I would expect that this constitutes a pretty large number of transactions.
What a mess.

Comment Re:Cool beans. (Score 1) 17

Exactly. Hopefully other parts of the world will follow suite. Netflix sneakily raised my subscription some time back which went unnoticed for years with me paying 12.99 instead of 8.99 (I think they were the numbers, either that or 11.99 and 7.99). Recently I noticed this and I hadn't even used their service for almost 2 years so I cancelled it. Something like this system in India would likely have brought the scam to my attention much sooner.

Comment Re:Yes but... (Score 1) 296

Until that receptor changes, the spike protein can't change. Any mutations in the spike protein will produce virus that can't get into our cells.

D614G, Alpha, Beta, Gamma, and Delta all had mutations to the spike protein. With an apparent increase in infectiousness. I think what you have said is somewhat misleading.

Also, from what I've read, it's not just bang, the spike goes into the ACE2 receptor, there are steps. I recall something like TMPRSS2 etc in the pathway.

Comment Re:Humming? Really? (Score 1) 570

"The Internet Engineering Task Force eschews voting, and it often measures consensus by asking opposing factions of engineers to hum during meetings. The hums are then assessed by volume and ferocity. Vigorous humming, even from only a few people, could indicate strong disagreement, a sign that consensus has not yet been reached.

Humming? What the hell, are these people 12? What next, revocation of cookie privileges?

Umm, if you've been to an IETF meeting and witnessed a couple of people opposing the consensus just by humming louder than everyone else in the room, then you know that, yes, that's exactly the problem. 12 year olds with no social awareness and a complete lack of that thing that stops the rest of us doing something because it would be incredibly embarrassing. Generally, people hum softly, but when a handful don't It's pretty appalling to witness, particularly if you've ponied up your own funds to be there and not on some corporate funded junket.

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