Also holding rooms for that block, though.
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At a macro level, yet another category where prices will continue to increase and buyer reaction will be subdued by lower installments and longer terms. Like 50 year mortgages and 7 year car loans.
But of course, this is the point. Phones are a durable good at this point. The focus on services and more financing options are the next levers without innovation.
I keep hearing this refrain that Starlink is going to connect everyone. LTE already covers 93% of the population globally [1]. There are obviously dead spots but I really don't see the economic case for Starlink coverage. I frequently travel with a mini and I appreciate the near certainty of connection but it seems like a luxury item. The vast majority of the time cell connection is fine. I suppose Starlink could eat all the telcos but it seems like they aren't too far behind and this connectivity will be commoditized.
[1] https://www.itu.int/itu-d/reports/statistics/2025/10/15/ff25...
The license is pretty much Apache 2.0
I guess I expected on the homepage or maybe "About" but I was looking for something related to whether you open PRs on my behalf given that OAuth prompt.
I think adding that or some explanation during onboarding about the permissions might help.
https://www.reuters.com/business/world-at-work/amazon-target...
This is an interesting point. There is some satisfaction from the likes, the comments, and the assurance that _someone_ is seeing your frustration even if the company does nothing.
Is this snippet from their Twitter bio clear?
"If you need assistance, please submit a ticket: http://fastmail.com/support"
Their messaging probably could have been better here to say "we're looking into this. If you have time, please file a support request".
On Fastmail.com, the support request is two clicks away, under the big ? button in the upper right and "Contact Support". I'm not sure how much time you have but it took me less than 1 minute to find this button and submit from my logged in account.
"the January surge in imports - especially for gold - caused the model to move negative. As the Atlanta Fed noted: "the contribution of net exports to first-quarter real GDP growth fell from -0.41 percentage points to -3.70 percentage points".
Usually there would be an offsetting increase in inventories, but that is a lagging indicator. This is a short-term distortion and will balance out over the next month or so. I don't expect negative GDP in Q1." [1]
1: https://www.calculatedriskblog.com/2025/03/a-comment-on-gdpn...
We’ve known for over a decade that DHS, FBI, CBP, and local police buy location data.
https://www.propublica.org/article/no-warrant-no-problem-how...
This is odd. I've purchased razor blades from Walgreens and CVS locations across the US. Pharmacies in New York, San Francisco, and Denver as well as local pharmacies in small towns. I've also purchased them traveling abroad in Europe and the UK.
I just checked Walgreens' stock around me and every store within 5 miles (I think there's 7 of them) claims to have the Walgreens brand DE razor blades in stock.
Been using DE razors for probably 15 years and never had anything more than a nick.
> the notion of "tax" being just supposed public good versus requiring transactional value ("no taxation without representation") was a founding issue for the U.S.
This was a representational issue, not non-transactional taxation. Property taxes existed in many colonies 100 years before the revolution.
Believe it or not, I work at the BLS.
You can either choose accurate numbers or timely reports, but you can't have both.
If you want accuracy, then we need to wait for the QCEW report to be released. This is quarterly, so we wont know what the employment number for January is.. until possibly late April or Early May.
Do you care what employment was 5 months ago?
Thats why there is an annual benchmarking process, where we look back at the previous 5 quarters of QCEW data and are able to reconcile the differences.
The monthly estimation is like playing the "telephone" game. Maybe you played as a child. One person whispers a phrase into the ear of the person next to them and it gets whispered down a big line of people. Once at the end everybody laughs at how different the final phrase is compared to the original phrase.
The further away we get from the benchmarked data is the same as being further away from the first time the phrase was whispered - noise WILL enter the data - and it will begin to diverge from the "universe", or the original phrase in the telephone game.
There is no conspiracy. There are literally millions of businesses who report their employment data every month. There are easily 100+ eyes on the employment data at the BLS.
It is statistically impossible that all 100 BLS employees and the millions of reporters are all in a big "help Biden" conspiracy and there isn't a single iota of evidence or whisperings of a conspiracy.
Welcome to the nature of statistics!
1: https://www.reddit.com/r/Economics/comments/1exrj5u/comment/...
> Private sector use of the SSN is neither specifically authorized nor restricted. People are asked for an SSN at banks, video rental outlets, hospitals, etc., and may refuse to give it. However, the provider may, in turn, decline to furnish the product or service, leaving some to conclude they have no real choice.
> Throughout the history of the Social Security program, the SSN, originally intended to be used only to record Social Security earnings, has been adopted for other purposes, both governmental and private. The broad-based coverage of the Social Security program makes the SSN widely available and a convenient common data element for all record-keeping systems and data exchanges.