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It seems to me that the original misinformation on this subject has caused a continued belief that masks are not helpful in reducing transmission. Initial public health recommendations cannot easily be walked back. Once the meme is sufficiently embedded, it's nearly impossible to dislodge.
Biggest issue I had was occasionally, they would look at it funny going through security and give it extra screening.
Fits pretty well in the overhead too, especially laying upside down, so bags can be stowed above it.
The sidewalk hazards I _do_ encounter (in the Mission), are tent encampments, open drug use, and (occasionally violent) crazy people.
I'd much prefer we prioritize those issues.
• the provider (they must exchange their product for less than it's worth). • the consumer who values the service at free market price (they lose the service to someone who values it less).
Regarding willingness to pay, I think the underlying factors are much to complicated to list (e.g. a pregnant woman heading to the hospital). The beauty of a free market is that fair price sorts itself out.
Hitting the price cap necessarily leads to excess demand, i.e. some people have _no_ access.
In effect, those willing to pay the most are replaced by a random subset of those willing to pay PRICE_CAP or more.
The bill also carves out exceptions weakening Section 230 protections.
[1] https://www.eff.org//deeplinks/2018/03/how-congress-censored... [2] https://www.congress.gov/bill/115th-congress/house-bill/1865
> 28-793. Crossing at other than crosswalk A. A pedestrian crossing a roadway at any point other than within a marked crosswalk or within an unmarked crosswalk at an intersection shall yield the right-of-way to all vehicles on the roadway.
In a somewhat relevant WTO dispute between US and China,
"The International Intellectual Property Alliance, a coalition of U.S. entertainment and software industry groups, has claimed piracy in China costs them more than $3.7 billion in lost sales." [1]
[1] https://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-usa-wto/china-u-s-t...
The problem is that the Constitution specifies "exclusive rights for a limited time", which the supreme court appears to have interpreted as _any finite timespan_ [1].
Of course, that only establishes an upper bound. congress is free to introduce legislation to weaken current protections.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eldred_v._Ashcroft#Supreme_Cou...
In my experience, the TSA experience is consistently inefficient, with (occasionally severe) bottlenecks. But more frustrating than inefficiency is a sense of apathy radiated by many TSA agents.
Whereas the airlines compete to serve us, the TSA feels vaguely like a slaughterhouse, in which we are the livestock.
1. Feasibility: Many trucking routes avoid some of the most complex driving tasks (e.g. dealing with pedestrians, city traffic).
2. Labor Cost: In commuter travel, the driver _is_ the cargo, so the utility gain is offset:
utility = cost(operation) - cost(occupancy)
utility = cost(operation)"What should we read into the fact that R&D has more than doubled over the past three years while sales growth was sort of a fifth of that? Are R&D investments just less efficient than they were in the company's history, or should we think about that as incremental spend for products that haven't yet come to market?
Timothy Donald Cook - Apple, Inc.
There's clearly some amount of R&D that are on products that today are in the development phase that have not reached the market, and so that's a part of it. And we feel really great about the things that we've got. We've also put a lot of emphasis on our Services business as well and on making the ecosystem even better. And so we're very much, we're confidently investing in the future, and that's the reason you see the R&D spend increasing."
My super informal analysis of where Apple's priorities are:
Term Count
iPhone 64
Mac/macOS 17
Services 16
iPad 15
Watch 8
There are multiple 24 hour facilities in the downtown / tenderloin area (94102).
return all([is_valid_answer(q, a) for q, a in params])The question related to gender seems to be somewhat out-of-left-field
To a certain extent, this principle is applied today. But I imagine it could be scaled up to something akin to highly selective university admissions process (e.g. interviews, standardized testing, resume critique, references). If a country starts with sufficient desirability, this could result in a positive feedback loop -- an increasingly competent and productive society.
Some interesting notes:
-require the operator of an electrically motorized board to wear a helmet
-require an operator to be at least 16 years of age