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Dodge v. Ford Motor Co. was a civil case, not a criminal case. And it was in the Michigan Supreme Court so has no standing in the other 49 states.
And in practice the "business judgement rule" makes it very easy for businesses to do whatever they want as long as they have a vaguely plausible explanation for how it helps the business as a whole. ("We need to buy a private jet for our CEO because he is integral to our growth and success.")
a) just a theory not a proven thing and
b) based on flawed assumptions that were quickly disproven. See the 2008 paper "Should You Invest in the Long Tail?" finding that consumers don't like niche products and the bottom 80% sold $0, contrary to the theory's prediction.
https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=32337
Had nothing to do with merchandising or whatever. The Long Tail was never correct.
"Vermillion said, adding that most battery operators in Texas earn the bulk of their revenue during a handful of extreme weather days, so “there might be 15 days over the year that matter for capturing revenue.”
https://www.ess-news.com/2025/05/15/is-texas-battery-landsca...
California requires car seats until age 8.
https://www.cdph.ca.gov/Programs/CCDPHP/DCDIC/SACB/CDPH%20Do...
Your friends little kids aren't taking Uber. Your friends big kids are taking Uber. They're already 50% of the way to driving a car themselves by the time they can take Uber.
Also that's a booster seat, not a child care seat, so can't be used if your kids are under 4.
So...research was done and people learned they were wrong?
I'm not quite following what you think the takeaway was here?
The "Back to Sleep" campaigns saw something like a 50% decrease in infant mortality within 12 months in the UK. It isn't really comparable to "fad diet of the year" medical advice.
The WHO claims the ideal overnight temperature for sleeping is 18 degree (C). I lived in Vietnam for a decade and to a rough approximation 0% of the population ever experiences 18 degrees overnight for sleeping. And I imagine it's not too different in much of Thailand, Indonesia, India, etc.
I'm pretty dubious that hundreds of millions, maybe billions, are thriving in "suboptimal" overnight temperatures!
Does the African savanna regularly get down to 18c at night, such that we'd expect that to be some kind of evolutionary equilibrium that just happens to map to (northern) European and North American norms?
The more limited studies with different methodologies have found their judgement of other people's behaviour and performance is wrong. And that if you ask them after a delay (e.g. forcing them to use recall) instead of immediately, they are also wrong.
Not sure why their opinion matters.
Not really. When was the last time you stayed at a non-chain 2-star hotel in Asia?
Hotel chains care because they care about their brand. Not that's a result of being a chain, not of being a hotel.
I'm pretty sure Aegis did it 15 years before Fossil.
I think what you mean is "chains" tend to be pretty consistent. Which, yeah, that's always been the main value prop of a chain. You go to McDonald's in Tunisia and you have a pretty good idea what you're going to get.
Having an actual kitchen when you travel with kids is great. Having actual separate bedrooms so we don't have to go to sleep at 8pm when the kids go to sleep is great. Being able to do laundry without tracking down a laundromat or pay exorbitant hotel prices is great. Having a living room or similar area with at least a few square metres of floor space where kids can sprawl is great.
How new do you think the CPU in your bank ATM or car's ECU is?
I had an interesting experience of this with a normal/non-technical user when my wife asked for help setting up some money remittance app. Early in the install it popped up some dialog, something about whether you wanted to transfer money via credit card or...except she clicked the "OK" button before I could read more than that. As in, she clicked it literally as fast as she could process there was a pop-up and move her finger there.
I asked her why she clicked the pop-up away without reading it, it might have been important...and she literally began to argue with me that there hadn't been a pop-up and what was I talking about.
Just like how our brain has learned to edit out blinking, it seems like (at least in some circumstances) her brain has learned to edit out pop-ups and essentially muscle memory is clicking "Okay" as fast as possible to get back to whatever she was doing.
Even before this Mozilla almost certainly used hundreds of closed source tools, including things like Slack, Excel, Anaplan, Workday, etc.
Despite constant complaints about the padding in many non-fiction books (not just business) there's clearly a silent majority who feel like "If I'm going to bother, ugh, opening a book then I want it to be as thick as possible".
For that matter, you see a similar dynamic on the fiction side too with novellas and short stories bring far distant in popularity to novels. (Even though those same people have zero issues watching 22 minute TV episodes.)
Banning laundry hanging is much less common in the UK so harder to find examples. But POAs are reasonably common and enforce all kinds of things for aesthetic reasons.
I'm surprised you didn't know that.
"It’s odd for there to be such an easily-removable design flaw in the human body; evolution tends to remove them. Since it strikes at advanced ages, BPH doesn’t make a big impact on a man’s ability to pass on his genes. But being the leading cause of male infertility sure does. Their explanation is that evolution hasn’t had much time to work on the problem; in animals the spermatic vein is horizontal, and doesn’t have or need one-way valves. It’s our standing upright that yields the problem; in evolutionary terms that’s a recent development."