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Many execs believe that people are more productive when you can supervise them in the office. Given that, it would follow that you have to care about being where the talent is.

> even when I dont expect them to answer they do

I have also experienced this. Given Israel is the opposite side of the world from California, mainly I expect if I ask a question in the afternoon there will be an answer ready in the morning. But surprisingly often, they answer immediately.

Sugar is one of the main contributors to suffering and death in the US. Evidence that aspartame is harmful at all is comparatively weak.

How do they know if you have the phone if you don’t pick up?

If somebody was trying to do something serious, they’d have some kind of ID that would get them through the actual security checkpoint. It’s only this bizarre scheme (that didn’t even work) where checking ID again would matter.

If we’re making an analogy to internet security, it’s like when websites use JavaScript to disable standard input into the password field. Just a pointless waste of everyone’s time.

It’s more about how many planes you can get through the expensive, scarce gates you have in a day. Those staff could be boarding another batch of paying customers instead of checking IDs.

Ryanair got there by emulating American operators! https://simpleflying.com/how-southwest-inspired-the-ryanair-...

Boarding time is a big factor in the cost structure of airlines. If they have to check ID of everyone who boards, it’s a lot slower. And in fact European airlines have a much slower turnaround time than Southwest. There’s already an ID check before you get airside, so another check during boarding is not needed for security. If all it accomplishes is revealing this edge case, which can be deterred by detection and enforcement after the fact, is it really worth making everyone wait and increasing costs?

Often you can get a higher limit through an umbrella policy.

RCS has been available for over 10 years. Apple is being knocked for their half-assed version of interoperability, where the iPhone implements just enough of the standard to shame non-iPhone users when they communicate with friends and family. If you have any doubt this is intentional, see the emails and public comments from Apple executives.

I’m curious of the history. Presumably people used SMS when it was the only option, and stopped at some point and installed message apps (but they never stopped in the US).

In Europe people have to pay to send SMS right? So people have a good reason to seek out alternatives like WhatsApp, which are cross-platform. There is no habit of using SMS. Therefore linking iMessage to SMS by default doesn’t create any network effect in EU like it does in US, where SMS is free.

I think the complaint about iMessage is more that people using the core SMS function on iPhones are automatically opted into iMessage, then get a worse experience when communicating with groups containing people who don’t have iPhones. It creates awkward social situations which nobody involved wanted to happen, and looks really exploitative.

If you required a high accuracy like 99.9% to charge a customer, you could have a system that was mostly automatic but still needed human review when the model isn’t confident enough. It’s hard to know exactly what this means without a lot more details, which Amazon is unlikely to provide.

I would pay 5% more for my groceries if I never had to wait in the checkout line. I’m a kind of customer that has tried grocery delivery, and didn’t reject it because of the cost, but instead for other reasons like I want to pick out my own food, I don’t want it left sitting when they deliver it, I can get it faster myself etc. I would definitely pay money to make grocery shopping faster and more convenient. I suspect there are a lot like me.

There’s three negatives in the sentence you quoted.

Vacuum bags are good for storing that kind of stuff compactly. My duvet and duvet covers semi-permanently live in one! The only kind of blanket I’ve found that is not too warm is gauze.

I think it’s true both that most promotions are legit and not based on vanity projects, and yet still the vanity projects are common and causing major problems. Let’s say you have 10k engineers at your megacorp. Maybe the ideal number of execution platform workflow framework engines your business needs to add this year is 30, but instead 300 are created by 3% of your engineers who wants a promotion. Eventually you have thousands of these frameworks, maintaining them is a drag, everyone is suffering, although the vast majority are good actors.

When I first read this comment my immediate reaction was that it was probably baseless fearmongering. After a bit of googling, I feel more ambivalent.

1. It’s illegal to sell cancerous animal meat.

2. Even if a cancer was capable of living in a human host, cooking and digesting it should neutralize it.

3. Cancer is generally not considered to be contagious, but there are specific cases where cancers actually can move from one host to another. Tasmanian devils spread facial tumors to one another by fighting and exchanging fluids. A lab worker got a tumor in her hand after accidentally injecting herself with colon cancer cells. Cancer can spread during organ transplants.

I wouldn’t be at all worried about catching cancer from eating lab-grown meat. But I do wonder about some edge cases, like what if you cut yourself while you were chopping the raw meat and it got in your bloodstream? That sounds kind of like the case with the Tasmanian devils, or the injected colon cancer. However, I’m not sure if there’s any known case of a tumor from one species spreading to another.

Anyway, this sounds more like a freak event than a pandemic. We’d probably figure it out if it happened to a decent number of people, it’s not like we’d realize after 50 years that millions have died that way. The downside risk doesn’t seem so great that we should avoid developing lab-grown meat. There’s probably a lot of things in your kitchen that could kill you if injected into your bloodstream.

Also, the parent comment was flagged. I don’t find it to be rule-violating, so I vouched for it.

Or maybe you value the consistency of full enrollment that comes with a waitlist over the additional revenue you could earn with higher prices. Could be the case if there are high costs to changing the size of the business.

Imagine there’s a law that you can only have 4 children per caregiver. Your capacity is 8. Lose one and your revenue is down 12.5%

I can’t speak for Georgists, but one clear problem I see worth solving in my city is empty lots downtown. And decrepit, vacant commercial property. Our city has a housing crisis. Speculators own these lots on the theory that they’ll be valuable later. Since property taxes don’t go up unless you build something, they don’t have any costs associated with this ownership, even as the need for development has grown more acute. On the other hand, significant property taxes are imposed on anyone who actually builds or significantly improves their property. You tax what you want to discourage. Our current tax system discourages development in general. LVT addresses this problem.

In short, ad valorem taxes land+improvement and LVT just taxes land. Various tweaks that have been made to ad valorem systems could also be made to LVT and don’t constitute a difference between ad valorem and LVT.

The objections you raise about how your neighbor’s development raises your taxes apply to both LVT and ad valorem tax regimes.

This argument sounds backwards to me. Under the common ad valorem property taxes, the tax you pay goes up if you invest in increasing the value of your property, which punishes you for improving it and incentivizes leaving your land fallow. Under a land value tax, building on your land does not increase the tax you pay. That’s the point!

$20/month is high? For a tutor and research assistant who I can consult at any time of day or night? Seems like an incredible value to me. Would have probably cost thousands of dollars in 2020.

If you received an illegal subpoena from the government you wouldn’t have any costs associated with it at all? Just throw it in the trash, move on with your day, and surely you will never have to think about it again?

Have you tried a GLP-1?

I got fit through diet and exercise, and in the past that’s what I would have recommended. But now it’s 2024 and now there is are working diet miracle drugs. It’s expensive, but within your price range.

It doesn’t surprise me that one part the status rat race (selective summer programs) cares about another (after-school activities). The big question is how do either of these play into your kid’s overall life satisfaction. You just have to get over the tragedy of them going to U Michigan instead of Cornell.

Certainly the trick is to choose not to make these expensive commitments to spend money before you earn it. It’s much harder to claw back once you and your family get used to luxuries.

A lot of the expensive stuff for kids to “have a chance” is BS, not very relevant to their life outcomes, basically parents being grifted and engaging in status competitions you could choose to opt out of.

It’s hard to visualize vast quantities, but for people who live in the rural American west, an acre-foot is relatively easy to grasp. People know the land area of property they live on or farm in acres, and they can imagine what it would look like if that area was flooded with a foot of water.

If a farmer knows they have a 100 acre field and they know that their corn requires 2 feet of water per year, they know that they must acquire 200 acre-feet of water.

If the state’s rivers are overflowing and the farmer wants to flood their field and help to recharge the groundwater [1], acre-feet is the unit they’d use to calculate how much water they can accept (depending on how many feet tall their levees are).

California is 100 million acres and there are 10 million acres of crops.

[1] https://www.reuters.com/business/environment/amid-deluge-cal...

They are about to build the Sites reservoir, 1.5 million acre-feet of offstream storage.