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Concorde was not very pleasant to sit in from what I've heard. Great food, but the seats were basically economy 2x2.

Curious how the combination of remote work, videoconferencing, and the really luxurious business class / first class on sub-mach aircraft will compare to this.

This is slower and smaller than concorde, so we'll see if the market really values speed over convenience / luxury. Boeing made the opposite decision 20 years ago when they cancelled the sonic cruiser.

If you go to an orchestral concert to listen to the best musicians, this is a terrible idea. I don't think it is even legal in the US to pick based on race and gender

I'm mildly annoyed that I'll have to pay the 5%.

Long distance hikers do this all the time. I think I carried 50# of stuff including food and water made it around 200 miles with leftovers. If I'd been willing to carry more and started out in better shape and was willing to go a bit slower, that distance could have been augmented significantly

FYI: The broker fee situation in NYC is substantially related to rent controls. No reason to show the apartment yourself if you can't get more money from the tenant by doing that.

I've met with several prospective entrepreneurs regarding this basic idea. It has been tried multiple times in the last 20 years, and has never caught on.

If you can't figure out why the market still has brokers, you are destined to make the same mistakes that everyone who sunk time and money into this before has made.

Worse with a blender. You aerosolize them and then stick your face in it. Just like being hit with mace or bear spray

I saw the 'blank CD / oops our shipping department screwed up' trick in 1998. I think it was used to recognize revenue in an earlier quarter for a release that wasn't quite ready yet, but where they wanted to have a nice hockey stick growth curve. I think it eventually cost a VP his job though.

They can't keep the exiting elevators working... they are filled with urine, covered in semen and just nasty. Also super slow.

It would probably be cheaper to just have stair climbing robots.

Spend a year going through the CS curriculum for a good university. Buy the books, read them, and do all the exercises. If you find yourself looking forward to doing your nightly homework, great -- you have what it takes to be a great dev. Absent strong technical foundations, the upside as a dev is limited, and, more importantly, you won't get the super-interesting projects that you probably want. You can still get paid well, but you may find the work unfulfilling.

This is the story of the 1980s S&L crisis in a nutshell. And the 1930s banking crisis and probably a bunch of others. Every generation has to see it once.

The peak number was not monetizable unlike the door com crash. Dutch and Razzlekhan had five billion dollars worth of crypto, but had trouble buying 500$ Walmart gift cards. The wealth effect really never took hold- there was no market depth and the holders didn't act as if their wealth was real, so they won't change their behavior when it evaporates

Intergenerational wealth transfer is far from assured. A billion dollars worth of cattle could die. Gold could be stolen. Bitcoin might be irrelevant.

Wampum didn't do so well either

Every generation rediscovers the financial frauds of the past

What do you learn in 1500 hours? That's almost a year of work. I understand that surgeons apprentice for years, but what's the logic here?

The cost of the Heard Depp trial could have paid for a pretty good movie...

Somebody bought an old power plant, reactivated it, and stuffed a bunch or crypto mining gear in it.

The local community feels that it adds no jobs and produces a lot of pollution, and the Senate Bill is trying to stop this.

They did build the Empire state building with a mooring mast and a a lounge / ticket area and a way for the passengers to get on the plane. But it was purely speculative, and though they took publicity photos, they never used it(remember: there were only a handful of commercial airships).

There used to be a commercial heliport on top of the Pan Am Building over Grand Central Station. The first helicopter crash that sent chunks of metal flying 600 feet down to streets with huge amounts of foot traffic permanently closed it. I'm sure something similar would have happened had the Empire State Building 'port' actually been used.

The goal is to produce a relatively low-cost way to resolve reasonable disputes while eliminating opportunities for fraud and bad actors.

A formal written complaint prior to filing for abitration might have been equally effective. Incentivizing escalation simply drives up the costs of resolving disputes.

It would be far more reasonable if you had to pay the other side's fees if you lost

The goal of obtaining justice for the client is rather different than the goal of maximizing legal fees

He went all in to raw water. Seriously.

Clearly he needs a punishment that costs the students a lot of time. Maybe submit a 12 hour video of you doing every single problem in all the problem sets

Leverage kills

The issue is that the standards of proof is much higher in criminal cases. There's no way to defend against fraudulent or frivolous accusations

He said she said situation that could well be entirely fabricated. But it would take a million to bring it to trial and waste a few weeks of his life, and he has nothing to gain. Legalized extortion-if she had to jail if she lost, you'd see fewer of these

Lawsuits are an astoundingly inefficient way to resolve these issues. It can easily take more money than the worker will earn in his/her career to take this to trial, and the trial will rely more on caricatures and stereotypes than the worker's actual day-to-day experience. Imagine trying to convince the next 6 people that you meet that your side is right -- it comes down to looks, sympathy, emotions, etc, all of which have no relationship to what actually happened.

The reason that employment lawyers want to get these things out of arbitration is that juries are more susceptible to emotional arguments, and the lawyers can sometimes get the company to pay their (inflated) legal fees if they win.

Arbitration is quick, fast, final, and doesn't require all the legal machinations of court. Hopefully this is not a precedent.

The 2019 rent control law rears its ugly head. Everyone wants more space post covid, but nobody wants to build or even allow more housing. So the small amount of free market housing goes through the roof, and anyone with an apartment that can get away with airbnbing it tries their luck.

The problem here is that you are going to get regulatory capture by the healthcare unions. So we'll get worse service at higher cost, not to mention incredible fraud