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here’s a different article that’s not paywalled: https://www.freightwaves.com/news/breaking-news-trevor-milto...

(btw when i cancelled my wsj subscription i had to call and be put on hold. there’s no way to cancel online. should be illegal imo. never again.)

> Removal of Nashorn JavaScript Engine

anybody know why a javascript engine was ever included in core java in the first place? seems... niche. and yet core java never included a simple web server (officially).

TRL == Technology Readiness Level

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technology_readiness_level

double click the edge of a window to expand it to the edge of the screen. hold alt while double clicking to get the opposite edge to also expand.

username checks out :-)

seriously though, i’m glad they were able to tie their profession in by sharing their story, i really enjoyed it. if i were to embark on this kind of thing i’d probably end up writing some software to help with the effort.

I will continue to use Apple but I pulled both of my apps from their app store years ago due to maltreatment. I don’t use their app store as a consumer either. IMO it’s a wasteland.

Unpopular opinion but I also think it should be completely up to them to set their revenue share. Let their app store wither away as developers create platform-independent web applications instead.

maybe. but they’re getting better at building the machine that builds the machine that builds the machine.

> If you want to detect how someone fares at a task, say loan sharking, tennis playing, or random matrix theory, make him/her do that task; we don’t need theoretical exams for a real world function by probability-challenged psychologists.

^ horrible job interviews in a nutshell

i don’t know what the automakers’ stance was or is but i believe the organizations that have fought direct sales have been the national and state dealership associations.

if the sun, which is huge compared to the earth, were the size of a pea, the nearest star would be ~120 miles away to scale. this is a typical distance between stars and it’s why when andromeda collides with the milky way there is little chance of stars colliding.

Price ceilings cause shortages. Every time. Let’s not use Venezuelan-style economic illiteracy as a model for how to incentivize the flow of critical supplies to those who need it most during a crisis.

Excellent point. What is 3M for example — an American company — doing? Are they attempting to ramp up production in the US or have they determined that it’s not feasible because PPE prices are are not permitted to rise because of anti gouging laws?

the ones that i know are former engineers. they also have excellent verbal skills and seem to be the smartest people in the room. may or may not be the best coders — i don’t know — but they are very impressive in person.

a housing slump may be coming but then so are pay cuts. in fact they’re already here for many people. prices are also falling for energy and lots of other commodities as aggregate demand collapses.

all of this amounts to textbook deflation. those with debts to service (mortgage, auto, student) are going to be feeling a lot of pain in this environment. good news is gov’t just needs to print money to bring nominal prices up.

bad news is there’s no free lunch for young people hoping to buy homes. imo wages are largely going to move in unison with home prices.

why not sedate a patient who’s suffering like this?

I highly recommend listening to Duke professor Mike Munger discuss price gouging on this episode of Econ Talk:

https://www.econtalk.org/munger-on-price-gouging/

It’s very entertaining and enlightening.

breaking news from 2018? there’s nothing new here, including the deceased driver’s alleged complaints.

If your fridge were really smart it would infer both your household’s disposable income and technical acumen based on its location and overheard conversations then tailor prices, failures, and replacement policies accordingly.

Raising taxes is not going to increase the supply of housing.

I have a Mazda 6. I would say that Mazda is a mature manufacturer. Yet the Mazda, which I purchased brand new from the factory, sight unseen (big mistake), shook at high speeds (I found out later due to a warped brake rotor), sounded like the windows were cracked at all times and you couldn’t ever roll them all the way up (for which Mazda issues a TSB years later), pulled to the right because it came off the truck out of alignment, and made a crunch vibration in the pedal every time I pushed the brakes. The dealer refused to even acknowledge any of these problems. I had no recourse.

On the other hand, Tesla lets you return the car within a week if you don’t like it.

fantasy Association Football rather than Gridiron Football. apparently Soccer comes from asSOCiation.

i don’t think hydrogen powered cars are the future but the next mirai looks much better than the current one https://www.motor1.com/news/375766/2021-toyota-mirai-fuel-ce...

should read “get caught driving drunk...”. i don’t know how many times you have to drive drunk to get caught doing so but it could be a lot.

in the aggregate if you devalue a currency so that it’s worth half of what it was, won’t prices in that currency double?

so if there’s a chinese product that i like and it costs 100 yuan before devaluation, and say 1 dollar == 100 yuan. after devaluation, the product might cost 150 yuan but now 1 dollar == 150 yuan. so my dollar still buys the same amount of goods. what am i missing?

i don’t have a strong opinion about free speech but i think the argument is: who gets to decide what’s “in the public interest”. if you don’t like somebody’s book, pamphlet, blog post, comment, or tweet, just declare it “not in the public interest”. there you have the makings of tyranny.

center fuel tanks (under the passengers) are common in commercial aviation

costco > target > walmart in my book

if everything is a debacle then nothing is a debacle. what word are journalists going to use when there’s an actual debacle?

I haven’t seen any evidence that the two Max crashes are related. The first one was the result of Lion Air flying a plane that was not airworthy because its AOA sensor was known to be faulty.

There is no information about the cause of the second crash as of yet. You’re making a claim about the purported alignment of Boeing, the FAA, and the “American media/industrial complex” (whatever that is) but I’m not aware that there is such a thing. What do you know that the rest of us don’t?