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I live in super liberal Illinois, which recently ended cash bail. It was a rough transition period but now it is fully implemented and every judge and prosecutor knows how everythi…

FedEx'ing baggage between home and a distant hotel is awesome. I haven't done it recently, so maybe with airline fees it is always cheaper. It used to be that you had to have a cor…

Well, maybe a molex-to-8pin-PCIe cable comes in the box!

This is not going to go well: > x50-class GeForce GPUs are among the most popular in the world, second only to the x60-class on Steam. Their price point and power profile are espec…

A Model T cost $900 in 1910 and $260 in 1925. Ford was constantly pushing the price down.

This is an interesting ruling. Note that the lawsuit has nothing to do with using models, only creating them. It is entirely possible for Anthropic to win, but still lose (somewher…

Do you have roof access? It's not going to be terribly windy in Boston... There are places that sell/rent temporary roof coverings, mainly for protecting from storm damage until it…

Hertz used to be the best by a wide margin, but now it's a totally different company using the name and logo.

Perhaps you should evaluate in terms of the price premium for speed. Sometimes you buy milk at the 7-eleven instead of the grocery store. It costs more, but is worth it for the con…

Nobody is going to pay to use such a canal except during extraordinary geopolitical events. Plus, it doesn’t help with the current situation.

IFAB doesn’t directly restrict heading, but permits each national FA to place their own restrictions at the grassroots level. The US adopted restrictions 10 years ago. No heading a…

> As a result of the ruling, notice will be issued to the allegedly affected job applicants, in what could be one of the largest collectives ever certified. In filings, Workday rep…

Cars are definitely the major mode. Lots of quick flights, too. They’ve made a lot of investments since the 1990s. It’s much improved, though perhaps not as nice as during the gold…

> Chicago/Detroit There has been continuous regularly scheduled passenger service between Chicago and Detroit since before the Civil War. The current Amtrak Wolverine runs 110 MPH …

Cash buyers. There are already a lot of places in the US where you can’t get a mortgage. In high rise condos, especially, a lender will want to look at the financial situation of t…

Are you saying Fama didn’t come up with the efficient market hypothesis? He got the Nobel prize for it. Who came up with it?

How’s this for a source? https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=bM9bYOBuKF4

Straight from the mouth of Fama: “efficient Market Hypothesis is a model. All models are wrong. Some models are useful.” If you don’t/won’t understand the difference between the re…

Soccer has high popularity in the US. USMNT match scheduling/location is a wreck and has been for a good 5+ years. International matches played in the US typically draw large crowd…

Semi-related. For the Club World Cup match tomorrow in Miami, they’ve started offering local university students a deal: buy one ticket for $20, get four free tickets for your mate…

> military doctors tend to be doctors that happen to wear a uniform. They already have the skills actually needed by the service Sure, most of them join either during med school or…

The Caterpillar Museum [1] in Peoria, IL has a few VR-ish cockpit mockups that you can try out. I’m fairly certain at least one of them is an excavator. PS, it shares a parking gar…

This is the second or third article I’ve seen that has mentioned retreating to a safe place, and implied that it was a good thing. So let’s assume that this is what they are doing,…