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USA government spending as a percent of GDP is on the lower side of developed nations (high 30s depending on the source). Our peers are Luxembourg and Norway, and we’re well below …

An interesting outsider perspective is this clip of Steven Fry going to an Auburn game: https://youtu.be/FuPeGPwGKe8 Regarding the latter, it’s weird and certainly was exploitative…

Nationally there’s FIRE, the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression, who (despite a recent name change) are focused on campus free speech rights.

Yes, I prefer YouTube and use it for background audio when I'm not listening to podcasts. YouTube Music is a product trying to kludge way too much into a single app to be good at a…

While I'm not all-in on the ecosystem, I'm pretty far. It's still terrible. I still can't "cast" YouTube audio to my Google Home Mini unless I use the Home Mini in Bluetooth mode (…

Whenever I submit Google Home/Chromecast bugs/feature requests I include some snark in my sign-off like "I know you don't care about this product and it will be killed soon, but if…

And every war since Vietnam has been a police action or military operation.

Yes, it’s interesting but mostly a shift of concentration of earnings. Market weighted PE multiples are slightly elevated historically but not insane; forward PE even less so (take…

The only EV I’ve rented from Turo was the opposite experience. They gave me the car at 75%, they capped charging at 90% in settings, then they charged me for bringing it back at 70…

Can you provide citation for a US federal requirement? I'm skeptical and not finding anything in a search.

Conjecture, but did the prior report have a one time tax hit? That's fairly common.

That's not uncommon and is even beneficial in warmer climates. It will be parasitic in winter (even if externally vented) and symbiotic in summer.

Tangent, but my experience with this was when I needed to upgrade my mobile plan for international service... but I had 2FA via text message enabled for the account.

Claiming that merchant fees result in higher prices is different from claiming that reducing merchant fees would directly, immediately, or measurably lower prices. Isn't a plausibl…

Are you factoring in the federal tax credit with your math? I suspect not when I look at their website where lightly used EUVs are ~$20k. Of course, you may not be eligible for the…

Only the performance Model 3 is currently eligible for the Federal tax credit[1]. They may be referring to some generous state EV credits. [1] https://insideevs.com/news/700533/tes…

Until Tesla changes their Model 3 sourcing to be eligible for the $7500 tax credit, I don’t understand who would buy one over the Model Y even with the “highland” improvements.

While Musk’s attention was certainly a key asset in Tesla’s early years, I’m not sure that his attention is still a net positive.

I think structuring the law as a penalty is "smart" in that the government does not have to explicitly ask providers to require ID, but I can't imagine them not being at significan…

The 2007 Cosco Busan incident appears to be a glancing blow. I can't find any information suggesting an analogous impact at any point.

I'm very ignorant of hardware, but how does this work? I would have thought that M2 and USB protocols were divergent enough that this would require significant hardware/software em…

I find it somewhat entertaining that the press conference, and to a lesser extent the brief, argues that giving 3rd party dev access to Wallet functionality would result in a more …