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Favorite quote that I'm not sure why the author included: “You can’t just put your mouth underneath the nozzle of an ice cream machine and fill your belly,” he says.

This is a natural market progression and will happen. Most automakers built higher cost, lower volume "premium" products for less price sensitive early adopters. As the product and…

Housing is the key common factor linking cost of living, homelessness and the other issues. With more housing built, the problems diminish.

Love the acerbic humor style as well. Lots of great lines. Enjoyed the highlight of the cognitive dissonance in citing the benefits of "transparency. >"The retail experience consum…

A point of clarification. ASML does lithography, which creates the patterns for the chips. The big players in etch (removing layers of material following the pattern) are Lam Resea…

Article agrees with #1. "As they note, it seems like an easy thing to fix if Congress had the will: Two reforms would help solve this problem: first, district judges should—by law—…

Very helpful. Thank you for sharing! Have you been able to find data on # of tests carried out?

Tomas Pueyo published an article: https://medium.com/@tomaspueyo/coronavirus-act-today-or-peop... He wrote a model that roughly estimates infection rates in a population based on e…

author context: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ahmet_Altan

Manufacturing costs are roughly similar between generics and brand name drugs (say ~$1/pill as an example). A large portion of costs for brand name drugs are in the development and…

Rent control insulates current residents from paying market rates for housing. This reduces their incentive to fix the problem (expensive housing) because they have already have ch…

Agree. This brings increased attention and news to an issue that would have been forgotten. It speaks to Joi's integrity that he wanted to correct his mistake publicly.