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B in particular. Products like the Yaris compete on price alone.

By the time you finish the product design and manufacturing pipeline the chip shortage will be long over, and the market for a car without any modern amenities is not actually that…

If someone told me I were killing it, I would feel like a 22 year old engineer again and have flashbacks to that one PM who loved my work but who came to work still tripping some M…

Doubling down on the tech, no matter what that means quantitatively, would mean qualitatively increasing your bet on the actual product. E.g. you’d fire every last milin if that me…

In this case, lower court ruling would stand

Rural regions get their fair share of wins. E.g., the massive amount of money that is redirected from productive cities into relatively unproductive rural counties, many of which s…

The "Ethnic and national feuds" section seems like it gets a certain point across: things that seem silly in current context were extraordinarily important cultural touch-points at…

Okay. So, everyone needs to be able to pass MIT's electrodynamics course if they get a degree that requires and electrodynamics course. And without intensive one-on-one and in pers…

In other countries banks don't make five+ figures on every doctor's education, and their doctors certainly don't make enough to service six figures in education debt. Finance capit…

US healthcare spending per capita: $9,870 Canada: $4,458 Sweden: $5,711 Australia: $5,002 Ireland: $4,759 Japan: $4,233 United Kingdom: $3,958 Israel: $2,837 Singapore: $2,462 USA'…

> To clarify: Are all rents in the US monthly and due on the first of the month? Yes, at least in all the markets I'm aware of. If someone moves in after in the middle of a month, …

Depends on how long the rent goes delinquent. It's not uncommon for the rent to finally show up around the 15th. I used to rent out a property and would typically write the lease s…

Everything that you just listed is basically how our current system works. Accredited institutions can issue degrees if you pass their courses. There are various "grades" that buck…

Shelter (rent and "owners' equivalent of rent") are included in the CPI.

> For instance, if everyone stores several years worth of food and water at home 1. That wouldn't allow us to pause all economic activity. Not even close. Not even remotely close. …

> So what? So, people are choosing to go to expensive universities that don't subsidize their tuition. It's a choice, and there are much cheaper options for most of the country. If…

> If you're a cruise line or a convention service, there's no market Cruise lines are in a rough place. Same as airlines. Lots of convention and vacation related businesses might f…

> due to an ability to constantly grow markets with cheap oil energy and new markets. But more importantly the US had a lot of power and regulatory oversight to keep it from happen…

$15/hr at mine, although if I include freelancing prior to that it's probably closer to $8. It's kind of nice. My floor is so incredibly low that the "scary times" don't look so sc…

1. 30k/year is REALLY high for tuition. Most state flagships -- which are some of the best universities in the entire world -- aren't that expensive. UIUC, definitely one of the be…

But it might go away for a year or two, which is enough time to do an incredible amount of economic damage -- far more than what we save by not bailing them out. They don't need to…

Seriously, use your small claims court! I've used small claims 4 times now. Each time, I spent less time with the court than I did with customer service prior to the court. Lesson …

And it's not like this is totally unprecedented. That's exactly what we did with banks in 2008.

Only if you assume perfect liquidity and either 1) a constant or monotonically increasing stock price or else 2) a huge cash reserve such that selling stock at basement prices or t…