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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 …

> 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 si…

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 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…

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 re…

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 w…

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 …

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 PP…

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 —…

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 …

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 entertain…

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, f…

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 …