milesskorpen
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Comment · 1 month ago
It's a concept - little to no chance the production vehicle will look like this
Comment · 1 month ago
Cars are also subsidized (roads) - isn't that what taxes are for?
If we could go back to pre-pandemic ridership levels, the subsidy rate would be inverted (fares covered 70% versus 30% now). Public Transit struggles with low utilization. It'll take 10+ years to get back to that ridership level though.
Comment · 1 month ago
This is not my family's experience on distinctly not-concierge-medicine Kaiser Permanente in the Bay Area. Always meet with doctors (and NPs), have gotten in quickly when necessary, etc.
Comment · 1 month ago
Also debit cards run by smaller credit unions charge credit-card like fees (and then are used by fintechs to earn fees while making it harder to pass those fees on to end users).
Comment · 4 months ago
While that does happen occasionally in SF, it's <5% of my commutes.
Comment · 5 months ago
Americans save at a much lower rate than Europeans (5% US vs. 15% EU), which I think makes your whole thesis backwards. Maybe Americans SHOULD be saving more for retirement, but they aren't!
Comment · 5 months ago
It's read-only data, fwiw
Comment · 5 months ago
My RSS reader downloads a local copy of posts so I can read offline (Reeder). I imagine that would trigger his analytics.
Comment · 6 months ago
Yes - I've set it up as an 'office manager,' where it mainly snakily interacts with the local team via Slack, and controls an office TV to show our quote board, PTO calendar, and upcoming events. The Clawe is overkill for the use case, but sometimes is fun.
Comment · 7 months ago
Huge amounts of cash were given to many Americans during Covid.
Comment · 7 months ago
1950-1985 and 1985-now are pretty steady. Decreased inflation volatility over time.
I think your chart shows the "that inflation slowly erodes purchasing power over time." That doesn't mean there aren't periods of change - if you study economic history at all you know about the Great Depression and stagflation - but for ~50 years it's been pretty well managed.
Comment · 7 months ago
Facebook stock is up 6x in ~3 years, so the market does not agree with your assessment of his track record.
Comment · 8 months ago
Reading between the lines, it sounds like the FAA maybe did not trust CBP to "test" operate the high powered laser near civilian aviation, in part given that they mistakenly identified a balloon for a cartel drone.
Comment · 8 months ago
Yes: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/airspace-closure-followed-spat-...
FAA Administrator Bryan Bedford on Tuesday night decided to close the airspace — without alerting White House, Pentagon or Homeland Security officials, sources said.
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Customs and Border Protection used the laser weapon earlier this week after training from the U.S. military, according to multiple sources familiar with its deployment. Officials had recently given the FAA a 10-day window in which the technology would be used.
The anti-drone technology was launched near the southern border to shoot down what appeared to be foreign drones. The flying material turned out to be a party balloon, sources said. One balloon was shot down, several sources said.
The Mexican cartels have been running drones on the border lately, the sources said, but it was unclear how many were hit by the military's anti-UAS (unmanned aircraft systems) technology this week. One official said at least one cartel drone was successfully disabled.
Comment · 8 months ago
I agree the risk transfer is very important, but Visa and Mastercard don't do that (they just facilitate it)