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These tariffs are not brand specific. Replace "SILCA" with your preferred brand and you'll see similar results: products not available in the US, moving factories outside of the US, and increases to retail prices without new features or better quality.

That department has been RIFed.

I wouldn't mind liability insurance for guns if it's similar to car insurance. Car insurance only covers about $30,000 per person injured/killed, maxing out around $60k per incident.

Unfortunately that low payout amount also means coverage is near useless. Especially when insurance coverage doesn't go to the victims but to other insurance companies.

Car Insurance is Too Cheap

I wanted to upvote this twice. Instead I'll leave this comment.

Great rant. Would read again.

Aquaman.

Broadcast TV is already going that way. ATSC 3 requires an internet connection to get decoding keys. For your protection, of course.

That's a great question. My guess is the bandwidth comes from bonding those extra modes and from the lower signal-noise ratio. That lower SNR means they could modulate with more sensitive but faster modes.

Why wouldn't a price that's too high to pay prevent a product from selling? If demand of a product goes from 10,000 units to 10 units from the price shift, then it's better to not develop and sell it. The rational move is to focus on the high end or custom-made products where you can have the margins necessary for low-volume to make sense. When it comes to low-end products, volume and throughput is the name of the game.

Want an example? How about this smart move by Framework stopping selling some of its cheapest laptops.

So long Ivanpah and thanks for all the ~~fish~~ clean energy.

I'm sad to see this technology not pan out, but being supplanted by another solar technology is a good outcome too.

Yes and sometimes worse. When a market cannot bear a price increase, the product simply ceases to exist. E.g. a low end $800 bike would never sell at $1,600.

RTO definitely has something to do with it, but I don't think it's a direct cause. Weekend ridership up to and surpassing pre-pandemic levels while weekday ridership has not recovered as well (though still up).

I believe ridership is up because of the new and more frequent trains. 1 hour intervals really suck and while 30 minutes isn't great, it's a whole lot easier to deal with. Weekday intervals were also reduced to sub-15 minutes during traditional peak commute. That's a lot of time savings for a daily rider!

RTO does have an indirect impact: the freeways are always jammed. With partial RTO and split teams, there's not been a return to the in-the-office-at-9am culture. Our local population has grown as well. Highway traffic is all-day now.

Is it really just RTO causing ridership increase if the dilemma faced is a guaranteed sit-in-traffic for an extra 15+ minutes versus a train that runs on time with 15-minute intervals?

Perhaps today you'll also learn about Hellschreiber. Old tech is really clever!