- > Not a great regulatory move, in my opinion.
> But I really wish ad companies would implement this rule across the board.
I genuinely don’t know how you could get your wish without regulation. You can’t expect all players in the ad game to follow self enforced rules if there’s any possibility that not following a self-imposed rule (“all ads must have a skip button”) will bring a competitive advantage. As soon as one player decides to take that advantage, all will. Back to square one.
- This would show the big difference between the Euro and US lottery formats, where (typically) in Euro lotteries, the government takes taxes on the stake and so the jackpot is tax free, whereas in US the prize is taxed as income or windfall. This is one of the reasons why US lottery jackpots tend to be stated as much bigger than Euro ones despite having a larger purchaser pool.
- Zillow estimates that home as $1.5 million.
That’s not far off the current median home sales price in San Francisco and easily the median home price in many, many upper middle class neighborhoods across the country.
How many households in the US can afford a $1.5m home? Assuming they need $400k then we can see that that’s a 95th percentile household income in the US, which translates to about 6 million of the US’s total 135 million households.
Redfin has data showing about 8 million homes are worth $1 million plus, so 5 to 6 million households at the $1.5m mark seems about right as an estimate - or put another way - about 5% of US households could afford Warren Buffets home (but maybe not on a 95th percentile income in Omaha, Nebraska).
https://www.redfin.com/news/million-dollar-homes-increasing/
- The German Tank Problem springs to mind. While not precisely the same problem, it’s still a case where more information that necessary is leaked in seemingly benign IDs. For the Germans, they leaked production volumes. For UUID v7, you’re leaking timing and timestamps.
- Reminds me of the short-lived Windows SideShow display on a few laptops (~2003):
- A recent episode of The Ancients talks about how oil and mineral exploration companies have been sharing their seismic mapping data of Doggerland with archeologists:
https://shows.acast.com/the-ancients/episodes/doggerland-the...
Partnering with industries that are mapping areas is certainly the only cost effective way for academic to work in submerged landscapes:
https://archaeology.org/issues/march-april-2022/letters-from...
- Carry on policy has triggered an arms race for passengers and carry on size. I usually just bring a small backpack because it’s convenient and I don’t want to lug two bags through the airport.
Recently, certain airlines have announced that small bags must go under seats so there’s room in overhead storage for roller bags. There goes my leg room and any incentive to pack smaller with just one small backpack.
Now, I’m incentivized to bring the maximum size carry on so that I get overhead space and don’t have to shove smaller bags next to my feet.
- It’s surprising what range of pitch size and slope are allowed in professional football.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Football_pitch
While FIFA recommends a specific size for pro teams, a legal pitch can have widths range from 46 to 91 metres and lengths of 91 to 119 metres. That’s a possible ratio range of 1:1 to 1:2.58.
I could imagine that stadium upgrades have meant that pitches don’t have as much variation as in the past too.
- Speed bumps? Oh! You mean speed humps or sleeping policemen or speed tables or traffic thresholds or speed cushions or rumble strips or…
- > He gets a crew of talented people to report to him on day 1
The Digitial Service was pitched initially as a way for technologists to serve the country. The payscale was peanuts compared to most tech companies. I suspect some of the best will leave if the mission no longer aligns with their values, because they certainly weren’t doing it for the money.
- We can all help in a small way. Archive.org is a non-profit and always needs financial support.
- We’re three decades in with the web and it’s pretty clear that voluntary payment nudges don’t work. Most people won’t pay for free content after they’ve consumed it. Humans need an extra incentive to pay for free content.
This is why so many sponsorship platforms are effectively subscription models with additional exclusive content or early access. And for that to work, you need more than just a payment button, you need a content publishing platform that will handle all the subs and content gating.
- How can there be competition when no one will tell you their prices?
Pick any major city in the US and tell me how an ordinary consumer can compare prices for a simple procedure like a chest xray. It’s not possible. Now how does one shop around for a cancer doctor or an ER visit?
Medicine is not a classical marketplace. Homo economicus doesn’t play his part.
- Literally the first sentence of the Bitcoin paper states that it was designed for peer to peer cash transactions:
- And… predictably, johnsmith.com ends up offering no utility to any of the John Smiths out there because it’s being held for ransom by a squatter:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File_Allocation_Table#FAT32