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Second hand smoke is a large (almost overwhelming) factor in SIDS. Also for people who don't smoke, it smells f--king disgusting. Nobody wants to deal with that in their life.

United has already cut flights by 5%, the article says KLM is cutting ~1% of their flights, both citing fuel shortages. If giant companies on opposite sides of the Atlantic, are saying this is an issue, it's probably worth taking their word for it

KLM is citing fuel price, not shortage. They’re cutting under utilized flights which they cannot perform profitably at current prices. They’ve explicitly said it’s not because of a shortage.

https://nieuws.klm.com/statement-situatie-midden-oosten/


Aren't those identical things? Shortage of commodity X, relative to demand, drives up prices for X.

A shortage can also be physical. The fuel you already bought (and possibly paid for) cannot be delivered. Maybe the actual delivery is the issue. Maybe a government confiscated it for other uses. Or maybe the fuel doesn't exist at all, because the refinery didn't have the oil to produce it.

https://news.klm.com/statement-situation-middle-east/

> ... due to rising kerosene costs, are currently no longer financially viable to operate. There is no kerosene shortage.


10 minutes a day of extreme power usage is probably fine for people asking for directions to the store, setting calendar reminders, timers, checking for important emails etc. AI on your phone will be incredibly useful but power usage doesn't matter when total usage is less than 15 minutes per day. I don't think the average person expects to vibe code on the phone for 8 hours a day.

10 minutes a day or 15 minutes a day is what the inference workload is like on fairly small models. Once you start streaming in weights from SSD, things slow down quite a bit and become quite power hungry.

Harbor freight sells three tiers of many of their more popular tools and they're not shy about it. Most of their signage says "ok/better/best" and they're very transparent about what you're buying. I can buy a $9 angle grinder and on the same shelf I an also buy a $85 angle grinder, with the "better" model running ~$25-40. Harbor Freight used to have exclusively cheap junk but their "better" tier stuff is more than adequate for home DIYers

It probably helps that the founder is still the owner. Once that guy or his son dies (he's getting up there) it would not suprise me if the brand spirals into decay.


Hottest day of the year in the US varies by 3 months from California to Texas, which is only about half the width of the country. I would imagine the region you're in has a different hottest day of the year from say Kashmir or your neighbor Sri Lanka.

The three months difference must be based on a wild corner case. What cities are you basing that statement on?

I played around with weatherspark and all the places I tried looked like this :

https://weatherspark.com/compare/y/1705~8813/Comparison-of-t...


I don't know whether to call it a corner case or not, but I was pretty easily able to find this one (based on my own experience – the peak temperature in the East Bay has always felt very late in the year): https://weatherspark.com/compare/y/541~3268/Comparison-of-th...

3 months? Wow. It should be impossible to put seasons on a shared calendar for the whole country.

You can get some black "machinist's layout bluing" which will stain it better than a sharpie would. It's not going to be a perfect color match but better than 50%

>while ensuring you can't do inconvenient things like say, bulk exporting your own data

I think this is the key; I want my analysts to be able to access 40% of the database they need to do their job, but not the other 60% parts that would allow them to dump the business-secrets part of the db, and start up business across the street. You can do this to some extent with roles etc but MCP in some ways is the data firewall as your last line of protection/auth.


I'm pretty sure you just described Little Caesar's Pizza business model. I recall way back they were $5 but even today here in California their large pepperoni is only $10 where competitors are charging $27-35

The studies go back way earlier than that; there's a reason why they call them "newspaper columns"


You need a non-electronic way to bill land owners for property taxes. That's it. Physical snail-mail is the de-facto way for the government to legally serve property taxes and other bills to private citizens. Yes we live in 2026 and everyone has email, but there's no legal requirement to give the government your email address, or even have one. You are however, legally required to provide a mailing address for your property tax bill to be sent to.

Sure, by that standard we could probably reduce to weekly or even monthly mail service. It's been suggested since at least 2008 we drop Tuesday mail service as almost nobody sends mail on Saturdays and there's no mail service on Sundays.


Who says anything about e-mail? Government could legislate specific government electronic inboxes, with e-mail and SMS notifications of delivery, as has been happening in several, if not all EU countries.

I haven't got a snail mail from my government for years at this point, nor did I needed to send one that way.


I pay all of my property taxes online.


That's wonderful: the option of a payment portal isn't the point. The purpose of snail mail is process can be served prior to seizing/applying a lien on the property when you don't pay (online or otherwise.)


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