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There was a time not so long ago when the vendors would bring the products to you<\/a>. The Watkins Man was in my mind a panel truck that carried dry goods to the folks who lived in the country or didn\u2019t have transportation to go to a store. They specialized in baking goods and medical supplies of its time along with items of this and that. As a matter of fact that truck would carry over four hundred items that the house wife just couldn\u2019t do without and thanks to him they didn\u2019t have to. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Federal Aviation Administration is prohibited<\/a> from creating safety regulations for private spaceflights until October 2023. Initiatives like AstroAccess are aiming to guide the way that government agencies think about accessibility on spaceflights.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Data from the mobile-app research firm Flurry<\/a> indicates that only 15% of U.S. consumers opt into tracking<\/a> when offered the choice\u2014no surprise, given that the only advantage for consumers is that the ads they see are more targeted. In August, Flurry noted that at least 80% of iOS devices had been updated to versions of the software with the new tougher ad standard.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We can see this secular move as a kind of Christianization of society\u2014a fulfillment of Jesus\u2019s Sermon on the Mount.<\/a> And yet, in thinking we can make good on the sermon simply by redistributing wealth or legally enforcing \u201cequity,\u201d however defined, is to make light of the paradox and dissonance of Constantine\u2019s Sword.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

At the point at which we all had an iPhone in our pocket, we expanded<\/a> greatly into bricks and mortar<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Haiku thread<\/a> follows. If a pandemic caused by a new bat-derived sars-like virus breaks out in a city and The city has no similar viruses in its local bats and Has no sars-like antibodies in its people and Has no infected animals in its markets and\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Comparison of damages (in %) when shipped in raffia baskets vs plastic crates<\/a>, accounting for stacking layers; Source: Babarinsa et al 2018<\/p>\n\n\n\n

WEAC: $1.57 million for Four Wisconsin Senators<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The eviction moratorium<\/a> hit mom-and-pop landlords hardest.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Clement and Tribe nailed it<\/a>. Catastrophic delays, with disastrous consequences for patient care is exactly what happened.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Location Data Firm<\/a> Got GPS Data From Apps Even When People Opted Out<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Imagine if Zuck picked the next CEO of Facebook by appointing his smartest-seeming son rather than whichever executive was most capable. Do that for five generations <\/a>and you\u2019d have the NYT.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Policies should incentivize<\/a> employment; not discourage it. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

YouTube is about to pull its apps from Roku<\/a>, and the fight is going all the way to Congress<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Today, about 400 MAXs are back flying. But Boeing’s business and reputation<\/a> have not recovered<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A bureaucrat insisting<\/a> that stacked containers are an eyesore, causing freight to pile up because trucks are stuck sitting on empty containers, thus causing a cascading failure that destroys supply lines and brings down the economy. That certainly sounds like something that was in an early draft of Atlas Shrugged but got crossed out as too preposterous for anyone to take seriously. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hospital Prices Are Arbitrary<\/a>. Just Look at the Kingsburys\u2019 $100,000 Bill.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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