The same people then also argued that Israel's bombing of Gaza was a mechanical, inevitable consequence of Oct 7 which it couldn't be held morally responsible for.

It's also worth noting that Netflix faced exactly the same innovator's dilemma as Blockbuster. They also had a successful DVD rental business which their new streaming business directly competed with.

They did launch their internet streaming service in 2001 (six years before Netflix). Sadly they partnered with Enron to handle the technology side of things.

I've been opening the links in incognito mode. It avoids the error page.

I was a fan of the old Dutch approach of charging capital gains tax with an assumed rate of return. Why should the Exchequer suffer just because someone sucks at investing?

About the same going into pumped storage as being generated by gas - also a technical win!

The UK is being sold literally the same story!

"The airbases are being used for strictly defensive missions only. Don't ask what defensive missions require B-1 Lancers."

Idk who needs to hear this but ACAB includes economists

Weren't the Green Goddesses the Bedford military fire engines which were pushed into service during the firefighters' strikes in the early '00s?

It's hugely deteriorated in quality in the past few years. Closed businesses remaining on maps for years, poor updates to road layouts, unhinged photograph choices, etc.

Amazing! Can do a difference-in-differences along the border!

National Grid: Live Shows the live status of Great Britain’s electric power transmission network

It's from grid.iamkate.com A fantastic site I check far too much.

I guess it's better than them getting similar advice from Secured By Design

Is there an entire floor which they've left off the floorplan? From the outside view, there are four stories.

Even if set to private, Strava still leaks data through things like segment leaderboards. This has been exploited by creating "fake" segments in military bases.

www.theguardian.com/world/2022/j...

Also, the Harrying of the North which followed the Norman Conquest was genocide-adjacent

I would simply rob the smug, omniscient alien in Newcomb's problem, gaining $1,001,000 and a cool spaceship

Merger blocked after lawyers Simpson Thacher miss deadline for appeal Law firm, where partners are paid an average of $7.7mn, says mistake was because of its ‘misinterpretation of the rules’

Classic regulatory off-by-one error here.

Turns out that if the decision was published on a Thursday, and the deadline for appeal is "within four weeks", then appealling on the Friday after the fourth Thursday is too late.

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A long-distance Katyn

Has everybody forgotten Operation Prosperity Guardian?

We've already established that the US Navy is incapable of keeping sea lanes open, even against a far less capable enemy.

CMA: "The chair of the competition watchdog’s cloud inquiry has quit, saying he is frustrated at the slow pace of action against Microsoft and Amazon, while also citing concerns about its wider independence" www.themorningintelligence.uk/cma-cloud-in...

Pop album release days linked to spike in US fatal crashes : What do Taylor Swift and Drake's release days have to do with road deaths? More than you’d think

Couldn't find a public version of the full paper, sadly

This article has some more details and findings, including that the rise in fatalities is higher for cars with Apple Carplay, showing that these features encourage greater phone use and driver distraction

www.theregister.com/2026/02/23/p...

Smartphones, Online Music Streaming, and Traffic Fatalities Founded in 1920, the NBER is a private, non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to conducting economic research and to disseminating research findings among academics, public policy makers, an...

On days when major new albums release in the US, music streaming increases by 40% and road deaths by 15%. Indicates that phone use and distraction are behind lots of road deaths

Paper uses an event study design and controls for lots of fixed effects to isolate the impact

www.nber.org/papers/w34866

The Conservatives really didn't campaign at all - it's hardly fertile ground for them, but seems to border on "unofficial pact" behaviour

Hawaii?

Account is fully AI

Q: Could I follow up, Mr. Secretary, on what you just said, please? In regard to Iraq weapons of mass destruction and terrorists, is there any evidence to indicate that Iraq has attempted to or is willing to supply terrorists with weapons of mass destruction? Because there are reports that there is no evidence of a direct link between Baghdad and some of these terrorist organizations. Rumsfeld: Reports that say that something hasn't happened are always interesting to me, because as we know, there are known knowns; there are things we know we know. We also know there are known unknowns; that is to say we know there are some things we do not know. But there are also unknown unknowns -- the ones we don't know we don't know. And if one looks throughout the history of our country and other free countries, it is the latter category that tend to be the difficult ones.

As an answer to the very clear and direct question he was asked though, it kinda sucks.

So many hospitals are hostile to pedestrians, with the sites accessed from dangerous main roads, and then an ocean of parking with uncontrolled crossings.

Smoking is completely banned from hospital sites, in a recognition they shouldn't be unhealthy places. They should widen that thinking.

The people in the west miss that the whole dark forest thing is actually about living in China during the cultural revolution, and nothing to do with actual aliens

It's time to end the disastrous Westphalian experiment