As I said, you’re conflating two issues. I don’t like RTO mandates either! But that’s no reason to claim that trains are inherently uncomfortable or unsafe, and I’m glad you’ve backed away from that absolutist statement

That already exists! Teams Copilot will do exactly that for you today

Agree Gurman is worse, but I looked up Kuo's track record and 70% is what he manages, ie little better than a coin flip.

You're conflating the downsides of not allowing remote working with the perceived downsides of enabling public transport. That's.... muddled. Public transport provides plenty of value beyond commutes, and the future of work and of commuting is mixed modal anyway: people working at home some times and outside the home at other times, and getting around on foot, on bike, on scooter, on buses, trains, metros, light rail, heavy rail, boats, and sometimes private cars too.

The existence of trains does not cause the existence of RTO policies, and trains can be very comfortable and safe, and it's just weird and deeply, deeply American, to claim that they can't.

Am I the only person to recognise his name and know that he has a decidedly mixed record when it comes to predicting future Apple products? He gets it right about 70% of the time, so a little better than a coin toss, but not something I’d use for making money.

One of the most important reasons that many people in European cities don't have cars is that there is great public transport in European cities. For the 20+ years I lived in Hampstead, St Johns Wood, South Hampstead, West Hampstead and Kilburn, I didn't need a car because I had such easy access to multiple tube stations, train stations and buses. Now I live a little further out and while I still have easy access to tube and bus, I do have a car, although we don't use it that often, because there's some journeys that are easier in a car. But I'll happily use tube/train/bus etc. This kind of mixed modal use of transport is super-common in Europe

You have not got a clearly resolved position on this topic.

This is comparing apples and applejacks. If you only care about cost per calorie, people may as just drink canola oil and take a daily vitamin pill. What we really need to do is look at the total cost of living when eating real foods vs packaged trash "food". If we were honest about adding up the related external costs of illness, healthcare, discontent, disability, etc and look at it more holistically, I believe the "cheaper" shit food starts to lose out fast. But nobody wants to do that. Hell, we can't even get people to agree that being a fatass is unhealthy.

And the idea that it costs a lot to eat healthy is a myth that needs to die. Some things are more expensive, sure, but you can make a healthy meal with cheaper options as well. The truth is that people are lazy and addicted to the results of 50 years engineering to create the mouth porn that line most store shelves.

Easy to say when you live in or near London (which as I recall, you do).

There's nothing wrong with local time, and there are good reasons humans have used it literally for as long as we've had clocks. You are trading one mental adjustment -- "what time is it where Bob lives?" -- with a different one -- "what time is it where I am when the sun is directly overhead?" Guess which one you need to worry about more often?

And if you think adjusting to time zones is annoying now when traveling, imagine needing readjust your entire mental model of the solar day - where sunrise, noon, and sunset are on the clock. But hey, I guess you didn't need to adjust your watch. Hurray?

Local time is a "human sized" solution to the problem of timekeeping while UTC is a planet-sized solution to it.

Nonsense. Every single business has a list of their operating hours posted. Some open at 6am, some at 10am. Some are open on Sunday, others closed. Some close for certain holidays, others for others (or none). Some receive deliveries earlier than customers, others don't.

Most people in the US may not be accustomed to the idea of summer hours, but it's not a complicated idea and people would catch on pretty quickly.

You can't really use a wok on any home cooking appliances, regadless of heat source. The only exception are the specialized wok-specific ones some others mentioned, and even those kind of suck because they limit how much you can move the pan around.

I had a gas stovetop for years and a wok (both round and flat-bottom) was pitiful. There's a reason that restaurants basically use a 100K BTU jet engine to cook with a wok. Can you cook food in a wok on a standard stove? Sure. Will it ever be on par with asian restaurants? No. You're better off just using a griddle or flat frying pan on home stoves.

This is just a trope you guys tell yourselves. There’s no evidence basis for it. Where you have public transit, it’s heavily used, even if you won’t do it. You sound like Thatcher about people taking buses (it’s a notorious quote, look it up)

It’s also not true that these reports are more often revised down than up. Instead, they are revised down a bit more often in periods of contraction, up a bit more often in periods of growth, and revised less and in no particular direction in periods of stability

It doesn’t quite work like that. Some users need to prioritise timeliness over accuracy (eg traders and investors) and others need vice versa (eg academics). The former would rather act fast and live with the risk of acting on somewhat inaccurate data. The Fed, for example, cannot afford to wait two months for revisions before making interest rate decisions. Their choice is decide on the basis of incomplete data or decide on the basis of no data.

Here’s a good program about this

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/p...

Todd Howard loved that.

I think even the idea of dropping $250 for a video game is absolutely bonkers, and calling Skyrim "ground-breaking" is being vastly too generous. The only reason Skyrim has had the staying power it has is (1) modders and (2) Bethesda's inability to release more than 1 game every 5-6 years, leading to 10-12 years between each franchise game.

Possibly, but unlikely. The discrepancy would have shown up sooner. The most obvious explanation for the discrepancy is that the economy is weakening faster than the CES birth-death model can respond.