A once-daily supersonic flight might minimize “time in the air” while a once hourly mostly-economy 737 shuttle minimises “time away from home.”

For example, it would make a lot of sense to treat them differently for Apple Pay fraud detection, since passcode + device compromise seems a lot more likely in the real world than compelled Face ID.

Edit: there's a newish feature, Stolen Device Protection, that works along these lines - https://support.apple.com/en-us/120340

Of course an outright ban is pretty extreme, but alternatives to overcoming this information asymmetry are not straightforward. Ideally: compulsory testing and disclosure, if it could be done.

Another is that being cheap, there’s probably quite variable quality.

So it’s not that surprising that experiences vary.

> I don’t draw a salary, so the total amount I earned from TinyPilot in 2023 was $236k.

and

> Result: I worked 35-40 hours per week, a reduction from previous years, and traveled more than any previous year.

This is a person who is effectively full-time CEO of this business and whose market salary is likely at least $236k. If they sold the business, the new owners would have to pay someone else to put in those 35 hours.

Maybe the new owner could employ a less-skilled manager and pay them less, or maybe there's still lots of potential growth or room to cut costs, but that's all quite speculative: right now the business has a profit, and therefore a valuation, closer to zero.

But take an even slightly more complex example: you're on a two lane roadway and the car in the other lane changes into your lane, leaving inadequate stopping distance for you. You brake as hard as you safely can (maybe you have a too-close follower, too), but still there will be a few seconds when you could not, in fact, avert a collision if for some reason the car in front braked.

I have no idea what the legal situation would be: is it their fault if the crash happens within 3 seconds but yours if it happens after you've had time but failed to restablish your needed stopping distance?

Honestly even in the simple one lane case, I doubt you can slam your brakes on the interstate for no reason then expect to avoid any liability for the crash, blaming your follower for following too close.

Driving has a bunch of rules, then an awful lot of common sense and social interaction on top of them to make things actually work.

I suspect that the middle aged in every society feel some closing of the frontier as possibilities seem to collapse and family commitments multiply.

A well-informed 2023 person talking to ChatGPT will quickly establish that it's not a human, but I'm pretty sure a 1950s person doing the same would swear it was human, if an odd human, because they couldn't conceive of a computer being that fluent. But force them into this head-to-head scenario and they will make the right choice.

> It’s like having a big, clunky jalopy that doesn’t go more than 20 miles an hour, but instead of replacing the engine, we’re going to give it a paint job and hope that solves the problem.

then Moynihan was, unfortunately, more like a spit and polish. It's prettier to look at, but the main thing it did was move access for some trains a block further west (presumably away from the densest users as the article suggests of other plans). The basic experience is pretty unchanged (at least the Amtrak & subway experience, which I can speak to)

> Quixilantrofen

> Zylprenostim

"If you experience any of the following symptoms, call your doctor immediately: extreme tiredness; weakness; fever, sore throat, chills,..."

Just to pick one user story, it's a lot harder to check / challenge an itemized receipt if you receive it hours later, once you're already packed things away or eaten some of them.

2019 figures:

* U.S. commercial fishermen landed 9.3 billion pounds of seafood * Americans consumed 6.3 billion pounds of seafood

Given imports are more processed than exports, a part of that difference is presumably waste & less desirable byproducts. So it seems fair to conclude that the US eats pretty close to the amount of seafood that it produces.

In $ terms (because of the value add of processing), US seafood imports are roughly 4x exports.

Source: https://media.fisheries.noaa.gov/2021-05/fus-2019-fact-sheet...

(It's also the period when MCI was challenging AT&T's monopoly - possibly both were able to sell 800 numbers and Whirlpool was splitting their business for some reason. But I think the former is more likely.)