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Could this be a form of assisted obsolescence, in which a user who has owned a device for a few years is being subliminally urged to buy a new model?

The contractor could increase their profit at very little cost simply by getting more people to apply for the same limited number of reservations. Dark pattern, perverse incentive, or profit model? Does even Ticketmaster have that level of chutzpah?

[0] FTA: https://www.nps.gov/glac/planyourvisit/gtsrticketedentry.htm

Coming soon, RTO Googlers lobbying for building code changes. Let's hope any demonstrations are not, uhm, too demonstrative.

I’m reading this as a pattern of prospective customers asking for more features, and the downward trend being that of the number of “missing” features.

As your installed base grows, the number of features supported and requested will tend to grow faster than the number of users grows. Users will always want more features. Even if you support 3 ways of doing the same thing, users will want more ways of doing it, ways that better fit their in-house work flow, or the work flow of some other software they have used elsewhere or in the past.

Your boss and the founder are in growth mode. They want more users and want more features to get more users, of course. But, at some point, the number of features and the number of interactions of those features will start to become a burden on the company, unless it is successful beyond the wildest dreams of avarice, and can afford to hire faster than the burden grows.

You, and your boss and the founder, should start thinking about a future time when you can feel that the product is nearly feature-complete, and thinking about what the natural limits of its feature set might be. If you start that now, you have a chance of having a coherent set of features in a supportable whole.

In the cold calculus of ground warfare, a wounded combatant in the field is more valuable to the opposition than a dead combatant precisely because a dead person needs less support from their fellows. Rapid medevac has changed the historical wounded:killed ratio from about 3:1 to about 4:1 in recent US ground wars. Getting a wounded combatant to definitive medical care in the first hour after they are injured makes a huge difference in outcomes, which benefits troop morale.

I see his actions and decisions as professional photo-journalism, and see the entire fabulous confection of misinformation, decoration, confusion, blame, and apparently outright lies as a classic coverup of misinformation - once the fable is public, all involved either have to go along, or to contradict it: “When the legend becomes fact, print the legend.”

Does Capa share blame? Of course. But so do a dozen or more others who embellished, invented, and went along with the story. Should he have stayed on the beach, or with the command group and gotten more shots? Not if he wanted to get the shots he went for published on deadline.

Presumably the clinic is not seeing 500 patients/customers per day, xor is a very large facility that thus should be findable.

Eye-roll. So, trans-ocean shipping to start, perhaps not to the USA or only to coastal USA locations, like the SST/Concorde. Medium to low density cargos, time-sensitive, perhaps high-value. What is too heavy to ship by plane, but needs to go faster than by boat? I would assume the use of some kind of lightweight container module, more like a fiberglass "Pod" or an aluminum air(plane)freight container.

Yes, local producers at farmer’s markets still offer foods produced without pesticides, herbicides, and chemical fertilizers.

Yes, farmers of any size or scale can rationally balance the market prices of organic products against the expenses of pesticides, herbicides, and chemical fertilizers, the costs of application, and the potentially lower crop yields from doing without them.

But if there is no testing of products, no certification of crops versus farmland, no auditable paper trail from soil to seed to plant to crop to mill, the “organic” has as much meaning as “improved” or “healthy” in the marketplace, and is wide-open to the type of fraud described in this article.

So, the “boss discovered”? In any case, this seems like another facet of the impression of privacy and solitude at the keyboard, made possible by one’s apparent separation from “real life”. Another facet is that of people whose online behavior is far from what they would exhibit in person, or in a public meeting. _Caveat poster_

Elected officials transfer all their equity assets into one or more funds before taking office and get shares in the fund.

When they leave office, they can receive the current cash value of their shares, without any capital gains tax, or can get their original contributions back, if the fund still holds them.

If the country did well, the fund did well, and so do those who were elected. Optionally, make this available to all government employees at the federal, state, and local levels, and generally to individual investors.

That says so much about life in France - the fierce independence of even the smallest bureaucracies, and the stalwart patience of the citizens dealing with them.

> California’s $6 billion almond industry, which produces roughly 80% of the world's almonds.

> California almond production grew from 370 million pounds (nearly 168 million kilograms) in 1995 to a record 3.1 billion pounds (1.4 billion kilograms) in 2020, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture. During that period, land planted with almond trees grew from 756 square miles (1,958 square kilometers) to 2,500 square miles (6,475 square kilometers).

Works well in an electric oven, haven’t tried it in a self-cleaning gas oven. Search online for more details, other opinions, videos. Still skeptical? Try it on the ugliest & cheapest thrift store pan you can find as a test.

Compare that volume to the historic/nominal annual flow of the Colorado River at 16.5 million acre feet (per a 100 year old compact). That would be a big pipeline or canal to build or pump. Electric, heat, and carbon costs for desalinization plants would be equally infeasible.

Yes, price water at market values, drive aquifer mining done to zero, and beyond to replenish, and let the market decide if almonds or pistachios are more valuable than other choices.

Any Intuit employees who at competent at tax preparation could be employed by the IRS, which takes in 4-6 dollars for every 1 dollar it costs. Win/win. Would never happen.