It’s now stacked on top of everything, which is a style trend I find very annoying

I think a late game situation is the only place it makes sense. Anywhere else and the risk of a big inning greatly outweighs the risk of saving a run (the article you link does mention that, though it focuses on the 2-out scenario). I’m not sure how much having no outs changes anything besides having worse chances of…

I’m pretty sure the odds of giving up 0 runs are better if you walk the guy. You are right that the odds of a good outcome are tiny, but that’s also true with two runners in scoring position and no outs. Having the force at home gives you an extra chance for a good outcome, and even if they can’t get the guy at home,…

I mean that’s normal? It sets up a force at home, and the double play. 

Seems like we need to extend the nets to protect the batter’s box.

This is all Ivies.

I mean we did toss him in the ocean...

They give a bit of detail on how they test here:

no matter how much money gets thrown toward Volkswagen’s top sedan, buyers in this model year still won’t have great visibility going down the road.

And it is. I think something like 22% of the normal budget and 28% of the peacekeeping budget. That is about right, I think US GDP is something like 24% of world GDP. Also the US doesn’t really have that much control at the UN, the security council seat is powerful, but plenty of other countries with much lower…

Your info is way out of date. It’s true that the US didn’t pay its dues for quite a while, but the US straightened that out in 1999 as a result of the Helms-Biden Act.

Last I saw a judge was deciding between two bankruptcy proposals, one which would pay out around $20B, mostly to insurers, and another which would pay out $30B, with a relatively even split between insurers and victims (and would give them equity in the post bankruptcy company). Obviously, PG&E’s creditors would love…

They normally do. But they look like garbage, they aren’t especially light or aerodynamic, and they aren’t especially durable.

They normally do. But they look like garbage, they aren’t especially light or aerodynamic, and they aren’t…

Lots a places allow you to choose an energy producer, but you are still normally stuck with one distribution company, since building multiple delivery networks doesn’t make a ton of sense, so you’d probably still be stuck with PG&E’s crappy wiring, regardless of where the power was coming from.

So this is obviously a concern about liability, rather than a concern for safety given the relatively recent change.

This is of course why they are converting their “helicopter destroyers” to fly the F-35.

Google of course largely gave up on China. And recently abandoned their efforts to launch a new search engine there due largely to user privacy concerns.

Well they aren’t wrong...

2016 was its first (and best) year on the U.S. scene, generating 7,153 units. Demand for the convertible gradually decreased as the years went by, dropping to 5,595 in 2017, 4,136 in 2018, and to just 2,458 cars so far this year.

It’s about 80 miles at the shortest point, and more like 100 miles average. That’s well within the range of China’s S-300 launchers, but hitting a small maneuverable target at that distance still isn’t easy. And of course if we did go to war, these SAM sites would be priority targets for F-35 and B-2, as well as…