Which would make the timing an odd coincidence, but would explain everything else.

Tesla’s kind of, sort of done this by software-limiting batteries on some models, but the issue is that it ends up being a trade off, since you’d be lopping 20% off range without saving a dime.

If Nintendo sold a portrait Game Boy in the same vein as the (S)NES Mini, they could make a killing. They could probably even get $50-$60 out of people for a B&W version one year, just to get that much again for a color one the next.

And it wasn’t nearly as durable as the Game Boy. Short of dunking the Game Boy in liquid, the thing was damn-near invincible, which was important for a device that frequently ended up in kids hands.

That’s the confusing part: If the issue existed before the gas was at the police station, you’d think people all over the county would have engine troubles, especially considering how many gas stations probably rely on a single supplier, and how many cars fill up at the same station over and over.

I was going to say just that - from one angle, I think “nice Mazda,” from another, it really looks like a Audi and a Mercedes designer got together and sketched a hatch under strict instructions to make the car look just a little bit cheaper.

A lot of Jalop readers are registered to vote in the US. That means we get a say in who’s president, and can call/write/whatever our other elected officials letting them know where we stand.

Exactly. The problem is that, despite all the strides they’ve made in 30 years, American automakers still haven’t been able to create manufacturing techniques that are adaptable enough to produce a range of quality vehicles.

Jeez, 20%? I’ve seen bars that have that charge say, 35%, but they list it as a “gratuity” - as in, we’re charging you for being a drunk idiot/asshole, but the tip is included.

That’s a good point about bonuses putting some people in a different category for the purpose of government benefits that I hadn’t thought about.

$1,000 is a lot of money to a lot of people, considering that most Americans said that they couldn’t cover a $1,000 unplanned emergency.

While it’s true that the headline US corporate rate is higher than most OECD countries, the effective rate is pretty average. Yes, that means that we’ve got all kinds of weird economic distortion going on as corporations structure their businesses partly around our tax system rather than, you know, making goods and…

But what about the poor accountants you’d be putting out of work?! How could you?!

I’m not sure what you’re trying to answer? I think we’re agreed that you need to develop a hypothesis and then an experiment to test that hypothesis specifically. I’m just saying, you should always look at your dataset and see if there’s anything that looks clearly weird/wrong in it, and while you’re doing it, it…

Right, and even if your study design was more-or-less right to answer the question, the fact is, without designing it to test the specific hypothesis, you might miss something important, just because you weren’t designing things properly.

In my experience, a lot of non-science people don’t “get” why P-hacking is so bad. The problem is that the way most scientists explain it, it sounds like you disregard observations that are actually in the data.

Also re:Mexico: As you hinted, engineering of roads and the social mechanics (as in, how do others see lanes, merging, etc.) of driving can be very different, particularly in large cities.

I’m really, really not sure that what the bus driver is doing counts as “running,” based on his posture and the fact that the two women who appear after the bus driver seem to catch up with him pretty quickly.

Ha! Good to know. So this whole thing did cost Nissan Motors money. It also explains why it looks like the car company pushed for what amounted to a “gag order” for what Uzi would put on his own domain, since they were concerned about lost sales after people read about the suit.

Do we know that that’s the case? The article says that Uzi Nissan spent over $3m fighting this, which is probably less than what the car company spent - Uzi didn’t pay himself for time he spent on the suit reading documents and “managing” the lawyers he hired, but Nissan (the company) had to, plus the burden was on…