Back when I had the time to follow the tour closely, I remember one of the TTs (2014 or 2015) had a significant downhill. Froome’s team changed him to a more aero bike at the top of the hill (aerodynamics would matter immensely on a downhill), and I’ve always wondered if what they really did was put him on a bike…

This is true, but because of the lack of the union, they can’t be sure that their lack-of-driving would actually make an impact, because they wouldn’t know if everyone else would also shut off the app. It is entirely possible for 100% of uber’s drivers to want to make a statement, but the rational action for every…

Honestly, it’s not a terrible idea, as a way to compensate for his anti-refugee policies. IF he actually deploys the troops to properly defend it, police its inhabitants (6-7 digits of displaced unhappy civilians aren’t going to be entirely peaceable), then it’s not a bad idea.

I embedded this in another post, but as a guy who has run two (one into a quiet but slightly profitable twilight, one starting up much faster than we expected), here’s a tip for customers:

I’m now on my second side business (#1 earned about $30k, $10k of that profit to me), here are my tips. #2 has taken in about $240k revenue in 5 months and has great potential if we don’t screw it up.

Apparently “fire” is an adjective that someone is trying to make happen.

The reason they’re still better than cabs is exactly the reason they’re losing tons of money. Why are Ubers all late-model cars? Because it mandates it. In order to do that, it has to pay drivers more (or subsidize their leases) so that it makes financial sense for them. So the passenger is paying the same amount,…

EPO would give you a good boost in cycling and running, and with the Ironman distance ratios heavily favouring cycling and running, it’d be well worth it.

It’s actually brilliant: One drunk gun-nut will start shooting to settle an argument about whose lives matter, then all the other drunk gun nuts will think he’s an active shooter and start shooting. Then all the drunk gun nuts near them will shoot the 2nd-generation shooters, and so on until all the gun nuts are dead.

I wish (but don’t think) this will happen, but oh man would it bring the drama. Both are uncompromising on track and don’t really care what people think of they do on track. They’d probably put each other into the wall more in one season than Rosberg/Hamilton did in 3.

For that type of generic commodity, it’s 100% about the opportunity for name recognition for the advertising company. When you need some flooring and they’re the only company you can even think of that sells flooring locally, you’ll probably at least explore their pricing.

If there’s a crack in the tube, you decelerate from the increased atmospheric resistance. There would be _more_ oxygen for you to breath compared to if there wasn’t a crack in the tube (since most hyperloop designs are a semi-vacuum, and a crack would let air in).

In the ultra-strict world of being a passenger, I’m not sure I’d want to be able to do something potentially described as “unauthorized access to computing systems” while on a plane, lest I become very good friends with the FBI once I land. Especially not to save $10.

Another thought is that the Lotus team has shown sparks of quality -they were right up there a couple seasons ago. Might’ve been a fluke, but it’s quite possible it was like Hamilton/Mercedes: he probably got a look at their preliminary data and saw it was good. To step down from Force India when they might be 4th…

NFL Gamepass in Canada (don’t know about USA) actually has an accelerated-game option where the NFL edits out the bullshit. 30 minutes per game, though it does take some focus to remember (ok, it’s 2nd and 4 for the Browns), because there’s no announcer to help. Great to put on during a workout.

Circa 2012, the Prius C (of all things) had a pretty solid variety of extremely bright colours.

I’m all for idiots on the field, but apparently it’s not all harmless - if you’re an adult, in many jurisdictions you can end up with criminal charges. Unless they drop them, which they might.

Since the plane seemed to be moving under its own power, I bet the swerve right was moreso the van getting sucked towards the engine rather than something the driver chose to do.

Perhaps more importantly, two-stroke engines aren’t so good for the environment, in part because some of the fuel/air mixture shoots out the exhaust before ever undergoing combustion, and in part because there’s oil in the fuel, and burning oil tends to produce all sorts of Ice-Cap Melting gases.

This really just feels like what F1 has been struggling with: The fundamental problem is that Sky wins all the time which makes it boring, just like Merc always wins in F1.