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I don't understand why these cars aren't making it to the U.S.
I'd buy one in a heartbeat.
https://www.arenaev.com/byd_e2_honor_edition_enters_chinas_price_war_-news-3275.php

BYD e2 Honor Edition debuts with $12,400 price tag
The BYD e2 Honor Edition throws down the gauntlet with an ultra-low price and impressive standard features, aiming to bring EV adoption to the masses.

"fifth proposed rate hike in two years": Dejoy needs to go
USPS stamps price 2024: July increase to Forever Stamp cost proposed
https://www.axios.com/2024/04/10/postage-stam…

Postal Service proposes one of its biggest-ever stamp price hikes
The price of postage stamps could increase by 5 cents in July under a new United States Postal Service proposal.

The FCC votes to make cable and satellite TV providers show the total cost of services, including fees for TV station signals and regional sports programming (Todd Shields/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

Cable, Satellite-TV Firms to Show Single Price, No Hidden Fees Under FCC Rule
Cable and satellite-TV providers will need to make sure bills and ads clearly display a total price for video subscribers, including extra fees that can amount to hundreds of dollars a year, under a rule adopted Thursday by the Federal Communications Commission.

“#Cable and #satellite-#TV providers will need to make sure bills and ads clearly display a total price for video subscribers, including extra fees that can amount to hundreds of dollars a year…”

Cable, Satellite-TV Firms to Show Single Price, No Hidden Fees Under FCC Rule
Cable and satellite-TV providers will need to make sure bills and ads clearly display a total price for video subscribers, including extra fees that can amount to hundreds of dollars a year, under a rule adopted Thursday by the Federal Communications Commission.

Tesla drops the price of its Full Self-Driving software subscription, which the company now calls FSD (Supervised), from $199 per month to $99 per month (Rebecca Bellan/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2024/04/12/tesla-drops-fsd-price-to-99-per-mon…

Tesla drops FSD price to $99 per month in US | TechCrunch
Tesla has slashed the price of its Full Self-Driving (FSD) software subscription to $99 per month, down from $199 per month, as the electric vehicle maker

My wife & I are considering downsizing so I'm getting reacquainted with the real estate market. Web surfing led me to this Property Price Index by City. It ranks cities worldwide by how many years it would take to buy a home (ratio of median housing prices to median disposable income). Vancouver is the most expensive at 16.5 years (#54 worldwide) and Toronto is 2nd at 13.9 (#86). The most affordable? Edmonton is 4 years.

Peloton's Demise: Flailing Company Is Headed for Fitness Fad Graveyard
https://www.businessinsider.com/peloton-earnings-stock-price-problems-ceo-leaves-layoffs-fitn…

Peloton's demise: flailing company is headed for fitness fad graveyard
The at-home-cycling company was riding high during the pandemic. What went wrong?

How did Credit Card companies get the license to keep price gouging late fees? Follow the money!
https://thedemlabs.org/2024/05/15/credit-card-cap-blocked-by-trump-appointed-judge-win-for-banks/

Credit late fee cap blocked by Trump appointed judge
Credit Card Companies Get License To Keep Price Gouging Late Fees

🤔 "Every time I buy more, the price drops more": Trump supporters grapple with Truth Social losses | Salon.com
https://www.salon.com/2024/04/15/every-time-i-buy-more-the-price-drops-more-supporters-…

"Every time I buy more, the price drops more": Trump supporters grapple with Truth Social losses
Many invested in Truth Social to support former President Donald Trump, but steep losses are testing their faith

Trump’s Truth Social shares fall again.
And again, and again, and oops rock bottom.

https://www.axios.com/2024/04/15/trump-truth-social-stock-shares-price-down-why

If the price of admission to your community is genocide denial, the price is too damn high. No, thank you.

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2309.15423 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csGT_…

Prosumers Participation in Markets: A Scalar-Parameterized Function Bidding Approach
In uniform-price markets, suppliers compete to supply a resource to consumers, resulting in a single market price determined by their competition. For sufficient flexibility, producers and consumers prefer to commit to a function as their strategies, indicating their preferred quantity at any given market price. Producers and consumers may wish to act as both, i.e., prosumers. In this paper, we examine the behavior of profit-maximizing prosumers in a uniform-price market for resource allocation…

U.S. stamp prices are going up again. How do they compare globally? : NPR https://www.npr.org/2024/04/12/1244273973/forever-stamp-cost-price-going-up-usps-postage

Tesla drops the price of its Full Self-Driving software subscription, which the company now calls FSD (Supervised), from $199 per month to $99 per month (Rebecca Bellan/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2024/04/12/tesla-drops-fsd-price-to-99-per-mon…

Tesla drops FSD price to $99 per month in US | TechCrunch
Tesla has slashed the price of its Full Self-Driving (FSD) software subscription to $99 per month, down from $199 per month, as the electric vehicle maker

"First Day of Summer"
Price: $194,366.44

Good blog post from SEAI (Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland) on something that may have gone unnoticed: #EV price parity
https://www.seai.ie/blog/evs-price-parity/

Electric Vehicles: Reaching Price Parity
Conor, from our EV team, examines the latest trends in the EV market and asks if we’ve reached price parity yet.

Chief commodities analyst at SEB bank says oil’s price is “a totally artificial price controlled by Opec.” I’m old enough to remember when the narrative was that US shale production (fracking) had changed all that and made the US the world’s swing producer. But that was always going to be a short-term position. A gazillion unconventional, high-cost wells with high decline rates were never going to compete long term with giant conventional fields like Ghawar.

Markets brace for oil to hit $100 as Saudi slashes production
Oil prices are poised to hit $100 a barrel by May, analysts have warned, as Saudi Arabia extends supply cuts.

IIRC, there is good research work backing up this from @…: people who’ve been taken in by a con will cling desperately to the con rather than admit (to others and themselves) that they were conned. People are willing to pay a •very• high price to avoid shame.
Rather than taking this only as a judgmental insult (however well deserved), I’m interested in t…

Church of Jeff (@jeffowski@mastodon.world)
Attached: 1 image #MAGA

Great read by Ed Zitron: https://www.wheresyoured.at/are-we-watching-the-internet-die/

Are We Watching The Internet Die?
Sometime this month, Reddit will go public at a valuation of $6.5bn. Select Redditors were offered the chance to buy stock at the initial listing price, which it hasn’t announced yet but is expected to be in the range of $31-34 per share. Regardless of the actual price,

Man, not again. #Apple sells seriously under-specced devices to maintain their “starting from…” price and then upselling people to actually-usable models. Remember those 16 GB flash iPhones they kept selling (2010–2016! I checked!), even though that meant people didn’t even have enough space to update their OS? 8 GB RAM is that, once more, but for runtime memory.
I think the 256 GB flash, 8 GB R…

“Under Peter Dutton’s leadership they are still doing what the Coalition has been focused on doing for 10 years,” Zali Steggall tells Mike Seccombe, “which is trying desperately to keep more coal and gas in the system for as long as possible.”
https://www.

‘The most beige person’: The man behind the Coalition’s nuclear plans
Just two months after the 2019 election, Barnaby Joyce was making trouble for the new Morrison government. The dumped Nationals leader was part of a group of maverick MPs pushing for nuclear power. He reckoned he knew a way to make such a policy saleable. The Joyce plan, as articulated in The Sydney Morning Herald on July 21, was this: “If you can see the reactor [from your house], your power is for free. If you are within 50 kilometres of a reactor, you get power for half price.”

I guess I couldn't get a price on a bet on DNS as root cause of MacD's outage?
#Macdonalds

Grocery prices fall for the first time in months as inflation slows
https://qz.com/grocery-prices-inflation-consumer-price-index-shoppers-1851480366

Grocery prices finally started falling for the first time in months
But prices for food at restaurants increased as inflation remains elevated

Lyft significantly beat earnings expectations in Q4. The stock price, which has been depressed, is up ~48% for the week.
https://www.reuters.com/business/autos-transportation/lyft-profit-beats-estimates-benefits-…

A lot of pizza places have Pi-Day "special price" of $3.14, but many are still a raw deal, and even AI gets it.
Example:
BJ's Restaurants Pi-Day only: $3.14 single-topping 9" pizza
Costco food court any day: $9.99 multi-topping 18" pizza, with way better ingredients
PS:
- You don't need to eat all the pizza at once. It freezes just fine.
- Healthier not to eat (traditional) pizza at all, but if you wanna.

#BikeStreak, Day 45: After work from home, I ran some errand in the city center with the Brompton and did groceries on the way back. Just managed to get home when the first rain drops came down—perfect timing. (That's also the reason why there was no time for pictures. 😇) 9.3km at 16℃
At the grocery store I got myself some tasty half-price Sushi boxes for dinner besides the usual stuff…

i still dont get the point of the pixel 8a, itd be a rlly good phone if it was €400 like the 6a was, but theres too many downgrades compared to the 8 for it to be €550 when you can easily find an 8 for the same or slightly higher price
probably the worst pixel a-series phone to release yet, which is disappointing seeing how good they used to be

If you are the sort of person who just takes their phone to Europe and buys an international data pass to deal with the roaming etc, I can report that hotspot tethering with Google Fi (who did not require any extra hoo-hah for the international travel) Just Worked, and T-Mobile, with a 30-day international data pass, was SLOW. Ignoring price considerations because I am the sort of bozo who makes too much money, isn't saving up for a rocket trip to Mars, and thus has cash to burn, Google …

In my talk for the 2019 #XMLPrague paper “History and the Future of Markup” http://archive.xmlprague.cz/2019/files/xmlprague-2019-proceedings.pdf#page=335<…

Rome, Open City review – Rossellini’s blazingly urgent masterpiece from a city in ruins | Movies | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/film/article/2024/may/15/rome-open-city-review-rossel…

GPT-4o is kinda crazy.
"GPT-4o is 2x faster, half the price, and has 5x higher rate limits compared to GPT-4 Turbo."
#ai #gpt4o

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.10898 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_mat…

The Price of Adaptivity in Stochastic Convex Optimization
We prove impossibility results for adaptivity in non-smooth stochastic convex optimization. Given a set of problem parameters we wish to adapt to, we define a "price of adaptivity" (PoA) that, roughly speaking, measures the multiplicative increase in suboptimality due to uncertainty in these parameters. When the initial distance to the optimum is unknown but a gradient norm bound is known, we show that the PoA is at least logarithmic for expected suboptimality, and double-logarithmic for median…

Hmm, I have discovered #dateMeDoc thanks to “Will­ing to pay a high price to be lucky in love”¹ article. More info https://parade.com/living/date-me-docs
[1] The NY Times:

"The problem is that #investment is driven by #profit, not #price, and operating solar & wind farms remains a marginal business, dependent everywhere on the

The Price is Wrong

🔊 Auf radioeins läuft...
Bulgarian Cartrader:
🎵 Soul Is The Price
#NowPlaying #BulgarianCartrader
https://open.spotify.com/track/4RD6OmePNvCyCfSf7RTNtX

🔊 #NowPlaying on fip
Segun Bucknor:
🎵 The price of your love
#SegunBucknor
https://pmg-label.bandcamp.com/track/the-price-of-your-love

What a sad and pathetic grift this is. You almost have to feel sorry for the Trump cultists who are going to lose everything.
The entire company has less revenue than a single Starbucks coffee shop. It will never, ever make a profit. It’s not even trying to; instead it’s shoveling investors’ cash as fast as it can into the pockets of Trump’s cronies.
Fine reporting by @…

Small-time investors in Trump’s Truth Social reckon with stock collapse
Trump Media shareholders have voiced doubt and fury over the company’s plunging price. Some said they had invested thousands to show Trump their faith and support.

"Yet the world I fear is one where these people are allowed to run rampant, turning unique content into food for an ugly, inbred monster of an internet, one that turns everybody's information sources into semi-personalized versions of the same content. These people have names — Sam Altman of OpenAI, Sundar Pichai of Google, Mark Zuckerberg of Meta (which has its own model called LLaMA), Dario Amodei of Anthropic, and Satya Nadella of Microsoft — and they are responsible for trying t…

Are We Watching The Internet Die?
Sometime this month, Reddit will go public at a valuation of $6.5bn. Select Redditors were offered the chance to buy stock at the initial listing price, which it hasn’t announced yet but is expected to be in the range of $31-34 per share. Regardless of the actual price,

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2309.09176 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_eco…

Odd period cycles and ergodic properties in price dynamics for an exchange economy
In the first part of this paper (Sections 1-4), we study a standard exchange economy model with Cobb-Douglas type consumers and give a necessary and sufficient condition for the existence of an odd period cycle in the Walras-Samuelson (tatonnement) price adjustment process. We also give a sufficient condition for a price to be eventually attracted to a chaotic region. In the second part (Sections 5 and 6), we investigate ergodic properties of the price dynamics showing that the existence of cha…

An Oil Price-Fixing Conspiracy Caused 27% of All Inflation Increases in 2021
https://www.thebignewsletter.com/p/an-oil-price-fixing-conspiracy-caused

An Oil Price-Fixing Conspiracy Caused 27% of All Inflation Increases in 2021
The FTC just found evidence that American oil companies colluded with the Saudi government to hike gas prices, costing the average family $3,000 last year. The question is, what can we do about it?

IIRC, there is good research work backing up this from @…: people who’ve been taken in by a con will cling desperately to the con rather than admit (to others and themselves) that they were conned. People are willing to pay a •very• high price to avoid shame.
Rather than taking this only as a judgmental insult (however well deserved), I’m interested in t…

Church of Jeff (@jeffowski@mastodon.world)
Attached: 1 image #MAGA

How epic is that?! And even the price is not deadly. #kickstarter #hoodie
https://www.

Holy Cr@p! After screwing customers with price hikes, Broadcom is giving away Workstation and Fusion for free! Grab your copy before they change their mind!
[Edit: The links in this blog post are working: #VMware #Virtualization

Airship Formations for Animal Motion Capture and Behavior Analysis
Eric Price, Aamir Ahmad
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.08986 https://a…

Airship Formations for Animal Motion Capture and Behavior Analysis
Using UAVs for wildlife observation and motion capture offers manifold advantages for studying animals in the wild, especially grazing herds in open terrain. The aerial perspective allows observation at a scale and depth that is not possible on the ground, offering new insights into group behavior. However, the very nature of wildlife field-studies puts traditional fixed wing and multi-copter systems to their limits: limited flight time, noise and safety aspects affect their efficacy, where lig…

A review shows $1.6M in attorneys' fees were awarded to journalists and outlets suing for public records access in the past 12 months; taxpayers paid the fees (Stephanie Sugars/US Press Freedom Tracker)
https://pressfreedomtracker.us/blog/th

The public is paying the price for local government secrecy
When journalists must sue for access to public records after they’re wrongfully withheld by state and local officials, it’s a …

#TodayILearned about yet another awful gift from Ronald Reagan: a legalized kickback scheme in the medical insurance industry perpetrated by Pharmacy Benefit Manager (PBM) companies. By obfuscating the real price of drugs behind rebates (i.e. kickbacks), PBMs incentivize the rapid #enshittification

👉United States v. Price 👈deals with the 🔸federal ban on knowingly possessing a firearm with a removed or obliterated serial number. 🔸
Randy Price was pulled over in a traffic stop in 2019 in Charleston, West Virginia, and officers discovered a handgun in his car with the serial number #scraped #off. 
Price was in…

Fourth Circuit En Banc Report Part II: Serial Numbers and Common Use | Duke Center for Firearms Law

NFL Agent Reveals Bad News For Cowboys In Dak Prescott Talks https://www.yardbarker.com/nfl/articles/nfl_agent_reveals_bad_news_for_cowboys_in_dak_prescott_talks/s1_17150_40366384

NFL Agent Reveals Bad News For Cowboys In Dak Prescott Talks
The Detroit Lions just signed quarterback Jared Goff to a massive four-year, $212 million extension, and an NFL agent thinks that is a bad sign for the Dallas Cowboys in their contract negotiations with Dak Prescott. “Each day that passes, Dak’s price goes up,” the agent said, via Matt Lombardo of Heavy.com. An anonymous NFL general manager also agreed that Prescott has gained considerable leverage. “Goff’s contract puts Dallas in a tough spot,” the general manager told Heavy. Presc…

““There’s not another company out there that has retail investors like this,” said Nunes, who this year will receive a $1 million salary, a $600,000 retention bonus and a stock package currently worth $3.7 million.”
Quite a paragraph.
https://wapo.st/4ayuwJl

Small-time investors in Trump’s Truth Social reckon with stock collapse
Trump Media shareholders have voiced doubt and fury over the company’s plunging price. Some said they had invested thousands to show Trump their faith and support.

"We must resettle Gaza with security forces and settlers that will embrace the land with love," Karhi said. He said that "this is the only real way to make the Hamas Nazis pay a price and to defend our nation and country."
So let's get this straight: The Israeli far-right, who is calling for the ethnic cleansing of Gaza, is totally comfortable with calling the people they are trying to cleanse "Nazis".
I'd call this ironic, but it's so e…

Please sign the petition asking Ross and Burlington to Remove Toxic Lead from their Supply Chain
Since 2009, CEH's testing repeatedly found high levels of lead in leather and faux leather fashion accessories such as handbags, wallets, shoes, and belts sold at off-price retailers. In 2022 alone, more than 1 in 4 of the fashion accessories purchased from Ross and Burlington contained high levels of lead. Exposure to lead can cause cancer, reproductive issues, and neurological harm. T…

Tell Ross and Burlington: Remove Toxic Lead from their Supply Chain
Since 2009, our testing repeatedly found high levels of lead in leather and faux leather fashion accessories such as handbags, wallets, shoes, and belts sold at off-price retailers. In 2022 alone, more than 1 in 4 of the fashion accessories we purchased from Ross and Burlington contained high levels of lead. Exposure to lead can cause cancer, reproductive issues, and neurological harm. There is no safe level of lead exposure. Ross and Burlington cater to lower-income consumers, and most of…

Please sign the petition asking Ross and Burlington to Remove Toxic Lead from their Supply Chain
Since 2009, CEH's testing repeatedly found high levels of lead in leather and faux leather fashion accessories such as handbags, wallets, shoes, and belts sold at off-price retailers. In 2022 alone, more than 1 in 4 of the fashion accessories purchased from Ross and Burlington contained high levels of lead. Exposure to lead can cause cancer, reproductive issues, and neurological harm. T…

Tell Ross and Burlington: Remove Toxic Lead from their Supply Chain
Since 2009, our testing repeatedly found high levels of lead in leather and faux leather fashion accessories such as handbags, wallets, shoes, and belts sold at off-price retailers. In 2022 alone, more than 1 in 4 of the fashion accessories we purchased from Ross and Burlington contained high levels of lead. Exposure to lead can cause cancer, reproductive issues, and neurological harm. There is no safe level of lead exposure. Ross and Burlington cater to lower-income consumers, and most of…

An Iteration Theorem for $\omega_1$-preserving Forcings
Andreas Lietz
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.09018 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2403.090…

An Iteration Theorem for $ω_1$-preserving Forcings
We prove an iteration theorem which guarantees for a wide class of nice iterations of $ω_1$-preserving forcings that $ω_1$ is not collapse, at the price of needing large cardinals to burn as fuel. More precisely, we show that a nice iteration of $ω_1$-preserving forcings which force SRP at successor steps and preserves old stationary sets does not collapse $ω_1$.

Dynamic electricity pricing for public EV charging is becoming the standard in Denmark. E.ON Drive is extending dynamic pricing to AC, fast and ultra fast chargers (3 price categories).
Spread seems to be much less than in DE - would be interesting if they'd enable it there too.
https://www.edri.com/charging-prices/

Forget all the numbers and blah blah blah... if someone says Carbon taxes are the reason gas prices are high just say this!
“Gas price trends in the US & Canada are identical. Therefore it is not Canadian taxation policy that drives the trend.”
Thanks for the TED talk @… ! 😂

#Parody #NYTimesPitchbot
Via New York Times Pitchbot @DougJBalloon
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2h
Whether it’s Biden signing a law that lowers the price of Medicare drugs or Trump hawking a meme stock that lowers the net worth of his most credulous supporters, both candidates are shaking u…

On the plus side, these Iranian missiles can't be sold to Russia anymore for use against Ukraine.
Israeli military says 99% of Iran’s 300 drones and missiles intercepted; Biden denounces ‘unprecedented’ attack – live https://www.theguardia…

I think it is about time that people start speaking about trickle-up economics… it’s not enough to denounce that trickle down does not work.
https://mastodon.social/@starlily/110492020836604846

I thought it was a done deal the kids would get these MacBook airs for school next year, but after reading this, maybe the pro is a better model:
https://appleinsider.com/inside/15-inch-macbook-air/vs/m3-15-inch…

M3 15-inch MacBook Air vs M3 14-inch MacBook Pro — Comparison
Apple's new 15-inch MacBook Air with M3 is very close, price-wise, to the 14-inch MacBook Pro. With similar core specifications, here's what to consider when you have to choose between the two.

I saw the obit for Roger Corman in the paper; I haven't seen it on any news.
I grew up watching a bunch of the 1960's horror films with my dad; 'The Man with the X-Ray Eyes' and the Vincent Price set including 'The Masque of the Red Death' are the ones that particularly come to mind.

If you are the sort of person who just takes their phone to Europe and buys an international data pass to deal with the roaming etc, I can report that hotspot tethering with Google Fi (who did not require any extra hoo-hah for the international travel) Just Worked, and T-Mobile, with a 30-day international data pass, was SLOW. Ignoring price considerations because I am the sort of bozo who makes too much money, isn't saving up for a rocket trip to Mars, and thus has cash to burn, Google …

Someone forgot to test the UI fully. 😅
Issue seen with just one item in a listing of 100 items, but who knows when it is triggered.
And hopefully it's just benign information like this leaking in the UI and this isn't an "infosec issue".
#testing #ui

Deep Limit Order Book Forecasting
Antonio Briola, Silvia Bartolucci, Tomaso Aste
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.09267 https://arxiv.org/p…

Deep Limit Order Book Forecasting
We exploit cutting-edge deep learning methodologies to explore the predictability of high-frequency Limit Order Book mid-price changes for a heterogeneous set of stocks traded on the NASDAQ exchange. In so doing, we release `LOBFrame', an open-source code base, to efficiently process large-scale Limit Order Book data and quantitatively assess state-of-the-art deep learning models' forecasting capabilities. Our results are twofold. We demonstrate that the stocks' microstructural characteristics …

The Halo MCC (6 games) is only $10 right now! https://gg.deals/game/halo-the-master-chief-collection/

Truth Social investing is about faith in Trump, not business fundametals - The Washington Post
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2024/04/14/truth-social-investors-faith-trump/?utm_medium=email&amp…

Small-time investors in Trump’s Truth Social reckon with stock collapse
Trump Media shareholders have voiced doubt and fury over the company’s plunging price. Some said they had invested thousands to show Trump their faith and support.

“When journalists must sue for access to public records after they’re wrongfully withheld by state and local officials, it’s a raw deal for taxpayers. Not only are they denied information that is public under state law, but their tax money foots the legal bills.
[…]
“In the past 12 months alone, more than $1.6 million in attorneys fees was awarded to journalists and news outlets suing state and local officials for public records access, according to our review ...”

The public is paying the price for local government secrecy
When journalists must sue for access to public records after they’re wrongfully withheld by state and local officials, it’s a …

#TodayILearned about yet another awful gift from Ronald Reagan: a legalized kickback scheme in the medical insurance industry perpetrated by Pharmacy Benefit Manager (PBM) companies. By obfuscating the real price of drugs behind rebates (i.e. kickbacks), PBMs incentivize the rapid #enshittification

Coinbase stock crosses the exchange's 2021 direct listing price of $250 after growing over 300% in the last 12 months, as bitcoin hovers around record highs (Carmen Reinicke/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

Coinbase (COIN) Tops Direct Listing Price as Bitcoin Surges to Record
Coinbase Global Inc. has finally climbed back above its direct listing price Friday morning for the first time in more than two years.

Someone forgot to test the UI fully. 😅
Issue seen with just one item in a listing of 100 items, but who knows when it is triggered.
And hopefully it's just benign information like this leaking in the UI and this isn't an "infosec issue".
#testing #ui

Auctions: a new method for selling bbjects with bimodal density functions
Javier Castro, Rosa Esp\'inola, Inmaculada Guti\'errez, Daniel G\'omez
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.07894

Auctions: a new method for selling bbjects with bimodal density functions
In this paper we define a new auction, called the Draw auction. It is based on the implementation of a draw when a minimum price of sale is not reached. We find that a Bayesian Nash equilibrium is reached in the Draw auction when each player bids his true personal valuation of the object. Furthermore, we show that the expected profit for the seller in the Draw auction is greater than in second price auctions, with or without minimum price of sale. We make this affirmation for objects whose valu…

"The Council of the Cones Convenes to Decide the Fate of the Blaspheming Tree"
Price: $788,301.11

How epic is that?! And even the price is not deadly. #kickstarter #hoodie
https://www.

Valuation of Power Purchase Agreements for Corporate Renewable Energy Procurement
Roozbeh Qorbanian, Nils L\"ohndorf, David Wozabal
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.08846

Valuation of Power Purchase Agreements for Corporate Renewable Energy Procurement
Corporate renewable power purchase agreements (PPAs) are long-term contracts that enable companies to source renewable energy without having to develop and operate their own capacities. Typically, producers and consumers agree on a fixed per-unit price at which power is purchased. The value of the PPA to the buyer depends on the so called capture price defined as the difference between this fixed price and the market value of the produced volume during the duration of the contract. To model the…

Koala credits: investors put price tags on biodiversity - Follow the Money - Platform for investigative journalism
https://www.ftm.eu/articles/biodiversity-certificates-new-lucrative-trade

Koala credits: investors put price tags on biodiversity
Former investment banker Frederic Hache is sounding the alarm bells: the growing popularity of using biodiversity credits to offset environmental damage risks putting profits before protecting nature, he says. Are they?

“When journalists must sue for access to public records after they’re wrongfully withheld by state and local officials, it’s a raw deal for taxpayers. Not only are they denied information that is public under state law, but their tax money foots the legal bills.
[…]
“In the past 12 months alone, more than $1.6 million in attorneys fees was awarded to journalists and news outlets suing state and local officials for public records access, according to our review ...”

The public is paying the price for local government secrecy
When journalists must sue for access to public records after they’re wrongfully withheld by state and local officials, it’s a …

"On November 10, 2021, bitcoin peaked at $68,990. The price tipped over that for two minutes, from 15:04 to 15:05 UTC yesterday, March 5, 2024.
The price promptly dropped $2,000 straight away, and then another $8,000 by 20:00 UTC, as the bagholders tried desperately to cash out — while they could, as Coinbase had yet another inexplicable outage, coincidentally with all the other exchanges."
Come one kids, we know this by know. Bitcoin price is pumped with stable coins …

Bitcoin hits a new all-time high! World reacts: “Wow, that thing’s still around?”
And Tether cracks 100 billion USDT. Probably just a coincidence.

Running backs had plenty of options this week, even if the position still faces challenges https://www.foxsports.com/articles/nfl/running-backs-had-plenty-of-options-this-week-even-if-the-position-still-fac…

Running backs had plenty of options this week, even if the position still faces challenges
Being a running back still isn’t all that lucrative compared to other positions, but this year some of the game’s best rushers enjoyed something you can’t put a price on

An Iteration Theorem for $\omega_1$-preserving Forcings
Andreas Lietz
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.09018 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2403.090…

An Iteration Theorem for $ω_1$-preserving Forcings
We prove an iteration theorem which guarantees for a wide class of nice iterations of $ω_1$-preserving forcings that $ω_1$ is not collapse, at the price of needing large cardinals to burn as fuel. More precisely, we show that a nice iteration of $ω_1$-preserving forcings which force SRP at successor steps and preserves old stationary sets does not collapse $ω_1$.

When ‘ruthless’ Boeing cut costs, the damage spread: “Crush the workers. Share price. Share price. Share price. Financial moves & metrics come first,” was Boeing’s philosophy, he said. It was, he said, “a ruthless effort to cut costs without any realization of what it could do to capabilities.”
To drive down costs, Boeing chose to aggressively confront first its workforce & its suppliers rather than partner with them. It left both, Aboulafia said, “angry & alienated.”

When 'ruthless' Boeing cut costs, the damage spread
Boeing's leaders are tepidly admitting the shareholders-first, workers-be-damned strategy was flawed. It's an admission a generation in coming.

Quora-owned AI chatbot platform Poe now allows bot creators to set a per-message price for their bots and rolls out enhanced analytics dashboard for creators (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2024/04/09/poe-intr…

Poe introduces a price-per-message revenue model for AI bot creators | TechCrunch
Bot creators now have a new way to make money with Poe, the Quora-owned AI chatbot platform. On Monday, the company introduced a revenue model that allows

I think it is about time that people start speaking about trickle-up economics… it’s not enough to denounce that trickle down does not work.
https://mastodon.social/@starlily/110492020836604846

I saw the obit for Roger Corman in the paper; I haven't seen it on any news.
I grew up watching a bunch of the 1960's horror films with my dad; 'The Man with the X-Ray Eyes' and the Vincent Price set including 'The Masque of the Red Death' are the ones that particularly come to mind.

Back from holiday just in time to take advantage of the best moment yesterday to wash everything, run the hot water hygiene programme, recharge the EV a bit. And this time automated switching off the solar panels.
Consumption (from the grid): 31 kWh (total sum 15 euro cents)
Generation: 16 kWh, of which 5 kWh delivered back (yield 65 cents)
Total: - 0.50€ for the day

Democrats Ask Biden to Investigate Grocery Store Price-Fixing | TIME
https://time.com/6977026/democrats-biden-executive-authority-grocery-prices/

Exclusive: Democrats Urge Biden To Investigate Grocery Store Price-Fixing
A group of Democratic lawmakers are calling on President Joe Biden to investigate grocery store chains for price manipulation, writing in a letter sent Sunday night that he should use executive authority to take additional enforcement action to address rising food prices without the help of Congress.

Auctions: a new method for selling bbjects with bimodal density functions
Javier Castro, Rosa Esp\'inola, Inmaculada Guti\'errez, Daniel G\'omez
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.07894

Auctions: a new method for selling bbjects with bimodal density functions
In this paper we define a new auction, called the Draw auction. It is based on the implementation of a draw when a minimum price of sale is not reached. We find that a Bayesian Nash equilibrium is reached in the Draw auction when each player bids his true personal valuation of the object. Furthermore, we show that the expected profit for the seller in the Draw auction is greater than in second price auctions, with or without minimum price of sale. We make this affirmation for objects whose valu…

"Shape Family Comes to Visit Mr. Pyramid in His Home Among the More Derpy Pyramids Also Known As Mountains"
Price: $94,252.28

Valuation of Power Purchase Agreements for Corporate Renewable Energy Procurement
Roozbeh Qorbanian, Nils L\"ohndorf, David Wozabal
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.08846

Valuation of Power Purchase Agreements for Corporate Renewable Energy Procurement
Corporate renewable power purchase agreements (PPAs) are long-term contracts that enable companies to source renewable energy without having to develop and operate their own capacities. Typically, producers and consumers agree on a fixed per-unit price at which power is purchased. The value of the PPA to the buyer depends on the so called capture price defined as the difference between this fixed price and the market value of the produced volume during the duration of the contract. To model the…

NBCUniversal hikes Peacock Premium with ads price by $2 to $7.99/month and Peacock Premium Plus price by $2 to $13.99/month, the second price hike in two years (Todd Spangler/Variety)
https://variety.com/2024/digital/news/peacock-price-increase-j…

Peacock Price Increase: New Streaming Pricing Starts in July 2024
NBCUniversal is raising the price of Peacock this summer, coming one year after the streamer's last fee hike.

Apple lowers the price of 10th-gen iPads $100 to $349 and discontinues the 9th-gen iPad with Home button and headphone jack (Zac Hall/9to5Mac)
https://9to5mac.com/2024/05/07/apple-reduces-ipad-10-price-to-349-discontinues-ipa…

Apple reduces iPad 10 price to $349, discontinues iPad 9 with Home button - 9to5Mac
While refreshing the iPad line at the mid to high end, Apple has also rejiggered the starting lineup as well....

"It’s not even a living wage but the multimillionaire is 'very unhappy' the pay hike might raise the price of his Happy Meal."
Jesse Watters Very Upset CA Fast Food Workers Earn $20 An Hour | Crooks and Liars
https://crooksandliars.com/2024/04/jes

Jesse Watters Very Upset CA Fast Food Workers Earn $20 An Hour
It’s not even a living wage but the multimillionaire is 'very unhappy' the pay hike might raise the price of his Happy Meal.

When ‘ruthless’ Boeing cut costs, the damage spread: “Crush the workers. Share price. Share price. Share price. Financial moves & metrics come first,” was Boeing’s philosophy, he said. It was, he said, “a ruthless effort to cut costs without any realization of what it could do to capabilities.”
To drive down costs, Boeing chose to aggressively confront first its workforce & its suppliers rather than partner with them. It left both, Aboulafia said, “angry & alienated.”

When 'ruthless' Boeing cut costs, the damage spread
Boeing's leaders are tepidly admitting the shareholders-first, workers-be-damned strategy was flawed. It's an admission a generation in coming.

"Orbulon and Friends Stumble Upon the Green Salami Artifact While Lounging in the Forbidden Beach, As They Are Surveilled by The Spaghetti Overseers"
Price: $245,126.87

Comcast CEO Brian Roberts says Comcast will launch StreamSaver, a bundle with Peacock, Netflix, and Apple TV , later this month at a "vastly discounted price" (Todd Spangler/Variety)
https://variety.com/2024/tv/news/peaco

Comcast to Launch Peacock, Netflix, Apple TV+ Bundle
Comcast later this month will launch a streaming bundle with Peacock, Netflix and Apple TV+ at a deep discount, Comcast chief Brian Roberts said.

Small Price Changes, Sales Volume, and Menu Cost
Doron Sayag, Avichai Snir, Daniel Levy
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.07166 https://arxi…

Small Price Changes, Sales Volume, and Menu Cost
The finding of small price changes in many retail price datasets is often viewed as a puzzle. We show that a possible explanation for the presence of small price changes is related to sales volume, an observation that has been overlooked in the existing literature. Analyzing a large retail scanner price dataset that contains information on both prices and sales volume, we find that small price changes are more frequent when products sales volume is high. This finding holds across product catego…

Comcast CEO Brian Roberts says Comcast will launch StreamSaver, a bundle with Peacock, Netflix, and Apple TV , later this month at a "vastly discounted price" (Todd Spangler/Variety)
https://variety.com/2024/tv/news/peaco

Comcast to Launch Peacock, Netflix, Apple TV+ Bundle
Comcast later this month will launch a streaming bundle with Peacock, Netflix and Apple TV+ at a deep discount, Comcast chief Brian Roberts said.

Comcast CEO Brian Roberts says Comcast will launch StreamSaver, a bundle with Peacock, Netflix, and Apple TV , later this month at a "vastly discounted price" (Todd Spangler/Variety)
https://variety.com/2024/tv/news/peaco

Comcast to Launch Peacock, Netflix, Apple TV+ Bundle
Comcast later this month will launch a streaming bundle with Peacock, Netflix and Apple TV+ at a deep discount, Comcast chief Brian Roberts said.

State of the Union pitch: Bigger Medicare drug price negotiations - STAT
https://www.statnews.com/2024/03/06/medicare-drug-price-negotiation-state-of-the-union/

Biden to propose expanding Medicare drug price negotiation in State of the Union
President Biden wants to more than double the size of Medicare’s new drug price negotiation program, he'll say in his State of the Union address Thursday.