I remember both Pan Am and TWA. Pan Am's business effectively resides in Delta, founded three years before Pan Am. TWA, on the other hand, is now American Airlines , which was founded four years before TWA

What was that about new entrants?

Pfft. The statins are only going to make the fat and handicapped live longer.

I'm not convinced any bridgework could make it faster. As I recall, there are two tracks "southbound" out of New Haven, two tracks "northbound" out of Providence, and both those routes need sharing with commuter rail.

But the price of gold, or the value of a dollar, would be vastly different if we were still on the gold standard. At current prices, all the gold ever mined by humanity is around $30T. Do you really think there's that few dollars out there? That's not even enough to account for all the dollars the US government has borrowed.

Seems like excellent advice that you might care to take yourself. Unless, of course, you can point me to a post above, the summary, or any of the linked articles that mention the issue. No?

I guess I don't understand why, if $100 is such a big deal, you wouldn't just spend a few bucks on an external battery and dig into your drawer of otherwise-unused cables and spread them around your car, computer, etc.

I do understand that everyone's needs in a phone may be different. But why should we pay any attention to yours when it makes no reference to the typical target user? Just because you're not the consumer the product works for doesn't make the business of supplying it to that consumer "abusive."

My P9a is great and I love it- then again, it replaced a 7-year-old phone that was also "working fine." The difference here is that I'm not using that as an argument to say that everyone should give up their old phone, nor one for why the low-availability of replacement charge ports after all that time made Apple evil.

Do we really want to emulate that?

Which part? The GDP growth part or the totalitarian part? Ask plenty of people, and they'll say we're already getting the totalitarian part; it'd be a shame not to get some material benefit while we're at it, no?

Maybe because without a scope up your nose and down your throat while you're sleeping, your doctor would have no idea where the obstruction is happening, and a MAD addresses only a small portion of your airway.

Relaxation is typically the problem.

I think it will be good to put even a low-efficacy pharmaceutical solution in the hands of pulmonologists. It's not my experience that they have any knowledge of any particular CPAP configuration, and are relatively ignorant of how important a respiratory therapist is in terms of adoption and continued use. I found mine at an out-of-network supplier via a word-of-mouth suggestion- if I hadn't, I'd also be one of those who had abandoned CPAP use.

No, it just changed which customers got the opportunity to obtain a very, very limited product. But kudos for recycling the right-wing myth again.

I guess I'm not sympathetic to the possibility of "sleepless chaos." What's the real issue? Is it:

1) You're worried you'll get a price that better reflects an arguable actual value, instead of capitalizing on mere market-inefficient information asymmetry like the people who spent time, money, and attention to have the possibility to do so?
2) You prefer transactions to happen on private markets in off hours, so that the public can remain ignorant of their existence and import.
3) You've never heard of options and you'll be damned if anyone can expect you to figure out how to use them, even if everyone else does. Or
4) You're worried you might have to face the actual consequences of having been wrong in your predictions about the financial future.

I'm skeptical that third parties conducting public financial transactions can somehow harm me in a way that an economist or any of you should be concerned about.

Sure, because everyone's order at the opening bell gets treated the same, right?

So what does it cost, then, and are you seriously contending that it's more than the present value of the cost of mere diabetic maintenance over a lifetime, to say nothing of treatment for complications? Are you also under the mistaken impression that T1D's are covering anything but a tiny fraction of their cost of care as it is?

I dunno- if you've got somewhere in the neighborhood of $1k and $100/year, it might just be a matter of getting your own out of the freezer. Doesn't take billionaire parents to afford that.