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I was surprised to find out it was going the Peterborough route. Didn't make a lot of sense.

Would you be able to see this effect comparing Americans and Canadians, assuming Canadians have way fewer CT scans on average?

I'm glad it is Apple rather than Netflix.

Huh. I'll have look out for them.

I remember the seventh row, third column board being annoyingly difficult for the C64 version.

A bunch of drywall around it?

I'm surprised someone hasn't done it similar to the economics award that came later.

What's the gender ratios of sports gambling? 90% male? 95% male?

I don't think I've ever had the electrician who showed up to my house or business be the owner. I guess it is possible, I've just never seen it.

Anyone know if gasoline demand in the US is still rising?

Does Quebec have a massive number of datacentres? They're close the Eastern seaboard and have cheap electricity and relatively cold too.

Humans just can't handle statistical pattern recognition.

As a kid I enjoyed the game on the C64. Then was inspired to read the book.

I'm guessing yes.

Well there's digital nomads going to places like Mexico City nowadays.

An interesting thought experiment to me is how much I would be willing to spend to preserve a friendship. Various situations over the past few years, including some businesses with friends made me think about hypotheticals.

I've always wanted somebody to calculate the inflation rate of the frequent flyer programs I've been a member of.

Canada has the advantage of a ton of crown land.

I have to admit as a Canadian I'm a little jealous of the US's $800 customs limit.

Econtalk is good that way as well.

With a massive growth of people.

I wonder how much this risk compares to smoking a pack a day? Or being obese or sedentary?

In The Prince, Machiavelli wrote that men are “ungrateful, wanton, false,” and “cowardly, greedy, arrogant and mean, and their natural impulse is to be insolent when their affairs are prospering and abjectly servile when adversity hits them.”

Reminds me a little of work.

Yeah could Lake Mead benefit from this?

I personally believe that the popularity of the word charisma itself comes mainly from Dungeons and Dragons.

There's still a big black market in Canada for reserve cigarettes. In Ontario reserve cigarettes are a huge chunk of the market.

I remember hearing as a kid that $2 bills in weren't popular in Western Canada as that was the common price prostitutes charged and the stigma stuck around.

"For Ukrainians, the video clip of a Hamas drone destroying an Israeli main battle tank by dropping a grenade was a film they had seen before."

What kind of grenade would have done that?