After you wrote this, I went and read the article I also didn't see much there either. And wonder why you are getting down voted. And TBC, also not a tesla fan (the truck is dumb).

Most of first class is not paying their own money for those flights.

Agreed. But their employers still see value in paying for them. Unless you're referring to credit card churners.

Perhaps if an ETF holds similar underlying instruments. It is unlikely this impacts Blackrock more broadly or other unrelated ETFs.

Stepping back, the idea with private credit was to move a lot of lending and credit risk taking away from the banks. Because if the bank fails, then it causes risk to the financial system. If a private credit fund does badly, you have sad investors. But the broader financial system is not imperiled.

And there will always be periods where credit does badly. It is the nature of these markets and lending.

TBC, I think the private credit guys got over their skis over the last 5 years and we'll see some sad investors in the next few years.

I'm a long way from embedded development. But I was under the impression a lot of microcontrollers these days have some ID capability built in, even some relatively low-end ones. This strikes me more as laziness than anything.

This is true, for example many stm32 series have a 96 bit unique id which is derived from the lot number, wafer id and position [1]. Even the low cost stm32g0b1 series I am using has them, but they are missing from some older series.

[1] https://community.st.com/t5/stm32-mcus/how-to-obtain-and-use...

Moreover, on any device that is connected to Internet you already have a unique MAC address on its Ethernet or WiFi interface.

You can hash this unique MAC address, together with other data that may be shared with the other devices of the same kind, to generate unique keys or other kinds of credentials.

Surprisingly it's not everywhere. I'm very in embedded development and cannot count the amount of time I look for "unique" "id" etc in a reference manual and come up short. It's certainly more common than not, but you often have to design systems for the lowest common denominator.

“When my brother is fourteen, I’m going to get him a job here. Then, my mother says, we’ll take the baby out of the ‘Sylum for the Half Orphans.”

That is quite a quote. Hard to believe that wasn't long ago.

Your numbers make sense from what I've seen in private sector. And meet the common sense threshold as well.

Whether the numbers are either wrong or if that is truly what support costs look like at a university would be interesting to know.

Weird you are getting down voted. And you provided sources for your assertions.

> And you provided sources for your assertions.

Feelings don't care about facts. — not Ben Shapiro

Prices aren’t the problem.

China turning off your transportation is.

So... stop using prices to justify anti-competition arguments and just don't buy from them.

What point are you trying to make? I'm honestly not sure. Is it that China is polluting a lot? Or a little? That they are making environmental progress? Or none?

What percent difference in reduction do you see if they didn't sign the treaty?

Doesn't matter they committed to a target and exceed it. We see two countries with stagnation (changes below 1%) and regressions... one is the us.

I think it does matter. My questions is, was their progress in any way related to the treaty, or would it have happened anyways?

Nobody can know and that's why it's interesting to you... arguing in bad faith. Take your unfalsifiable counterfactual challenge and go back to debate club.

Or, we can look at their communicated plans before the Paris agreement...

It allows the refrigerator to run two different zones in terms of humidity. Evidently, it really does keep fruits and vegetables lasting longer.