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This is surely a joke???

“I’m sorry sir, but you have reached your lifetime limit of iPad purchases and will not be allowed to buy any more.”

I like the Shirky Principle very much:

“Institutions will try to preserve the problem to which they are the solution.” — Clay Shirky

Use all your waking hours productively:

there has never been a better toilet computer

From Tyler Cowen, an interesting tradeoff:

When the alternatives are “fly” vs. “no fly,” however, enough days of “no fly” mean the end of the firm. That causes the airline to favor flight resumption before it is socially optimal to do so. The safer outcome — not flying — doesn’t involve higher revenue, as it often does, such as when the roller coaster manufacturer puts in seat belts to assuage nervous parents and thus boost demand.

On the other side of the ledger, I suspect the regulators won’t let the airlines charge market-clearing prices for the first week of resumed flights

There is some kind of discontinuity here — normal marginal improvements to safety should allow airlines to charge a bit more.

Woohoo, the World Bank’s World Development Indicators dataset is now available for free. This is an excellent dataset of cross-country economic and social development indicators. There’s even an API for accessing the data directly!