Maybe. We have tested with and without a large Thule box and it didn't make that much difference.

I wanted to remove it but my wife wanted it to stay. So we drive a couple hundred miles with and without and couldn't see any difference. Contrast that with the small trailer which looks 25-30% off the mileage. As a cheap test, could you put a piece of 1/2" plywood on it and see if it significantly affects performance?

Also, Thule makes some deflectors. There must be a way to handle the drag. 

I wonder if Gem thinks you want to mount it broad side into the wind.

Ah yes. That's my dad. "Those are your problems now." 

But if I have his health, I might be around for another 30-40 years. 45 years ago my programming classes were on mainframes - Harris and DEC.

> you start saying, "We'll probably be okay."

Or, "I won't live that long."

Visualising Global Conflicts Through Maps

https://warmapper.org

This has been in my bookmarks for a couple of weeks therefore I don't remember where I found it, but maps are handy.

Gem estimates:

"Your single honeycomb panel will take roughly 22 to 25 minutes of active machine time to complete on a modern fiber laser.

If a commercial job shop is billing their 6kW or 10kW laser out at $240 an hour ($4 per minute), the sheer machine time alone costs around $100, plus the $70 to $90 cost of the raw aluminum blank, plus setup time and overhead. This is why you should expect realistic, competitive commercial quotes for a single panel to land in the $200 to $250 range."

Send Cut Send is quoting $600.

there are 9 bars going left to right across the top of the truck. Gemeni says solid sheet of anything will create a sail effect with a lot of drag. It's odd to me that the quotes are so expensive. The manufacturer of the rack offers roof deck panels for different models.. similar laser cut panels they make in house, then powder coat, and sell the whole floor for $600. Not sure why my current quote for bare aluminum is $2400 for the same area. Gem seems to think my quote should be $800 for the 4 units. I'm going to try local laser shops.

2.6% off the S&P 500 is a bloodbath?

Right. Let me phrase that better

Maybe put it this way: would those leases have sold if they knew current policies would hold for the life of the lease?

That is, does expensive extraction in the Arctic pencil out even under a favorable administration?

The world still uses a lot of fossil fuel, but last year was the first time new contributions from renewables exceeded the growth in demand. A year doesn't make a trend, but as you say, events of this year are likely to accelerate that process. The whole argument about solar not working on cloudy days looks different when stacked against oil shipments that don't flow for a year

In situations like this, first look to the public schools and blame the teachers.

[that was the playbook in 19th century France anyway]

> choice configures the next page's layout

Reminds me of trying to explain the Monty Hall Problem to a 17yo who just couldn't get why you should switch. I asked Claude to explain it. It started by creating a fully-functional app that let you play the game as many times as you like and keep a tally of wins when you stay and wins when you switch.

Unfortunately, randomness being what it is, over 20 reps it appeared that staying had a slight edge, so the overall experiment was a fail. Good concept though.