by Ty Davison | May 30, 2020 | News & Commentary
NASA, SpaceX launch astronauts from US soil for the first time in a decade: The United States hasn’t launched its own astronauts into space since the Space Shuttle Program ended in 2011. Since then, NASA’s astronauts have had to travel to Russia and train...
by Ty Davison | May 30, 2020 | News & Commentary
Restaurants are barely surviving the pandemic. Delivery apps will kill them: He posted an image of the invoice on Facebook, touching off a rebellion among disgruntled delivery service users and workers. A DoorDash driver posted a screen shot of the $4.75 fee the...
by Ty Davison | May 30, 2020 | News & Commentary
Anarchy changes nothing. Riot erupts in downtown Portland after peaceful protest of George Floyd killing: After hours of largely peaceful demonstrations, violence escalated late Friday in downtown Portland, as hundreds of people gathered to protest the Minneapolis...
by Ty Davison | May 30, 2020 | News & Commentary
Doordash, GrubHub, UberEats all leave a bad taste. Doordash and Pizza Arbitrage – Margins by Ranjan Roy and Can Duruk: In March 2019 a good friend who owns a few pizza restaurants messaged me (this friend has made appearances in prior Margins’ pieces). For...
by Ty Davison | May 29, 2020 | News & Commentary
An unarmed and handcuffed suspect should be readily controllable on the ground without the need to kneel on his neck. Even the most dimwitted of jurors can apprehend that much. But in case it’s a problem, there’s video. So this morning’s arrest of former police...
