Comments by "" (@TheDavidlloydjones) on "Wendover Productions" channel.

  1.  @ohyeahbaby768  Modulo "Bill Boeinig was a bird watcher" which had a good influence on the whole show.
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  2. A very frequent cause of bankruptcy is people confusing good and bad. "Debits" sounds like debt, which it isn't, and "credits" sounds good which it may be -- or not. This video shows us a classical case of this confusion in action. Loyalty is sweet and good, so a loyalty program ought to be an asset. These folks have found dollar numbers at the bottom of their programs' tally sheets, so that must be a bankable asset, right? Not right. These loyalty programs are services owed by the airlines to past customers, and those footings are the worst case of how much they might have to pay out, in services, if those customers come back to cash in. (When those "miles" went on the books they were reserves against income, i.e. tax reductions. Here in this video that are called "income" when in reality they are the future expenditure of flying customers free. Bookkeeping flim-flam in both instances. ） One more example of why Warren Buffett says he never invests in airlines. No, they're not banks here: they're beggars rattling their very empty cups.
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  3. Most likely they will hit zero, not this silly negative infinity. There is some possibility of the Mob or somebody giving you credit, in which case you may hit a large negative total -- but not an infinite one. If these demonstrate a trend, then your teacher may claim a sloppy sort of correctness. I prefer statistics teachers who strive for correctness rather than for histrionic effects.
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  4. There's a hilarious parallel between Elon Musk and that Trump guy he supports: they're both backstabbers, time after time betraying their earliest and most fervent supporters. Every time Elon gets in trouble, which is often, he cuts the prices of his cars. This is a dollar-for dollar reduction in the resale value of the ones he has already sold. Elon's little cash flow problems cost his followers, without any benefit to him, thousands of dollars knocked off the value of that investment sitting in their driveways.
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  5. If #4 is the Forth, at 7:49, surely the first one ought to be the Firth?
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  6. NYC is not "at the head" of any river. at 1:04. It is at the mouth of the Hudson. The head of that river is far away upstate. 'Nuther YouTube channel in search of an English-speaking host. Until you can find one, might you try using an editor?
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  7. Each was... All were... Singular vs. plural, OK? And "economics" is a singular noun. Otherwise, you would have heard of one economic, wouldn't you?
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  8.  @tiggaaah5650  Wot? Are you trying to tell us that gold is not the only genuine money? Socialism. Socialism evvywear... <Exits stage right, muttering under breath...>
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  9. Note that in 1933 Saudi Arabi was founded in 1880. This doesn't mean that Saudi was founded in 1880: it mans that people can write history retroactively, and the Saudis and many of their friends have assiduously done so. Ever since 1933.
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  10.  @qad951  Evidence? Reasoning? Naahhh. This is YouTube. We just do iggerant assertion around here.
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  11. Perly Maps maps of Toronto have a funny bit around Vaughan Road at St. Clair that isn't there in real life. Anybody interested in this topic in the US should take a look at Feist Publications, Inc., v. Rural Telephone Service Co. Sometimes the law is indeed "a ass," imho. -dlj.
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  12.  @henrymaccabee7988  We harvest the stuff all the time: solar collectors; plants; lying on the beach working on our tans.
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  13. Beijing: "bay jing." Your Bay Zhing may exist on some other planet. It's not a city in China on Planet Earth.
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  14. REH cogg nyze: re'cognise. It's really not that difficult. Just try it once or twice silently, then out loud, before you start recording. Duh.
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  15. Each of anything is singular. Each of the auctions occurs. If you can't identify your subject, you don't know what you're talking about.
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  16. Spoiler Alert: he doesn't know. Also the Russians fired a lot of noisy stuff.
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  17. It wasn't the geography that "allowed the country to grow to 1.4 billion people." The place is almost entirely uninhabited. The thing that enabled India and China to grow large healthy populations was nitrogen-fixing vegetable protein, the lentil in India, the soybean in China.
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  18. A nice thoughtful piece. Fine journalism! No, I don't want to have sex with anybody I'd meet through YouTube.
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  19.  @Daniel-yy3ty  That's what he said -- and if it's true then the guy is in trouble. Musk has a few billion in cash lying around the house, from selling Tesla down by half, but that's going to run out, at which point Twitter presumably belongs to whichever Swiss bank or Saudi prince closes in first. Implosoion warning: big popping soung around Xmas '23.
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  20. Space: the next industrial heartland -- just like it's been for the last 80 years.
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  21. Google up "Kelly Criterion" for the correct approach to this series of questions -- with the author of this video is too stpid, ignorant, or both, to deal with competently. On the single bet question it's purely a question of how you evaluate your own prospective feelings, imho, and has ver-ree little to do with mathematics. Playing the lottery, supposedly "the tax on stupidity," makes perfect sense if you value the happy feeling it gives you.
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  22.  @mobob7989  They are obviously not equivalent. One of them has the possibility of leaving you with nothing. Nothing is different from something. Duh.
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  23. The commentary section here is a hoot. I particularly enjoy all the guys who take the trouble to tell all of us us their credentials! 🥲😂 It's good to have Real Authorities(tm.) telling us what is impossible. I don't know why they bother us so with all the technical details, though.. Obviously if the Lord God had intended for mankind to fly, He would have given Adam, and maybe even Eve, wings in the first place, wouldn't He?
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  24. And they don't even specify whether that's a chicken nugget in St. Vincent and the Grenadines or in Bermuda. How are we to trust any such sloppy analysis?
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  25. At 17:38 Wonderful stuff "comes out TODAY!" sez a video made five weeks ago. (2022-03-12)
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  26. The plane they show is an Embraer. Is Brazil in the island's future?
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  27. That capping old gas and oil wells is hardly a 2022 event: I did a television squib in 1965 on the repair then being done of the holes drilled in the Niagara Escarpment in the period 1890~1920 or so. In the same vein, the Rockefellers called for cap and trade on carbon exhaust in 1957, and founded some of the big environmental organizations of the 1960s to make the thing an issue. Faneuil Adams of Mobil Oil cried on my shoulder about how far the oil industry was ahead of both protesters and politics on this bag of issues in 1977. Now -- fifty, sixty years, two generations, later -- we're beginning to see movement on these issues.
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  28. 9:00 one phenomenon, two or more phenomena. Listen to your videos before you post then, re-record them when you find stupid goofs, OK?
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  29.  @augustl607  Prices will go up -- but costs will go down. The diverted costs -- of picking up garbage, handling other people's waste, suffering through the pollution -- will be reduced as the cost is made visible and payable by the products and the people who caused them.
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  30.  @augustl607  We already do it for, e.g. Coca-Cola bottles. There shouldn't be any problem doing it for Coca-Cola cans, should there? And it isn't done by your invention "a big government." It's done by the commercial process: Coca-Cola makes the drink, so Coca-Cola handles the bottles. Duh. Now, all we need is the two- or three-word change in the law to have them handle their cans as well.
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  31. A fine ten minute broadcast squeezed into 21 minutes flat.
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  32. At 4:31 this story exactly contradicts itself. Just before that they say that "binary" transmits ones and zeroes. Then I guess somebody figgered out that uh-oh, you can't transmit a zero, so they 'fessed up. "Binary" is just another sort of FM. "Ones" are slightly faster frequencies than "zeroes." In this convention, anyway. Then they do it again at 12:15. When things get crowded, they "use digital signals encoded using phase and ampllitude." That's called frequency modulation, FM, and ampllitude modulation, AM. It's not digital. When they use the phrase "efficient digital signal" at 13:00, they are lying. What they mean is "efficient analog signal." (Do they use PCM, pulse-code modulation, between the diaphragm of the microphone and the encoder of the radio transmitter? They don't say.)
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  33. And remember, kiddies, "each" means one. so each of anything is singular and takes a singular verb. When somebody, e.g. Wendover, says "each are" it means they've lost track of their subject. They don't know what theyre talking about. Just take it down, rewrite it and re-record it, OK, Wendover? The pictures are fine, and the technical background is roughly correct. It's only every single detail that you've gotten wrong, Wendover. You've assaulted 87,000 people to date, August '24. Time to stop maybe?
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  34.  @sammyruncorn4165  Could be...
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  35. One-bomb coffins.
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  36. Why does this matter? Well, if you can't identify your subject, you don't know what you're talking about, do you?
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  37.  @pengooczar2470  No. Toyota and Honda managements ran circles around the fogies of GM.
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  38. Seriously. Facts? What don't you agree with?
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  39. Error in graphs: load is in gigawatts, not gigawatt-hours.
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  40. "Each" of anything at all is singular. The entire purpose of the word "each" is to emphasise the singularity, the uniqueness or individuallity, of the noun referenced. Thus anyone who says or writes "each of Utah's public high schools are ...," as Wendover does at 3:23, is obviously dead to the meaning of their sentence. Brain dead. Each is whatever it is. If they want to say smething about the collectivity they should use a collective way of expressing the thought. That might be "all." All are . Always.
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  41. Buoyed: pronounced "boyd." Because a buoy iscalled a "boy." "booee"? Illiterate, anthough the fool who says it thinks he is reading something. He's just a guy who doesn't have much of a life, and so hasn't had many conversations in his young life. He has a computer and a microphone, and he practices saying "...does not have a grocery store" as though he were announcing World War Three.
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  42.  @jackiecs8190  I've got an amazing bit of news for you, Jackie: they're selling you electricity. You might want to google up "profit." It's a notion that will help you get by...
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  43. I have trouble keep YouTube's statistical measures straight. Could somebody tell me how the budget of Swaziland, used in measuring Heathrow's economy, converts into elephants standing on a fingernail, apparently a standard YouTube measure of pressure?
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  44. And why Swaziland? What about Ouagadougou? C'mon, YouTube, why the discrimination agagainst truly meaningful units of measure?
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  45. One out of one is singular. One is whatever it is, see? One out of ten thousand, in minute five, is still singular. It's still one, not ten thousand, see? But your content it just fine. You're doing good stuff even as you learn the language.
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  46. Good of those airlines to collect data for the weather forecasters... uh, especially since the taxpayer has been supplying them with the weather information they've needed all these years.
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  47. Why Flying is So Expensive? Um, because you have to hold everybody up in the air the whole time, maybe? Plus carry this great heavy chunk of machinery along with them? If you want cheap, walk. Duh.
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  48.  @Sparkiebc  It won't overtake -- but it won't kill us, either. Fossil fuels, if allowed to continue, simply wipe out the human race through planetary overheating. Capital costs of batteries and fuel cells will continue to drop. The cost of overheating the planet through failure to re-radiate excess heat is simply infinite: death of our race doesn't have a sensible cash measure.
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  49.  @jimfarmer7811  "A factor of 10," eh, Jim? You've calculated it, and ten times the "battery power density" is what it will take? To do what, Jim? To sell battery operated cars anywhere? Anywhere at all, Jim? " American car company Tesla reported global deliveries of 405,278 vehicles in the fourth quarter of 2022..." Google is your friend, Jim. Bing, too. Jim.
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  50.  @jackschulte6185  Why even bother about all this lithium stuff, Jack? If the Lord God had intended for mankind to fly, He would have made Adam and maybe even Eve with wings, wouldn't He?
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