Justin Schwegel

Tax lawyer, writer—former international trade guru at USDA & World Bank—Guinea RPCV—Hoya/Razorback/Sciences Po alum.

[Justin Schwegel @jlschwegel]

@NathanJRobinson Have you tried the SweeTango?

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@ryangrim @MsJamshidi A lot of focus on the Houthis shutting down Bab el-Mandeb. Not enough focus on Iran reactivating their Orca sleeper cells to shut down the strait of Gibraltar.

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@RnaudBertrand @Rakkha72 Are you sure this was unintentional by the Pakistanis? I’m not.

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@DrAllyLouks Doesn’t seem like the most profitable way to design it…

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[Aakash Gupta @aakashgupta]

Apple engineered a $179 product to age one half faster than the other, and the fix would take about six lines of code.

One AirPod is always doing more work than the other. The microphone setting defaults to "Automatic," but in practice one pod gets selected as primary for calls, Siri listening, and voice processing. That pod is running beamforming mics, noise cancellation, and audio relay simultaneously. The other one is mostly a speaker.

The battery gap compounds over time. The pod that drains faster charges more often. Lithium-ion cells degrade based on total charge cycles. After 12 to 18 months, the "primary" pod has meaningfully more wear on its battery than its twin. Same case, same charger, different lifespan. You're watching one AirPod age faster than the other in real time.

The fix is almost trivially simple. Rotate the primary mic assignment every 24 hours regardless of call activity. Balance the processing load across both pods equally. Apple ships a $549 AirPods Max that does spatial head tracking with nine microphones but won't write a background task to swap L and R daily.

They won't fix it because the failure mode sells hardware. When one pod dies noticeably faster, you replace the pair. At $179 to $249 every 18 months instead of 36, that's the most profitable firmware bug in consumer electronics.

[Justin Schwegel @jlschwegel]

@ryangrim @ostonox Lessons learned from NJ-11

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@MattBruenig If you’re working off the calculator you’re looking at a GIGO problem…

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@MattBruenig I haven’t read the text of any bill yet, but the calculator tool can’t be right.

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@CSHKic @ryangrim @ZaidJilani @RepMTG $8,700 is the annual benefit, not monthly. So divide by 12. I am on the same pension plan. Sorry. Didn’t see this before because it was marked as spam.

[Lincoln Michel @TheLincoln]

"Let them eat a piece of chicken, a piece of broccoli, corn tortilla, and one other thing."

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@thamosdeaf Bro, but first you have to turn off your vpn or they’ll block you from getting the rewards…

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@ryangrim @ZaidJilani @RepMTG The formula is the reason I plan to serve 1.5 terms in Congress after I retire from federal service…

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@ryangrim @ZaidJilani @RepMTG Fairly sure she’s on FERS. That’s 1% per year of federal service times average of your top three years of federal salary payable when you hit 62. $174k x .05 = $8,700. So $725/mo starting in 11 years. Not nothing, but not a windfall.

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@SenCortezMasto This can’t be real…

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@ryangrim @paulrubens The bigger point is that the old city of Jerusalem is occupied territory that has been annexed in violation of international law. It’s not just Mamdani making things up. The ICJ and the UNSC have addressed it directly.

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@BriannaWu Lived in Ramallah and traveled the West Bank incl. East Jerusalem, Hebron, etc. Your view of reality is just so bizarre. It sounds like you did a weird propaganda tour. You know can just go there, hop on a servis and grab a beer in Taybeh or some chicken in Jericho, right?

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Always a bridesmaid, never a bride…

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It’s come to that point in the election cycle where you have to follow @Taniel to know what’s happening #Election2024

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@creepydotorg Last of us mushroom was cordyceps. This is clearly ganoderma.