AnodyneComplex

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by AnodyneComplex 9y ago
The cost is dominated by the price of the underlying land, which is privately owned. The actual construction cost is much lower than $900 million a mile.
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by AnodyneComplex 9y ago
It seems like we are talking about different things. No one is arguing that there shouldn't be multiple map interfaces, but rather that if the data was shared, you could have more investment in the interesting parts. I'm glad tha
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by AnodyneComplex 9y ago
This seems to be attacking a strawman. The original comment was bemoaning the duplicated effort instead of cooperation amongst parties. If you had a single company, you wouldn't have 10 teams doing the exact same job. The competition
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by AnodyneComplex 9y ago
It's hard to do this just based on raw tax numbers. For instance, Alaska, Wyoming and South Dakota all have large scale extraction operations as a fraction of population. These supply a large fraction of income and are obviously tied
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by AnodyneComplex 9y ago
The whole point is that it doesn't benefit you, _if you're a potential suspect_ to talk to the police. This shouldn't be a surprise no matter how perfect the justice system is -- it's better to not be involved with it i
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by AnodyneComplex 9y ago
I think the idea is that Boeing gets a big head start on some commercial applications. E.g. they build a military cargo aircraft and can bill all of the R&D to the govt, then quickly convert the plans to something UPS wants. Probably s
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by AnodyneComplex 9y ago
Unless it's gone radically downhill since I was there 4 years ago, it's really just fine... I mean if you're paranoid about ever having anything happen to you, sure, don't go there. But honestly you should be more worrie
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by AnodyneComplex 10y ago
It's of course fine to suggest the current system could be improved. But it doesn't rise to the level of the title "how to fix flying". The current system, for all of its warts, has proven to be amazingly safe.
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by AnodyneComplex 10y ago
But none of the suggestions would increase the density of aircraft around major airports. They're already operating at runway capacity during peak times.
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by AnodyneComplex 10y ago
This seems oddly filled with misinformation: flight paths aren't locked into flying over radar stations. And what exactly are we trying to fix? The sky is big, it's not like we have a lack of flight space over the centre of the c
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by AnodyneComplex 12y ago
I thought the author actually had a pretty skeptical take on things. The ending quote is pretty hilarious: "It's a press release, Mary. The iodine algorithm saved your husband from the brink of ruin. His newfound sense of consume
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Do people prefer under-patent drugs to generics?(iodine.com)
3 points by AnodyneComplex 12y ago|1 comments
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What happened to NFS?
1 points by AnodyneComplex 12y ago|1 comments