Retric

36 ms·

901.
by Retric 1y ago
Cooks and similar supporting roles are often preformed by civilians without firearm training. Preforming background checks on people beforehand makes sense, but there’s little point in firearms training if they aren’t expected to carry a we
902.
by Retric 1y ago
Useful for what role? It’s not obvious if someone has near significant or near zero training when they are acting as a stationary guard at a checkpoint etc. Which enables trained troops to preform more useful roles. They are significantly
903.
by Retric 1y ago
You can upsell just fine through a website.
904.
by Retric 1y ago
> Why take the chance that the food you buy from the grocer may be contaminated? Food doesn’t have the incentives here, and because the FDA is involved with food production they regularly discovers issues and issues recalls etc. Even bet
905.
by Retric 1y ago
Yea a Supreme Court ruling 110 years after a law passed only for them to reverse course 2 years later. Surely that’s based on the constitution and nothing else.
906.
by Retric 1y ago
Drugs expand what helping yourself means to the point where people will actually do so. Statins, GLP-1 antagonists, etc isn’t magic, but it changes people’s behavior and bodies in such as way as to diminish the importance of willpower. Thu
907.
by Retric 1y ago
VDSL2 can hit those speeds in optimal conditions, but at the end of last year ~14% of Germans have internet under 10Mbps and ~17% where 10-30Mbps.
908.
by Retric 1y ago
High speed internet is a market not just internet access. Email might not care that your on a DSL connection but a streamer can’t generally use DSL as a substitute.
909.
by Retric 1y ago
Even that could run you near 2,000$ on a modest new home ignoring the rebate. But my point was more that price savings are easy to slip into the new construction pipeline for a wide range of homes. Similarly Argon helps r with insulation o
910.
by Retric 1y ago
The walls of a house are already cheap to build with a low skill barrier etc. Land, foundation, windows, doors, roof, plumbing, appliances, yadda yadda add up, but everyone seems to focus on walls. If you really want to drive down the cost
911.
by Retric 1y ago
If you’re investing, this is a solid argument you should consider a UK VC over a US one. Same data, different perspective and probably more the angle they were going for. Obviously ROI is ultimately what matters but risk tolerance is a thi
912.
by Retric 1y ago
Airports are far larger than aircraft, which enter and leave from the end of runways. Rivers have a nice property where they tend to be the lowest thing around because water flows downhill and are quite long. For approaches from other direc
913.
by Retric 1y ago
A great number of people believe they can when they can’t, the reverse is less frequent. Which is likely the outgrowth of saying to anyone “you can do it” being much easier and safer than a more realistic assessment. Instead I like to say
914.
by Retric 1y ago
I’m specifically suggesting using reclaimed land if they relocated the airport because the cost seems to work out for Chicago, though obviously an in depth analysis is necessary. Still just looking at the depths combined with lakes not ha
915.
by Retric 1y ago
Boston Logan is surrounded by water to the point only one end of a single runway isn’t aimed directly at water soon crosses water. The city center requires crossing a bridge. Taipei is a little worse but its only runway is going next to a
916.
by Retric 1y ago
Except there’s a huge number of things being covered, it’s whataboutism to suggest any one story is drowning out this conflict on its own.
917.
by Retric 1y ago
Tradeoffs. Physical land under the airport is lost either way, but land near the old airport becomes more useful where the river itself couldn’t have buildings in either situation. Thus moving it near a river or other large body of water
918.
by Retric 1y ago
Agreed, and clearly there’s a bunch of much safer options. The north island air station base is close and almost comically better.
919.
by Retric 1y ago
And therefore it’s irrelevant? I’m not sure what you’re trying to convey.
920.
by Retric 1y ago
There’s roughly a mile of roads, green spaces, and river between the airport and downtown San Jose which an absolutely identical accident would impact. It’s not very wide, but pilots aren’t going to aim for buildings if they can help it. S
921.
by Retric 1y ago
Zoning is one option to direct growth, but you can move airports. Chicago is right next to a Great Lake and there’s relatively shallow areas ready to be reclaimed etc. Obviously you’re better off making such decisions early rather than bui
922.
by Retric 1y ago
The Ohio River is a large body of water fairly close if someone was going to relocate Louisville airport.
923.
by Retric 1y ago
None? Nobody puts airports inside city centers and metro areas don’t just have dense urban housing. The common solution in many land strapped cities is for airports to rout aircraft over water often by building airports on reclaimed land.
924.
by Retric 1y ago
> subscribing outside the app does avoid the cut. > Maybe there’s a reason Apple lost in court for that one. The App Store as a sales channel isn’t a monopoly. The App Store as an installation method is. It’s an interesting separatio
925.
by Retric 1y ago
> To have the same profit, Spotify has to charge $13/mo when apple music charges $10/mo Last I checked as long as an App Store is not handling subscriptions Apple doesn’t take a cut. Did that change?
926.
by Retric 1y ago
Your misunderstanding what monopoly means and represents. Monopoly just comes down to marketshare, but it’s perfectly legal in the US to be a monopoly instead it limits what you’re allowed to do. For example a regular company can give a di
927.
by Retric 1y ago
Yea, cheap plans are definitely worth it for some people just not everyone.
928.
by Retric 1y ago
You assume there is a benefit to be had. Most drugs fail because they don’t do the thing people want them to do. In general prescription drugs have massive downsides and they still got approved.
929.
by Retric 1y ago
They really aren’t, it’s the work of more than one human to keep up with this stuff. So you need a government agency or a private group doing the same functions while facing huge lawsuits and thus requiring the same or more data. Granted U
930.
by Retric 1y ago
Hardly, you could do a one time payment of 500$ in a new iPhone 16e or 730$ for a iPhone 16 with AT&T’s prepaid annual 20$/month plan. https://www.att.com/buy/prepaid-phones/browse/apple/ There’

More ›