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by ahi 4y ago
From some googling, average freight speed in the US is under 40km hour. And that includes huge stretches of track without a curve or a mole hill. The capacity limitations end up at the depots anyway so going faster just means hurry up and w
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by ahi 4y ago
Financialization. Damn near everything is actually a bank these days.
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by ahi 5y ago
The Navy just spent $22.5B on 3 destroyers that have non-functional main guns.
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by ahi 5y ago
I have kids, well 1 kid, and it still applies if not more so. Is making a bit more worth the stress of changing all of my childcare arrangements? My current job I can clearly state that I have school pickup/dropoff at this time so no m
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by ahi 5y ago
FWIW, about 5 years ago I did a quick and dirty analysis of FDLP's PURLs. Roughly 20% returned 404, so not exactly persistent.
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by ahi 5y ago
I am curious how this story ended up at the BBC. The company settled for $11m over a 30 year fraud. I would be surprised if this was more than an ancillary supplier. Note the wording: they "supplied steel castings used by Navy contract
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by ahi 5y ago
Hospitals prefer 12 hour shifts for similar reasons. Their "restarts" are called "handoffs". A tired nurse in hour 11 of their shift is less dangerous than a fresh nurse who doesn't know everything that didn't
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by ahi 5y ago
My washer and dryer are at least 30 years old. Parts are still available and any idiot with a screw driver can fix them because they are so simple. Family have tried to gift me their top-of-the-line slightly used models and I flatly refuse.
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by ahi 5y ago
Incorrect. It is almost certainly still in copyright in the United States. Anything published after 1925 will be in copyright except for those published without notice 1926-1977 or were not renewed 1926-1963. The exceptions almost certainly
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by ahi 5y ago
Many years ago, a family member (USian, suburban, whitebread) was dating the son of a Nigerian diplomat posted in Addis Ababa. She asked him how long a drive it was, and that's how I knew the relationship was doomed. I just looked it u
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by ahi 5y ago
CocaCola currently has a P/E of 32
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by ahi 5y ago
Lindbergh died in 1974. The man who first soloed across the Atlantic wrote the forward for the man who first soloed around the moon. Huh.
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by ahi 6y ago
The problem is the exact opposite. The unmotivated time servers fill unnecessary positions created by the ambitious climbers. Doing a better job would likely make the problem worse as the bureaucracy expands to meet the needs of the expandi
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by ahi 6y ago
It's not about good governance, it's about low taxes and whatever else Thomas Smith, founder of Prescott Investments, cares about.
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by ahi 6y ago
I wasted some of my time and tracked down the "Open the Books" org. It's a disingenuous non-profit that is part of the right wing bullshit industry. Think James O'Keefe, Newsmax, Heartland Institute, Sinclair, etc.
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by ahi 6y ago
This is a terrible article. In this case, "lifeguard" is anyone in the 1000 employee lifeguard unit. The $392k is attributed to Fernando Boiteux who is an Assistant Chief in the LA Fire Department. Do you know a lot of people with
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by ahi 6y ago
Most jurisdictions (county usually) have publicly available GIS databases. However, these are secondary to the recorder of deeds which will contain the legal description of boundaries. The deeds are more accurate, but less precise than the
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by ahi 6y ago
As far as the courts are concerned, yes.
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by ahi 6y ago
Universities are trying, but the incentives for researchers just aren't there. https://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/
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by ahi 6y ago
I have lost a couple 30 mile rides because location tracking died for a minute and they had me going 90mph. Did I get a PR on the dozen other segments? Who knows.
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by ahi 6y ago
The business lines you offered as examples are low margin commodities or stuff GE really sucked at. Trains seems like a reasonable high margin line of business for a company that is actually good at industrial engineering.
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by ahi 6y ago
Lies, damn lies, and statistics. The first 3 links are for household income. They are comparing 2 income GenX/Millenial households with 1 income Boomer households. Here is generational wealth: https://www.washingtonpost.com&
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by ahi 6y ago
Dishwashers are my pet peeve. Visiting family, they all have these dish rinsers that can't actually clean dirty dishes so we hand wash everything then put them in? I have a dishwasher from the 80s that actually washes dishes. I don&#x2
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Could an Industrial Prehuman Civilization Have Existed on Earth Before Ours?(scientificamerican.com)
1 points by ahi 6y ago|0 comments
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by ahi 6y ago
How the heck did they qualify for H1Bs when they were replacing already employed Americans? Not only did the H1Bs unemploy citizens, we didn't even get the long term benefits of trained workers living and paying taxes in the States.
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by ahi 6y ago
In fairness, they have no business being deployed outside of a prison anyway. Their lack of uniforms reflect their lack of training and jurisdiction for the task assigned. They might as well be Capitol hill cafeteria workers. The only addit
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by ahi 6y ago
My son's school started remote classes this week. More than a third are missing in action. Naturally it is the third that benefited the most from the structure and support of school.
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by ahi 6y ago
Dave really does know everyone.
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by ahi 7y ago
The very creditworthy borrowers are very creditworthy because they receive 1.5t in short term loans from the Fed.
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by ahi 7y ago
Just how big a market do these companies have? It seems like the target demographic for most of them is rich college kids and marketing/mba/tech yuppies in 4 or 5 cities.

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