alistairSH

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by alistairSH 2mo ago
I'm right in the middle. By the end of the COVID lockdowns, I was ready to RTO, at least as least hybrid. Just to get out of the house and see people other than my wife and dog during the work week. But, half of my team (plus my direc
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by alistairSH 2mo ago
Cameras are smaller, requiring more dexterity and often specialized small tools. And you usually have to disassemble a significant portion of the camera to repair things. And they don't (usually) require frequent periodic maintenance
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by alistairSH 2mo ago
Because the US almost always scores behind its peer nations when its citizens are quizzed on generic geography.
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by alistairSH 2mo ago
Or maybe, more correct for this thread, "Esta página é de nível internacional."
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by alistairSH 2mo ago
Esta página es de nivel internacional.
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by alistairSH 2mo ago
I don't understand why a CS rep would get this invested to the point of wanting to cause you real harm. Two possibilities come to mind... 1 - The CS rep has been instructed to do this. Scary, but corporate leaders can be assholes and
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by alistairSH 2mo ago
I'm sitting here chuckling because you felt the need to post this. Your points are valid. And there probably are plenty of Americans who needed the correction. But still.
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by alistairSH 2mo ago
Instantaneous 1g might feel like a lot, but a relatively "soft" ramp to 1g would surely mitigate that complaint? I mean, we'd all be buckled into seats. And some sports cars can hit 1g with a good "drag race" start
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by alistairSH 2mo ago
Where does "the system was cooked up by assholes a long time ago and far far away to the benefit of incumbent interests and the local enforcers will do literally anything so long as they can maintain plausible deniability and their pa
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by alistairSH 2mo ago
Hospitals have an operating margin of 2-5% How does this work when many/most US hospitals operate as non-profits? Quick search shows the for-profits have operating margins nearly triple your figures. And the non-profits are beholde
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by alistairSH 2mo ago
Should - I know it's the right thing to do, but nobody else follows the law, and doing so would put me at a competitive disadvantage. Have to - I know it's the right thing to do, and if I don't, there's a good chance I&#
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by alistairSH 2mo ago
There have been plenty of bench clearing brawls in baseball for any number of silly reasons. It's no more moral a sport than any other.
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by alistairSH 2mo ago
True, but you'd need, at minimum, a well-trained crew to operate. The catapult settings vary by take-off weight. Who manages that? Does each airline run their own crew (contract) as they do other ground services? Or does the airport
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by alistairSH 2mo ago
Specific to the electric plane, you remove some of the battery weight, as that energy would then come from the catapult. But, as a general thing? I don't see it happening. There's a TON of complexity in a catapult system. Plus, t
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by alistairSH 2mo ago
IIRC, the fastest and heaviest plane with a ballistic parachute system is the Cirrus jet, which is both lighter and slower than a typical commercial twin-engine turbo-prop (looked at the King Air and the Dash 8 to cover small corporate and
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by alistairSH 2mo ago
A quick search of Osprey Class A mishaps puts it slightly ahead (better off) than Blackhawk or Super Stallion. But a way worse record when compared to the fixed-wing C-130. Both comparisons are per 100k flight hours. Some of that risk can p
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by alistairSH 2mo ago
By that logic, I should be paying Audi and Mazda a subscription for finding utility in the cars that sit in my driveway. And Nike for the shoes on my feet.
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by alistairSH 2mo ago
"They might associate with the undocumented, therefore shouldn't be allowed to do normal things" was completely reductive. Looking at El Paso, since it was the first city mentioned in the article, the entire city is about 25%
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by alistairSH 2mo ago
Gotcha, clearly I know just enough about the UK government to prove how little I know about the UK government. :) I'm British by birth (well, UAE, but they don't do jus soli ), but been in the US since kindergarten and naturalize
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by alistairSH 2mo ago
The GOP has used immigration as a drum to beat since I became politically aware back in the Bill Clinton days. They've had numerous chances since then to fix immigration in one way or another, but they have not done so. They make a lo
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by alistairSH 2mo ago
But they're not supposed to be here in the first place? Like any other system, the purpose is what the system actually does. Especially a system that's been around for decades. We let them in, so they can work our fields and pro
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by alistairSH 2mo ago
Maybe. Maybe not. In my case, that first semester of near-failing grades was the kick in the pants I needed to start exerting myself. I entered college assuming it was just as easy as high school. It wasn't. Not even close. And a se
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by alistairSH 2mo ago
Personally, I don't blame her if she checks out for a few weeks. Or a semester. Nor would I, but I'd also accept that she did so and failed a few classes. Just like I did in the 90s. Although in my case it wasn't burn-out,
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by alistairSH 2mo ago
What? Perth isn't considered part of the mainland? How is that possible? My family is from Perthshire (Blairgowrie) and I've visited a bunch. It's definitely part of the island!!! I can understand Lewis and Harris or the She
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by alistairSH 2mo ago
I think the parent post was sarcasm. Capital One closed hundreds of Trump's accounts in 2021. Trump is suing them, claiming it's a political debanking. CapOne fighting back because they feel their AML team was correct to close tho
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by alistairSH 2mo ago
Yes, that's what I said - each is named "NHS [country]" (National Health Service [England | Scotland | etc]).
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by alistairSH 2mo ago
LOL, no that's simply not true. The borders between Scotland, England, and Wales are effectively like state borders in the US. Unless you see a street sign, you wouldn't know you crossed it. NI is physically on a different island,
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by alistairSH 2mo ago
Interesting that it's just England (and not Scotland, Wales, or NI). I realize they all have independent NHSs, but still would assume a program like this would rolled out across all the constituent countries.
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by alistairSH 2mo ago
100% agree. When I said scam above, I meant the obviously illegal fraudulent scams (like the "We're MS, and see you have a virus, please give us your CC info and let us remote into your desktop" stuff). Because I'm on th
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by alistairSH 2mo ago
It's isn't unzoned. It's zoned commercial. In VA, data centers are considered commercial, so allowed to be built by-right in existing commercial zones. Loudoun Co just updated their local zoning to override this and requir

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