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by aurailious 8y ago
NTSB is probably the best example of a safety investigation agency. Air travel in the US is extremely safe for many good reasons.
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by aurailious 8y ago
Not to mention contractors. Plus restaurants and other services near federal buildings that the workers use. If people aren't working they aren't going to dry clean suits or go to lunch for example. Those people aren't gettin
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by aurailious 8y ago
The difference is generally not understood on a lot people. Its freedom, not price.
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by aurailious 8y ago
> If there's always another vote, no vote needs to be implemented. What's the point of voting then? Most democracies have regular periods where you vote. Are you suggesting that since there will be a new US Presidential electio
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by aurailious 8y ago
So presumbly if you keep trying to pass another referundum people will vote against it just out of spite. There is already pressure to not repeatedly do that, so its not a concern to argue slippery slope.
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by aurailious 8y ago
Replace "should" with "could" and you'd be right. Each vote would be genuine if its conudcted according to law.
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by aurailious 8y ago
> if you don't like the outcome, you can just keep campaigning and try again later. Quite honestly, there is nothing stopping you from doing this anyways. This is the point of democracy. Nothing is ever final.
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by aurailious 8y ago
I remember when I climbed Guadalupe peak in west Texas. I got to the gate around 3:50, and 4pm is when they close new permits for camping near the summit. Well I start climbing and because I started to late the sun set before I even reached
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by aurailious 8y ago
> you'd get rid of a lot of economic inefficiencies like houses costing 40x more in Silicon Valley than Detroit. There are many more reasons for the housing cost disparity then closeness in work spaces.
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by aurailious 8y ago
My understanding was that the exact position was known within a few hundred miles of precision using both Hubble and the NH's cameras.
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by aurailious 8y ago
JC Penny I think?
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by aurailious 8y ago
I'd guess there is very few nearby known entities and those that are in the area are too far to be precise enough.
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by aurailious 8y ago
Is education something we don't need?
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by aurailious 8y ago
> For a lot of America's history, it was not debt based. For a lot of America's history we used horses and sailing ships to get around. Are you suggesting we should return to that too? Otherwise this argument is empty.
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by aurailious 8y ago
Using debt for homes, cars, education, and investments are generally assumed to be able to out grow the costs of that borrowing. For example, ideally a better education now means you can probably make more money over time, offsetting those
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by aurailious 8y ago
> Does anyone actually still believe that these debts will all someday be repayed? I don't understand why you would ask this question. On the individual level its obvious that some debts won't be. It happens all the time for a
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by aurailious 8y ago
> Blue-collar minorities are less capable of knowing where/when to get a license than blue-collar whites? But your comment wasn't suggesting this. You were suggesting that the law was explicitly discriminatory to require minori
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by aurailious 8y ago
I was never really a fan of Ventura, but he wasn't actually terrible.
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by aurailious 8y ago
I'm pretty sure the comment didn't say that.
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by aurailious 8y ago
> Essentially this is just the city of Minneapolis making it harder for people to actually work in Minneapolis. I'm pretty sure the idea is actually the exact opposite. Mandatory parking is expensive, this drives up the cost of hous
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by aurailious 8y ago
And the important part about orbits is that wind resistance won't slow it down significantly. At a low orbit like the ISS it touches the atmosphere ever so slightly and needs a boost every now and then.
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by aurailious 8y ago
DC and its VA suburbs also have a good tech talent pool as well. Probably doesn't pay as well as lobbyists, but it would still push the median up.
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by aurailious 8y ago
I don't think its even a part of the standard model, still just a hypothesis.
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by aurailious 8y ago
The good to hear. I was kind of skeptical at first of it, and the name doesn't really help. But I liked their stated goals for it.
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by aurailious 8y ago
Wasn't there a year recently where reliability skyrocketed? 2004 or something? I thought I heard there is a clear cutoff point where you should not consider buying a car before that date.
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by aurailious 8y ago
What kind of conspiracy nonsense is this?
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by aurailious 8y ago
We are not talking about exaggeration, we are talking about people who make actual fake news. Fake and as in completely artificial, no basis in reality, and imaginary. Its creating news that doesn't exist. > Sun Won't Rise Tomo
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by aurailious 8y ago
Fully automated tower farms are a dream of the future city.
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by aurailious 8y ago
SpaceX will be fine without Elon if that ever has to happen. Gwynne Shotwell is very capable of leading it.
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by aurailious 8y ago
Seems kind of hyperbolic, I very much doubt Google doesn't innovate anymore. Just Kubernetes kills that argument. Hell, killing off apps is certainly much more about innovation that otherwise. Why would you think that supporting legacy

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