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by avalys 2y ago
I'm astonished that changing instrument approach procedures required only 50 hours and $11,000. I would have guessed an order of magnitude more than that.
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by avalys 2y ago
I'm not that worried about this. It's pretty hard to kill an orca, and whoever decides to be a vigilante about this won't invest in some kind of custom orca-killing solution, they'll just use what they have on hand. And
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by avalys 2y ago
I’ve never understood the desire to work from a coffee shop. The furniture is usually hard wood and uncomfortable, the table height is not set for working so you’re hunched over your laptop, you don’t control the thermostat so it’s usually
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by avalys 2y ago
Yeah, Alaska famously has hordes of mosquitoes…
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by avalys 2y ago
The headline is wrong. That's not what the article says at all. A more accurate summary is "Scotland has always had mosquitoes and no one paid much attention to them. We went looking for Scottish mosquitoes recently, and we found
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by avalys 2y ago
This is a hugely misleading headline. They are withdrawing a 4-year-old vaccine in favor of later versions. Meanwhile, there are "concerns" over TTS risk, but the latter is a meaningless statement.
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by avalys 3y ago
$120k base and $120k bonus, but okay. I don't like shopping at Wal-Mart but you have to respect a company that's operating a real business at massive scale and about a 2% -3% profit margin. And Nichole seems to be good at her job.
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by avalys 3y ago
US airlines are trying to reduce their costs so they can offer lower fares, for which there is intense competition. You may have noticed that airlines are not a hugely profitable business, with profit margins of a few percent. US regulators
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by avalys 3y ago
How much does a Twitter account cost?
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by avalys 3y ago
What's your point? There's no reason to have a generator that charges the pack in a hurry. It really only needs to cover the maximum sustained average draw - driving up an extended grade at high speed. That's a lot less than
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by avalys 3y ago
It’s not about payment of the $250 in rental fees. It’s about them giving you possession of their $25,000 asset. And, “doesn’t have a credit card” is actually a pretty good proxy for either “not creditworthy” or “some kind of weirdo”, with
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by avalys 3y ago
They don’t like renting to people with bad credit.
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by avalys 3y ago
The global semiconductor manufacturing industry, and all of modern society, on the one hand... Dozens of dead fish on the other. Dozens!
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by avalys 3y ago
It’s a very common word in many technical domains. Not like it’s a guy’s name or something.
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by avalys 3y ago
I’m still pissed about advection!
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by avalys 3y ago
I am a private pilot and I follow aviation news for fun, even when it's not the current thing. This minor stuff happens all the time and is being over-reported.
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by avalys 3y ago
You can't design a justice system around making it easy for you to escape responsibility for complying with laws you disagree with. I'm not expressing an opinion on whether throwing someone in jail for torrenting movies is the rig
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by avalys 3y ago
The fact that perjury might seem like a "good idea" to a criminal, or the only chance to stay out prison, doesn't mean it should be permitted. The purpose of the justice system should not be to give guilty people the best c
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by avalys 3y ago
If you're innocent, you don't need to lie to your defense attorney. If you're guilty, the system is not designed to protect you, and there's no reason why it should permit the guilty to commit perjury out of some desire
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by avalys 3y ago
“Lying to the court” is not necessary for an effective defense, and defendants are not obligated to testify in the first place. Remember that perjury is also a crime and you’re not “allowed” to commit perjury just because you’re testifying
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by avalys 3y ago
Better than that - you don't know the balance of your investment account to the nearest 2 million.
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by avalys 3y ago
Fully agreed on this. The books give you no sensation of a galactic empire of trillions of people and all the complexity that would arise from it. The society has no more depth than a small European nation - a few corporations, a few univer
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by avalys 3y ago
Perhaps there was something wrong with whatever setup you watched the first one on. The colors were all pretty warm and...sand-colored, definitely not anything I'd call "grey".
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by avalys 3y ago
But two F150s can still park next to each other and use two chargers, yes? The only wasted spot is at the interface between a Tesla and non-Tesla.
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by avalys 3y ago
What are the "sparklies"? They look like small particles burning up but it's not clear why they're only luminous so briefly within the frame of the video.
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by avalys 3y ago
"Our existing service already has 'export to PDF' functionality. Why do we need to spend money building and testing 'export to PDF' functionality in our new service? Can't we just reuse the same code?"
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by avalys 3y ago
This is such nonsense. Could the USA have won WWII by paying off Hitler?
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by avalys 3y ago
I'm not sure I buy the "risk->stress->pets" connection. In my own experience, anecdotal of course, people who take risks do so because risk-taking doesn't stress them out as much as it would other people. But your
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by avalys 3y ago
So no one can do anything fun until poverty is solved?
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by avalys 3y ago
How do you propose society go about determining which life experiences are worth their corresponding carbon emissions, knowing that there is enormous variety in what experiences people value?

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