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by beerandt 5y ago
From the articles previously posted, much of what's being targeted and stolen are shipments destined to wholesalers and retailers, not consumers.
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by beerandt 5y ago
I'm not generally one for expanding federal jurisdictional reach, but there's a much clearer federal connection for: internationally imported shipping containers leaving a federal port facility on a (primarily) federally regulated
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by beerandt 5y ago
>Pete Buttigieg >replaced the Secretary of Transportation for lack of confidence in his ability to get anything done? Well he announced a 6 month paternity leave pretty much immediately upon being appointed to a cabinet position (wher
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by beerandt 5y ago
Theft before the actual thing is taken would require at minimum a proof of intent, and could still be problematic. So vandalism is the "easiest" charge for those caught in the act. And gets around one potential argument from prose
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by beerandt 5y ago
Geometric quality is easy to consider in terms of using trig and measured angles to solve for an (roughly) equilateral triangle vs a triangle with a very small measured internal angle. Also, it's easier to understand variables vs uknow
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by beerandt 5y ago
There are way more (real-world) versions than two, with quite a few arrangements that can cancel out some of the systematic error, both with and without inputs requiring a data connection, and with some augmented solutions passively broadc
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by beerandt 5y ago
Just as advances in war tech in the past have led to the more "advanced" war machine "fighting the last war," these advances only serve to change the behaviors, rules, and context of any future engagement. Keeping in mi
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by beerandt 5y ago
>construction techniques that minimize the lifetime cost of the building. Here, buildings typically last for much longer than 20 years. And then there's the whole thing where energy costs may not be fully priced into the use. It goe
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by beerandt 5y ago
When the thing you want to fund is infrastructure, a huge portion of the cost is the real estate, which has to be reimbursed at market rates, so the projects become more expensive as well, even if at a slightly slower rate. However, big pro
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by beerandt 5y ago
And yet Democratics encouraged and even participated in blocking the Supreme Court confirmation vote using... a march to the capital and overrunning capital security forces and successfuy occupying every space they attempted to reach. Why s
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by beerandt 5y ago
At those conditions, "lubricant" is probably the wrong way to think about it. Those pressures, rates of fluid flow, and shaft rpms is going to result in the mechanical surfaces being separated by hydrodynamic forces and/or
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by beerandt 5y ago
Isn't this the case where there were more informants and undercover agents than there were actual group members? When you have multiple sources receiving (ie they are the intended recipients) decrypted messages that corroborate each ot
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by beerandt 5y ago
Not if they go unused or underused, or otherwise end up being less efficient and/or more costly overall than the alternatives. Then it's worse of both worlds. Theoretical efficiency and real-world efficiency are different things.
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by beerandt 5y ago
SSMEs are reusable. Designing for thermal cycles and serviceability[0] is at least as difficult a problem as running a hypothetical rocket engine an equal amount of time in one longer, hotter burn. (Such a design isn't needed and would
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by beerandt 5y ago
And then on top of it all, throttling ability. People don't grasp what an unbelievably complex engineering problem that is. It's at least an addition of difficulty at the same magnitude as building a steady-state 63000 hp turbine
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by beerandt 5y ago
>PRC already entertained WHO investigation. That's enough. Entertained? Hardly. But if there is one thing China does well it's manipulating others to partake in or at least not dispute their highly effective propaganda machine.
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by beerandt 5y ago
I found Creole in the Caribbean to be a similar situation. If you speak English, know a little French, and can understand most accents, dialects, and localisms in the US (especially the many Southern ones), then understanding Creole can be
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by beerandt 5y ago
The first minutes of Up stands up on its own as a masterpiece. But Inside Out might be the only Pixar movie that I actively dislike . Any other is at worst an indifferent "meh".
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by beerandt 5y ago
Posted below, but... "Toy Story 3" is imho a lessor version of "The Brave Little Toaster". But in this case it was at least Lassiter copying his own idea, that he had lost rights/control of. And the story has almost
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by beerandt 5y ago
Except this is mostly theory that doesn't work out in practice. For example, a lane at capacity with full busses is more efficient than a lane of cars. But in reality, busses aren't full and there aren't enough to utilize 100
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by beerandt 5y ago
Yet additional demand is still being satisfied, even if QoS returns to a certain equilibrium. The problem is that the added capacity still isn't sufficient to satisfy the extant demand of people wanting to get to town.
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by beerandt 5y ago
Another blind spot is people using it as an reason/excuse for public transport. They somehow see a new lane as inducing demand, but not train tracks or a seat on a bus.
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by beerandt 5y ago
>transformed from these simple ideas into great films (lots of iteration, lots of early prototyping and feedback, etc.) I don't doubt there's lots of feedback on details, but I have doubts about how much story arcs might change
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by beerandt 5y ago
One of the quoted GA pilots told to land in another story was in Oregon, iirc.
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by beerandt 5y ago
I think we'd be pretty much in agreement if only 5 years of fuel were left.
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by beerandt 5y ago
Semantics, I suppose. Capability allows the market to exist and creates potential for demand. For certain levels of actual demand and saturation, social/cultural normalcy and expectations might lead to "need" as you describ
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by beerandt 5y ago
This situation is different, yes, but I was highlighting how flexible the meaning of "coercion" is in similar case law, especially with a court determining twitters rights/obligations as to unmasking a user's info, in a
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by beerandt 5y ago
If refueling was already a highly questionable proposition given 5 or 10 years of fuel, having ~20 years of fuel certainly doesn't increase the reward in risk-vs-reward analysis.[0] In what hypothetical scenario does fuel deplete at
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by beerandt 5y ago
I get it. It's just a fine line between arguing what would justify FDA "approval" vs what merits have changed that actually increase the risk-versus-reward assessment. Put another way, when the biggest excuse for not getting
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by beerandt 5y ago
>the absolute statement that refueling will be completely unneeded. >It's fair to say that over two decades, additional capabilities will exist. Capability doesn't create need, in either a technical or economic/resource

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