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by benzofuran 11y ago
If the tax disincentivizes boomers from buying real estate at asinine prices and then seeking rents to pay the resulting mortgages as an alternative to the stock market, then that should make property cheaper as it reduces the demand.
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by benzofuran 11y ago
Why not implement a massive property tax hike for non-owner occupied units - with exemptions for apartment complexes & other properties designed as rentals? Something along the lines of 15x the property tax for units not owner occupied
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by benzofuran 11y ago
This is basically what Pastwatch: Redemption by Orson Scott Card is about. Bit of sci-fi but that's the general gist - quite a nice read. http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B003H4I4KO/
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by benzofuran 11y ago
What're the legal requirements if Google chooses to make a "company town" - ie all the other benefits are included already, perhaps they'll start throwing in a 1BR apartment within spitting distance of the campus and a t
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by benzofuran 11y ago
I'd love to see an "Amazon Only" mode that was a switch on the main page to only show the store for sold by or fulfilled by Amazon. I'm sure this can be done somehow and would make the experience much better. The crap 10
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by benzofuran 11y ago
Having been through a similar knee-jerk of late, the important thing to remember (not that it helps) is that a publicly-traded company is a machine to make money. Not to make sales, not to make designs / widgets, but make money for th
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by benzofuran 11y ago
This will be interesting to watch, namely from their approach to maintaining and servicing the high pressure tanks. The DOT and ASME regulations and codes governing these are pretty strenuous, and along with the testing requirements (hydro
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by benzofuran 11y ago
The stability wasn't there last time this was posted, but maybe they've made some improvements. I do wish there was a distinction being made between maker-quality and production-quality software in some of these areas - being an
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by benzofuran 11y ago
Pay phones are still semi-common in Australia - at least in Western Australia - there's usually one within a few blocks of anywhere in Perth and most other cities.
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by benzofuran 11y ago
This is what I do for a living actually - and concrete / mixed structure corrosion control is unfortunately a lot more expensive and difficult than single structure (ie steel hulled vessels). A typical concrete CP system will be low o
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by benzofuran 11y ago
There's most certainly a cathodic protection system on the bridge for the rebars and supports exposed to seawater, however if pooling water wasn't intended in the lower areas then there was likely no CP active in the area - and th
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by benzofuran 11y ago
Not knowing the particulars of the bridge CP system in place, hydrogen embrittlement is possible but it sounds more like stress corrosion cracking is the major culprit.
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by benzofuran 11y ago
This sounds like a poster child for stress corrosion cracking - which would greatly impact the toughness of the material. Most steels (including stainless) become significantly more brittle under stress when exposed to high chloride enviro
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by benzofuran 12y ago
They definitely had a huge number of interesting researchers - however the support, lack of collaboration, and decentralization of those researchers prevented them from making significant headway in the understanding of nuclear fission and
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by benzofuran 12y ago
This is some more fancy fishing out of a filmmaker - as Animats has indicated, the Nazi's had no serious atomic bomb program - their leading physicists hadn't worked out 'fast fission' and had no workable design for a bo
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by benzofuran 12y ago
Yeah helium is running around US0.10 a liter give or take in most places, and will sneak out through the cork pretty quickly too.
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by benzofuran 12y ago
I've heard a number of different stories on the matter, none that I'd want to perpetuate too much. It was more economical to build the world's largest vessel and develop a lot of new technology than to deal with the issues in
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by benzofuran 12y ago
The Browse Basin project was originally going to be onshore - until the traditional land owners wouldn't release the land for somewhere in the tune for $3B AUD. Coupled with the budget blowout for the Gorgon Project building large LNG
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by benzofuran 12y ago
About the same, usually engineers have less time in the field but more consistent pay and a slightly higher hourly rate. Drill engineers though are a whole different range.
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by benzofuran 12y ago
So, as somebody who works with these guys, that payrate comes with a few caveats: 1) Most of the pay in welding comes from contract jobs. When looking at salaried/shop welders, you're looking more in the range of $50k-$100k USD&
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by benzofuran 13y ago
My log-in history isn't going back to when the access was. I've got 2-factor reengaged so I'll see if it pops up. Bizarre that would happen as the closest I've been to China in a few months is northwestern Australia.
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by benzofuran 13y ago
Anybody else have hits from Beiliu throughout October / November? I've not kept enough up on security news but it seems like there's been sporadic access through there.
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by benzofuran 13y ago
Wow, fairly nifty. Appears somebody in china hijacked my gmail account as I have some location pings there. Time for a password cycle.
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by benzofuran 13y ago
I could be talking out of my ass here, but with the amount of money that's been pumped into PR (> $1B USD IIRC) by its big-name founders, why do they need to do this? Satellites are cool and all, but everything I see out of them is jus
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by benzofuran 14y ago
If she's European, she can likely overstay without too much of an issue and the odds of her getting asked are slim to nil at most smaller companies
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by benzofuran 14y ago
Patent pending or not, there's clear evidence of prior art, and the patent will most likely be rejected. I can file a patent on about anything from the wheel on up, and for the period between filing and rejection, I can claim that the whee
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by benzofuran 14y ago
If the miraculous ABB breaker is like any of their other equipment, it'll be quickly deposited in the rubbish bin along with the sanity of most electricians once they start trying to roll any of this out.
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by benzofuran 14y ago
Thanks guys - I'd forgotten about lego education, as I'm unfortunately outside of the range of mechanical prototypes these days (ended up as a materials engineer). However, it'd be better if lego publicised these some more!
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by benzofuran 14y ago
A lot of that I think is to keep the complexity of a single unit fairly low. On the older models, you could set up IR communication without too much hassle, and it looks like these new ones can speak over bluetooth and wifi. I'm not sure
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by benzofuran 14y ago
I'm glad to see Lego continuing this line of logic - it's amazing what can be done with these mindstorms with the proper tools. When I was much younger (about 12 years ago), I built a bipedal walker with gimbaled hips and articulated ankles

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