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by chipsa 7y ago
Most of it comes from the regular budget docs. Classified spending is only reported in aggregate. But most of the time, you could come up with pretty good estimates of how much a brigade of infantry soldiers costs, especially if you already
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by chipsa 7y ago
Own safety. This class of vehicles doesn't do crash testing, like motorcycles don't.
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by chipsa 7y ago
Unless you're the US government, in which case everything is public domain. A copyright cannot be claimed on USG work product.
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by chipsa 7y ago
I'm not sure about FF internals, but if you want to stop the tracker bits from being sent, doing in the URL bar might be after the link gets sent to the server, in which case they still get the tracking info. So you need to rewrite it
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by chipsa 7y ago
GitHub provided private repos to everyone after Microsoft bought them. And I don't know why it'd require the repo to be public to do the pages...
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by chipsa 7y ago
They're approximately the same speed.
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by chipsa 7y ago
They schedule the flights months out. The know how fast the jet stream is going maybe a couple days out. So yes, schedule padding to make sure a weak jet stream doesn't cause people to miss connections.
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by chipsa 7y ago
Most long distance Blackbird flights involved taking off at low fuel weights, then refueling shortly after take off. So yes, the record probably involved refueling over the Atlantic.
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by chipsa 7y ago
Last release was 2 years ago. It's either dead or feature complete and bug free.
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by chipsa 7y ago
Why would we have wanted to stop WW2? WW2 was an objectively good war for the Allies to fight (not that the Allies had a choice, as it only takes 1 side to start a war).
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by chipsa 7y ago
The 777 is also FBW. They wouldn't have needed the patch. It'd just be a change in how the stick forces are mapped.
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by chipsa 7y ago
Pay attention to the time frame for that trillion dollars: 55 years.
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by chipsa 7y ago
Absolutely don't do a chargeback. They will lock out anything that requires payment, and possible more.
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by chipsa 7y ago
Uh, No. Derivative works must be transformative in order to qualify for their own copyright. But simply being transformative doesn't give the owner of the new work rights to do anything with it. Ex: I write and produce a new SW film, a
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by chipsa 7y ago
You're wrong on enough points that I'm unsettling to put in the time to refute all of them... But the easy one is: there are 490 F-35s built, with the next 3 lots buying almost that amount more, for less than it'd cost to buy
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by chipsa 7y ago
Environmentalism has become a tribal trait, and of the tribe opposing them. Therefore, you become anti-environmental, as a way of showing your tribe.
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by chipsa 7y ago
If someone can manually kill a Dev account, they can include a message why it was killed. Even if it's generic form letter, it can be one that at least says what rule was broken.
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by chipsa 7y ago
Yeah, the cost of the gold may be $50. But the cost to make it more than just the gold. It's also the skilled time of the guy making it, and the cost of other materials used (wax, plaster, etc. for the mold), and amortization of the to
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by chipsa 7y ago
You have a range of 2-4km, reaching that range in a couple seconds, and a lethal range of several hundred feet. Why do you need guidance, or a way to abort after launch? If you don't want it to go boom, don't launch it in the firs
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by chipsa 7y ago
SSNs are not (yet) reused. There's ~900 million potential SSNs, we've run through half, and are using ~5.5 million a year, which gives us at least another half a century before we have to start reusing.
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by chipsa 7y ago
Gab apparently runs on Mastodon now.
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by chipsa 7y ago
It's actually a bit worse than that. American Airlines actually announced the "new" 737 variant before Boeing was even thinking of it[0]. At which point Boeing needed to figure out how to make the next 737 happen. [0] http:&
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by chipsa 7y ago
SIPC insured.
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by chipsa 7y ago
Sunshades are more persistent. The cloud I make will disappear after not very long, so I'd need to make more.
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by chipsa 7y ago
Air breathing saves wet-mass, but increases dry mass. So far, the dry mass increase has been enough to make it not worthwhile. Especially since the change in trajectory required results in much higher drag losses, and more worse thermal per
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by chipsa 7y ago
Usually more like 16.1" or 16.25" barrels. Since non-compliance can result in jail time, they give a bit of a compliance buffer.
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by chipsa 7y ago
Whatever device you typed that on is just as much of a polluter as some cars.
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by chipsa 7y ago
Expander cycle engines are limited because you need heat to run the turbo pump. And the heat is provided by running propellant around engine to cool it off. The advantages Tim Dodd mentions for larger engines (propellant flow increases fast
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by chipsa 7y ago
Nuclear powered submarines can be as quiet. They aren't typically as quiet as they could be, because they have pumps to circulate coolant around the reactor spaces, and they typically have the prop being directly driven by a turbine (t
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by chipsa 7y ago
That actually mostly doesn't matter for most batteries. Most EV batteries are actively cooled/heated with fluid moving inside. So the heat dissipation occurs in the radiator for the battery, not at the surface of the battery. We s

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