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by drak0n1c 3y ago
Look up the flight code on flight tracking sites before you check out. See what plane was used for most days in the last couple weeks. That's the model you'll get 95% of the time.
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by drak0n1c 3y ago
There was great demand but crowds of eco-protesters would block the landing and prevented all operation, so they saw no revenue for many quarters. Pretty soon there was no money left to continue operations, let alone deal with the lawsuits
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by drak0n1c 3y ago
In contrast, the relatively recent Boeing 787 has an impeccable track record and has become the most comfortable long distance aircraft. Is it a matter of separate teams, managerial era, or something else? The models with issues appear to b
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by drak0n1c 3y ago
They've updated the documentation with the release and put out guide videos as well like this one https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MQejylcuAeU
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by drak0n1c 3y ago
Myanmar has the most bountiful gem mines in the world. I visited in 2019 and there were many shops with piles of ruby, jade, sapphire, even amber. They're already pretty specialized in mining and have little qualms about razing mining
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by drak0n1c 3y ago
If the desired outcome is to benefit from the mixing of ideas, is that best served by using mandatory diversity statements to narrowly filter the applicant pool?
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by drak0n1c 3y ago
Linguistic and cultural barriers are far stronger than informational barriers. Which may be an upside considering how other potentially self-destructive fads and attitudes spread so rapidly with the internet. We've seen the beginnings
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It's the next candidate of charitable nuanced study of how imperialism created paradigm shifts toward modernity, now that the charitable nuanced study of later empires immediately preceding global modernity has been categorically disca
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by drak0n1c 3y ago
It's a private platform. Freedom of speech doesn't mean freedom from consequences. [XKCD showing affected pundits the door] https://xkcd.com/1357/
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by drak0n1c 3y ago
GitKraken has a dropdown menu that appears whenever you drag and drop if it involves two elements (ie merge, rebase, create GitHub PR), as well as right click if you're operating on one element (ie creating branch/tag here, reset
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by drak0n1c 3y ago
Here's one about shoe lacing: https://www.fieggen.com/shoelace/lacingmethods.htm And they do shoe tying: https://www.fieggen.com/shoelace/knots.htm Knots in general: https://www.an
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by drak0n1c 3y ago
The opposite is true, considering your audience. In order to improve the environment those who can raise newborns with first-world nutrition, care, and education need to have more children. The economic efficiency and technological leaps th
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by drak0n1c 3y ago
The context is US nuclear, which is an industry that is thoroughly fragmented, broken, and on life support.
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by drak0n1c 3y ago
The reality in the US is currently the opposite extreme, and advocating for reform does not mean another fictional absurdist extreme. The government can be bad at regulation too - especially when decided solely by a small committee of non-t
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by drak0n1c 3y ago
Unfortunately the lack of new builds in the last few decades also removed a proving ground for regular cost optimizations and incremental innovations by firms with increasing institutional knowledge. Most other industries and technologies e
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by drak0n1c 3y ago
BBC is using desperate, charged language in this hodgepodge list but doesn't even mention the more impactful and unprecedented nuclear capacity tripling pledge. Revealing of their myopic perspective and past failure to inform the elect
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by drak0n1c 3y ago
"But there are questions about Coinbase's commitment to racial justice." - this is a quintessential example of weasel words and is indicative of the article's quality. The examples are one-sided claims without evidence,
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by drak0n1c 3y ago
The 787 is far more comfortable than earlier aircraft in regards to vibration, sound, air quality, and lighting - there's a lot of internal upgrades. My mother who has had severe headaches and sinus issues that are extremely sensitive
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by drak0n1c 3y ago
The fact that their next generation cannot afford to live in the same city and end up moving away. Or they decide to sell and do so themselves because all other costs have been higher. Eventually, there are no locals.
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by drak0n1c 3y ago
Tech companies were too myopic only trying Austin. The DFW Metroplex area of Texas has much more room and scale, and is more business-friendly, lower cost, and has a much larger professional class population. John Carmack is a famous transp
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by drak0n1c 3y ago
Low-cost defensive deployables like Roadrunner and the related subset of military industrial complex pork are what is needed to enable that future of smaller countries seeing to their own defense.
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by drak0n1c 3y ago
Bill Ackman, an investor in the X acquisition, is pleased with Elon’s interview and wrote a lengthy explanation. https://x.com/billackman/status/1730442461644730553
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Anduril announces Roadrunner, jet-powered VTOL drone(anduril.com)
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by drak0n1c 3y ago
Heating homes during the winter is more carbon-intensive than cooling homes during the summer.
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by drak0n1c 3y ago
Wait until you learn about how the evolution of cyanobacteria led to oxygenation of the atmosphere and the mass extinction of most life on Earth.
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by drak0n1c 3y ago
How is tsunami frequency established to be influenced by anthropomorphic climate change? Also, over a hundred years ago wildfires and floods were more frequent than they are now and the historical deaths per capita from natural disasters wa
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by drak0n1c 3y ago
Minivans are even better than SUVs for hauling cargo.
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Ten years ago there were an array of new vehicle maker regulations, particularly around fuel economy, that scale based on vehicle weight. The vehicle weight bar for purchasers to receive business expense tax relief was also set high. These
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by drak0n1c 3y ago
It's an in-demand cultural speaking affect for those in the service industry or doing public narration - whether it's in Japanese or English. Think of it like Chick-Fil-A's policy of saying "my pleasure". Also, as a
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by drak0n1c 3y ago
There is a lot of crypto usage possibility without the need for NFT proliferation. The only necessary "NFT" may be licenses granting access to decentralized cloud software platforms on a perpetual or monthly subscription basis. Wo

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