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by dumah 2y ago
No, their position is that the commuters are exploiting a subsidized public good and pushing serious externalities onto the population that doesn’t commute every day. Your position is that NYC should, at the cost of the average resident, ma
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by dumah 2y ago
Any cost paid by the drivers is by definition not an externality. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Externality
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by dumah 3y ago
Regular testing is one of the few times a US ICBM would _not_ be in alert status. Ground-based launchers are not survivable and must be ready to fire promptly after attack warning.
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by dumah 3y ago
It’s not administrative, but legislative. ATF is empowered to interpret these laws. The law is quite clear that a howitzer is regulated. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Destructive_device
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by dumah 3y ago
This is a common English phrase dating back to at least the early nineteenth century.
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by dumah 3y ago
USGS estimates humans have discovered 244,000 tons of gold, and that’s just in the crust near the surface. This estimate is off by many orders of magnitude.
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by dumah 3y ago
Original (this is my video): https://x.com/CityIsMyChurch/status/1745242580760027445?s=20
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by dumah 3y ago
You’re dismissing the harmful effects that these arrangements have on the vast majority of employees at such firms. There are only a handful of traders and PM’s at successful firms that make such high comps. The compensation of rank and fil
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by dumah 3y ago
You might be confusing conservation of momentum and energy with respect in the context of elastic and inelastic collisions. In a perfectly elastic collision, both momentum and kinetic energy are conserved. As you say, many real collisions a
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by dumah 3y ago
The air doesn’t need anything “else” to push against. It pushes against itself and the balloon. Conservation of momentum will cause propulsion.
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by dumah 3y ago
Tuples of the local time zone (not utc offset) and a time, along with a utc localization conditional on date.
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by dumah 3y ago
The worst take I’ve ever read on hnews is that Die Hard 2 is better than Die Hard 3.
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by dumah 3y ago
Relevant crashes into swamps: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/ValuJet_Flight_592 https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1958_Tybee_Island_mid-air_co...
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by dumah 3y ago
Navy coveralls are pretty thin. Submariners (except especially hot watchstanders like engineroom upper level) wear non-uniform sweaters and survival jackets because of how cold it can get due to heat loss to deep cold water. When submarines
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by dumah 3y ago
This is just propaganda. The food on US submarines isn’t a perk. Eating that food made you want to be home whether you were underway or in port.