gozur88

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by gozur88 9y ago
Most countries haven't made the commitments the US has. I'm all for reducing the size of the US navy, but first (or at least coincident) we have to reduce our commitments. One of the problems is we're the guarantor of Japan&
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by gozur88 9y ago
Status can be conferred in lieu of extra pay :) In all seriousness, symbols of status are important in the military, and not just to stroke the top guy's ego. They reinforce the notion of hierarchy, which is something without which yo
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by gozur88 9y ago
But if you call it a ship, then it can have a boat and you don't have to say things like "they launched the boat's boat".
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by gozur88 9y ago
Escort carriers were basically just merchant ships with a flat deck. They were small enough to build in ports that couldn't accommodate larger warships. And they weren't really designed for battle - they were designed to protect
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by gozur88 9y ago
<wince>. A ship .
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by gozur88 9y ago
It's only ridiculous if you assume we'll never lose one (or more) in a real shooting war. That's not an assumption US planners are prepared to make.
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by gozur88 9y ago
Not to mention the name of the site hosting the article is "savetheroyalnavy.org".
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by gozur88 9y ago
No, the moon doesn't make any sense. It's a big, dusty, radiation-blasted rock. Sure, we could build bases there, but why would we? That's the question Apollo managers could never answer and why the program was ultimatel
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by gozur88 9y ago
HSR was first demonstrated in France. Japan is the country with the first commercial service.
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by gozur88 9y ago
I wonder if they mean Tesla is going to actually produce a half million cars next year, or if they're going to ramp up production to a half million cars per year by the end of the year.
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by gozur88 9y ago
It's hard to quantify those risks when you have a rock star CEO. As long as Musk can keep the hype train going he'll be able to borrow money cheaply, which will make today's investment less risky.
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by gozur88 9y ago
That's an impossible question to answer without running real numbers. It might be cheaper to buy the gasoline (or electricity). Or not.
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by gozur88 9y ago
That's a little on the high side, but it's not surprising. I work for a company that pays even more for new customers, though we have much higher revenue. An "acquired" user is like an asset when you sell your company.
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by gozur88 9y ago
You can sue people for anything. Works better if you sue someone without enough money to defend himself, though.
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by gozur88 9y ago
That's unlikely to be true in the future for a whole host of reasons.
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by gozur88 9y ago
>It only contains a statement of fact: "some news organizations shy away from writing about a powerful or well-resourced person out of fear of a lawsuit". Is that really a statement of fact, or is what they're shying away
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by gozur88 9y ago
Where are you going to get a real return of 4%?
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by gozur88 9y ago
My "vague anecdote" is California has more than twice the population it had in 1970. That's not a question of induced driving. That's running to stay even.
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by gozur88 9y ago
Sure, they're trained as soldiers, and they go out on patrols. But if you have a target, a "go to this place and kill everyone you see" mission, you don't usually bring the women.
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by gozur88 9y ago
Eh... sure, if you're only paying federal taxes. But in on that $140k you're going to end up with about $92k. And everything is more expensive in cities. The idea you're going to live in SF and save more than about half th
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by gozur88 9y ago
Well, if you're willing to be homeless you can retire any time you'd like.
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by gozur88 9y ago
People in Germany are worried about this in the US?
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by gozur88 9y ago
After tax? Sure, it's possible, but there aren't actually that many people who make $300k/yr.
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by gozur88 9y ago
No, that doesn't address the problem at all. If you retire thirty years before you qualify for medicare, you have no idea what your medical expenses will be. None. They could amount to millions of dollars over those three decades, d
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by gozur88 9y ago
Countries who have troops in the ME (including the US) tend to have women in (or attached to) commando units because the locals get very shooty when male soldiers search their women. But those SF women tend to not get involved in pure comb
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by gozur88 9y ago
>I find this discussion funny in the context of say Israel having countless women serve in the army for decades now. Someone must have forgotten to tell them about their biological limitations. I find this comment funny in the context of
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by gozur88 9y ago
>That's empirically not as true as it intuitively seems; induced traffic is a thing. It's definitely empirically true. I've watched it happen for decades. There are certainly new cars on the road, but they would have bee
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by gozur88 9y ago
You couldn't pay me enough to live in NYC. Those big urban canyons are my idea of hell, and I would really not like to see SF go that direction.
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by gozur88 9y ago
If you don't build roads, people will still come. Instead of having more roads = more cars you end up with same road = more cars, which is not ideal. Personally, I think California's HSR project is stupid and the money could be b
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by gozur88 9y ago
Or... it could imply that in the US the perception is your future depends less on whether you can conquer advanced math, so students aren't as motivated to learn. I would argue that perception is a bit wrongheaded, but perceptions are

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