gozur88

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by gozur88 9y ago
Well, I agree Congress's elimination of the Strategic Helium Reserve was criminally stupid. I was addressing the cost point, though. Helium is still reasonably cheap, so it's lost in the noise, financially speaking.
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by gozur88 9y ago
We still use helium for children's balloons. It's cheap enough that most companies don't even bother to distill it out of natural gas.
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by gozur88 9y ago
>I believe that the Hindenburg required a ground crew of ~200 to control the airship during landing and mooring. It's also a problem in flying in the vicinity of strong storms. The ground handling problems have been solved. You eit
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by gozur88 9y ago
The numbers don't work for hot air. You just can't get the lift.
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by gozur88 9y ago
You're right about everything except the Hindenburg being safer - hydrogen can never be made that safe because of the way it migrates through just about anything. We'd have to use helium. The real problem is planes benefit from a
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by gozur88 9y ago
But you don't actually expend the helium. You lose a tiny bit through leakage. In airship companies today, the helium is the least of the problems.
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by gozur88 9y ago
It's the legislature's place to make that decision. The companies don't get a pass on breaking the law because everyone's doing it, the same way you and I don't get a pass. And I don't think every company is b
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by gozur88 9y ago
It's not as simple as "people like making money". That's just one part of the job. People who pay more on their loans with increasing income will behave like people behave when taxes go up - the pay will be comparative
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by gozur88 9y ago
It could just be that states with bigger opiate problems are less likely to ease restrictions on marijuana.
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by gozur88 9y ago
It's a crime if it's a crime, and it has nothing to do with Capitalism.
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by gozur88 9y ago
I have never seen it when there was only one person on the boat.
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by gozur88 9y ago
I know it's the original headline but this kind thing irks me. The creator of the boat is hoping to cross the Atlantic. The boat is a thing and doesn't have hopes. Pretty cool project, though.
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by gozur88 9y ago
>It's far too tempting to let one thing bleed into the other when working from home. I worked with a guy once who'd been WFH in a previous job. He would get up, shower, put on a suit and tie, unlock the door to his home office
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by gozur88 9y ago
>If a 1976 driver were to somehow get his hands on a car from 2017, he’d be at grave risk of whiplash. Since those days, horsepower in the U.S. has almost doubled, with the median model climbing from 145 to 283 stallions. 1976 was right
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by gozur88 9y ago
You seem to be looking at the past through rose-colored glasses. I owned and drove cars made in the '60s and '70s. Compared to modern cars the quality was terrible in every way. The only advantage over today's cars is th
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by gozur88 9y ago
It's PR, but it's also protection from legal trouble. Typically when you give some kind of severance package you require the recipient to sign away any right to sue. Also, with large companies even during layoffs they're hir
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by gozur88 9y ago
Sure, but is the same true for the Philippines or Thailand?
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by gozur88 9y ago
Those aren't public resources. That's why they typically only let you in if you're relatively wealthy.
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by gozur88 9y ago
I'm sure care is adequate in many developing countries if you get the clap or get injured in a car accident. But I'm skeptical you're likely to get as good cardiac or oncology care.
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by gozur88 9y ago
SpaceX has managed to get such a big boost to the F9's performance, they can already do much of what they originally intended to do with Falcon Heavy. Is it really going to be cheaper to loft sats with a reusable FH when a disposable
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by gozur88 9y ago
The Merlin engines are using plain-vanilla technology, but the Raptor is going to be bleeding edge with a full flow staged combustion cycle.
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by gozur88 9y ago
I'm old enough to have been in the logistics industry when Walmart was king, and they said exactly the same things about Walmart - the company had the market power to force you to label your shipment a certain way, with certain bar cod
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by gozur88 9y ago
I always assumed if the CIA recruited someone from another government agency for covert activities, the recruitment would be "dotted line" on paper, i.e. that person would officially still work for the military, FBI, State Dept or
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by gozur88 9y ago
>Coltrane has found that after controlling for variables like age and education, married American men earn significantly more than their unmarried or divorced male peers, and their earnings go up with every child they have. Marriage seem
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by gozur88 9y ago
The big advantage of the A380 is routes out of airports like Heathrow with few available landing slots.
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by gozur88 9y ago
>The USSR signed the Nazi-Soviet pact of 1939 because England signed the Nazi-UK pact of 1938 in Munich. This is just historical revisionism. The Soviets didn't care about Czechoslovakia. Stalin decided to throw his lot in with Hi
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by gozur88 9y ago
>Tai chi, while a martial art, is viewed by many today as a spiritual breathing and balance exercise enjoyed by people of all ages, usually performed in slow motion in a quiet park instead of a fight ring. Tai chi is a martial art in the
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by gozur88 9y ago
These sorts of revolutions are built on previous discoveries. The industrial revolution was guaranteed to happen with advances in metallurgy and mathematics. It happened in Britain because the British empire was top dog, economically, but
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by gozur88 9y ago
My neighborhood is the opposite. Zillow will value a house at, say, $650k and it sells for $520k. It's not the condition of the house, either, since it's pretty consistent.
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by gozur88 9y ago
"Orders of magnitude"? That's a stretch. I doubt Google has as much influence as major broadcasters.

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