grf27

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   by grf27 3y ago

   Launching weather balloons is routine, and requires no special preparation. If you are launching at an airport, you usually have to notify ATC. But radiosondes and balloons come under an exemption, so can be flown pretty much anywhere. I
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   by grf27 3y ago

   I think there's clearly a change. 10 years ago, we hired people for a specific technical role and paid them $80K/year. Now, we still hire people for that same job, but only pay them $60K/year. Companies loudly announce they
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   by grf27 3y ago

   No, but if you're a government seeing your media industry shrinking because they can't make a profit to sustain themselves, meanwhile others are profiting off their work, then you want to try something, and I guess this is their a
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   by grf27 3y ago

   Yes they do. But the income from one story doesn't pay the cost to generate all the other stories that the paper produces. According to our local paper that just shut down, their ads couldn't compete with the ads on Google/
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   by grf27 3y ago

   Isn't the issue that Google/Facebook sell ads and make money from linking to news sources? And those news sources have their costs but don't see any income? I think about this often when I read a story on some small-town new