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by hadlock 3y ago
People have been trying micro payment systems since the very early 2000s. Various internet comic book "publishing groups" had their own systems that allowed you to make sub-dollar payments to artists per comic strip daily out of a
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by hadlock 3y ago
This is one of the few headlines here that truly makes me sad. In the 80s, National Geographic was the color commentary to the bland dryness of WORLDBOOK encyclopedias in the school library.
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by hadlock 3y ago
You should watch the initial interviews with James Cameron. He explains 1) composite hulls have a finite number of compression cycles before they fail, typically less than 10 (this was dive #7 give or take, I forget the exact numbers) and 2
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by hadlock 3y ago
It was a weird, early design. 90% of that "submarine" is a giant bladder that held gasoline, with a tube through the middle, and then a sphere at the bottom. There's a window at the top of the tube, and then a steel hatch sep
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by hadlock 3y ago
Something like 10-50 of the population worldwide, depending on where/how you measure, moved from rural areas to cities since WW2. This completely upended the large scale population density situation that had existed for millennia. Also
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by hadlock 3y ago
The daylight between instituting a parenting license and eugenics is not very much.
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by hadlock 3y ago
The design flaw was that they used a construction material strong in tension, but weak in compression. For a task that is almost entirely compression. On a vehicle that has no need for weight savings. Also in a couple photos looks like they
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by hadlock 3y ago
Flag of convenience. Where the country of record allows ships to register under their name as a way of generating revenue from foreigners. Bahamas will not do more than issue a statement, if that. You step foot on a flag of convenience boat
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by hadlock 3y ago
> How do parents not know how bad the school is? Are you not, on a daily basis asking what they learned in school and A lot of parents work 2, 3 jobs to make ends meet. When they get home there's barely enough money left over for fo
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by hadlock 3y ago
Given the substantial financial benefit you got from his (800 pages!) work, you probably owe it to him to buy a new copy of the book. Order it from your local book shop if you can.
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by hadlock 3y ago
In 2020-2021 it seemed like 20-30% of my contacts were using signal as their SMS/MMS app of choice. Then they forced SMS users off the platform, giving some reasoning that SMS users don't understand which messages get encrypted, o
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by hadlock 3y ago
Most people are quoting a FOV of between 90 and 100 degrees which is about average for the VR market
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by hadlock 3y ago
San Antonio barely has a functional downtown, there's a grim shell of tourist oriented restaurants and hotels immediately around the river walk but really struggles to be a center of business. There are few condo buildings downtown. Un
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by hadlock 3y ago
The Quest Go came out in 2018 (first "real" VR headset for this kind of thing) and I've never ever seen someone use one in flight. Not once in four+ years. I average about one flight a month.
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by hadlock 3y ago
VR movies in economy maybe. To tune out the awful experience of sitting in a 17" wide seat with not nearly enough leg room. Nobody is paying business or first class prices and wearing a VR headset. Certainly not devoting carry on bagga
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by hadlock 3y ago
The article specifies the ban continues until a certain school year/grade; it's not based on actual age.
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by hadlock 3y ago
Weirdly I think this is not constructed, hunters are moderately heavy users of public lands and land rights are pretty important to that group. I believe they are entitled to enter public land and at the same time respect land right usage o
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by hadlock 3y ago
The ruling very intentionally says "on foot", which limits it to people walking across. Leaves the door open for future debate/interpretation about vehicular traffic. You might be able to design an offroad vehicle that can &q
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by hadlock 3y ago
By this logic of five squares, wouldn't that reduce the value by 20%
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by hadlock 3y ago
The guys running netflix now (35-45) were the kids and college students (14-25) running limewire and gnutella and later bittorrent and/or DC++. They might have even chanted "Dee Cee Plus Plus!" over and over at QuakeCon. They
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by hadlock 3y ago
Housing in the NE isn't amazing, but it's dramatically better than the bay area. You need to make 225+ (300 realistically) in the bay area to be a home owner, and even then you're living in a marginal area with a lot of compr
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by hadlock 3y ago
You end up with city/county hall, local courts, then the lawyers, general contractors, banks etc all clustering around that. There's a natural clustering of resources that happens just from local government. It's not uncommon
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by hadlock 3y ago
Correct, this is what companies build "culture" for. Turnover goes way down in situations like this and once their employees have a mortgage and fixed living expense they basically only need to give them cost of living adjustment
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by hadlock 3y ago
"being a landlord is a second job" is something I hear a lot from renters, I've never heard this from an actual small time landlord who has two or less rental properties. And yeah, if you have 30%+ equity in your house you ca
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by hadlock 3y ago
Pensions are typically protected as a separate entity, not tied to the fate of the company. The corporation pays into a fund, and the pension invests that money into something that pays out a guaranteed dividend in perpetuity. Some pensions
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by hadlock 3y ago
Wow I was not expecting to get down voted for that. If you have a differing opinion just say so
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by hadlock 3y ago
This was my take as well. Kahn signed an arms deal with Russia just days before the Ukrainian conflict happened. Less than two weeks after the invasion happened he was ousted from office. Pretty unusual, Imran Kahn has been wildly popular i
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by hadlock 4y ago
A couple of financial reporting sites use machines to write articles on small cap stock ticker quarterly reports. It ends up being pretty generic but occasionally is nice to have at a glance human readable summary for when random tiny biote
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by hadlock 4y ago
Isn't this the better thread? It links directly to the original source. Ars Technica is just reporting on the SpaceX page
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by hadlock 4y ago
The falcon 9 did several "hover over water" landings in the ocean to prove out safe landing on... land, and also to alay fears that it might miss it's target and hit a population center. Even now, falcon 9 do a ballistic reen

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