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by jccooper 8y ago
You can peg a currency to a commodity by guaranteeing that if someone brings in 1 unit of currency, you'll give them 1 unit of commodity. Gold, oil, another currency, bananas, a slowly-inflating basket of goods and services, whatever.
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by jccooper 8y ago
You do know that's "leave" as a noun, meaning "permission", right? It's a bit formal, but this is a government office we're talking about.
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by jccooper 8y ago
The problem is not this advice, but that people tend to stop reading (or remembering) there. It's misapplied or misunderstood so often that I wonder if it shouldn't be promulgated. Today something like this may be more appropriate
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by jccooper 8y ago
The limit is based on your radiators, how much "empty" sky you can point them at, and how hot you can get them. Those are all fairly finite. Space being vacuum, there's no particular "amount of heat" it can hold, wh
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by jccooper 8y ago
Here's a graph of the PSP distance from the sun in solar radii: https://space.stackexchange.com/questions/17562/how-does-the... The corona can be expected to be out to ~12 solar radii, which suggests about a
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by jccooper 8y ago
I will. What's a good way to get in touch?
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by jccooper 8y ago
The part of the answer here that NASA always seems to skip (perhaps because it's not as fun as talking about all the cool heat-resistant technology) is that the vehicle is in an orbit that will only take it into the corona for a short
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by jccooper 8y ago
Still need to look into it more, but this link may save me a good amount of time. I was just about to build something like this.
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by jccooper 8y ago
That's a case of traffic originating in an unsafe country. Circumventing local laws is a completely different issue. This is about transiting "unsafe" countries while routing to/from a (reasonably?) "safe" coun
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by jccooper 8y ago
"Henge" meaning "big round structure of unknown function with ditch on the inside of a bank." Several sites are presented, in close proximity. At least one appears to be mostly earthwork, and could be a classic "hen
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by jccooper 8y ago
Author is just being cute. No automation at all was involved, simply a naturally stable system and a fair amount of good luck. (Before fly-by-wire and computers all aircraft had to be at least neutrally stable, or they would be literally un
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by jccooper 8y ago
Largely. But what CGI it did use was very good for the time (and even today), and represented something if a watershed moment.
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by jccooper 8y ago
...and a picture of the Grand Canyon, and a recording of Beethoven, and also somehow a couple of sonnets, depending on what the temperature is.
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by jccooper 8y ago
Explaining the circumstances behind this particular optimization target would certainly have been more helpful; as a standalone exercise, reducing allocations does look rather useless. But the author presumably has some reason for focusing
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by jccooper 8y ago
Depends on your range of purchase sizes and industry expectations. My product will sell regularly in quantities from 1 to 10,000, and my shipping costs on those vary from about $5 to $50, so I'd have to have a lot of price tiers. Tha
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by jccooper 8y ago
I have a similar-ish product. For non-discrete items sold at a single price per unit, and where people buy a wide range of volumes, baking the shipping costs into the product leads to strange prices outside whatever sweet spot you choose, b
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by jccooper 8y ago
> But I do have a problem believing that all of the problems since the Model 3 started production were caused by sabotage. So, uh, where exactly is that said? In the email, or anywhere for that matter? On my monitor, the email doesn&#x27
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by jccooper 8y ago
All the modern patent has to do is look plausible. It doesn't has to have been reduced to practice, or be practical, or work, or even obey the laws of physics. (Though they will catch baldly impossible things like perpetual motion.) It
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by jccooper 8y ago
Many are moving towards entertainment. Restaurants, games, that sort of thing. It's a bit hard, though, as those typically don't need as much space as retail, and if they do they can't afford the rates retail could.
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by jccooper 8y ago
They pay range fees, but may not pay much for the facilities themselves. It's not uncommon in things like this for the lease to be offset by the improvements built or simply for taking maintenance of the government's hands.
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by jccooper 8y ago
Fossil has simple (and free) online hosting at http://chiselapp.com
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by jccooper 8y ago
The as-configured vehicle they examined was sold for at least $49,000 (but probably more likely $54,000 with Autopilot), as they're only selling large-battery and high-trim interior now. The headline lumps material and labor together,
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by jccooper 8y ago
Presumably complying with the import tax is a PITA. Import/export usually is. Certainly it's more work than adding a redirect. There may also be some organizational lines being crossed; I can imagine the American site team doesn&#
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by jccooper 8y ago
Well, I don't know what "hype" says, but it's fairly obvious by size and price that the Model 3 is in the small luxury sedan category, of which the BMW 3 and MB C-series are the big players. But if you need a citation he
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by jccooper 8y ago
It's entirely common in that segment. The BMW 3 series, against which the Model 3 is precisely positioned, starts at $34,900, has a non-optioned model with a larger engine and all-wheel drive starting at $50,950, and can get optioned t
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by jccooper 8y ago
The usual solution to self reporting systems is audits. The entire tax system works this way. It won't catch everything, but does manage to put some teeth in the process and can catch systematic cheating. In this case, occasional rando
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by jccooper 8y ago
Yes, but it rather matters in terms of how to keep it out.
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by jccooper 8y ago
I had a call that (asymmetrically) crashed every 15min. I eventually figured out that was when they rotated the ads.
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by jccooper 8y ago
It's not really NASA, but Atlas D and similar early vehicles did have fueling failures. But they also failed sitting empty on the pad and a hundred other ways. Propellant loading is a state change, and so it's theoretically more d
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by jccooper 8y ago
You mean "The Crescent City"? That's to do with the shape of the river.

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