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by jordanb 2y ago
Pointing out somebody who was born into wealth who's good at a thing doesn't disprove his thesis. I'd counter your example with another: the documentary Born Rich pretty well captures the article's point. There are lot
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This actually makes me think these people are unserious. This is an obsolescent airship design. ZeppelinNT, Airlander 10, and Lockheed P-719 all use the semi-rigid design with integral gas bags.
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by jordanb 2y ago
My understanding was blau-gass was unpressurized propane, which is a little more dense than air. But I guess according to that article it's slightly less. I'd expect that, like a lot of problems zeppelins had in the 1920s, burning
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by jordanb 2y ago
Modern airships are semi-rigid. They have a keel and a rigid structure to support the empennage. The rest of the structure can be deflated and collapsed just like a non-rigid blimp.
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Yeah although typically they used water ballast, which is cheap and easy to find. One thing worth considering is going back to hydrogen as a lifting gas. Not only is it a better lifting gas than helium and much cheaper, it could be used as
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by jordanb 2y ago
I didn't say that. The OP argued "Actually this is bad because the cost per ton of carbon saved is higher than some other way to save carbon." The original replyer pointed out that "ways to save carbon" are not nece
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Who's "we"? The public is mostly not made up of consultants and do not appreciate consultant logic being applied to everything. People would prefer to define values and then act on those values.
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"These things aren't important unless you can wedge them into my spreadsheet" is the time of consultant-brained nonsense that got us the world we're living in.
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The large American civilizations (Inca, Aztec, etc) were essentially bronze-age civilizations. Perhaps Europe would have been so as well had there not been a bronze-age collapse.
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You can google "Home Affordable Modification Program" and "foam the runway" [for the banks]. But here's one of many articles: https://prospect.org/economy/needless-default/ "The cynic
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This is called "extend and pretend." It's what's happening now with office loans. Conversely during the GFC the Obama administration put a plan together to allow people to get their loan terms adjusted (write down). The
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Nukes are full of conventional explosives, plus the radioactive pit. A failed nuclear detonation is still a dirty bomb.
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Higher interest rates are also hurting LBOs which shouldn't affect startup acquisitions but does affect PE.
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I assume this is committed funds right? So they're not giving anything back they're just releasing the commitments?
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They could change the rules that effectively penalize smaller vehicles. They can still have categories but be equally stringent within each category. The reality is that manufacturers have captured the EPA regulations and are using them t
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by jordanb 2y ago
Yeah I saw a thing a little bit ago where "Odyssey" was one of the most popular vehicles for people when they originally start a search for a new car, but then by the time they get to a purchase they end up with an SUV. Modern SUV
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by jordanb 2y ago
I was one of those guys, but it was Emacs. Quite frankly, IDEs at the time were really bad. They were slow and clunky. Intellisense didn't always work. People who relied too much on IDEs didn't understand their project's buil
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by jordanb 2y ago
These "lapses in judgement" are driven by Mozilla's brass representing the desires of their real masters. A post-Google Mozilla may be smaller, but I bet Firefox would be better and more popular.
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> See the failure of huge conglomerates like GE GE was a successful company as a major conglomarate which made aircraft engines, railroad locomotives and light bulbs. GE was a failure as a financialized "engine of financial performa
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by jordanb 2y ago
Yeah the GP's point is the board was acting within its purview by dismissing the CEO. The coup was the successful counter-campaign against the board by Altman and the investors.
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People are saying this is coup-related but it could also be due to this horrible response to the a question about what they used to train their Sora model: https://youtu.be/mAUpxN-EIgU?feature=shared&t=263
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They were distributed randomly throughout the country before detonation. The fact that they were likely purchased by Hezbollah members is kinda beside the point when Israel knew they were going to be all over the place in public places and
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> attack was by all accounts pretty well targeted Which accounts are you listening to? The accounts that I've heard is that they set every single one of these off all at once with no targeting and they blew up all over Lebanon in ma
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It's also an indictment of our legal and regulatory system that allows this interpretation to go forward (no doubt on the advice of very expensive lawyers and lobbyists hired by Ford). People may disagree on if the truck tariff is good
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"Comparing to peers" is a favorite consultant-brained move.
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Silly me I thought Intel was a chip company. Turns out it's an "engine of financial performance."
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18A was already rolling down the tracks. Either it'll be great or it won't. But if it is, Intel needs to be poised and willing to make the investments to capitalize on it. Instead what we're getting with this message is &quot
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So their strategy is to cut their way to wall street liking them again. When that doesn't work, presumably, more cuts. When did our corporate leadership become so dumb and predictable?
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> The market correctly anticipated Tesla's popularity. It seems like the market has priced in gains that have yet to materialize in Tesla's fundamentals. They're still far smaller than auto makers with much lower valuation
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Seriously? Crowdstrike is obviously NSA just like Kaspersky is obviously KGB and Wiz is obviously Mossad. Why else are counties so anxious about local businesses not using agents made by foreign actors?

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