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This is well known in car sales in general: "The feel of the wheel seals the deal".
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Not grey, but "drab dark brown" Pantone 448C, chosen specifically as the least appealing color possible! https://www.smh.com.au/national/does-this-colour-turn-you-of...
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From the New York Times at https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/10/business/boeing-737-max-8... : > On a commercial level, China’s aviation sector could actually benefit from the tragedies in Indonesia and
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by jpatokal 8y ago
Sure, but for comparison, the original 737 was launched in 1967 (!) and even the 737 NG has been flying since 1997. So while having two MAXes crash after takeoff mere months apart is indeed statistically unlikely, I wouldn't necessaril
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This list is meaningless without accounting for the number of aircraft & the number of miles they have flown. For example, the 737 is not only the world's most popular commercial airliner, it's simultaneously the "most d
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by jpatokal 8y ago
This is already big business in Africa: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agbogbloshie
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by jpatokal 8y ago
There's more to diversity than skin color. Immigrants from other countries look for people who can speak their own language, eat the same food, worship the same gods etc, and given that the bulk of SF's immigrants (in the tech in
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by jpatokal 8y ago
> Tech Nation, the Giant Ape, has no sign of intelligence and is there to destroy beautiful things that go beyond her comprehension ability. Man, somebody's got an axe to grind...
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by jpatokal 8y ago
It's actually much better than Hollywood would have you believe: a shot fuel tank will not explode. http://prometheus-fs.co.uk/articles/hollywood-lies-to-you/
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Servants for the rich never went away. What's new is the concept of easily summoned single-task servants for the middle class: now anybody with a phone and a bit of spare money can delegate tasks, and the people fulfilling those tasks
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by jpatokal 8y ago
This particular love hotel had both a minibar and a (uncooled) toybar. Very mildly NSFW picture: http://www.patokallio.name/photo/travel/Korea/Suanbo/Motel_T...
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So is Singapore. Then again, Singapore is only about 40 km end to end!
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There are a couple of catches to using love hotels as regular hotels though: * If you want a "stay" (overnight) instead of a "rest" (hourly), check-in times are late and check-out times are early, with steep hourly rates
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The Last Ringbearer(en.wikipedia.org)
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Pay for level 1 positions is indeed not great, but the money is pretty good in companies that value support enough to do it in-house and once you've learned enough to be senior/backline to a whole crew of juniors. I do agree that
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by jpatokal 8y ago
Colonies don't subsist in isolation, they require trade to survive. See Jared Diamond's Collapse for the pop science version of what happened to a few isolated colonies (Greenland, Easter Island, etc) when trade stops.
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by jpatokal 8y ago
It's worth noting that Antarctica remains undeveloped in large part because the Antarctic Treaty System bans commercial exploitation: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antarctic_Treaty_System Not that there would be m
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by jpatokal 8y ago
Bacillary dysentery is common in India, and her case was extreme. Basically, the infection reached the stage where her intestinal lining was visibly sloughing off, and she told me later it was more painful than unanesthesized childbirth.
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If anybody else is wondering how to navigate that, you need to mouseover the right image to get an arrow, then click to advance. (Because scrolling vertically would be just too obvious.) There are also additional pages of pics under the +P
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Crohn's plus acute gastroenteritis (food poisoning). Delhi Belly is ubiquitous in India and can get pretty gnarly: my wife got dysentery on her first visit, and I'm not sure what would have happened without prompt diagnosis and a
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by jpatokal 8y ago
Looks like they nailed the launch: first stage recovered and Dragon 2 separated successfully. Congratulations SpaceX! Docking with the ISS is scheduled ~27 hours from now on Sunday, March 3 at 10:55 UTC (5:55 EST). https://www.s
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by jpatokal 8y ago
Now there's spam as well. Progress!
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By joining the startup with its startup salary, you've already thrown away tens if not hundreds of thousands of dollars of hard cash you could have earned by taking that Google offer instead. So if you feel that this is a rational
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> In planar N = 4 supersymmetric Yang–Mills theory, also equivalent to the perturbative topological B model string theory in twistor space, an amplituhedron is defined as a mathematical space known as the positive Grassmannian. Can I u
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by jpatokal 8y ago
The Japanese take this to another level. Imagine listening to these all day, every day: Don don don, donki, don quijote... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iJyYrrDKYZE (Don Quijote) Kamera wa yodobashi kamera! https:&#
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The Twisted Business of Donating Plasma (2014)(theatlantic.com)
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> In Argentina, to dial a mobile number domestically, the digits "15" need to be inserted after the area code but before the local number, and the "9" after the country code (54) needs to be removed. This transforms
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by jpatokal 8y ago
> I am sure in the future Mr Bezos will be placed in one line with Adolf Hitler as an example of genocide. The guy may have a case somewhere in there, but this kind of hyperbole isn't doing it any favors. Stripping out the fluff,
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Wikipedia: In response to the university's actions, a group of over 40 Jewish faculty and students at the university signed a letter to Chancellor Wise and the board, protesting what they consider an unjustified conflation of "cr
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> MySQL has been out for 23 years > PostgreSQL has been out for 22 years feeling old intensifies

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