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by kashkhan 6y ago
And yet this the first time a woman has become Veep.
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by kashkhan 6y ago
or this is the cumulative effect of systematic discrimination for decades and centuries.
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by kashkhan 6y ago
there are a lot of exceptions. In case of Business jets it's almost a rule to have a t tail.
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by kashkhan 6y ago
When first discovered it was new, but now almost all bizjets have t tails. So it definitely wasn't a fatal flaw but an engineering problem with the configuration.
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by kashkhan 6y ago
all configurations have advantages and disadvantages. Most civilian jets have tails which are mounted higher than the main wing. The position matters when you are talking about not getting into stall and then recovering from a stall. A lowe
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by kashkhan 6y ago
check out Quickie and Q2 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rutan_Quickie t tails on most business jets etc.
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by kashkhan 6y ago
Add MMT to the list. LVT is good for state governments that don't have their own currency.
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by kashkhan 7y ago
Why is the $50k pricetag then that is being mentioned in the news?
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by kashkhan 8y ago
Ability to sell. Sell product to customers. Sell company to investors. Sell organization to potential hires.
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by kashkhan 9y ago
cattle biomass is currently twice that of humans. http://www.sciencefocus.com/qa/what-animal-collectively-make...
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by kashkhan 9y ago
This story been around for decades. When banana yields start materially dropping and price goes up from $1.39 per bunch at costco, then maybe.
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by kashkhan 9y ago
it's great that no government is doing the fiat. That by itself is reason enough.
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by kashkhan 9y ago
if i send a private letter with a return address of my office, i am not representing the company, even though the company name appears on the envelope. An email domain is no different than a street address.
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by kashkhan 9y ago
tokyo is ahead of bay area in the process. Prices go up but then will go down as people decide its not worth it, and other places become "cooler". Also tech (autonomous cars, hyperloop, flying cars , VR/AR ) or econ (UBI) di
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by kashkhan 9y ago
depends on how that money is "produced". Is it obtained by labor or by extracting rent. When labor is added (get paid for building a house) real value is generated. In comparison having a piece of land go up in price, no real valu
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by kashkhan 9y ago
> When you work for an hour, you increase society’s wealth (and your own) by an hour’s worth of wages. true. > When you save a dollar rather than spending it, you increase society’s (and your own) wealth by a dollar um no. spending on
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by kashkhan 9y ago
this is silicon valley. Every investor you meet tries to give you advice on how to run your company and live your life, even if 99% aren't going to invest in you.
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by kashkhan 9y ago
insurance offers discount for car alarms and lo jack, and that drives purchase of those items.
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by kashkhan 9y ago
if he really cared about fingers, he would sell the patent for a million and save thousands of fingers a year. Just like volvo gave up the three point belt patent for public interest.
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by kashkhan 9y ago
just make injury insurance mandatory for tools like this in institutions, and have lower premium for safe tools. Same could be done for guns.
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by kashkhan 9y ago
Someone who had the power, voted to give him those seats. Maybe they were stupid, maybe not. Travis may not be a nice person, but he is good at playing this game and is beating the capitalists at their own game. Why should I cry for benchma
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by kashkhan 9y ago
lack the credentials or money to pay. 'real' colleges offer better networking, but often great teachers can be found in community colleges, where profs are not selected primarily for research. A minority of students learn better i
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by kashkhan 9y ago
how many employers give job offers based on GPA? GPA or any other grades is bad proxy for actual ability and employability. Humans are good at studying for evaluations and measurements. But colleges that teach for that are a waste of time.
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by kashkhan 9y ago
yes, and that's why they should go to college and learn those skills.
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by kashkhan 9y ago
thats ok. we are in a transitional phase. Most of what you learn in college goes to waste anyway. College proves that you can start something and finish it. Like you can do engineering, but even graduates of MIT need years in industry to le
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by kashkhan 9y ago
college and other education should be about adding learning to the recipients and not about measurement. People should learn things as they want, and not be required to meet arbitrary standards and degrees to obtain societal benefits. A hun
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by kashkhan 9y ago
because most non nappers are spending every hour of their day outputting world changing products, and the people who don't are lazy.
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by kashkhan 9y ago
when any gas expands, it does work in expanding against the outside "surface" of the control volume, which comes from the internal energy - temperature - of the molecules. The equations are commonly derived in thermodynamics unde
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by kashkhan 9y ago
immaterial like time...
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by kashkhan 9y ago
how much labor does capital need to produce returns? the wages in economy are well documented. as well as returns on capital. Actual data matters. Don't take my word for it. read up an actual economist. http://voxeu.org&#x2F

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