kashkhan

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by kashkhan 9y ago
have you ever thought where return on investment/capital comes from? You can hire 100 people to make 100,000 needles a day by hand tools or instead build a $200,000 plant that make 10 million needles a day with three guys operating the
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by kashkhan 9y ago
labor is a small component through and through. Most of the money goes to paying off capital. You can dd up all the salaries all the way through and they won't amount to more than 25% of the total.
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by kashkhan 9y ago
$139B out of $583B is salaries https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Military_budget_of_the_United_...
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by kashkhan 9y ago
exactly how much is wages of the total spend?
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by kashkhan 9y ago
BOS has been trying complete a new runway for 40 years. No dice. you can see the half completed runway at 42.365685N, -70.998083W https://www.google.com/maps/dir/42.3649312,-70.997063/North+... and this could
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by kashkhan 9y ago
I don't know where you get that >200mi is infeasible. shanghai - beijing HST is 819 miles/5 hours @ 220 mph with stops and carries 130 million a year and is insensitive to weather unlike planes. its not easier to scale up plane
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by kashkhan 9y ago
vancouver seattle portland sacramento sf fresno la san diego is a perfectly workable corridor. at 200mph SF to LA would be a 2 hour ride, perfectly competitive with air if done right.
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by kashkhan 9y ago
Almost every aircraft Burt Rutan has built is a breakthrough. Mostly asking questions that other designers weren't, like does a twin need to be symmetric. twin tail booms have a long history. e.g p38 with twin engines. Burt Rutan'
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by kashkhan 9y ago
the plane structure is all carbon/CFRP. you can see in the earlier pictures in the hangar before. http://www.stratolaunch.com/gallery.html the black is cfrp under the white paint. Scaled Composites has some secret CFRP
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by kashkhan 9y ago
it's a proven design. scaled composites, which built this also built the GlobalFlyer with similar configuration. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virgin_Atlantic_GlobalFlyer
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by kashkhan 9y ago
we got a >50% reduction in price in last decade, while the chemistry stayed the same. Cost of materials accounts for a small fraction of the cost, and there's a lot more fat to cut in processing.
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by kashkhan 9y ago
the windows monopoly is still hurting us. We need a reverse engineered gpl windows :) that doesn't leave gaping security holes. a free OS is fundamental.
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by kashkhan 9y ago
just like the 10x CEO. They just make the right decisions and hence are compensated accordingly. Companies like MS and google have sufficient data to tell us whether the 10x programmer is a meaningful term.
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by kashkhan 9y ago
are seams really that big a problem? you could go to 4 and have overlap, interleaving and soft rollover.
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by kashkhan 9y ago
is it hard to put 3 x 120 degree units to get 360 coverage if the unit is only 55mm wide?
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by kashkhan 10y ago
universities are close to 100% full and have no more space. A country like US is not even 3% filled.
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by kashkhan 10y ago
because the miscreants are too stupid to wait 96 hours.
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by kashkhan 10y ago
it's better to let teenagers invest in future job skills than past job skills. Sure grape picking would build character, resourcefulness, obedience to bosses and teamwork, but it's got no future. Same thing with fast food jobs.
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by kashkhan 10y ago
the US is not being destroyed by immigrants coming and stealing the territory and resources. The US has plenty of unused fallow land that immigrants can buy/lease with real money and work with real labor. the US doesn't give free
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by kashkhan 10y ago
many immigrant lives are cut short because they aren't allowed to migrate. The poor have only their labor to trade with. systematically discriminating where they can work, destroys their lives just as much as slavery can. It's sto
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by kashkhan 10y ago
universities have limited classrooms and labs to fill. A country is not limited.
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by kashkhan 10y ago
Immigrants are people whose lives matter. the should be given equal rights and equal value, because even if they are deemed "useless", their kids or grandkids might contribute to the future of humanity.
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by kashkhan 10y ago
i would like to see an actual dollar calculation of the alleged subsidy for an electric car that costs 30cents per mile and almost always uses suburban roads that are designed for fire trucks and school buses.
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by kashkhan 10y ago
The cost of land stays the same whether you rebuild or not. The cost of rebuilding is the difference. 1 > 0
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by kashkhan 10y ago
Are we into precrime now? A criminal is one who is proven in court to be a criminal. Civilized societies use courts to decide the truth, not questionnaires filled out by shady people.
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by kashkhan 10y ago
rebuilding cities with new housing is the opposite of low cost.
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by kashkhan 10y ago
the $80B a year in R&D is off by an order of magnitude. https://www.fool.com/investing/2017/02/05/intel-corporation-...
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by kashkhan 10y ago
technology enables. it doesn't care about life or death. It's not supposed to. Humans are supposed to are about life or death. Take your beef up with humans using tech to kill.
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by kashkhan 10y ago
yes. Modern large airplanes are more complex than reactors and have more uncertainty, and have more places on the chain they can go wrong. But they don't, at least not in the US in last 15 years. Why?
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by kashkhan 10y ago
The expense comes from unwise regulation and lack of development i.e. pork. It works perfectly fine in france which is 80% powered by nuclear. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_power_in_France#/media...

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