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by kenneth 8y ago
Why is top down easier? I have a few "neat ice kit" which does that for ice cubes for drinking, but the results are very mixed. I've always wondered why it's a top down design instead of a bottom up? It seems to me like
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by kenneth 8y ago
> The weather is lovely, the crime rate is low, and the schools are well funded. Low crime… do we live in the same bay area?
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by kenneth 8y ago
You can also sign up to be a bone marrow donor in the national registry at https://bethematch.org/ . It's unlikely you'll ever be called on, but if you are a match, you might be one of the few people in the world w
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by kenneth 8y ago
Seems this thread was killed by flags. @dang — curious what the reasoning is here. It's not a pleasant subject to discuss but it's a very important topic these days. I understand the concerns about generating flame wars, but I&#x2
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by kenneth 8y ago
Ukraine is a small country, easy to avoid. The GP was talking about Russia in general though, which is much harder to avoid. The traffic to East Asia is far greater and more important than that to Southeast.
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by kenneth 8y ago
You should like the 787 then, the windows are quite a bit larger. I don't mind the dimming feature, it takes a moment but it works, and I like the ability to have partial dimming. The only thing I don't love is when they're c
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by kenneth 8y ago
The likelihood of an incident like that even with a bleed air system is rather tiny, considering the air comes from the cold bypass section of the engines, and there's a redundancy in that multiple engines are available to provide it.
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by kenneth 8y ago
These were the first two planes off the line and they were significantly heavier and performed much worse than most of the other 380s. Singapore Airlines got rid of them for that very reason, while still taking delivery of new 380s. This is
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by kenneth 8y ago
There's a point at which the time spent boarding becomes too great considering the time in the air. The A380 is a large plane, and you really need 3 jetways to board it in any amount of reasonable time. The mentioned routes are mostly
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by kenneth 8y ago
I think you mean SQ / SIA / Singapore Airlines. South African doesn't operate any A380s.
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by kenneth 8y ago
Maybe flying a Russian airline is a good way to insure you won't get shot down flying over Russian / Ukrainian airspace (which is hard to avoid if you're flying Europe to Asia)
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Liquidation Preference: Your Equity Could Be Worth Millions–Or Nothing (2018)(angel.co)
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by kenneth 8y ago
How do you block a UPS driver from getting out of his truck with just a bicycle?
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by kenneth 8y ago
I'm not surprised they were having issues if their systems are optimized for less than a million monthly unique users. The article says 320,000. A single popular news article could easily absolutely overwhelm that level of traffic.
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Hunting the Con Queen of Hollywood (2018)(hollywoodreporter.com)
1 points by kenneth 8y ago|0 comments
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An Elaborate International Scheme Is Scamming Photographers(thislifeoftravel.com)
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by kenneth 8y ago
That's never been the case. US airports do not have sterile international zones.
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by kenneth 8y ago
Mensho Tokyo is a ramen place I frequent regularly in SF and that has abolished tips. Every time I go, it's a pleasant surprise and I leave feeling happy about it. I can't recall right now if the prices on the menu are inclusive o
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by kenneth 8y ago
I think we would be a bit better off if US restaurants felt more comfortable telling customers to take a hike. I'm entirely ok with restaurants that have no vegan/gluten free/whatever options and refuse substitutions.
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by kenneth 8y ago
This article is ridiculous. Yeah, SF is expensive, but $80k+ is a ridiculously large income for front-of-house service staff. When I first started working as a software engineer in SF, I was making $70k/year and I survived just fine. I
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by kenneth 8y ago
That depends on whether you're in Asia or the USA. On the USA the 787s are mostly displacing routes that would've been operated with connecting partners (eg United to a bunch of Chinese cities), vs in Asia where they're used
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by kenneth 8y ago
Well if we're gonna be pedantic about it, clear does make it marginally faster by using biometrics instead of having a human inspect identity docs.
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by kenneth 8y ago
I don't think you're a hypocrite. I think your stance is actually great — you have your own values and you try to do what you can to change your lifestyle to match those values. That's commendable. If instead you had come out
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by kenneth 8y ago
Denouncing the consumption of meat from certain species of animals (like whales or dogs or foir gras) while happily eating burgers and chickens and tuna is utter hypocrisy. We need to work with Japan and other whaling countries to set susta
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by kenneth 8y ago
Liar's Poker Zero to One Straight to Hell
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by kenneth 8y ago
Supposedly, they bought the bonds on their balance sheet before selling them because 1mdb wanted the money fast, giving them an order of magnitude more risk, hence the higher fees. Also, the average fees for a bond issuance might be $1m bec
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by kenneth 8y ago
If fission is dead, then earth is dead. There is no way we'll survive if we continue to burn coal at the rate we do, and renewable don't work at scale yet and storage is not yet solved. Fission is the only thing that can provide u
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by kenneth 8y ago
Last year in Colorado, skiing alone, I met an 80-year old instructor on a ski lift who was nice enough to take me under his wing and teach me more advanced form and technique for two days. I'm from Switzerland and have been skiing my w
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by kenneth 8y ago
This is a great in-depth guide. I wonder if there's anything like it for skiing. I'm a life-long skier and about the only thing that seems appealing about snowboards to me is the more comfortable boots.
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by kenneth 8y ago
Ambassador status is highly dependent on who you get. Overall, my ambassador is a nice guy who's professional, friendly, and helpful. I also really appreciate having a dedicated line of support considering how awful Marriott's cus

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