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721.
by khuey 6y ago
It's extremely easy to get anonymous Internet in the United States. Open wifi access points are everywhere and prepaid SIMs don't require any sort of ID or registration.
722.
by khuey 6y ago
It should be a wash either way unless someone falls into some weird edge case where deductions are limited. The corporation is deducting the payment either way, either as comp paid out to employees or as a charitable donation directly.
723.
by khuey 6y ago
The state can decline to enforce contracts it considers against the public interest.
724.
by khuey 6y ago
Geico did a commercial based on this once. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9JxhTnWrKYs
725.
by khuey 6y ago
I don't think "upper management comp has exploded only because they invented an entirely new way of compensating themselves" is the get-out-of-jail-free card you seem to think it is.
726.
by khuey 6y ago
I thought the lab leak hypothesis was pretty unlikely in early 2020 but having seen the how the Chinese state has acted since then it now seems entirely believable.
727.
by khuey 6y ago
The US and Russia have been successfully not having a war since 1945, why would that stop now?
728.
by khuey 6y ago
Enthalpy of combustion for CH4 is 802 kJ and for an equivalent amount of gaseous hydrogen it's 286 kJ so most of the energy does come from the carbon.
729.
by khuey 6y ago
> I can't see how this could be competitive. It can't. Coal plants are dinosaurs that need to be shut down. Charging a carbon price is one way to make that happen faster.
730.
by khuey 6y ago
Indeed. It's not hard to get a wilderness permit in Yosemite (as long as you don't pick the same five trails everybody else does on a weekend) walk a few miles into the wilderness and see a handful of other people a day. Doing any
731.
by khuey 6y ago
Perhaps this is a regional variation of English but here in the US I've never heard anybody refer to non-removal dental implants as dentures before.
732.
by khuey 6y ago
According to the Washington Post's space reporter it's not really the FAA's fault. https://twitter.com/wapodavenport/status/1376668877699047424
733.
by khuey 6y ago
The vast majority of "toxic waste" is chemically toxic not radioactive.
734.
by khuey 6y ago
Yes. It's also the structure of the insurance policies. Dental insurance typically has a relatively low annual maximum payout which caps the insurer's losses on any given customer. Health insurers have the potential for nearly un
735.
by khuey 6y ago
Also this would be innocent passage anyways.
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by khuey 6y ago
The United States was the first country to approve the Moderna vaccine. If the US "wasn't able to use it" then neither was any other country.
737.
by khuey 6y ago
https://www.washingtonpost.com/science/why-do-bats-have-so-m...
738.
by khuey 6y ago
They did sign those treaties (e.g. with WTO membership), they just ignored them.
739.
by khuey 6y ago
1 in 6 Americans live somewhere in the Northeast corridor so it can't be that disconnected. There's plenty in common with the other large urban centers too.
740.
by khuey 6y ago
Domino's runs a business designed around delivery with a delivery-friendly product and runs delivery in-house. UberEats does none of that.
741.
by khuey 6y ago
Worth noting that the actual tents are cheap and what's expensive is the security, social services, meals, etc that come along with it. For comparison, the cost to incarcerate someone in California is around $7k/mo and what that m
742.
by khuey 6y ago
The situation for Pu-238 production has improved since that was written https://www.ornl.gov/news/ornl-produced-plutonium-238-help-p...
743.
by khuey 6y ago
Alpha sources outside the human body are of little health concern. You'd have to break it open and eat the plutonium inside for it to be a serious risk.
744.
by khuey 6y ago
The radiation emitted by plutonium 238, which is what's found inside RTGs, is easily shielded by essentially any solid material. The real reason you don't want an RTG powering your fridge is that it costs on the order of one milli
745.
by khuey 6y ago
It's not pulled out of thin air, it's constructed from `environ`.
746.
by khuey 6y ago
That's fair. I assume the logic here is that a dislodged cowling or other external engine paneling is traveling at a relatively low velocity when it makes contact with another part of the plane, compared to a fan blade which, if succes
747.
by khuey 6y ago
https://www.flickr.com/photos/ntsb/50971339066/in/album-7215... does not look contained.
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by khuey 6y ago
"Another [Boeing's (if you insist)] Pratt and Whitney Engine ..." would be a better title, Boeing has little to nothing to do with the engine, and Pratt and Whitney engines are found on Airbus aircraft too.
749.
by khuey 6y ago
Electricity bills are post-paid. There's an inherent credit mechanism.
750.
by khuey 6y ago
Griddy is being a bit disingenuous here, IMO. ERCOT operates a power-only market, unlike most grid operators. No producers get paid "for capacity" (for agreeing to be ready to provide power, even if they're not currently doin

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