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by lutorm 7y ago
Except that if you retire early you can still "work". It's just that you can work on whatever you want, not just on what someone will pay you for.
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by lutorm 7y ago
But Nature doesn't make its living by publishing articles, it does it by selling subscriptions. This requires having high "prestige" so people want to subscribe to it. If you're just charging for publishing articles, y
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by lutorm 7y ago
Fair, if it's a specific stock and a specific event affecting that company, I don't have so much of a quibble with that (although it could still well be that 0.2 of that selloff is because of the event and the remaining 0.8 is bec
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by lutorm 7y ago
Exactly, they think transportation==driving. That's the problem.
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by lutorm 7y ago
This is one of the most infuriating parts about the road layout where I live now. Everything is built as small residential cul-de-sacs without any access except the entry from the main street. I can look at my neighbor's house 100ft aw
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by lutorm 7y ago
How could scientists paying to publish their work incentivize them to publish more? I assumed that the point was that the journal is incentivized to publish as many articles as possible, and hence to lower review standards.
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by lutorm 7y ago
Every piece of market news that says "market change X, because incident Y" is pure speculation since there is no way to establish Y as the cause. I wish they would just say "X happened, and also Y" and stop thinking they
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by lutorm 7y ago
What do you do for grounding if your house sits on bedrock? We barely had enough for the "buried in trench, 30" deep" option at our house before hitting the solid lava everything here is built on. (And it's buried in m
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by lutorm 7y ago
It is governed by law in America, too. At least it is in CA.
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by lutorm 7y ago
It's not a right to be free from competition from the government. The reason we allow corporations is so they can serve the public good, but if the public good would be better served by the government providing that service then there&
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by lutorm 7y ago
That's true, but at least you have the choice of which route you want to go. I guess even CA allows "home-made, specially constructed, or kit" vehicles. https://www.dmv.ca.gov/portal/dmv/detail/
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by lutorm 7y ago
Maybe the http://www.arielatom.com/ ? Excellent visibility and low to the ground so you won't hit any vital parts in the event of a collision. Plus most people will probably notice you... ;-)
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by lutorm 7y ago
I seem to remember somewhere that insurance companies have been reluctant to factor the risk of injury to others into the liability premiums for cars. This was in the context of a discussion of the externalities when SUVs and trucks became
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by lutorm 7y ago
Actually it's funny you should mention the FAA. I have much greater freedom at modifying my airplane than I do modifying my car.
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by lutorm 7y ago
CA too. I'm not sure how likely it is to get you out of a ticket though.
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by lutorm 7y ago
That's exactly why it has to be mandated. Occupant safety might be a selling feature, but not killing others has to be a required one...
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by lutorm 7y ago
As I understand it, 300-series stainless is not heat treatable, so this should not be a problem. (304 stainless is routinely used in exhaust systems where they are heated up to glowing red temperatures every time. If the starship tank gets
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by lutorm 7y ago
Yeah, electrified rail is by far the most energy-efficient way of transportation. How that translates to CO2 emission of course depends on how the electricity is made.
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by lutorm 7y ago
Hawaii...
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by lutorm 7y ago
Shouldn't they use pilots with the absolute minimal skills required to pass the ATP test and get into a 737 cockpit? If you use average, that still leaves ~half the pilots to crash...
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by lutorm 7y ago
Personally, I'm not inhaling anything period. The risk/reward calculation just looks ridiculously unattractive to me. Fucking up your lungs, be it from tobacco, other vaporized products, solvents, paint, whatever, is just not wort
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by lutorm 7y ago
I like that book, too. There were two others that we thought were helpful: "The Baby Owner's Manual: Operating Instructions, Trouble-Shooting Tips, and Advice on First-Year Maintenance" which is just an overall guide to every
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by lutorm 7y ago
Given that switching to renewable energy is already becoming cost-competitive with fossil fuels, while CCS is a pure cost, what makes you think a major investment in CCS is more likely than reducing emissions in the first place?
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by lutorm 7y ago
Weird, I'm surprised that isn't the default mode of operations for something that's designed to plug in your own control system.
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by lutorm 7y ago
Yeah the trick is knowing what the performance of the as-built vehicle will be before building it. You can to some extent marginalize over this by running randomized trials with different parameters for your mechanisms so that you verify th
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by lutorm 7y ago
... for a given semimajor axis, is what the OP forgot to add.
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by lutorm 7y ago
This is true. But did you actually read what the study said? They point out that there is a small number of referees who consistently have their own work cited at a much higher rate than the majority of the referees. If referees and authors
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by lutorm 7y ago
By "gamble on the insurance rider" you mean further externalize the cost that Uber already externalized onto the drivers? Because the people that end up paying when you "gamble on the insurance" are the people that you i
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by lutorm 7y ago
It's actually 35 years. But still.
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by lutorm 7y ago
"Our neighbors, who have solidly middle class jobs but good health insurance benefits, will end up paying more in taxes than they will save in out of pocket health expenses." This will be influenced a lot by whether the employers

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