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by lutorm 8y ago
Growing up in Sweden, we definitely had school lunches. Bringing food from home was unheard of, school lunch was provided and everyone ate it (and complained about it.) It wasn't until grade 11-12 or something that we sometimes started
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by lutorm 8y ago
Maybe because people think space is cool and there's been close to zero progress for decades before they came along? Or maybe because the goal is something more than just making money, something that clearly set them apart from the oth
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by lutorm 8y ago
the Saturn V developed by Boeing/NAA/Douglas in the 1960s could hurl three times as much weight to the moon as the Falcon Heavy True. At more than an order of magnitude higher cost.
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by lutorm 8y ago
HVDC is harder than AC transmission, but isn't it a solved problem? "In July 2016, ABB Group received a contract in China to build an ultrahigh-voltage direct-current (UHVDC) land link with a 1100 kV voltage, a 3,000 km (1,900 mi)
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by lutorm 8y ago
Yeah, but energy density isn't really significant. You may get less energy out of a m^3 of water pumped to a reservoir than you get out of a m^3 of battery, but even the smallest reservoir has a usable volume that probably surpasses
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by lutorm 8y ago
You'll get there, only to find out that there is no 'there' there. This applies very generally to human nature, people think that there's some magic thing that if only they get that, things will be awesome. In reality,
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by lutorm 8y ago
Isn't this why you're supposed to be able to do the old hand-imprinted manual transactions? If they can't process the transaction, shouldn't they fall back to the manual option?
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by lutorm 8y ago
This is painting the devil on the wall. First, out of all risks you face in life, "multiple armed or unarmed assailants who wish to do me grievous bodily harm" is not really the one that you should be worrying about. Second, how w
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by lutorm 8y ago
I thought it was a calculated effort to scare the shit out of someone , not actually getting people shot. (I'm admittedly not very experienced in this art, but my assumption would not be that if I called the cops on someone they would
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by lutorm 8y ago
In this case it was an irresponsible prank, but it seems perfectly possible that someone could mistakenly give an incorrect address for a real situation, or the 911 operator could copy it down wrong, or whatever. There are simply too many
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by lutorm 8y ago
Since you can launch cubesats for comparatively little money these days, someone should actually launch one.
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by lutorm 8y ago
The summit is at 14,000ft MSL. It's pretty brutal to go up because unlike when you go to 14,000 ft in e.g. Colorado, here you almost always start from sea level. I always get lightheaded and get a headache every time I go up.
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by lutorm 8y ago
Yeah, just to confirm: the current ash cloud has never gotten higher than 12,000 ft, while the telescopes are at 14,000.
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by lutorm 8y ago
Ash output is apparently already declining, so even though the trade winds are expected to slow it appears the NWS just canceled the ash warning: "Cancelled the Ashfall Advisory for Kau District as volcanic ash emissions at Halemaumau
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by lutorm 8y ago
That's because there is no "disaster". Apart from sucking for the ~thousand residents who are living in the area where the lava is now flowing, there is no effect on the rest of the island.
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by lutorm 8y ago
They might know how fast you're traveling, but they don't know who's driving.
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by lutorm 8y ago
I am more positively inclined to British beers like Spitfire and Bishop's Finger which, although I'm not sure they're technically IPA, are definitely quite bitter. I don't think I've ever seen them in the US, though
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by lutorm 8y ago
My personal favorite is Paulaner. Erdinger is also good, but in general any German hefeweizen way surpasses any American wheat. The closest I've found is Widmer. And as far as I know there are no US examples of Dunkel Weizen, the d
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by lutorm 8y ago
I was going to say, I can hear coil whine if I stick my ear into the machine, but it doesn't make it out past the acoustic dampening panels in my case.
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by lutorm 8y ago
I am a little annoyed that making a beer as bitter as possible is now what constitutes making a high-quality beer for so many people. Indeed, I'm right there with you. All these IPA's taste the same to me: incredibly bitter. The
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by lutorm 8y ago
Shipping rockets to tropical islands is brutal from a corrosion perspective, though. If I recall correctly, that was the root cause of SpaceX's failure of the first Falcon 1.
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by lutorm 8y ago
Because big companies usually attempt bigger projects, and coordinating bigger projects that require larger workforce is inherently less efficient?
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by lutorm 9y ago
To me, a "schedule" implies intent, not a promise. (Just like a "budget".) There always exist factors out of your control that can blow them, and everyone hopefully is cognizant of that fact. Thinking that a schedule or
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by lutorm 9y ago
Do tell, which are a couple of those ways that someone might accidentally pick someone else's lunch box, open it, and start eating some unknown food without realizing?
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by lutorm 9y ago
Yes, especially if you wait a while and get hit with the massive ISO exercise AMT tax because the fair market value is now high. I've paid well over $100k in AMT because of this.
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by lutorm 9y ago
Hmm, combined with Amazon's increasing tendency to just not want to ship Prime stuff to Hawaii, it might be time to get out.
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by lutorm 9y ago
That's not true, though. People who have had sedentary jobs their whole life are likely to also have neck and back problems, be overweight, etc.
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by lutorm 9y ago
That depends on whether you're quoting pre-tax or net wages. Those robust health care and public education systems come out of people's taxes, after all.
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by lutorm 9y ago
Swedish productions are not usually blocked, unless I guess the rights are being sold to other countries.
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by lutorm 9y ago
Is your view of whether he should be allowed to do it skewed by what his origin is? (Meaning, do you think American property law applies differently depending on where you were born?) Edit: there are plenty of born-and-raised Americans who

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