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by lutorm 9y ago
I think there's a big, gaping difference between "alcohol at work" being "every friday we hang out and have a beer before taking off" and "people sipping on scotch while they work". The difference is basic
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by lutorm 9y ago
Yeah, but I don't understand why you'd cancel the flight instead of just reduce takeoff weight. Perhaps it just becomes uneconomic to run the flight if they can only load half the passengers?
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by lutorm 9y ago
Learning by experimentation is a perfectly valid way of learning. You can't force people to learn in depth but, if you want to, there's no problem gradually deepening your understanding over time by trying stuff and thinking about
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by lutorm 9y ago
I suspect the texture will look basically similar under any scheme where stuff is attracted more strongly the closer they are. It's a basic feature arising from the "the dense get denser" characteristic of gravity.
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by lutorm 9y ago
I don't believe for a minute that modern cars last less long than old cars. Have you actually used a 60's or 70's car as a daily driver? The big difference is also maintenance. If you've ever had an old car you know abou
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by lutorm 9y ago
In that case, though, they should have retired earlier...
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by lutorm 9y ago
Exactly. In the absence of a socialized health care system, each individual is forced to plan for the worst case rather than the average case.
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by lutorm 9y ago
Most things that die are quickly picked clean to the bones by scavengers, insects, etc. I doubt for a normal skeleton there's much left around it.
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by lutorm 9y ago
Speak for yourself. My home electricity costs right around $0.30/kWh. If you can't get a net metering contract, it's already about cost-effective to just go off-grid. The economic calculation for one of these roofs probably
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by lutorm 10y ago
At around T+8 minutes it's really obvious how the rocket is actually gliding at an angle as it comes down, to steer itself towards the landing site. A cylinder might not make a great glider, but it has significant lift especially at th
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by lutorm 10y ago
Will, it's 1/16th the kinetic energy required for the stage to get to orbit, but not 1/16th of the total kinetic energy needed. Most of the s2 mass is fuel, of which very little is taken to orbital velocity.
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by lutorm 10y ago
I am well aware of how it works. What I said is that the incentives to offer more than what they are legally required to offer by the IDB regulations (which does have an upper limit) are significantly lessened since the IDB rules give the
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by lutorm 10y ago
The actual limit is 4x the price of the ticket, capped at $1350, so it could very well have been down in the $400 range.
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by lutorm 10y ago
Well in this case the market is distorted by the fact that regulations allow the airline to not let people board for a much smaller cost. If the airline didn't have that legal out, they would be forced to negotiate terms with each pa
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by lutorm 10y ago
You mean https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trickle-down_economics ?
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by lutorm 10y ago
Partially, I agree. But the current way of selling airline tickets also push price as the variable to base your choice on. Travel time is maybe a distant second. (I often buy the not-cheapest ticket to get a better routing, a 10% premium of
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by lutorm 10y ago
Yes but that's just how much is withheld, not your final tax amount.
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by lutorm 10y ago
Sure, tenancy is special. But so is common carriage: "A common carrier holds itself out to provide service to the general public without discrimination (to meet the needs of the regulator's quasi judicial role of impartiality towa
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by lutorm 10y ago
I think that refusing to leave someone else's private property makes the use of force inevitable. I know Americans are a bit high-strung when it comes to "property rights", but here's one example: It may be your proper
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by lutorm 10y ago
There may not be a question of who owns the aircraft, but there are definitely questions of whether they have a legal right to force someone from whom they have accepted money in exchange for allowing them onto their property merely minut
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by lutorm 10y ago
As I understand it, it's unclear whether they followed procedures and the law. The law and procedures governing oversales allow "involuntarily denied boarding" if there aren't enough seats. However, a completely differen
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by lutorm 10y ago
"they can't offer anymore than what they did, its a set rule" That's complete BS. It may be a United rule, but the law only defines how much they are required to compensate people who are denied boarding. When as
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by lutorm 10y ago
I thought it was impersonating a federal agent in the line of duty that was a crime, ie it would not be a crime to claim that you work for the USCIS at a party, but it would be a crime to claim you work for the USCIS and demand to see s
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by lutorm 10y ago
I would think the vast majority of cash deposits are under $10k, so I assume what they mean is repeated deposits of close to, but slightly under , $10k.
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by lutorm 10y ago
Wasn't there an article here a few days ago that said Uber drivers were doing exactly the same thing?
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by lutorm 10y ago
In exchange for what cut? I looked all over your web page without seeing a number.
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by lutorm 10y ago
It would be nice if the introduction made clear that the "Momentum" that "works" is some algorithm and not at all the physical concept "momentum".
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by lutorm 10y ago
My wife and I have talked about the need for a recipe search based on the food we already have for a long time, so I like this idea! Where do the recipes come from? I mean, do you add your own recipes?
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by lutorm 10y ago
3d-printing new battery cases and replacing old batteries with new (Li-ion) for my old electronics for which it is no longer possible, or at least not cost effective, to buy new batteries.
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by lutorm 10y ago
It refers to Hvalsey, I think. At least in Swedish, "val" is whale and "ö" (roughly pronounced "ey") island.

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