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by mediaman 7y ago
Commodity resins are used to replace metals, and in structural parts all the time. Much of it comes down to part design, filler selection, etc. For example, glass-filled polypropylenes are used all the time as metal replacements in vehicles
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by mediaman 7y ago
Usually they use purchase orders initiated by the buyer/manager to solve this sort of problem. Hiring a freelancer? Issue a purchase order to the freelancer for the maximum amount you think you'll pay them. They then bill you for
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by mediaman 7y ago
These are not controversial claims. Walmart revenue is $514 billion. Amazon revenue is $232 billion. Currently, about half of the retail revenue of Amazon is marketplace sales, where Amazon does not own the merchandise but simply warehouses
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by mediaman 7y ago
A-class malls are still doing well. The mall you're referring to in Bellevue, where I have also been, is a class-A mall. Class-A malls tend to be in busier, higher wealth, sometimes more urban areas, have best in class furnishings, and
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by mediaman 8y ago
Getting sad enough to cry is a good technique, because tears from strong emotion have been found to carry stress hormones with them out of the body. Crying also releases endorphins which can help you recover from a feeling of sadness. So ye
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by mediaman 8y ago
You're referring to a type of supply curve that rises sharply to the right as demand increases and where that supply curve has limited ability to react in a new equilibrium. Small increases in demand result in large increases in price
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by mediaman 8y ago
You're advocating for auto-playing videos and sound, proprietary resource-gobbling flash content, and the nonconsensual abuse of user data? Yes, what a golden age that was. It is a much more persuasive argument that the new controls ar
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by mediaman 8y ago
Yes, the use of iPads has had a huge impact on aviation. Fancy built-in devices that cost $25k-80k to implement in the cockpit can be replicated on an iPad, and the mini is the best fit. A lot of pilots were really bummed when it appeared t
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by mediaman 8y ago
Bingo. Tooling in the US is ridiculously expensive. For other applications (tools for plastics, injection molding, thermoforming) there is often a 3-5x difference in price. Actual processing is much less of a difference, especially at volum
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by mediaman 8y ago
Modern heat pumps are extremely quiet. I have one right outside the bedroom window and never hear it. Little to no vibration either, despite it being mounted directly to the house. Perhaps older ones are noisier.
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by mediaman 8y ago
As in, a service that captures new images of a given coordinate 10x+ times per day, using presumably some rapidly updating satellite source? Personally I would not have a use for that kind of frequency in my business, but others might. 10x
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by mediaman 8y ago
Got it, sorry I missed that you had left. I'll reach out to them to see if they are thinking about the leadgen aspecet of it.
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by mediaman 8y ago
Wow - you guys need to find a way to commercialize this. I manufacture products for an agricultural segment (where limited data exists for sales leads), and was able to focus on one example customer site with some of the unique structures t
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by mediaman 8y ago
Lack of transit funding no longer rings true. The area just funded $50 billion in one of the most ambitious public transit expansion projects in the country, with heavy expansion of the train network. This is after an expansion still comple
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by mediaman 8y ago
I don't know what polymer Lumia uses, but I wonder why Apple doesn't use ultra-high molecular weight polyethylene (UHMWPE) for their budget phone cases. This material is used among other things on artificial joints such as knees a
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by mediaman 8y ago
To add to your comment, "I don't know" is a critical phrase, and so is following it with "help me understand the technical issues at play here" -- technical people generally love teaching someone who is curious, res
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by mediaman 8y ago
Inventing the wheel absolutely is automation. Why would the wheel, which allows the movement of goods with much less labor, be any different in concept than the transistor, which allows e.g. the accounting of a corporation to be done with f
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by mediaman 8y ago
I'm not sure on what portion goes to recyclers, but I have been to the plant that processes all these return bottles, and I suspect that a fairly high percent is going through that facility. It's a 24/7 operation with sophist
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by mediaman 8y ago
Redfin charges 1% for selling the house. They still pay 3% to the buyer's broker. The total fee is therefore 4%, versus the normal 6%, where both sides get 3%.
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by mediaman 8y ago
Both propellers and wings are fundamentally the same thing: airfoils. However, air passes over a propeller much, much faster than over a wing, and creates shock waves in a way that wings don't.
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by mediaman 8y ago
It would seem that Amazon would just pay them to return to the warehouse with merchandise, rather than paying them for each package they don't deliver.
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by mediaman 8y ago
You aren't their customer. People who pay for content are their customer. I doubt they (especially the Economist) very much care what nonpaying readers think. The Economist still has good analysis on the happenings of the world that ma
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by mediaman 8y ago
This is actually a rapidly developing area of law. There is a lawsuit brought by Washington State that is arguing that virtual credits, in connection with games of chance, constitutes "something of value" that is covered by the st
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by mediaman 8y ago
I can see your point: this basically just looks like long exposures, or stacked exposures, which is basically the same thing of letting more photons hit the sensor, aligned using OIS. Any thoughts on why Apple, as the other leading phone ma
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by mediaman 8y ago
How is FTIR used for drug testing? Is it used to test for contamination based on the spectrum profile?
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by mediaman 8y ago
Everyone's got shorts, but Tesla's short position as percent of float is very high, at almost 29%. GM, for example, is under 2%, and Ford around 3%. That makes it a material point of discussion. Second, yes, they are probably hedg
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by mediaman 8y ago
Agreed, and locating them at dealers is often an impractical choice for drivers: they are not consistently located strategically next to highways, sometimes they put them in an area that is not physically accessible outside of business hour
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by mediaman 8y ago
I read somewhere that the human (and ape) ear has evolved its unique set of grooves and folds to help create sound reflections that allow the brain to better spatially locate sound, even without phase shifting between both ears. This also a
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by mediaman 8y ago
What would prevent using the same technique of only retaining the maximum Z direction return to tell the difference between a refracted rain drop and car bumper? Perhaps it is that the rain drop refracts the beam to all sorts of other objec
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by mediaman 8y ago
I agree, as a guy who wears jeans that are not baggy, the big phones have serious usage issues. Put them in your front pocket, and they're jamming themselves into your hipbone when you try to sit. I owned a 6+ and was happy to upgrade

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