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by metaphor 2y ago
Context is described in Zapata's 8-K filing[1]. [1] https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1843714/000095017024...
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> the BLS numbers tell a story that plumbers and electricians make almost exactly the median income that full-time, year-round workers in the US earn. Looking at BLS wage statistics for tradesmen really won't tell you anything abo
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Some of the things I've personally encountered are attempts to service refrigerant without first weighing tank, and a claim that R-22 systems can no longer be serviced due to EPA refrigerant ban; I suspect these are very common grifts.
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> EVs are still on the early adopter phase. Not in California---the subject of the article---it ain't.
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This. For example, in the Mariana Islands, there are two independent othography committees that have been low-key duking it out over an indigenous language with less than 50k native speakers; see these brief highlights[1; p. 11 onward] from
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I fail to see how the decision was anything less than decisive prudence. Your cited article makes it abundantly clear that the provenance of said $17 million claim was a default clause entitling Miami-Dade County to three years worth of nam
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Wiki entry[1] and archived short story[2] for anyone else reading the parent's remark and wondering how does one coherently map attack helicopters to gender identity meme. Wow, now I can't unsee it. [1] https://en.wikip
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> Seems it'd be rather easy to float a farm of them Geopolitical threats aside, I imagine floating a farm would be the least of challenges[1]. [1] https://journals.ametsoc.org/view/journals/bams/80&#
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> ...I had never seen anything else like them in elsewhere in the world. The indigenous people of the Mariana Islands built somewhat similar dwellings atop a foundation of large stone structures called latte[1]. The latte today is a di
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The article claims it was three miles to shore, not less than one: > This course kept the Birkenhead within approximately three miles of the coast, maintaining a speed of approximately 8 knots. > One young officer did manage the th
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by metaphor 2y ago
Your wiki cite suggests: > Command by negation first came into being on individual ships, where it made sense - a captain who delegated authority and exercised command by negation could easily monitor his staff and communicate with them
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by metaphor 2y ago
https://archive.is/9NlT0 https://web.archive.org/web/20241001121010/https://www.theat...
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> If I were a rich kid who got accepted into college because my parents paid my way in, I'd be embarrassed. But that's the problem today - the wealthy have no shame. At face value, entitlement was never burdened by the concep
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by metaphor 2y ago
Outsider looking in, this article[1] published circa Jul 2022 appears to add some historical color to the status quo...it all seems related to CLPS[2] failures surrounding a few involved primes[3][4]. In any case, sure does look like a nast
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by metaphor 2y ago
The relevant question strikes me as less extreme outlier combat scenario, more routine safety of flight upon primary display LRU failure. See this reply[1]. [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41683263
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by metaphor 2y ago
Oddly, no one has mentioned HMDS[1] in discussion yet. [1] https://www.collinsaerospace.com/what-we-do/industries/milit...
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> There are laws against insurers citing preexisting conditions to deny coverage, and most DNA is equivocal as to whether you’ll develop expensive maladies. In the US, those laws have been under persistent attack by Republicans since e
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Yeah, really. It's an upper division elective[1] bucketed into PHIL 4380 generic catch-all, capped at 17 seats, and primarily targeting philosophy majors[2]. To be sure, my alma mater taught me a thing or two about independent research
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> Why do the teachers care? Let the students not learn and suffer from it. > The only reason they pull stunts like this is because it actually doesn't have as much of an impact. > And not what they're told is importa
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by metaphor 2y ago
.ph ccTLD mirror wouldn't load for me. https://archive.is/bK8L9
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> Unless it's one of those cursed things installed at the customer thousands of miles away that never happens back in the lab. > Once you can actually reproduce the issue, you've often done 80-99+% of the work already. W
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Your arguments come off as incrementally disingenuous and intentionally misleading. That's +1% share of a pie on the order of $TRILLIONS between 2006-2013 to which the top-1% directly benefited from by under-reporting and playing pas
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For well capitalized and advised players, here's an idea of how things actually work[1][2]. [1] https://www.nber.org/papers/w28542 [2] https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=308
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by metaphor 2y ago
> How much did visa pay in taxes? Less than a single 140k family? No...the proportional equivalent impact of ~150,300 $140k families.
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> Not sure what Visa's operating costs for their network are, and I'm no big fan of them (or any other credit card company) but that's far cheaper than I would have expected given the convenience provided by almost never
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by metaphor 2y ago
Who are you kidding?? This isn't minor hardware...these fittings are ~$5 a pop! Priced individually: | Fitting | Price (ea) | Qty | Total | |---------|------------|-----|-------| | T | 3.34 | 12 | 40.08 | | 90
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> I can't readily find these numbers in the report... The disaggregation you couldn't readily find is on p. 25 of the 2023 PSF Annual Impact Report[1]. [1] https://s3.dualstack.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/pythondo
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> It's saying that it could be either +/-50 ppm from the actual reading, or +/-5% from the actual reading, whichever is worse. No, it's stacked, and strictly applicable between 400-3000 ppm as characterized (despite
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by metaphor 2y ago
> [McNerney] came from McDonnell Douglas... Cite? Wiki[1] appears to suggest otherwise. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_McNerney#Career_path

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