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by mike50 2y ago
Engineers are to consider public safety first. This is not negotiable for real hardware engineering. Poor people could always purchase used appliances.
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by mike50 2y ago
French is widely spoken throughout the world. If you speak French you can travel to Canada, the Caribbean, Africa and parts of South America without needing to speak another language. Also French is an official language in Belgium, Switzerl
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by mike50 2y ago
Tell that to the thousands of people dumped out of helicopters with CIA assistance. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dirty_War
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by mike50 2y ago
Food is so subsidized in America that this is a joke argument.
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by mike50 2y ago
Medallions only apply to yellow cabs and the green outer borough taxis. Any New Yorker will tell you stories of hail (yellow) cabs not stopping, not driving minorities, not driving to locations in the service area or not being present outsi
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by mike50 2y ago
Cabs refused to innovate. Before Uber the process to obtain a cab meant using a phone to call a human to radio a driver in a vehicle. It was obvious in the year 2005 that booking through the internet was going to happen.
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by mike50 2y ago
40 years ago maybe. Now it's written to a 5th grade level and bloated with explain like I'm five filler.
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by mike50 2y ago
Gannet and CNN are already bottom of the barrel for journalism. Both are just rewritten wire articles at best. Both companies were obsolete 10 years ago at best.
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by mike50 2y ago
Those components are not used in military products. Specialized vendors manufacture passives for the military. AVX, CDE and Vishay are just the first three I recall.
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by mike50 2y ago
All of the contemporary competitors of Tek were also bought out except for Keysight. Why? Low margins an incomplete lineup and commoditization of the asics.
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by mike50 2y ago
And suddenly it wasn't 1960 and the PCBs were in mass production. Suddenly it was 1990 and only the true high end low volume (space and mil) paid for their own custom silicon and fabs. Finally it was the year 2010 and the front end of
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by mike50 2y ago
Anyone who lives in a area with hundreds of competing jurisdictions sees this problem everyday. One tiny village says yes the neighboring tiny village files a lawsuit. The smaller the jurisdiction the more desperate the government is for fu
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by mike50 2y ago
Aided by fuel "economy" regulations, obsolete tariffs and refusal to harmonize regulatory requirements with the EU.
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by mike50 2y ago
Because sophisticated investors know that the Black Projects and revenue are not affected. Because the command information equipment sold to the navy is not affected.
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by mike50 2y ago
These types of lasers are integrated into end customer systems by techs at a factory. They are very simple to setup from the black box level of understanding. All you do is plug in water (blue hose in and red hose for out) since the electri
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by mike50 2y ago
The structure of the industry is many small companies that make one specific laser based on the owner's PhD research. These companies cannot have the perfect safety culture simply due to staffing numbers.
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by mike50 2y ago
Taxes are higher in the suburbs of NYC due to the funding of segregated school districts. MTA (mass transit) is a state agency and most of the highways are paid for through the state.
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by mike50 2y ago
Apples and oranges. The F35 is probably using 15-20 year old technology based on program start. Some cruse missiles use 1970s era technology at the newest based on program start and publicly available documents (since there were some update
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by mike50 2y ago
Hochul is the first governor from upstate in 100 years. She was only chosen (for the Lieutenant Governor position) to get votes from upstate.
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by mike50 2y ago
In the real world there are other effects besides local votes. In the US limiting the amount of representatives in the legislature was resulted in 1 legislator for more and more people in civilization. If I represent hundreds of thousands o
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by mike50 2y ago
Which Israeli defense contractors build airplanes and tanks? Without aircraft and spares you cannot have a modern military. The US absolutely props up Israeli with weapons and military technology that they do not produce in country. Waving
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by mike50 2y ago
Not ships or other forms of transportation?
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by mike50 2y ago
Unimpressed. It's just an adobe filter ported to a phone. Just found the equivalent of people who buy vinyl.
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by mike50 2y ago
And old people losing their connection with objective reality is connected to fox news. Next argument. It's being banned because old technically illiterate people (most of congress) latched onto a simplistic solution to the wrong probl
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by mike50 2y ago
ITAR applies to many technologies that are trivial to duplicate or have been redeveloped outside the US to bypass those restrictions. Memory chips hardened for space are subject to ITAR. These memory chips are commercial with lead tape on t
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by mike50 2y ago
I beg to differ look at the amount of conde nast reposts, posts that just link to Wikipedia and posts that are repated over and over.
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by mike50 3y ago
The other suburban portions of the NYC metro have direct rail links to Manhattan not a stupid boat.
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by mike50 3y ago
High land costs pushed these kinds of land uses further and further from Manhattan. There are the same huge malls in Westchester and Nassau county.
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by mike50 3y ago
It's more reasonable to drive to Staten Island from most of New Jersey.
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by mike50 3y ago
We can't convince NYC residents to not drive giant SUVs.

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