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by nocoiner 3y ago
LOL, I actually didn’t know that meme, but that’s perfect. The closest I’ve ever been to experiencing my own death was trying to figure out how terrain following radar worked on one of the DCS planes. I was bopping along in IMC and had mayb
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by nocoiner 3y ago
I play some DCS and am incredibly bad at it. And I harbor no illusions that it is in any material way an accurate depiction of aerial combat or the rigors thereof. But one thing I think it completely accurately conveys is at least a small m
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by nocoiner 3y ago
I never tried to put on the trade (thank goodness) but there was a period of years where Tesla looked like the equity was going to $0. I think as a matter of traditional corporate finance, that was indisputably true, but obviously it did no
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by nocoiner 3y ago
Yeah, Ben’s primary talent seems to be weaving a narrative about how he’s successfully predicted 18 of the last 11 trends to reshape the industry, and to make it sound believable. Nvidia’s executing on all cylinders, and has been for a whil
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by nocoiner 3y ago
We had hundreds of deaths in the span of 2-3 days during the winter storm in 2021. It didn’t catalyze any political change then, so unfortunately I think you’re right about the effect the next time it happens. I have been surprised by the r
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by nocoiner 3y ago
Thank you - respectful tone taken, and I hope it was similarly received. I have only the most tangential experience with this world, but I feel like I have fairly good reason to believe that the conditions that are supposedly “not automatic
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by nocoiner 3y ago
Respectfully, I think there are important cultural differentiators where - to my mind at least - I can’t think of a single American commercial pilot who committed suicide and deliberately took the passengers with him. Whereas half a dozen
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by nocoiner 3y ago
Yeah, I was just curious if we had traded one environmental catastrophe for another - like if HCFCs were better for ozone but far more potent greenhouse gas pollutants. I think I’ve read something along similar lines about another substance
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by nocoiner 3y ago
Oh, absolutely. It’s a suburban quality ISD with big city amenities. It’s a very good combo for the folks that live there.
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by nocoiner 3y ago
Phoenix with air conditioning is a pleasant enough place that millions of people want to live there. Phoenix without air conditioning - well, it’s a much smaller number.
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by nocoiner 3y ago
I feel like the story was implied that refrigerants are consumed in the course of operation. I think that point could have been more artfully stated. Did you happen to notice whether HCFCs had worse greenhouse gas effects than CFCs?
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by nocoiner 3y ago
I have a tremendous amount of sympathy for pilots who are forced to neglect their mental health because ordinary treatment that is well within the fairway for the vast majority of Americans can get them grounded. I don’t have a whole lot of
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by nocoiner 3y ago
The answers to your question were fascinating to read. Kudos for posting such a thought provoking prompt.
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by nocoiner 3y ago
Eh, I haven’t looked this up for Highland Park specifically, but I’m familiar with a number of other enclave cities in Texas with similar demographics, and the property tax rate is lower because the property values are so much higher . Plu
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by nocoiner 3y ago
Wait, am I stupid or smart because I’ve been in a car accident?
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by nocoiner 3y ago
I don’t know about the Tobii glasses, but I have a Tobii head/eye tracker that attaches to my monitor, and it works incredibly well and was only $200 or so. I’d be surprised if this isn’t an essentially solved problem at this point.
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by nocoiner 3y ago
That quote is incredibly dystopian and just seemingly obviously wrong on its face. Misalignment can creep in anywhere, at any time, and I would probably rather have, you know, a life, than spend all my time, every single day, in the same ph
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by nocoiner 3y ago
This actually sounds pretty reasonable to me, and I think would be a positive step forward in terms of transparency and accountability. If I understand the proposal correctly, there are some activities that utilities are prohibited from pur
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by nocoiner 3y ago
Because there are lots of non-sprawl-y parts of city of Houston, and I don’t particularly care for the sprawl, and I’m surprised so many people are in fact picking the burbs.
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by nocoiner 3y ago
Huh, I was going to dispute that statement, but it seems to be somewhat true. I’m actually pretty surprised by that. Interested to see if the historical pattern of growth resumes in the next couple years, or if city population has more or l
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by nocoiner 3y ago
Lots of aerospace is still in California. It’s just not as dominant a component of the Southern California economy since the end of the Cold War.
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by nocoiner 3y ago
That’s all well and good, but the Texas legislature is working overtime (well, as much overtime as can be worked, given they meet for a few weeks every couple years) to wrest as much control from the cities as possible. Houston no longer ge
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by nocoiner 3y ago
Mitichloridians are the powerhouse of the cell.
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by nocoiner 3y ago
Actually “70+ years.” Some of the lost housing units are literally tenement apartments being made, you know, habitable.
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by nocoiner 3y ago
With that tax base, is there any reason BART couldn’t be expanded and enhanced?
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by nocoiner 3y ago
No they’re not. I once had an unpaid bill of something like $1.36 from AWS. They shut that down and banned the whole account. I can never again use AWS with that email address lol.
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by nocoiner 3y ago
So agree to an earlier time of delivery if you need it earlier. Don’t agree that EOD is compatible with the business objective and then hold a grudge because people went to work out or walked their dog or picked their kid up from school. Bu
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by nocoiner 3y ago
From what I understand, this isn’t correct advice if you live (as I think the author said he lived?) in a humid area. Modern building practices aren’t very compatible with introducing a lot of humidity from the outdoors. This is something I
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by nocoiner 3y ago
I never understood how so many people - seemingly everyone - all came to the conclusion that Discord is all these things that it clearly isn’t.
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by nocoiner 3y ago
I think you’re conflating the SPAC sponsors and the owners of the public equity. The owners of the equity get their money back (plus interest) if the SPAC doesn’t find a target. The sponsors are out whatever money they put up to form the SP

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