nopzor

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by nopzor 4y ago
i didn’t calculate it, i just did the rule of 72 in my head :-)
32.
by nopzor 4y ago
more like 3.6% with compounding interest…
33.
by nopzor 4y ago
i don't have data to back this up, but i'm sure the data is out there, given how meticulous the singapore government is with their planning: - i can't imagine the government will elect to demolish and resell the land to a new
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by nopzor 4y ago
yes, that's a fair point. it is entirely at the discretion of the government. that being said, if it weren't, the concept of a 99-year lease wouldn't have any teeth. indeed, your point is a central pillar of the land developm
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by nopzor 4y ago
the way this happens in singapore is pretty well defined - properties can “top up” their 99 year lease, if the developers/owners want to. - at the end of the 99 year lease, the owners can sell to a third party developer if there is dem
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by nopzor 5y ago
so a pending (not a denied) class 3 means you can’t fly under lsa? ugh, that sucks. what about glider or motor glider? same deal? (i am a private pilot who let his valid class 3 expire, flying under basicmed, getting more into lsa and motor
37.
by nopzor 5y ago
agreed. but does that also apply (though obviously not to the same extent i’d admit) to say halliburton?
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by nopzor 5y ago
singapore has also ~doubled their population over the last ~decade, or at least in that order of magnitude. if they hadn’t, i’d argue that’d blunt prices.
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by nopzor 5y ago
true, basicmed was a relative disappointment based on what people were originally hoping for. have you considered sport pilot or lsa?
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by nopzor 5y ago
you make a good point and i agree with you, especially today. but, to answer your question in earnest: a long time ago - east india company? dole fruit?
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by nopzor 5y ago
how are they going to know that the name matches the credit card?
42.
by nopzor 5y ago
i believe that was the idea with the westinghouse design. but it went sideways, and their recent projects had huge problems and overruns, and westinghouse ended up going bankrupt a few years ago..
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by nopzor 5y ago
you might not. my name is raj, and i used to run a hosting company called voxel.net — i believe you were a customer “back in the day” but i could be getting my wires crossed ;)
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by nopzor 5y ago
yes! the company i started after working for va linux ended up hosting kuro5hin for the longest time. it was a pretty tight community for a few years.
45.
by nopzor 5y ago
i remember you ;) and it was a wonderful time indeed.
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by nopzor 5y ago
total nostalgia bomb. i can’t tell you how much valinux changed my life. the excitement. the possibilities. the dotcom money. most of all the people - like rasterman, octobrx, rasmus of php fame. insane coalescence of talent. working there
47.
by nopzor 5y ago
well, relative to aws they are a small company ;-)
48.
by nopzor 5y ago
you are allowed to count cards at most (all?) casinos in the usa.
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by nopzor 5y ago
i never said satya wasn’t an incredible leader. i’ve heard as much from friends who work at microsoft. i just don’t think it’s fair to look at the stock price of microsoft during ballers tenure at microsoft without applying the lens of the
50.
by nopzor 5y ago
i think that was more the function of the macro market. much of the foundation for microsoft’s second coming was laid by balmer. basically, i think he gets somewhat of an unfair rap ;-)
51.
by nopzor 5y ago
you think the us government doesn’t tax the guy downtown in us dollars?
52.
by nopzor 5y ago
the us government creates an insane global appetite for us dollars. they regulate the exchange points, and it’s almost the same thing.
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by nopzor 5y ago
op was more than fifteen minutes early to the departure time. boarding time is irrelevant to the clause in the coc.
54.
by nopzor 5y ago
so the usa isn’t a free society?
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by nopzor 5y ago
you’re correct that the pitot tubes had malfunctioned, and this was a significant factor. but the gp point has validity. if the controls were physically linked, like they are in boeing aircraft, the pilots who were putting in opposing input
56.
by nopzor 5y ago
new commercial pilots who are flying small airplanes for large airlines in the usa (eg “united express” pilots) barely crack 50k usd salary. and this is after big pay rises the last year.
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by nopzor 5y ago
just took a waymo fully autonomous (no safety driver, nobody in the driver seat, no manual override) taxi in scottsdale to lunch. was surreal. supposedly over 1m miles with no faults.
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by nopzor 5y ago
of course we want moderna trying to beat pfizer to the market! why wouldn’t we? (agreed, we also want functioning regulatory bodies)
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by nopzor 5y ago
that’s disengenous. you can’t get HIV by eg. dining in the same restaurant as someone who is positive. you can with covid.
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by nopzor 5y ago
disagree. i’m in singapore right now, with one of the highest vaccination rates in the world (82%+) of moderna and pfizer. restrictions are still in place, and r(eff) is > 1 the last few weeks.

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