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by reso 3y ago
Marijuana criminalization was one of the dumber things about the world I was born into. Liberalization of these laws is one of the things I can point to in my life as being noticable progress. The fact that the state continues to destroy li
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by reso 3y ago
Communicating to a controller that they are close to a fuel emergency is not a threat, it is good practice. People have died because their pilots did not communicate their fuel situation sufficiently to their controllers [1]. This was commu
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by reso 3y ago
> Pilot: If we are not set up for base soon, we will have to declare a fuel emergency and that would really fuck up your sequence. > Controller: What is your divert field? > Pilot: Oakland > Controller: Ok you need vectors to Oa
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by reso 3y ago
Classic access journalism dynamics. Versions of this are at play in every industry, as reviewers and journalists have enormous incentives to please the entities they cover and have equal disincentives not to rock the boat. You might think t
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by reso 3y ago
Sure, it was not my point to suggest it wasn’t legal, just that it was a bold action which has gone completely unexplained.
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by reso 3y ago
I am still so confused by this whole saga. No one has explained how or why the entire board decided to do a coup, and then simply changed their minds a few days later. I have to assume that the individuals involved are under a mix of social
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by reso 3y ago
I'm pretty sure the plane is "living life vaccinated" and the car is "living life unvaccinated". They both have risks but one is riskier than the other per unit time/distance.
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by reso 3y ago
Wow. This looks like a very significant discovery. Humans in New Mexico in 25,000 BCE, incredible.
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by reso 3y ago
Spirited Away 2: Rise of the Bathhouse
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by reso 3y ago
How would this theory have worked in e.g. the 1960s civil rights movement.
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by reso 3y ago
Buried lede. The RTO requirement was in response to the staff attempting to unionize. Either retaliation or a clever method to clear out the workers who were most in favour of the union without breaking labour laws.
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by reso 3y ago
Obviously, not all transfers of money are loans, like your dividend payments, or normal transactional commerce. The statement is that when a bank creates a loan, it creates money. The money they give to the lendee is new money. This is the
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by reso 3y ago
100%. Money is debt.
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by reso 3y ago
To me this illustrates something different than “all Silicon Valley people think they are the good guys”. Eg. Elon Musk is famously not very nice, doesn’t pretend to be nice, and many people have had bad experiences with him directly. But t
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by reso 3y ago
It's interesting to think about the harm done by Intuit and other companies' lobbying on this file, and compare it to the language that people like Ben Horowitz have used to describe Bill Campbell, Intuit's chairman in this p
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by reso 3y ago
This fact is interesting because many people grew up with an idea of mathematics as having discovered fundamental truth, and some of us, when we get deep into the field, realize that Math is made up of human ideas, exactly the same as a ver
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by reso 3y ago
By late-undergrad, it was intuitive to me that "proof" means "all mathematicians who reads this agrees with it". Mathematics is unique in that, mostly, the field can achieve consensus on results, which we then call &quot
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by reso 3y ago
You're correct, we don't have evidence that SpaceX is pricing below cost, because we have no idea what Falcon 9 launches actually cost, because SpaceX refuses to tell us.
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by reso 3y ago
Cost is more important than price in the long run because it tells us whether SpaceX has made genuine efficiency and technology developments that allow their prices to be long-term viable. Any one can sell a service at a loss, but you event
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by reso 3y ago
SpaceX's detailed financials are secret. This is a simple fact. As a privately held corp they have few disclosure obligations. What they do disclose is usually what they want to disclose. There is no comparison between the detailed, au
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by reso 3y ago
I suspect that SpaceX is booking Starlink launches as revenue. My basis for this is that their launch revenue is growing much faster than their non-starlink launch schedule. We can't prove or disprove this though, since their financi
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by reso 3y ago
They have fundamentally different purposes, and so soundbite comparisons between them are meaningless.
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by reso 3y ago
It is not possible to do a fair comparison of launch costs between Falcon 9 and other platforms without knowing the true cost of Falcon 9 launches.
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by reso 3y ago
Isn't most of this Starlink, which is basically SpaceX self-dealing? Can someone point me to a breakdown of launches and customers?
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by reso 3y ago
You can't compare falcon to SLS because Falcon cannot do what SLS does. You can't compare SpaceX's figures to NASA because NASA has many, many more reporting obligations than SpaceX. Every report on Falcon 9 costs has made th
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Do Cartels Exist? A revisionist view of the drug wars(harpers.org)
14 points by reso 3y ago|5 comments
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by reso 3y ago
Dementia is also highly correlated with hearing loss. It's intuitive to me that the mind could deteriorate when it loses touch with the outside world. It seems possible that dementia is much less a material deterioration in the brain t
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by reso 3y ago
Hard to believe legacy admissions are legal anywhere. An obvious injustice--and efficiency drain--on society.
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by reso 3y ago
That's a nice conjecture, we will see in the coming years if it plays out.
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by reso 3y ago
That is a conjecture which does not represent the current state of the technology.

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