rkomorn

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by rkomorn 1y ago
I kiiinda see where you're coming from but I guess I just don't buy it, TBH. I think greed is what's causing cut corners. You mention Boeing, and they were quite healthily profitable during the entire time they were cutting c
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by rkomorn 1y ago
> IMHO, this is a perfect example why the government needs to regulate prices in safety-critical industries. The "race to the bottom" must be prevented - sorry, flying NYC-SFO for 70$, that's not sustainable. Are you sayin
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by rkomorn 1y ago
À lot of the reason why flying is so safe now is because of the culture of investigating every incident to make sure they won't happen again. And, unfortunately, it's not that rare that the investigations to turn up things that we
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by rkomorn 1y ago
1 sat (Satoshi) is 1/100000000 bitcoin, so at the moment it's around 0,001 euro. And then you get millisatoshis that can be used on the lightning network, but I've not dealt with that directly myself.
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by rkomorn 1y ago
Neat (again :) ).
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by rkomorn 1y ago
You just made me think of our PSA. Was it "un verre, ça va, deux verres, ça va, trois verres, bonjour les dégâts" ? Something like that. Edit: looks like we didn't have "deux verres", maybe.
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by rkomorn 1y ago
The house always wins, I guess.
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by rkomorn 1y ago
I'll be called a heretic but, a couple of years ago (after being back in a country that uses day/month/year instead of the US), I came to the conclusion that the month/day notation is actually more useful to me. Quite of
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by rkomorn 1y ago
I guess that depends on how you read up the thread. Seems pretty clear to me that the comment I was originally replying to was about whether there was a requirement for financial classes in the US, not about the quality of the classes. So w
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by rkomorn 1y ago
That sounds like a lot. Like, Uncle Scrooge amounts.
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by rkomorn 1y ago
So your premise is that a city designed for cars is better for cars?
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by rkomorn 1y ago
Let's split the difference and go bi-weekly. Or bi-monthly. Or some other arbitrary period we can define "ambiguously".
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by rkomorn 1y ago
Technically how? In a way that isn't abstract to either parties in the transaction?
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by rkomorn 1y ago
But think of the legacy of all the shareholder value you created...
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by rkomorn 1y ago
Off topic but: seeing rent measured per week is so very strange (to me; and I suspect to most Europeans and US/Canadians).
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by rkomorn 1y ago
How long of a long term are we talking about? I suspect this is very dependent on many factors (not least of which is labor, but also insulation, climate, etc). The energy (gas+electric) bill for my whole home would've taken well over
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by rkomorn 1y ago
I don't think it's just "most Americans don't know." When I installed AC in my former Bay Area home, I would have needed multiple mini split units to cover 1200sq ft, with questions about how many you could have on
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by rkomorn 1y ago
So kind of like CBD oil?
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by rkomorn 1y ago
Until one day you stopped avoiding it, or you found a good reason?
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by rkomorn 1y ago
If this is a serious question... you'll pay a (small) fraction of a bitcoin, just like you'd pay a fraction (or some units and a fraction) of whatever currency. Just as when you pay with a card or online, you just pay the amount.
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by rkomorn 1y ago
Ah, neat. How do you know this? And also, was it any different for MSFS 2020?
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by rkomorn 1y ago
If you want to dig more, I suspect Microsoft got a lot (if not all) of it from blackshark.ai . They're one of the companies whose logo shows up during game start. I knew their name because, when I worked for an Airbus subsidiary, we t
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by rkomorn 1y ago
It's the stuff that might cross the rails that matters, not the inside.
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by rkomorn 1y ago
Also worth noting, though, that the private insurance premiums in France are nothing like in the US (for example), not least because they don't have to cover anywhere near as much.
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by rkomorn 1y ago
I think part of it is that the larger animal predators tend to be more muscular, so the meat isn't as delicious.
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by rkomorn 1y ago
Oh, that part. (political opinion disclaimer) IMO, that part's basically just "cost-saving" misdirection/smoke screen (eg it's not "public spending" but we're all spending it). I think that lines up w
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by rkomorn 1y ago
I think OP was talking about "newsworthy" in the HN sense. I kind of agree, because it's quite likely to devolve into pot-stirring flame bait comment threads.
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by rkomorn 1y ago
Mutual (or private) insurance fills gaps like: - a procedure is considered elective under the public insurance coverage - public coverage only provides partial reimbursement and the insurance covers the difference In general, no one is left
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by rkomorn 1y ago
Is that nicepicking, then?
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by rkomorn 1y ago
Having spent lots of time in LA traffic, I'd be surprised if an hour on a train didn't get you significantly farther than 35 minutes in traffic. Used to take an hour to drive 11 miles down 101 to downtown vs 25 minute on the B lin

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