smachiz

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by smachiz 4y ago
Relocation assistance != disaster assistance Stop paying for them to keep rebuilding the house, give them the money to move. >I know of no place on earth that is without some susceptibility to natural disaster. So where do we draw the li
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by smachiz 4y ago
FEMA doesn't decide where you live, but they do provide federally subsidized flood insurance. He's suggesting that we should stop doing that for two total loss events on the same property. Folks have had their houses rebuilt with
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by smachiz 4y ago
I think you're misunderstanding what they're saying. They're saying that federal funds should not be used to repair/replace infrastructure in places that are highly prone to natural disasters. If you have two total-los
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by smachiz 4y ago
i think they grew too quickly and just hired some people that were "content" makers not real reviewers, who weren't spending the time required to actually understand, nor actually have any scientific method. I wouldn't b
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by smachiz 4y ago
I pay for Consumer Reports. I used to love wirecutter - and then bought some of their recommendations that were garbage. Consumer Reports sometimes overindexes to things I don't care about ("complicated technology"), but the
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by smachiz 4y ago
Are project proposals not sales pitches? Isn't this what everyone in academia complains about? Having to "sexy" up science so they can sell it to people (get other people to pay for it)?
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by smachiz 4y ago
Check your local library. Mine has a surprisingly robust eBook collection via Libby that's easy - and integrated with Amazon for delivery to my Kindle.
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by smachiz 4y ago
My library also has a fairly robust eBook collection via Libby.
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by smachiz 4y ago
Lift to drag is interesting - but without dividing by seats or tons is incomplete. You’re not really measuring work being done (actually transporting goods or people). These problems are hard. Lift induced drag goes down as velocity decrea
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by smachiz 4y ago
> In cruise mode Concorde was as efficient as a Boeing 747. Yes - a plane that carries 550 passengers vs a plane carrying 100. Also, the game has changed a fair bit - no one is building 4 engined planes anymore - because while it was abo
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by smachiz 4y ago
it also solves the 4th, since you typically are going to land your private jet at Teterboro instead of JFK or LGA (i.e. small fields without a lot of taxiing, or more importantly in NY, queuing for a runway (I've heard that we're
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by smachiz 4y ago
The taxiing was bad, but that wasn't the worst of it. To go from subsonic to mach 1.7 the Concorde used reheat ("afterburner") that just dumps fuel into the already hot exhaust. This is not particularly efficient. Then fro
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by smachiz 4y ago
A 747 carries 500 passengers, Concorde carried 100. Your costs per seat mile are going to be at least 5x higher. The Concorde engine was efficient at cruise - and pretty awful everywhere else. At cruise it was about 10% more efficient tha
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by smachiz 4y ago
LAX-SIN is still more than 2x the best projected range of this plane.... Flying supersonic really guzzles gas, you're carrying gas to carry gas. Maybe if Boom added mid air refueling... but they'd have to slow down for an hour to
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by smachiz 4y ago
DXB-JFK is over land almost 50% of the route, it will never make sense for Boom or anyone - you can fly subsonic to London and transfer to supersonic to shave a few hours off though - though shave off 45-60 minutes for transit buffer. If th
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by smachiz 4y ago
A military engine is unlikely to be the answer for Boom. They just won't be cost effective. The math for efficiency and maintenance is just different for sovereign governments, maybe a derivative could be made more efficient with less
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by smachiz 4y ago
How many is it usually cancelled in? Is that a lot? How many does it appear in? Is it still funny?
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by smachiz 4y ago
I love eating alone - it's a rare treat for me. My suggestion is to always sit at the bar if you can. I feel like many of the social norms at a table don't apply at the bar - I don't feel bad reading my kindle, drinking a g
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by smachiz 4y ago
I don't think you're right about Klarna. I mean sure, it enables people to spend outside their means, but it hardly seems predatory. If I'm reading this right, the late payment fee is maximum of $7 for their 4 payment thing?
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by smachiz 4y ago
They could absolutely destroy them fast enough. The also only need to destroy them fast enough that SpaceX finds it economically infeasible to continue launching them or blocking them themselves. I also think that both countries could laun
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by smachiz 4y ago
>Going 2x faster is obviously a good thing, everything else being equal. Costs can potentially go down as you can run 2x the flights per day. People enjoy flights more. Unfortunately due to where you can fly supersonic, you're prett
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by smachiz 4y ago
Wishful thinking, delusion or scam. There are so many foundational issues with low supersonic flight from a usability perspective as well (time zones are not your friend for some of it), that lots of routes can only command a premium in one
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by smachiz 4y ago
There is no engine that will make economic sense for either the engine manufacturer or the airline operator based on the technology we have. This was always a fools errand.
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by smachiz 4y ago
Maybe? But you can also point a camera at your screen and record the whole thing...or do it in software with screen/audio capture. The point is the app isn't recording without telling people just to do captioning. No app prevent
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by smachiz 4y ago
In Teams at least, it's called transcription, but really it's captioning. It's not recorded unless you also turn on recording.
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by smachiz 4y ago
TSMC (Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company) is the largest contract manufacturer of complex CPUs there is. They're building a massive fab in Phoenix.
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by smachiz 4y ago
The number of people using Matrix/Element is so small and relatively sophisticated that it probably has a super low expected value for spammers. Not true for iMessage at all...
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by smachiz 4y ago
Because the overlap between spammers and unscrupulous people with credit card numbers is 0? They're just going to use prepaid cards they scammed from people to buy iMessage and absolutely spam the crap out of that.
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by smachiz 4y ago
Not really true - depending on volume. In almost all certainty they have volume commitments out months - and have for at least two years. JIT stopped being a reality a while ago. If you know you're sitting on 2 months of inventory, and
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by smachiz 4y ago
This is what bag holders say.

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