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by throwaway_exer 10y ago
> subsidised through Obamacare provisions Obamacare mandates access to insurance (from a dwindling group of participating insurers), it is not a direct subsidy. In fact, Obamacare has raised insurance rates for most people, as insurers c
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by throwaway_exer 10y ago
The assets of Eclipse were bought out, and the ~259 unfinished EA500 airframes were completed and sold. Then a new model, the EA550 was built by the new company. What killed Eclipse was gross mismanagement, lack of funding to cover that, an
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by throwaway_exer 10y ago
Well ... Richard Branson sponsored balloon flights primarily as a cheap form of SEO for his young companies. He rode as a passenger with a qualified pilot.
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by throwaway_exer 10y ago
In a normal market, yes it would. But there is literally no residential construction in most parts of the Bay Area.
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by throwaway_exer 10y ago
Tumblr was a week away from missing payroll, so it did not have a business model to support a $1 billion valuation. Yahoo pulled another broadcast.com on that one.
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by throwaway_exer 10y ago
Despite the silly comments in this thread, we're so far away from drone airliners that the question is in the realm of science fiction because of human judgment: - airports and terminal areas are very busy - en route diversions can hap
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by throwaway_exer 10y ago
I've been watching this government-made crisis develop over the last 24 months. Currently, you need 1,200 hours experience from a designated aviation college or 1,500 hours experience from GA. I believe airlines will lobby Congress to
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by throwaway_exer 10y ago
pg wrote that he could out-compete Java shops at the time by using lisp or perl. (If you look at Web 1.0, most of the marketing/event space winners were perl shops.) However, focusing on lisp is pointless because of its low adoption co
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by throwaway_exer 10y ago
> "Not nearly as much as if you lived in another developed country, where your money would be paying for healthcare for all, higher education for all, etc. etc. " Really, you're going to trot out American healthcare? There
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by throwaway_exer 10y ago
If by "increasingly few" you mean "virtually none" in 2016, then you're correct.
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by throwaway_exer 10y ago
The article was written by somebody who knows very little about airlines: - an airline has to have pilots at the gate on time, guaranteed - each airline has its own operating rules and checklists - planes and airports have unique combinatio
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by throwaway_exer 10y ago
The FAA has a policy of "one safety standard for all airlines" for passenger flights. Obviously that's nonsense, as regional and major airlines have totally different resources. I don't fly regionals, and I tell my famil
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by throwaway_exer 10y ago
"I shouldn’t have to see the pain, struggle, and despair of homeless people to and from my way to work every day." That sentence is 100% correct - we shouldn't have to see that around us. The tragic thing about the blog post
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by throwaway_exer 11y ago
Development tools ultimately are there to help the developers. For teams with a mix of abilities, something like gerrit can make sense where approval is needed before a merge to avoid total chaos. For a group of experienced developers, appr
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by throwaway_exer 11y ago
If the only reason for banning capital punishment in the USA was to prevent DA's from personally benefiting from "being tough on crime" in the next election for DA or governor, that would be enough. The entire American crimin
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by throwaway_exer 11y ago
I don't see how delivering somebody else's food can be profitable, or even how they can guarantee that the food is edible as a middleman. Maybe somebody can explain what the business model is here. It sounds like the founders get
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by throwaway_exer 11y ago
Tesla is the best example. His patents plus VC became Westinghouse.
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by throwaway_exer 11y ago
Hi Joi. I think you wrote down a list of facts and anecdotes that are valuable, but you need to proof-read your work or collaborate with a greater intellect to make a coherent point, maybe Eben Moglen?
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by throwaway_exer 11y ago
Excuse me, but as a Sr. Engineer, the Thiokol engineers should go to the grave feeling guilty. Those graphs are an embarrassment ... they certainly collected far more data than depicted there. And there should have been pre-launch documenta
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by throwaway_exer 11y ago
> A cockpit is not a suit. The opposite is true. To fly an airplane with precision, you need to "strap the airplane on." That means sitting in the position with the best visibility and best reach inside the cockpit, even a Cess
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by throwaway_exer 11y ago
For those interested in the future of American air travel ... Regional airlines, which carry half of pax, have been "last class" for decades, but they're about to disappear. The new pilot training rules requiring 1500 hours o
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by throwaway_exer 11y ago
All politicians have personal email servers before they're elected and after they are un-elected. It's human nature that there is a transition time between pre-election and post-election in which personal email will continue to be
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by throwaway_exer 11y ago
Yes, US citizens deserve first crack at US jobs. No other country allows mass immigration of professional jobs - because their citizens wouldn't tolerate it.
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by throwaway_exer 11y ago
The evidence is flat wages in the past 20 years.
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by throwaway_exer 11y ago
One graduated from ASU with an engineering degree and works as a supervisor.
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by throwaway_exer 11y ago
Ex-employees and Silicon Valley insiders often do have valuable insight, including foresight. Boards generally hire a CEO to sort out the issues rather than "crowd-sourcing", so even informed opinion is not used. Marissa was a bet
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by throwaway_exer 11y ago
Ironically, when using DHL to ship documents from Canada to Asia in the 80s, they would often postal mail them and pocket the difference. So we ended up using a local office service in-country to re-mail.
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by throwaway_exer 11y ago
Netflix tried operating their own DCs, and weren't good enough at it. Hence the move to the cloud. They do have discounted pricing, and they get the agility to add a new region overnite.
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by throwaway_exer 11y ago
So ... exactly like Marissa Mayer?
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by throwaway_exer 11y ago
Well played, Adobe! I learned some new moves today.

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