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by trimbo 7y ago
Did Ray Kroc personally own any of the real estate McDonald's was leasing to franchisees?
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U.S. Wind Turbine Database Viewer(eerscmap.usgs.gov)
157 points by trimbo 7y ago|59 comments
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by trimbo 7y ago
> misguided design aesthetic at the expense of practicality in recent years That is not at all a recent thing. Example: the first iMac mouse in 1998 was round. A casual observer might not realize how misguided this is until they try to u
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by trimbo 7y ago
Does it record on the blockchain who took the last cup of coffee and didn't make more? Everyone in every office would pay good money for that.
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by trimbo 7y ago
> once the software and regulation catches up. What regulation needs to catch up?
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by trimbo 7y ago
> I wonder where the money goes. Cost of Revenue: $51M R&D: $157M Sales & Marketing: $233M General & Administrative: $112M [Source: their S-1]
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by trimbo 7y ago
> Even with the recent 737 fiascos, flying those is by far safer than driving to work I can't find the numbers easily right now, but I'd really like to see "deaths / person-hours flown on a 737 Max" vs. "dea
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by trimbo 7y ago
Where's the code? I scanned this article a few times and can't find a link to it.
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by trimbo 7y ago
> At its peak in 1998, O’Leary sold TLC to Mattel for an astounding $3.5 billion — 4.5 times The Learning Company’s annual revenue. This is a weird footnote because 4.5x price to sales is not that crazy above the market average of ~1.5 a
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by trimbo 7y ago
Fixed -- it's Against the Rules: The Hand of Leonardo
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by trimbo 7y ago
There was a good podcast ("Against the Rules") by Michael Lewis about this painting, and the incentives towards certifying it as a Leonardo: https://atrpodcast.com/episodes/the-hand-of-leonardo-s1!7616... edi
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by trimbo 7y ago
Counterpoint: Sovaldi was basically a miracle drug for a widespread, expensive disease and even priced at $84K, that represented huge savings for the US healthcare system. At the time it came out, the destiny for a Hep C patient was a $1M l
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by trimbo 7y ago
Both were still somewhat regional, and that acquisition made a national carrier out of it. Edit: found a spectrum map reportedly from the acquisition https://www.howardforums.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=888...
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by trimbo 7y ago
> rather substantial 3.7 codebase What size codebase is substantial?
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by trimbo 7y ago
Anyone know roughly how many hours various electric cars can go in a city taxi-driving setting before needing to be recharged?
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by trimbo 7y ago
> We'll happily refund every penny you ever paid us if you simply ask IANACFO, but I think your balance sheet for this business is going to be pretty wack. To guarantee this, you need to keep a pool for refunds (edit: and with your
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by trimbo 7y ago
I recommend watching the Turing Award speech by Patterson and Hennessey which covers this topic. Spoiler: the way out is "Domain Specific Architectures". https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3LVeEjsn8Ts
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by trimbo 7y ago
FWIW there were at least 2 <$20K at my local dealer when I checked it out in the winter or fall. Maybe people have caught onto the cheap i3 thing.
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by trimbo 7y ago
> Governments are pushing electric vehicles through subsidies and mandates Specifically, isn't this because of CAFE[1]? Gas mileage compliance is calculated per manufacturer. So BMW can keep selling 17mpg M3s as long as they're
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by trimbo 7y ago
If you like this story about California, we also have a bridge to sell you! https://www.citylab.com/equity/2015/10/from-250-million-to-6...
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by trimbo 7y ago
Aaron Peskin is the king of pandering in this city. He comes up with bills like this all the time. I just can't understand why people in District 3 keep re-electing him... even bringing him back after terming out before. I guess his st
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by trimbo 7y ago
> I think the plane will fly without MCAS with a new type rating Without the 737 type rating, the value prop of the 737 MAX is lost. There would be no point in continuing the program (at least at anywhere near its current scale).
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by trimbo 7y ago
I just wanted to note that Dominic Gates and the Seattle Times have been the gold standard for reporting on the 737 MAX. Really great work by them on reporting a technical subject so non-experts can understand.
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Scientists traced a uranium cube to Nazi Germany’s nuclear reactor program(sciencenews.org)
15 points by trimbo 7y ago|1 comments
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Wouldn't this have created a ratchet for their last round's investors?
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by trimbo 7y ago
Hmm. I was hoping for an aggregate view on why cops were dismissed. They didn't seem to try to index the reasons. This just lets you search for names/towns, which then links to a spreadsheet that contains the reason someone was de
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by trimbo 8y ago
> "Nuclear power is weird—it exists to produce electricity, and at the same time it can’t exist without electricity... Plants need constant power to pump cool water into a reactor’s core" Well... 50-60 year old designs can&#x
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by trimbo 8y ago
> normal laptop have always been susceptible to even a little liquid damage Check out Thinkpads https://www.lenovo.com/us/en/landingpage/small-business/reso...
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by trimbo 8y ago
> A framed Banksy sold at auction last year, and remotely shredded by Banksy, was just epic. And 3D was supposedly at that auction...
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by trimbo 8y ago
> Admittedly though given their pretty large size I can't name much else. Exactly. Even if 20,000 people worked on those supercomputers, mainframes and Watson, what do the other 350,000 employees work on? Consulting, and it's b

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