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by wumpus 4y ago
People who like negotiations generally think they're good at it. Guess what? The dealer sells multiple cars per day. You don't know enough to be a good negotiator against them. Same thing as venture capital vs company founders. Fo
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by wumpus 4y ago
One commonly said counterpoint is that having independent dealers means you get better warranty service. Here's how it works. I had a Subaru, and Subaru had a problem for a decade+ that their head gaskets were tissue paper and frequent
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by wumpus 4y ago
You pay sales taxes in the state you register the car in, period. Doesn't matter where the seller is. I lived in Virginia, bought a car in Delaware... no sales tax in DE. Wohoo? No, had to pay Virginia sales tax when registering the ca
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by wumpus 4y ago
It's a sign of successful rent-seeking. Owning a car sales franchise is one of the best forms of rent-seeking, thanks to state and federal laws protecting car dealers. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rent-seeking
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by wumpus 4y ago
Money, education, Mayflower ancestor, eligible to join the Daughters of the American Revolution, distant relative of some famous or wealthy family, member of some social clubs (even inexpensive ones), and so on. Edit: but as many other folk
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by wumpus 4y ago
Yes, it's right there in the link I posted.
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by wumpus 4y ago
> The problem is "affirmative action" is just reverse discrimination Have you ever noticed that this opinion isn't the only one out there? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Affirmative_action#Origins
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by wumpus 4y ago
> "It’s a key moment in our journey" Next time he'll be calling it their "incredible journey".
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by wumpus 4y ago
There are many ways to value a company. The 450 million valuation comes from just considering revenue. Every fast-growing company looks terrible by that measure.
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by wumpus 4y ago
I didn't know NASA had a phased array suitable for such surveys, but of course it's not really my gig -- astronomer, we don't transmit much! I mainly know about the Westford dish because it's used for VLBI and VGOS. I lo
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by wumpus 4y ago
I said: > I mean, you probably think it's a good joke, That means I thought it was intended to be a joke. Can you suggest wording that I can use next time that is less confusing? BTW when the first "they're going to try to
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by wumpus 4y ago
Starlink 1 is 150kg, Starlink 1.5 is thought to be ~ 220kg. Starlink 2 appears to be more than a metric ton, but none have been launched.
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by wumpus 4y ago
I've been watching SDA from the start as it's possible it will give us a high bandwidth connection to the South Pole Telescope. Meaning we don't have to wait for summer to fly the data from the EHT annual observation to civil
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by wumpus 4y ago
Isn't that done by an Air Force radar at... Westford? I didn't think NASA had a radar for that purpose.
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As I said, those are the clumps. The individual needles can't be seen by radar and have a high enough surface to mass ratio that they deorbited in 3 years instead of centuries.
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by wumpus 4y ago
No, the clumps were an accident and are useless for communication. The first telecommunications satellite was a balloon in orbit that signals were bounced off of. That would be safe from EMP. But it's not really useful. https:/&#
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by wumpus 4y ago
> there again maybe scientists would end up spotting numerous black holes I work on radio astronomy and black holes, and no, that wouldn't happen. I mean, you probably think it's a good joke, and it may be for the general publi
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by wumpus 4y ago
You mean the completely failed Brilliant Pebbles concept? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brilliant_Pebbles
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by wumpus 4y ago
Actual systems usually hit the target with a single projectile, not a cloud of junk.
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by wumpus 4y ago
Those are the clumps large enough to be seen by radar. The needles that successfully deployed came down in 3 years.
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by wumpus 4y ago
Can you point out a source that discusses this? I've never heard of it before.
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by wumpus 4y ago
There's a treaty that everyone signed, and it says Starlink launches are fine as long as the country they launch from says OK. China can OK Chinese launches. Satellites aren't supposed to interfere with each other, but that's
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by wumpus 4y ago
Don't forget the ITU, that's where the regulation starts.
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by wumpus 4y ago
Yep, that's a very interesting Wikipedia article. One thing that surprised me is that most of the needles reentered within 3 years. They have a pretty large surface area per unit mass, so the effects of the very thin atmosphere up ther
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by wumpus 4y ago
I'm an astronomer who's been following the situation, and this comment of yours is entirely false. For example, there was only one satellite painted dark, and it didn't work well enough. The next mitigation after that worked
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by wumpus 4y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hirudo_medicinalis#Today
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by wumpus 4y ago
That's why I said: > French beef and dairy-cattle-finally-eaten-as-beef eat 2/3 grass.
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by wumpus 4y ago
I was talking about more than feedlots, I was talking about grass-fed cattle vs. not grass-fed cattle. Do you really think it matters if a cow eats grain in a "feedlot" instead of on a "farm"? I sure don't.
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by wumpus 4y ago
Let me help you with Google. Try homeless bus ticket to sf illegal You'll find that quite a few cities are mentioned: into LA, out of Seattle, etc. Not sure what you wanted a photo of?
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by wumpus 4y ago
What you're looking for are newspaper articles about this practice, which is illegal but continues to be discovered in action.

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