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by fancyketchup 11y ago
> Well done. Really, what would it take to get you to re-phrase your comment into something like: > "Forgive me for asking because I don't understand how these situations came to pass in the first place?" To be honest,
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by fancyketchup 11y ago
That's why you don't drive 100 mph, mm away from a line of stopped/stopped cars or next to a crowded street corner. Your examples are ones of exactly the type of behavior insurance companies are trying to disincentivize. Name
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by fancyketchup 11y ago
Negative earnings, maybe? Usually P/E ratios for those companies are reported as N/A, though.
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by fancyketchup 11y ago
Huh. I haven't ever run into that, and I've been using uber twice a week for more than a year. Maybe it just comes down to which city you're in?
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by fancyketchup 11y ago
> Are U&L still ignoring rules designed to provide access to those with disabilities? In my city one of the options (besides SUV, black car, etc) is for persons with disabilities. The app seems to have some options to switch between
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by fancyketchup 11y ago
Sounds like it does most of what ride-share services do. Does Flywheel allow you to rate individual drivers/cars (and prevent being matched to creepy drivers or dirty cars on future rides)? I think that's actually one of the bigg
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by fancyketchup 11y ago
Depends on the airport. Some airports are vicious about enforcing Uber bans (and the drivers quickly figure this out), so drivers will call to confirm your location if the pin is near the airport. On the other hand, most airports have some
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by fancyketchup 11y ago
I think you're being more than a little unfair. Part of the problem is that there simply isn't as much money to be made in digital as there was in analog. A digital camera doesn't need film, but film (and film processing) ac
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by fancyketchup 11y ago
> [...] compared to the exorbitant rates [...] $8-10 shipping and handling for standard shipping [...] So here's the thing: It actually does cost $8-10 to ship most of the types of things you can buy on Amazon. I don't know
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by fancyketchup 11y ago
Because it costs $85 every 5 years? Where does that money go? I don't know, but I bet whomever gets it is politically connected.
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by fancyketchup 11y ago
> I think it gets encoded into your boarding pass. It does. Three beeps from the little scanner thingy at the ID check means you have Pre. One beep means you don't.
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by fancyketchup 11y ago
Managed inclusion v2 was ended in September. That's when managed inclusion v3 began[1]. [1] http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/checkpoints-borders-policy-de...
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by fancyketchup 11y ago
You were part of "managed inclusion" in TSA Pre(check).
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by fancyketchup 11y ago
Unless you're "randomly" selected by the little light on the secure side of the magnetometer.
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by fancyketchup 11y ago
Ok, that's fine. It's still within the range I mentioned above. But, I'll just note for the record that you rounded $587k down to $500k, and $840k down to $800k. > But these studies are all flawed because they are based
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by fancyketchup 11y ago
The page I cited actually breaks down lifetime earnings by age (a.k.a. "annual income"). It's true that non-college graduates get an earlier start on savings, but the overall trend is that their annual income starts to decli
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by fancyketchup 11y ago
Wait, really? The incremental lifetime earning from a Bachelor's degree is something like 0.5 to 1.5 million dollars[1]. The cost of attending college could double at least once before the ROI goes negative. [1] https://cew
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by fancyketchup 11y ago
> You can't book an appointment with most of these directly, and not all of them can write prescriptions legally. So I think that varies from state to state. [Anecdote warning] When I was in grad school, at least, I was able to dire
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by fancyketchup 11y ago
> I think we need multiple grades of doctor. Don't we have that already? Doctor / Physician Physician Assistant Nurse Practitioner Registered Nurse Nursing Aid / Nurse Assistant
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by fancyketchup 11y ago
> Does the government pay airlines to fly to podunk towns that wouldn't otherwise get service, or something? In some cases, yes. It's called "Essential Air Service." But that's not the usual reason for B->C
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by fancyketchup 11y ago
Maybe, but that's a different argument than this thread, which is about copyright.
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by fancyketchup 11y ago
Lossless upsampling the 44.1 kHz recording to, say 192 kHz is trivial for the reproduction equipment. That the LPF on the reproduction end wants the DAC to run at greater than 44.1 kHz has no bearing on the sampling rate of the distributio
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by fancyketchup 11y ago
What about all the consumer routers than run on MIPS cores?
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by fancyketchup 11y ago
The two pictures don't have the same vertical scaling, and it's clear that the probe is ahead of the LPF in the signal chain.
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by fancyketchup 11y ago
Except that you can clearly hear the autopilot disengage before the car swerves to the left. And the swerve doesn't start until it is physically impossible for a collision to happen. And the slope of the road isn't enough to mak
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by fancyketchup 11y ago
Aside from the things camperbob identified, this is pretty neat. The tricky parts are getting the pulse generator right (you want a sharp leading edge and flat top, with no ringing) and having an oscilloscope with a flat response well into
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by fancyketchup 11y ago
What financial implications are there, aside from "The IRS wants to make sure you're not leaving just before an anticipated windfall to avoid taxes?"
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by fancyketchup 11y ago
> High-speed gearing is indeed very difficult, but jet engines already typically have two separate, concentric rotating units [...] Yes, everyone knows that, but the spools are not connected by a set of gears as they are in the P&W&#
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by fancyketchup 11y ago
> The only reason people need to rent is because of the requirements to own (down payments, emergency funds to cover your mortgage in tough times so you don't lose your equity) So, in other words, the landlord is selling a service?
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by fancyketchup 11y ago
And if everyone became doctors, who would you call to fix the toilet?

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